Help! Host Wants to Put Link to Website on Facebook

[alidafrizzell]

HELP! I am a facebooker... but not a very good one! I have a host who has created her party as an event... and wants to put a link to her show (I have her set up in my PWS) I thought I had it figured out... it worked last night! But today everyone that clicks on it apparently it goes right to my personal website... and not under her name! YIKES! Can anyone HELP?

 

[jennyl]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think those links only work temporarily - it times out after a while. So the best option is giving the link to your PWS with the instructions to type the host's name when prompted.

 

[wadesgirl]

Yes, Jenny is correct, she cannot do this. But like she said you can give the link to your website with instructions on how to order.

 

[BethCooks4U]

She can't put a link on FB but she can put your website on there and then a note saying how to get to her party. "Click on my consultant's website, then shop online, then put my name in and you can see the catalog and even order there if you can't make it to the party"

 

[alidafrizzell]

Thank you everyone! In the meantime I tryed something else... Let me know if you have tryed this and if you think it will work or not... So far it is...but then it worked last night too and not today.

I added myself to her guest list and sent me an evite... I responded not able to attend and clicked to browse the catalog. I copied that code (which was different from the other one) and tryed posting that.

I worked... My question is this. Do you think this will keep working? Has anyone tryed this? I sure don't want her guests unable to order under her show!

 

[esavvymom]

I think I would stick with the general PWS address with instructions on how to get to her specific show. Anything otherwise risks getting into the lead pool or an individual order because of time-out issues, etc. It's happened in the past.

 

[NooraK]

Thank you everyone! In the meantime I tryed something else... Let me know if you have tryed this and if you think it will work or not... So far it is...but then it worked last night too and not today.

I added myself to her guest list and sent me an evite... I responded not able to attend and clicked to browse the catalog. I copied that code (which was different from the other one) and tryed posting that.

I worked... My question is this. Do you think this will keep working? Has anyone tryed this? I sure don't want her guests unable to order under her show!

This is what I was going to suggest doing.

As long as the address includes the .biz/yourPWSname part in it, the link will work indefinitely. The links that don't work for more than a couple of hours are the ones that include .com in them.

 

[babywings76]

This is what I was going to suggest doing.

As long as the address includes the .biz/yourPWSname part in it, the link will work indefinitely. The links that don't work for more than a couple of hours are the ones that include .com in them.

Really?! Oh that's good to know! I thought there was a way to get the link to work, but then heard they don't last. I've been hesitant my last 2 shows to try it for fear of losing sales of causing frustration.

 

[Sheila]

Yes, it's a back door that works until your "end date" that you've established when you built the show on your PWS. I do it all the time.

 

[alidafrizzell]

Yes, it's a back door that works until your "end date" that you've established when you built the show on your PWS. I do it all the time.

Sooooooo are you saying it can be done? adding a link to a facebook event? "if" I make sure the date is set out...

 

[NooraK]

Sooooooo are you saying it can be done? adding a link to a facebook event? "if" I make sure the date is set out...

If you want to link to your website anywhere (FB, or any other allowed site), you will want to make sure that the address you're using contains the .biz/yourname part of your PWS, not the .com of the main PC website. The date part in what Sheila's referring to only means that your customers won't be able to order on the host's show through that link after the closing date you've set up on your PWS. But that would apply whether they're using the direct link, or just going to your site and putting in the host's name.

 

[Sheila]

Sooooooo are you saying it can be done? adding a link to a facebook event? "if" I make sure the date is set out...

Yes. It can be done. But the date is not the issue, it's the route that you go to obtain the link.If I send myself an invitation to a show, click that I'm unable to attend & then "order online" from the e-mail, I get a different link than if I go to the PWS, click shop online & enter the host's name. The e-mail invite link is permanent, the "shop online" from the PWS link is temporary.So for my shows, I use ...biz/sheiladacey?page=products-main&showId=3284546 as the end of the link that I post on FB vs. ...biz/sheiladacey?page=host-search-results&showId=3284546.Green will work long term, red won't.ETA: Her show closes on 9/21 so the green link will work through that date. As of 12 AM on 9/22, it will no longer work since the online show will expire at that time.

 

[babywings76]

Shoot! I gave out the search results show ID one. Okay, I'll let my host know.

 

[NooraK]

Shoot! I gave out the search results show ID one. Okay, I'll let my host know.

At least, as long as you have the .biz in there, they'll be directed to your site, not the main PC site and into the lead pool.And I don't know how old Sheila's second "link" is, but it still works for me

 

[babywings76]

The link that shows up for me for this host's show when I do it from the RSVP of the invite as a "sorry I can't come" and then continue to shop online is this: biz/08amandak?page=product-order-guest-login&showId=3295383That is different than what Sheila wrote...am I doing it wrong or will this link work?

 

[Sheila]

They may have changed it Amanda! LOLI know the method I use works. So maybe use: biz/08amandak?page=products-main&showId=3295383Noora, I had just pulled it up the "wrong" way to post, so it was still pretty new.

 

[NooraK]

OK. Today it gives me a listing of your hosts to choose from.