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Social Media: It’s Time Marketers Start 6 Facebook Marketing Strategy
Introduction:
After years of aimlessly chasing fans, it’s time marketers start driving real business results from Facebook. This requires building a Facebook page that has a clear focus and offers value to customers, leveraging the entire Facebook 
tool kit, and integrating Facebook into a broader marketing strategy. To accomplish this, interactive marketers must be both an “oracle” who teaches their organization about Facebook and a “gatekeeper” who manages access to the platform. As marketers mature with the social network and Facebook increases its commitment to brands, together they will revolutionize the advertising industry.
Marketers haven’t cracked the Facebook code:
From toppling governments to inspiring award-winning films to bring long-lost family members together, Facebook is often the center of attention. And marketers are swarming to it like moths to a flame: 96 of the top 100 advertisers now use the site. Yet while millions of people have “liked” brand pages, most marketers fail to derive value from those relationships. In fact, engagement rates on brand pages are declining rather than increasing. The result? Believe it or not, most marketers don’t even see Facebook as their best option to drive audience engagement (see Figure 1). Marketers are failing to use the platform to its full potential because:
- They lack focus. In their race to start a Facebook page, many marketers forgot an integral step: setting clear objectives. Now they’re left with Facebook pages that have no purpose other than collecting “likes.” This lack of objectives not only hurts from a business perspective but also means that fans don’t get any real value from liking the brand.
- They don’t understand the platform. Facebook is unlike any platform marketers have ever seen — it’s like a miniature Internet with its own set of rules. EdgeRank, Facebook’s system for deciding which content appears in the newsfeed, is similar to search engine optimization (SEO) but requires a different kind of optimization. Facebook Ads are a cross between banners and paid search — and don’t quite follow the conventions of either. Marketers struggle not only to understand each of these pieces individually but also how they work together and how they’re evolving.
- They don’t have the right resources in place. Facebook doesn’t cost as much in money as it does in manpower — but many marketing organizations don’t have appropriate manpower in place — the dedicated people or the content development and sharing processes needed to be successful.
- They seek the wrong measurements. Marketers say that measuring return on investment (ROI) is their biggest challenge in social media, and measuring Facebook is no exception. Too many marketers ask “What is the value of a fan?” and not enough marketers understand their fans’ value in terms of loyalty and influence or Facebook’s impact on their business. Marketers won’t be able to prove value until they begin to ask the right questions.
Facebook Hasn’t Made Brands a Priority
Just as marketers have struggled to use Facebook properly, Facebook has struggled to help them succeed. In fact, for a company that relies on advertising revenues, Facebook hasn’t done much to make life easier for advertisers:
- It does not make content management easy. Marketing on Facebook requires a constant flow of content. Yet marketers aren’t set up to be publishers — and Facebook offers only limited options for managing multiple pages or handling multiple languages. Coca-Cola experienced this downside when Portuguese-language content accidentally appeared on its US page, inciting some users to respond with hate speech on a page that promotes happiness.
- It constantly changes the rules without warning. Facebook’s frequent and unilateral policy changes make it difficult for marketers to trust and invest in the platform. Just ask any pharmaceutical company: When Facebook recently removed the ability to disable user comments, it put the pharma companies at direct risk of violating government regulations and ultimately forced many to shutter their Facebook pages.
- It offers marketers limited data. Facebook is one of the only major websites that doesn’t allow third-party ad tags. Not only does that force marketers to rely on Facebook-provided data that one social analytics executive described as “lightweight,” but it means marketers can’t compare Facebook campaigns with other channels like search and banners or include them in attribution analysis. Without reliable, comparable data, brands can’t determine how important Facebook really is to their marketing mix.
Follow 4 Steps to Make Your Facebook Marketing Work:
Collecting fans without purpose isn’t enough; marketers must get serious about driving business results from Facebook. To do so, take four steps that will help you squeeze all of the possible value out of your Facebook program:
- Set clear objectives. If you don’t know what you want to achieve, you probably won’t achieve much at all. Define objectives that provide real value to your business.
- Build a page that provides value for your fans. Bring focus to your Facebook marketing by building a brand page that not only accomplishes your business objectives but also gives fans a reason to continually engage the brand.
