Are you seeing Sisters Shopping on a Shoestring in your Facebook news feed? Facebook can be a great tool for all of us, because it makes it possible for us to interact with our fantastic Sister and Mister community on a daily basis, and for Sisters and Misters to interact with one another as well: sharing deals, asking and answering questions, and enjoying the camaraderie of bargain hunting together.
It used to be that if you “like” the Sisters Shopping on a Shoestring Facebook page, the things we post would automatically show up in your News Feed. This was a really easy and convenient way for many of you to follow us, and if there was something that caught your interest, you could click through and read the full post on the blog site.
Changes have happened recently, but the statistics that we see on our end are telling us that some posts are seen by 5-10% of our 20,000+ Facebook fans. Obviously, this is isn’t ideal for us, but it also means that if you’re counting on Facebook to show you our posts, it’s no good for you either.
The tricks that we’ve shown you in the past (including interacting with the page by commenting, liking, and sharing) definitely help. The more people like, share, and comment on a post, the more people are able to see it, but there’s no guarantee you’ll see what we post. Facebook wants blogs to pay to promote their posts…and unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t offer coupons! When we’re posting 10 or more deals a day, it’s just doesn’t fit within a “Shoestring Budget” to pay big bucks to promote each one.
If you prefer to follow us on Facebook, of course we’re happy to have you! Just be aware that you might not automatically see everything we share with you in your News Feed. If you click directly to our Facebook page every so often, you’ll see it all and you can click through to the blog on anything that interests you. 
If you like, you can also set things up to receive a notification (that little “globe” thing in the top left corner of Facebook) each time we post. Just hover over the “Liked” button when you’re on the Sisters Facebook page, and you can elect to receive a notification when we post something new. You can also click “Show in News Feed,” and hopefully that will help as well.
Other options: you can sign up for our daily email subscription HERE or in the blue box at the top right of the site. (a super reliable option to get everything conveniently delivered once a day!). You can also subscribe to our RSS feed if you use an RSS reader. My favorite option, especially for time-sensitive deals, is to install the Sisters Toolbar. It’ll keep the Coupon Database and all the printable coupon links right under your browser bar, along with a rotating link to the last 10 deals posted both on the main site and the Giant Eagle Deals site. You can find out more about the Toolbar and see a video of how it works here.
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to access all the deals we share, so hopefully these options help. You can also just bookmark the site and check in with us a few times a day. Thanks for sticking with us–we’re blessed to have such a wonderful community of readers, and we want to make sure you get the information you’re looking for!
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