Pop-up retail has evolved from fad to enduring trend, temporary stores used to support a launch, event or campaign. And Facebook is a great venue for pop-up retail – low set-up costs, word-of-mouth powered, and a captive audience.
So early April Chanel pre-launched Rouge Coco Shine on Facebook via a pop-up f-store, giving Chanel’s Facebook fans the exclusive chance to be the first to buy one of the 18 shades of the new hydrating sheer lip-shine for $32 before it made its nationwide debut. This is smart ‘fan-first marketing‘ that gets products into the right hands (fans) at the right time (first) in order to turn fans into active advocates. Kudos Chanel.
A second smart aspect of the social commerce campaign was that the Chanel pop-up f-store appeared as both a very slick store app on Chanel’s Facebook page and as a ‘wall-store’ in fans’ news-feeds, allowing fans to buy directly from their wall. Apart from convenience, wall stores have the advantage of being shareable across news-feeds – thus taking word of mouth marketing to a new level. Double-Kudos.
But where Chanel’s pop-up Facebook retail event somewhat fell apart for us was in that Chanel excluded everyone with a mobile Apple device from participating in this buzzworthy, time-limited event. Why? Because Chanel’s f-store was built with Adobe Flash and the market-leading iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch do not support this ‘pretty but silly’ ‘legacy’ technology (for a number (6) of reasons). With an increasing and soon to be majority of online access coming from mobile devices, excluding the market leader from pop-up Facebook retail is odd (UPDATE as Brian from Fluid points out in the comments below, current Facebook restrictions mean the wall-store has to be in Flash right now – but not for the tab store).
Flash is pretty, and indeed the Chanel f-store was one of the prettiest we’ve seen, no doubt seducing the owner of the budget it came from.
But was this social commerce campaign a case of form over function?
Sweet, I can buy from the wall…
Not so sweet, it’s Flash…
…Or at least they make you really work for it, if you want it – back to the laptop
For those than can use the f-store, it’s a gold-standard experience (note the VeriSign symbol)
People don’t want to be sold something on FB. Don’t blame Flash for Chanel’s woes.
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Facebook won’t allow one to place interactive content on the wall unless it’s Flash-based. So, not much they can do there.
The fan page tab is another story. I’ve heard Fluid targets to both. ;-)
Thanks Brian for the clarification – post updated…
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How much sales these pop up fstores can generate within 2 days?
Can somebody provide me with some sales numbers from this initiative by Chanel?
thanks!
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