- Use the full Facebook tool kit to increase reach and engagement. A brand page shouldn’t sit on its own. It’s imperative that you combine features such as ads, events, and apps along with your brand page to get the most out of the network.
- Integrate Facebook into your marketing mix. Facebook is not an island. It’s as important to integrate it with the rest of your marketing as with any other medium.
Set Clear Objectives
Start by rethinking what your Facebook page is going to accomplish for your business. Facebook’s versatility lets you choose from objectives that span almost every part of the marketing mix, including:
- Generating word of mouth. Facebook’s mission is to “give people the power to share” — and it has succeeded spectacularly. Over 4 billion “things” are shared every day, often related to products and brands. Facebook is the No. 1 site where consumers see social content about products and services, well ahead of any other social network. And according to Forrester’s Tech Marketing Navigator, the word of mouth generated on social networks plays a growing role in the purchase path for consumer technology products (see Figure 2).
- Driving people down the sales funnel. While it’s unlikely to replace dedicated direct marketing channels like Google AdWords, Facebook can drive some forms of direct response. John Deere uses Facebook content to tempt its half-million fans into a lead-generation site and reports that Facebook drives leads at a rate comparable to direct mail.
- Increasing loyalty. Facebook offers marketers a new way to engage their most loyal customers — and to get them to spread marketing messages. For instance, Tasti D-Lite allows fans to link their TastiRewards accounts to Facebook. Then every time they make a purchase, a customizable message is posted on their Facebook page.
- Helping your peers in product development or eBusiness. Savvy consumer product professionals are tapping Facebook for new ideas and to create new functionality. Starbucks created an application that allowed people to create their own Frappuccino online and then share with friends on Facebook. And Facebook has the potential to drive shared purchases. For instance, LiveNation’s Ticketmaster has integrated Facebook’s social graph into its interactive seating chart, allowing people to see where their friends are sitting and buy seats nearby.
Build a Page That Provides Value for Your Fans
Today’s brand pages are littered with a random mix of company news, promotions, advertising, and other content focused on what marketers want rather than what fans want. Carolyn Everson, VP of global marketing solutions at Facebook, says that the brands that succeed on Facebook are “the ones that give people a reason to be fans.” To provide value to the fans you should:
- Learn who your fans are and what they want. Facebook doesn’t provide much data on your fans, but there are ways of getting more information through opt-ins. EMI worked with campaign management platform Neolane to develop a Facebook app that collected opt-in customer information and then integrated it back into EMI’s customer database. Knowing who your fans are can help you determine not only how valuable they are as customers and influentials, but also what kind of content and engagement they’re looking for.
- Use Facebook data to dynamically optimize your content plan. While Facebook data is limited, dig through what’s available to learn how your community is responding to your posts. PageLever — an analytics tool that specializes in optimizing brand pages based on available Facebook data — pulls near real-time data from Facebook’s application
- programming interface (API) to help companies learn what content types are performing the best, which demographics are responding, and what time of day is optimal for posting. This data can then be used to create a dynamic content plan that gets the best response out of the community at any given point in time.
- Use apps to create a richer experience. A “like” allows fans to read and comment on your posts, but to create deeper engagement like games and contests you’ll need an application. For Valentine’s Day 2011, Target ran a contest called “The Super Love Sender” that let people vote on which charity would receive $1 million from the brand. Target’s Facebook app allowed fans to send friends personalized valentines and get real-time updates on which charity was in the lead.
- Keep your community active — even in down cycles. Your Facebook page is not a campaign, it’s a community of people who have raised their hands as brand advocates. As Scott Weisbrod, VP of strategy at Blast Radius told us, “Facebook allows for a more meaningful relationship than search or email. It’s important to build a content plan and calendar not only for your big campaign pushes but also during the down cycles when you’re not doing campaigns.”
