Do Facebook Fans Visit

Online Stores?

Getting people to ‘Like’ your Facebook Page is great. Getting

people to purchase your products online is even better.

Is there any type of correlation between Facebook ‘Likes’ and fans

purchasing products? Facebook set out to find the answer through

Alchemy Social.

Alchemy Social, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer,

tracked avid engagers of the company’s Facebook page, those who were non-active fans, and those who were not fans of the

business on Facebook to see how often they visited the company’s

online store.

Facebook Fans and Online Store Purchases

Alchemy used ads through the telecom company’s Facebook page

as the basis for the study.

The results of the study:

• Visitors who interacted with the ads were 20 times more likely to visit the brand’s online store than those who didn’t interact.

• Facebook users who interacted with the ads were three times more likely to go to the online store.

• People on Facebook who didn’t interact with the ads were four times more likely to visit the online store than people who are not Facebook users.

• The page’s fans made 131 percent more visits to the online store than Facebook users who had not liked the brand.

• Fans made 639 percent more visits to the online store than non-Facebook users.

• Once users became fans, they visited the company’s website 30 percent more than before.

• Alchemy calculated the return of investment on the fans acquired while running the company’s Facebook campaign at 1,292 percent.

The study shows that it pays to be active on Facebook. Alchemy recommends that companies

looking to increase interest through Facebook look at different

ways to engage with fans, using tools such as applications.

Companies should keep giving people a reason to keep coming

back to the page.