Social Media for Business: Facebook Launches "Daily Deals" Platform

Social Media for Business: Facebook Launches "Daily Deals" Platform

Facebook has finally implemented a daily deals program of their own. As we all know, Daily Deal sites have taken the internet by storm. Now Groupon and Living Social are the top Daily Deal sites, but who knows, maybe Facebook's new addition will push them to the top! There are now hundreds of daily deal platforms, but its very likely the reach of these platforms will be a key to successfully delivering customers in a scalable and impactful way.

Facebook is currently testing deals in 5 major cities; Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco. You can buy the daily deal online but the advantage comes in the social sharing capabilities. Easily share deals with your Facebook friends, you can "like" a deal and even have friends be notified when you actually buy a deal. With Groupon and others, you need to proactively send and email or message them when you buy across multiple social networks. Along with offering their own deals, they also plan to aggrega te with other sites similar offers, which could help provide advantages from other platforms as customers are not willing to join multiple email lists (check out www.dealmap.com who's also aggregating deals for customers.)

As a business with a social media monitoring strategy, if you run a deal, customers can see your deal in the following places:

Notification will show up on your Facebook Business Page Customers that buy your deal, can "share" it with their friends Enable a Deals Tab on your Facebook Business Page Standard Email that goes out daily to subscribers

BIA/Kelsey consulting group reported that the daily deal market is expected to grow to nearly $3.93 billion by 2015. The challenge will be how the market is carved up, but certainly the early leads of Groupon, Living Social, and others will be hard to dethrone. But with the reach of sites like Facebook or Google, the market could change drastically.

There is also constant speculation about the real effectiveness of these programs. Some business owners believe that it doesn't help business in the long run because constant deal hunters are the majority that uses it. Others have reported a benefit of creating awareness for their new business and have seen returning customers. If done correctly, and with the right kind of business, the deals can be very effective when implemented into a local businesses social media tracking strategy.

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