Integrate Facebook into Your Marketing Mix
Facebook is too often treated as an isolated asset rather than an integrated part of the marketing mix — creating inconsistency in both the marketing plan and with the end-user. To integrate it interactive marketers should:
- Incorporate Facebook’s social graph into your existing web properties. Facebook makes it easy for you to bring its massive sharing network to your website, creating additional reach and interaction with your content and experiences. Toymaker Step2 built a Facebook Connect login into its site so customers could repost their product reviews on Facebook as well. The results: The amount of traffic it got from Facebook grew 135%, and the revenue from that traffic grew 300%.
- Make Facebook promotions the foundation of broader campaigns. Chances are that your broader campaigns will create at least some conversation on Facebook; by making Facebook the center of that campaign you can incite both conversation and participation. Corona’s “the most liked beer in America” campaign featured the faces of its Facebook fans on a billboard in Times Square — both creating reach (signs in Times Square typically get 1.5 million impressions per day) and driving 200,000 new “likes” for the brand.
- Use Facebook data to make other marketing programs more effective. While Facebook makes it hard to learn who your users are, it’s relatively easy to track their actions — and use that information to improve the rest of your marketing programs. For instance, customer relationship management (CRM) vendor Merkle can connect Facebook fans to existing CRM data. And marketers should work with vendors like DataXu, a demand-side media buying company, which now includes data from Facebook campaigns in its display media optimization algorithms.
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According to the International Trade Administration, worldwide eCommerce growth increased by 19% in 2020.
Most business institutions open digital stores to reach the maximum number of customers. So, in the last year, the growth of the eCommerce business has become a skyscraper.
The future of eCommerce is flourishing because the advancement of technology will generate AI Shopping. Large numbers of mobile phone users will also increase the length of the eCommerce sectors.
So, if you are an eCommerce business entrepreneur, you need to know multiple techniques to take advantage of this competitive marketplace.
Let’s get some idea about eCommerce websites.
An Idea About eCommerce Website
An eCommerce website is a website that primarily focuses on selling products online.
eCommerce works on a simple model: a company sells products online, and customers purchase the products by making payments online. Store owners can promote their products online with email marketing and digital advertising on multiple channels.
eCommerce websites can be classified based on the method of payment they accept.
The customer can either visit the website to make the payment or submit the order over the phone, and the company will deliver the products to the customer’s door.
If the customers are unsatisfied with your products, they can return them and may ask for a refund.
How to Start an eCommerce Business
This section will discuss how to start an eCommerce business as a beginner.
1. Go through Research
If you want to start an eCommerce business, you must research the competitors in the current marketplace. Gather knowledge about the customer’s demands for multiple products.
Suppose you want to open a digital book store, then you need a good idea about which book genres and writers are popular in the current market.
If you sell autobiography books in your store, but your audience likes fictional books, it will negatively impact your business. So, you must go through better research before starting an eCommerce business.
2. Choose the Business Name and Product Types
After completing the research, select a name and type of product for the target consumers. You have to choose a business name that is relevant to your products.
Let’s assume you want to open an online food court, but you set the store’s name as “Bestseller.” This name will not be familiar with your products.
Also, choosing the correct product type according to the marketplace demands is very important. You have to choose products depending on geographical location, customer demands, economy, market trends, etc.
3. Approval from the Authority
Before starting an eCommerce business, you need legal permission from your country’s government. You have to apply for registration in the government office, and they will provide you with a license to continue your business.
4. Finalize your Business Plan
As a starter, you need a proper arrangement of the products you want to sell. You don’t have to store all the products before starting the business, but you can contact the dealers and agree on how many products you need.
Financial management is also essential before starting an eCommerce business. Calculate your future expenses, such as shipping costs, product costs, etc.
5. Create an eCommerce Store
This is the most significant part of establishing an eCommerce business. If you started a physical store, you had to find a location to build your store.
But you are opening a digital business and need a website to run your business.
So, get a domain name and URL for your website.
You need to use an eCommerce platform to customize this website according to your eCommerce business. Multiple platforms are available, such as WooCommerce, Shopify, Magneto, Squarespace, etc.
WooCommerce is the most flexible platform because it’s an open-source and free plugin with full eCommerce compatibility.
You can promote your eCommerce products by creating a product feed. CTX Feed plugin will help you to generate product feed.
