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Visa Launches the Visa Business Network on Facebook |
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Monday, 30 June 2008 09:55 |
Visa Inc unveiled the Visa Business Network (www.visabusinessnetwork.com) on Facebook. To celebrate this initiative, Visa will award a total of $2 million in Facebook advertising credit to help small business owners reach new customers and drive new growth.
The Visa Business Network combines Facebook Platform with Visa’s small business payment services. This inventive new site can help small business owners tap into a global network of peers and advisers from among the more than 80,000 small businesses already on Facebook. It will also provide small business owners with business tools and help them identify and target thousands of prospective customers.
"Visa has been working closely with small businesses for many years, and we know that they are anything but small. Small businesses have big ideas, big expectations and big ambitions. We established the Visa Business Network to help them thrive and grow," said Antonio Lucio, Chief Marketing Officer, Visa Inc. "Working with Facebook, Visa is breaking new ground by harnessing social networking to connect business owners. We are putting the power of the network in the users' hands, and it will be fascinating to see how the community evolves."
"Facebook plays a central role in people's daily lives by helping them communicate and share information with the people they know," said Dan Rose, vice president of business development at Facebook. "With more than 80 million active users worldwide, Facebook gives small businesses a great opportunity to connect with their customers and other business owners. We are proud to work with Visa on the Visa Business Network to bring even more tools to small businesses."
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