Vietnam’s Business Owners Are Loving Facebook
- Almost half of Vietnam’s 95 million citizens use Facebook
- Social network is becoming embedded in Vietnamese society
Customers use mobile devices at a coffee shop in Hanoi.
Photographer: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images
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Quang Dang built a business with 200 staff selling lipstick and perfume. His secret to success? Once-banned Facebook.
Like a growing number of Vietnamese, the 25-year-old turned to Facebook to put money in his pocket as getting his own physical shop proved out of reach. With just $223 in savings, the high school educated entrepreneur got his start hawking cosmetics to friends on the social network.