With the help of this plugin, you can maintain your WooCommerce product feed for multiple channels, such as Google Shopping, Bing Ads, etc.
6. Promote your eCommerce Website
You have successfully generated an eCommerce website, but this is not the end.
Now you have to promote this website to reach the maximum number of customers. Focus on SEO optimization to improve the website’s search results ranking.
You have to create a better networking circle with the other successful eCommerce owners in the marketplace. Also, you need to share your website on multiple social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
Customers don’t readily come to your website, and you need to follow multiple marketing strategies to reach them properly.
Some Strategy for the Growth of eCommerce Business
After successfully starting an eCommerce business, you need to focus on essential factors to improve the eCommerce growth.
1. Focus on Social Media Promotion
Social Media plays a significant role in the marketing of an eCommerce business. In everyday life, many people use social media, and it can create a massive impact on the growth of your eCommerce business.
You can make promotional posts about your eCommerce store products on multiple social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Research multiple social media posts, comments, and reactions about your business and products. This helps you get a decent idea about your customers’ demand for the products.
When writing a post, you have to focus on the post structure that identifies the value of the products. If you use well-researched keywords on social media posts, it will grab more customers to your site.
Another important social media promotion strategy is to spend money on paid promotion. Product ads on platforms like Instagram and Facebook are very beneficial, and promotional video ads are now the top priority in the digital marketing world.
YouTube is one of the most visited websites on the internet, and it is the best platform for promotional video ads. So, you can create video ads about your products and use them on YouTube. Analysis of user purchasing behavior and their thought process is also essential for the growth of your eCommerce site.
2. Generate Mobile Friendly Website
According to Statista, in 2021, there were almost 6.2 million smartphone users. So you must optimize a mobile user-friendly eCommerce website to get the highest numbers of customers.
The Google search engine keeps the better mobile experience websites in the highest rankings.
Optimizing your websites for mobile users will increase the sales speed of the products.
Today, most of us are very busy with multiple jobs, so if we want to buy something from the internet, it needs to be a short duration and more flexible.
Users can order their desired product from anywhere with just a click on the mobile screen. Mobile marketing is essential for the growth of the eCommerce business.
Nowadays, most business sites have a smartphone app for customers so that the owners can send push notifications about new updates, offers, new products, etc. Also, they can send promotional SMS to the customer’s phone numbers.
To compete in the eCommerce marketplace, you need to update your business frequently, such as launching new apps, because today, youths are a significant part of the market.
With the help of mobile-friendly sites, you can reach more customers, which will increase the revenue of your eCommerce business.
3. Focus on Search Engine Optimization
SEO ranking plays the most significant role in the growth of an eCommerce website.
When customers search for any products on the internet, they click on the first few results.
Suppose you have a better-developed and highly optimized eCommerce website, but most prominent search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo don’t have any data on your site. This will not be beneficial for your business.
So, you need a proper SEO e-commerce strategy to improve your website ranking on the search results.
You should follow these factors.
- Better SEO Ranking: To improve your SEO ranking, you need to research your competitor’s websites appropriately.
- Relevant Keywords: Choosing perfect Keywords is also significant for the search ranking, and use those keywords that are relevant and famous in the marketplace.
- Brand Awareness: It also impacts brand awareness. If your product’s links are constantly displayed at the top of the results, that will create a better impression of your website to customers.
SEO also impacts the marketing funnel where it creates awareness to the customers, and then they get interested in that product and finally buy it.
Search engine optimization will help increase the conversion rates of websites.
If you focus on SEO, it will significantly impact your product’s sales, which will help you generate more money from the website.
4. Value of Customers Review
As an eCommerce retailer, one of the best ways to ensure you’re making money on your products is to get them in front of as many potential customers as possible.
Product reviews are a great way to generate quality traffic to your website, create your brand’s values as an authority in your industry, and build a better connection with potential customers.
They’re also a great way to build your email list and engagement, the key to long-term revenue.
The review will provide explicit knowledge about the customer’s thoughts on your products. Better customer reviews create a trustworthy relationship between customers and owners.
Nowadays, most consumers research product reviews before deciding to purchase products.
