4 weeks, 2127 sales – 1 sale per 8 fans – and a 200% (32,810) increase in Facebook ‘Likes’. That’s what the Heinz temporary popup gift-shop on the brand’s UK Facebook page delivered in October 2011 (covered here, and here, with result reported here), selling personalised cans of “Get Well” Soup for fans to send [...]
Here’s a short BBC video news report on f-commerce, showcasing the Heinz fan-store selling personalised Get Well soup. As Robin Grant, global managing director from the agency We Are Social behind the Heinz initiative points out in the clip, the primary goal of the fan-store is to activate advocates.
So Ketchup King Heinz has thrown up a Pop-Up Fan-Store in Facebook selling personalised cans of Heinz soup to UK Heinz fans. The pop-up store allows Heinz fans (and-only fans) to send personalised ‘get-well’ cans of Heinz soup to friends suffering from post-summer distress disorder – i.e. Autumn colds and chills, for a £1.99 ($3.00) [...]
It’s interesting and mildly ironic that with so many prestige brands jumping on the f-commerce (Facebook e-commerce) train that it is a grocery brand, Heinz ketchup, showing the world (in our opinion) how smart f-commerce is done. Heinz has opened up a pop-up ‘tryvertising’ f-store on Facebook (tryvertising = advertising by sampling designed to create [...]
