
I recently saw an article about the new Visa application on Facebook. It's been created to help small business owners connect online and get this: the first 20,000 small business owners get... wait for it..... $100 in free advertising.
Now, in the regular world this might actually be something good but on Facebook $100 of free advertising is like going to a store, picking out a $13,000 couch and them giving you $2 off. Not too helpful.
Being a LinkedIn advocate, I think the effort to include small businesses on Facebook is a good one. However, small businesses don't have much of a place on Facebook because they a) don't have the funds to advertise with any kind of consistency on it. b) Facebook isn't set up as a business networking site.
In the race for monetization, I see this move by Visa and Facebook as a plan to expand their demographics base which isn't a bad idea but in my humble opinion, they need to have more perks for the small business owner in order to attract that audience.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Facebook Gets Generous With Visa?
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