Social networking is one of the best ways you can drive sales and increase product value while promoting your brand. The 8 plugins we are featuring today allow you to offer your customers incentives to share your products on social networks. We are working on our own free social sharing / discounting plugin for Magento and WP e-Commerce which we will announce in the coming weeks.
Plugins in this list:
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Curebit
Curebit is a modernized Refer-A-Friend platform that allows you to offer discounts and incentives to customers that share your site or their purchase.
You can offer customers incentives to share across your site before a purchase is made, or offer cash back after the check out process is complete. With a post-purchase campaign, if a customers were to share their purchase and a friend make a subsequent purchase both would be given cash back to redeem.
Curebit offers advanced analytics and split testing. If your thinking of running social promotions, I would highly recommend signing up for a 30 day trial and giving them a go.
Pricing:
30 Days free
$50/month – up to 500 transactions
$150/month – up to 2000 transactions
Details & Download
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/curebit-checkout.html
Friend-Gated Promotions
Friend-Gated promotions is a great little concept. Let’s say you have a product that you want to offer a 20% off discount on to customers that share your product. To earn the promotion, a customer must share your page on social networks, and refer 2 friends. After referring 2 friends who also shared the deal, they can purchase the product with the discount.
Friend gate can be enabled on a product by product basis with any variety of incentives. As the plugin is refined, I’m sure we will see a premium version available.
Pricing
FREE
Details & Download
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/friend-gate-8708.html
Social Power Share
Social power share is much like Curebit, but can be used for non-incentive sharing. Social buttons can be integrated throughout your site, including checkout success pages. This is made by Zizio, who operated a social referral program in which they charge a commission based on the referral fee given to your customers. This plugin DOES NOT charge a commission.
Pricing:
15 Day Free Trial then $25-$100 per month
Details & Download
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/social-power-share.html
Finz.it
Finz.it’s approach to offering a discount for social sharing is different than the other plugins in this list. Essentially, you can offer discounts to customers who share your products before they make their purchase. When they enter the cart, the discount is applied to the product they will share. After checkout is completed, the post is made to their Facebook or Twitter.
The plugin also supports giving out coupons and discounts for simply liking your website on Facebook.
This is similar to a “Pay with a like” plugin, but can give a percent based discount or flat rate discount and is suitable for tangible goods. A cool aspect is that the user agrees to share the purchase before they make the purchase, and only after purchase is complete does to item actually get posted to their feed.
Pricing
15 Day Trial
Starts at $19 per month
Details & Download
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/finz-it-social-promotion-widgets.html
Facebook Referral – Discounts
Places a Facebook recommend button in your shopping cart. When a customer clicks to recommend the item in their cart, they are given a predefined discount on the purchase and the product is displayed on their Facebook wall.
Pricing
$29 one-time
Details & Download
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/facebook-referral-discounts-8367.html
Share Me!
Share Me! offers three simple ways for customers to earn discounts on your store. They can: Like your brand on Facebook, Like the current product being viewed, or Share the current product. When sharing or liking a product, the discount code they are given is a for that product only. When liking your brand, they can use that discount across your entire store. You can offer any combination of discount methods. Discount codes are unique and generated on the fly.
If your looking for a simple way to offer a “pay with a like” system, than Share Me would be a great plugin. Unfortunately, the system requires a moderator to check if a customer actually liked or shared the product. I’ve emailed the developer regarding whether there is a method for auto approving likes and shares – I’m assuming at this time there is. If not, I can’t imagine the developer is charging $129 for it and I will be removing it from this list.
Pricing
$129 one-time
Details & Download
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/share-me-5343.html
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