They focus on the positive user experience of that product or service, then finally purchase. The recommendation of others influences most people when they select products. So, a positive review is a significant factor in increasing sales.
Product review also impacts the SEO ranking of your eCommerce website.
Also, shop owners can get a good idea about the product acceptance by the customers and improve the product quality to ensure customer satisfaction.
Positive reviews help market your eCommerce business because it creates a loyal and trustworthy customer base, which indirectly makes a better promotion.
After learning from the negative reviews, you can improve your product and service quality.
So overall, product review helps you make more money from your eCommerce website.
5. Using Email Marketing Method
The most popular way to market your products is through email marketing.
Many email marketing services are available in the market that help you send emails daily to customers.
It is a cost-effective way to market your products. When you market your products using email marketing, you can build a relationship with your customers.
They feel comfortable contacting you whenever they have a question or want to share their experience with your product.
Through email marketing, you can also build a community around your brand. They will be more likely to purchase from you when they see others using your product.
The most significant way to keep your email marketing subscribers is to provide valuable content continuously. This generates a positive brand perception and builds a long-term relationship with your customers.
You can send them emails with product updates, special discounts, and other marketing campaigns. Then they feel extraordinary to receive your emails because they know that you care about them.
6. Better Product Image
Product images are an essential element in eCommerce websites. It helps enhance the aesthetic appeal of the products and capture the customers’ attention. You can use images of your products on your website to show the quality and size of the product.
You can also include images of your product from different angles to demonstrate the quality.
The customers’ opinion about product image is critical. When customers browse through your product page, they will have an idea about the quality of your products. But they won’t buy anything without physically seeing the product.
If you provide good quality product images with multiple viewpoints, customers will be satisfied.
The customers will immediately get an idea about the quality of the product by looking at the image. So, it is always essential to have good product images, and people will purchase products that they can see themselves using.
So optimizing better product images will impact your eCommerce business revenue.
Conclusion
Today, eCommerce is one of the most profitable business platforms. So you can earn a good amount of money from eCommerce.
This article has discussed how to start an eCommerce business as a beginner and some significant factors to help you make money from e-commerce.
We hope you will get a better idea about eCommerce before starting the business.
Author Bio
Fahim Muntasir
Fahim Muntasir works as a content writer at WebAppick – a giant WordPress plugin development company. His specialized sectors are WordPress, WooCommerce, Google Merchant Center,eCommerce, and other topics.
Blockchain is a scrambled computerized data set shared by a few gatherings in a distributed organization. Any transaction that happens in the organization is recorded, verified, and put away in an information base. Transactions are communicated to all arranged members — making an unalterable transaction log. Blockchain is based on technology, where different duplicates of information exist across an organization instead of a solitary server or data set. Because no concentrated power — or institution — controls it, members can get to a similar version of the information in close to ongoing.
The decentralized administration takes into consideration quicker, less exorbitant handling of transactions while likewise permitting untrusted members to arrive at a consensus on the condition of the information base. This article will tell you everything from the beginning to the end about blockchain technology and what are its impacts on various industries. Also, you can hire a Top Blockchain Development Company from here if you need.
For what reason is it so Popular?
Exceptionally Secure – It utilizes a computerized signature element to conduct misrepresentation-free transactions making it difficult to ruin or change the information of a person by different clients without a specific advanced signature.
Decentralized System – Conventionally, you want the endorsement of administrative specialists like an administration or bank for transactions; nonetheless, with Blockchain, transactions are done with the common consensus of clients bringing about smoother, more secure, and quicker transactions.
Automation Capability – It is programmable and can create precise actions, occasions, and installments naturally when the standards of the trigger are met.
Impact of Blockchain Technology On Various Industries
Banking Sector
Imagine you send $5K to your companion through a conventional bank. The bank charges you a $100 expense; thus, truth be told, you’re only sending her $4900. If she’s abroad, she’ll settle the scoreless because of move rates and other secret expenses included. Generally speaking, the interaction is tedious and costly – and isn’t destined to be 100 percent secure.
