Tech: Facebook introduces new facilities for Indian businesses

New York: In a pierce to make a Pages underline profitable for businesses online, Facebook on Thursday announced dual new Page sections – Services and Shop – for rising markets including in India where 57 per cent of people on Facebook are connected to a business.

The Shop territory provides businesses with a new approach to prominently arrangement a products they are offered on their Page.

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It allows people to simply discover, crop and make offers to squeeze products by messaging from a businesses they caring about, Facebook pronounced in a statement.

The Services territory allows use businesses to showcase a list of their offerings on their Page.

If we demeanour during a Indian tiny and middle businesses (SMB), over 1.99 billion interactions are being generated between businesses and people in a country.

There were dual million SMB Pages on Facebook in India as of Oct final year.

“With a Shops and Services sections on Pages, businesses around a universe can assistance people learn a products and services they caring about in a some-more visually appealing way,” pronounced Adrian Nam, a product selling manager during Facebook.

Facebook launched Pages to assistance people marketplace their businesses and make business learn about products and services for free.

Services territory creates it easier for people to find a information they are looking for and confirm either to work with a business.

Globally, some-more than one billion people on Facebook are connected to during slightest one business.

“The Shops and Services sections are a delay of a efforts to make Facebook Pages a many profitable online participation for a some-more than 60 million businesses around a universe that use Pages any month,” combined Ryan Ebanks, another product selling manager during Facebook.

Showing clever income and distinction growth, amicable networking hulk Facebook has combined 60 million monthly users in a second entertain of 2016 to strech 1.71 billion users while scoring $6.44 billion in income — floating a progressing estimates of $6.02 billion.

Its amicable network operation raked in $2.05 billion in distinction compared to $719 million a year ago. (Read more)

In Dec 2015, Facebook sensitively launched a new desktop-only underline on a site that allows users to find highest-rated internal businesses formed on patron reviews, entering in approach foe with companies like Yelp and Angie’s List.

Facebook Professional Services underline enables users to make searches for categories trimming from Arts and Entertainment down to anticipating plumbers, dentists, pharmacies, photographers, beauty salons, pizza places and so on. (Read more)
- With inputs from agencies and Jagran Post

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