Blockchain, on the other hand, disrupts the business banking framework by giving a distributed installment framework with high security and low charges. No focal power exists, so you don’t need to pay for one. How cool is that? This kills the requirement for an outsider to make a transaction utilizing a digital currency, such as Bitcoin or one of the numerous others. Your transaction to your companion is kept in a record that is seen and reviewable by any of the cryptographic money clients – giving you genuine autonomy over your transaction.
For instance, a digital currency application called Abra gives distributed money moves. With Abra, clients can store, move, and get advanced money on their PCs, tablets, or smartphones. A beneficiary can pull out cash through an Abra teller. Clients don’t have to have a financial balance! As may be obvious, then, at that point, the utilization of digital forms of money rather than banks genuinely disrupts the personal money market, imperiling the last option – as it ought to be. Why pay charges and dread security when blockchain can finish transactions rapidly, unreservedly, and without stress?
Medical care
Can we just be real? Today, horde issues exist in the capacity of individuals’ well-being information. Anyone can approach this extremely private information because it is totally contained in halfway found records. Whenever someone asks someone else for a person’s information, it can require hours for that person to find the right document, offering open doors for information breaks, burglary, or misfortunes. That is the reason blockchain technology in this industry is so significant.
Blockchain technology here kills the requirement for a focal power and empowers quick admittance to information. Here, each square is connected to one more square and distributed across the blockchain hubs, making it difficult for a programmer to ruin the information. Keeping personal clinical record information hidden is the very pinnacle of concern, so blockchain technology seems OK, no?
Another medical care concern spins around fake medication, and blockchain technology has some control over this, as well. That’s what the issue is; often, fake medications are difficult to distinguish from genuine ones. Blockchain technology tackles this issue by utilizing store networks and the executive’s conventions where the medication provenance can be followed.
Joined Healthcare has worked on the protection, security, and interoperability of clinical records utilizing blockchain technology. It’s seen its operations work decisively subsequently. We anticipate that other medical organizations should go with the same pattern as they decentralize their operations, as well.
Network protection
Cyberattacks are the top danger to our computerized world. Look what happened when Equifax declared its immense information break earlier that impacted 143 billion consumers – that went off the deep end. Blockchain technology can end such bad dreams. There are chances of the data leak, unapproved access, and altering. Because blockchain is a decentralized framework, it’s great for environments where high security is involved. Here, all the information put away on a bitcoin or other blockchain network is verified and encoded utilizing a cryptographic calculation – which prompts no SINGLE mark of section for a wide-scale assault.
Likewise, you can undoubtedly identify malignant information assaults with blockchain because of shared connections, where information can’t be adjusted or altered. Also, by disposing of a focal power, blockchain gives a solid and straightforward approach to recording transactions without disclosing private information to anyone. One illustration of a company effectively utilizing online protection this way is Guardtime. Because of its prosperity, we expect that many organizations will follow, further disrupting this industry as well.
Inventory network Management
Blockchain technology can follow every one of the means of an inventory network, so suppose you put in a request for food, had the food conveyed, and observed the food disgusting. The proprietor of the company from whom you requested it could revisit his blockchain record and figure out how in the store network the request veered off-track to displease you. For instance, he can go from the rancher to the maker, to the distributor, to the retailer, then, at that point, as far as you might be concerned, the buyer.
At the end of the day, in the production network, the executives, blockchain gives long-lasting straightforwardness and validation of transactions shared by different production network accomplices. All transactions are super durable and verifiable, making it simple for a proprietor or a client to see each record.
It very well may be utilized for a verification – for instance, fish verification, where it can follow the fish from sea to showcase. The Pacific Tuna Project utilizes blockchain to oversee fishing information, trading/bringing in subtleties, and buying subtleties to follow fish fishing. This forestalls unlawful fishing. As such, utilizing blockchain for the production network, the executive’s work permits you to fish for the information you want and reel in the right responses like clockwork.
Government
Blockchain technology can end electoral misrepresentation. In a traditional democratic interaction, most citizens stand in line to project, cast a ballot, or send in mail votes. Then, the votes should be counted by a neighborhood authority. Online democracy is conceivable in this situation, as well; however, likewise with any remaining industries we’ve discussed, because a focal authority is utilized, issues of misrepresentation arise.
Utilizing blockchain technology in this way turns into the wisest decision. Here, individuals can cast a ballot online effectively without uncovering their characters. Utilizing blockchain, officials can count votes with outright exactness, realizing that every ID can be ascribed to only one vote. Misrepresentation can’t happen because it is close to inconceivable with blockchain technology. What’s more, once a vote is added to a record, it can’t be changed or eradicated.
Wrapping up
Blockchain technology is poised to assume control over the manner in which we work. Fostering the right instruments and tending to these limitations will take time, yet continued interest in blockchain technology will probably address a considerable lot of these issues and difficulties confronted, like other mechanical revolutions of the past. Perhaps ten years from now, similar to the web, blockchain will be commonplace technology, and we will look forward to the following innovation. If you are looking for a blockchain development company, then you can click here to hire.
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Steam is powerful, hot, and painful. It can move trains, boats, and has driven minds crazy with the power of invention. And now, the power of steam has come to Linux. That’s right, Linux. Until recently Linux users were the most unloved members of the gaming world. They have been the outcasts, the rejects in the corner who preferred an operating system, which quite frankly, is the most logical of all of them. They are Linux users. And now, they have arrived.
Ok, enough with the dramatics; Portal is available if you’re running Valve’s Linux Steam client, you’ve got it. If you don’t have it, get it, because the Steam Box is coming. While PC, Xbox, Play Station, and Mac users have all had a gaming advantage, the love for Linux users has never been there. Until now.
Linux gamers now have access to Valve’s Half-Life,Half-Life: Blue Shift, and the just-released beta Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2). And that’s good news.
For all the mega super awesomeness that this news could potentially be, it’s not quite the best. Valve’s current catalog for Linux is still quite sparse. With only 13 titles as of this article, it’s barely a scratch against the wall of Mac and PC game titles out there, but hey, it’s a start. I mean, Portal is a game from 2007, and the original Half-Life was first published in 1998.
This padding of the Linux library is likely part of preparations for the Steam Box console, which is expected to run the OS. Valve’s entire catalog will probably be available for Linux before long. The question is whether any other big-name developers will follow suit. There are over 100 Linux titles on Steam right now, but most of them are smaller games from indie developers. The Steam Box may have to stream games from a Windows-equipped PC if it wants to offer a similar selection of blockbusters to next-generation consoles.
Now, Remember that Valve utilizes a Direct3D -> OpenGL layer for its ports. It takes the D3D9 with extensions and dynamically created oGL calls. Not only does have to call oGL but it also has to deal with that translation overhead. Despite that, it still ends up being faster than native DX where no translation is done.They still use d3d9 but go through live translation to oGL calls and still they outperform the native DX9 implementation despite having the same limitations. Faster than native despite having additional translation overhead is nothing short of impressive especially when you consider Valve had next to no oGL experience when they started this ( although then basically then hired an all-staroGL team to carry out the endeavor.
It’s hard to talk about the Linux OS without talking about the Steam Box, which, if you believe Valve head Gabe Newell, is the console killer. Newell has confirmed that Valve’s own Steam Box will come packaged with Linux. The OS is anathema to the walled gardens of Windows, being both free and open-source. It’s just as alien to the Xbox and Playstation front-ends. Where they curate content and load up with adverts, the Steam Box is as open as an average PC.
Newell says you’re free to install Windows on Valve’s Linux box, and download whatever you fancy. Imagine a console with Adblock. Imagine a console that isn’t hamstrung by its components half a decade down the line, a console that doesn’t force its creator to make a loss on each sale or to devote a gigantic chunk of budget half way through its life cycle to make its successor.
The Steam Box should scare console makers. 2012 was a monster year for PC gaming, the portents of doom that dogged the platform for years finally shaken off as the once dominant consoles felt their teeth grow too long.
With the upcoming Steam Box, and Portal and Left for Dead 2 coming to Linux, the rise of the few should be a concern to all.
Author Bio: The article is written by Jason Phillips, a freelance writer and an enthusiast. His passion about gaming inspired him to write gaming articles, blog about gaming and starting an online gaming site Zombie Games 365.
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