Your customers are talking about your brand and your products everywhere and every day. Social commerce is the strategy that facilitates and turns participation and user-generated content about your products or services into results that directly impact the P&L and integrate with other marketing programs. Join us for a deep dive into the newest strategies and case studies for using the customer voice to transform your business and positively impact your bottom line.
Dec 21, 2012 - A new study by social curation firm Mass Relevance has found that 59 percent of consumers are more likely to trust brands that integrate with social media. Comments
Dec 18, 2012 -
Facebook hopes to make some pin money with its expanding Gifts offering, while Pinterest launched business accounts. To participate in Facebook Gifts, retailers need a national or even global footprint, as well as massive logistics capabilities. On the other hand, any lil ol' blogger can sign up for a Pinterest business account.Will social commerce take off this holiday season? And what site will deliver?
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Dec 18, 2012 -
The new social metrics include social connections like Facebook likes, Facebook engagement rates, social chatter, and Twitter retweet rates.
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Dec 11, 2012 -
Brands with large social audiences have quickly learned how to best craft strategies and programs to drive engagement for specific products.
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Dec 5, 2012 -
At midnight, BuzzFeed went live with a homepage takeover for Old Navy that lets visitors who crave their holiday cheer digital cheerfully obscure a web page with iconic images.
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Dec 4, 2012 -
Social media marketing and SEO are attached at the hip and should always be run in tandem and concurrently.
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Nov 28, 2012 -
With its first birthday approaching in December, product discovery service Cravebox is building connections with brands to provide themed product boxes along with a slew of data-collecting and social initiatives to both engage consumers and gather information about them.
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Nov 27, 2012 -
And the social networks are clearly in the game.
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Nov 26, 2012 -
The greatest ever Black Friday online retail sales of $1.042 billion followed a healthy Thanksgiving Day, with $633 million in sales. comScore, IBM, Performics and Experian share the latest holiday season 2012 stats, insights, and predictions.
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Nov 20, 2012 -
Eight ways you can use your current customers to generate awareness with their friends.
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Nov 19, 2012 -
While Facebook is pushing its own newly-launched ecommerce effort, Facebook Gifts, retailers connected to Facebook are also seeking a piece of the holiday shopping action ahead of Black Friday.
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Nov 16, 2012 -
At an event shrouded in secrecy, Facebook unveiled 14 new retail partners for Facebook Gifts and said that the online shopping app is now available to all Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada.
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Nov 13, 2012 -
How brands are using the evolutionary line of social media to social marketing to social merchandising to influence their customers.
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Nov 6, 2012 -
Media planning doesn't involve traditional sales, but you must get clients to buy into your recommendations. Here are 60 questions to begin with.
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Oct 30, 2012 -
Six-month-old start-up Chirpify, a platform for in-stream commerce on social networks, has expanded into Instagram.
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Oct 23, 2012 -
Do you wonder about the value of a social media share? If it's an event managed on Eventbrite, the online registration and ticketing company can tell you to the penny.
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Oct 23, 2012 -
In the ever-changing technology landscape, we need to be constantly reinventing and challenging what we know.
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Oct 19, 2012 -
Last week Bazaarvoice announced the launch of a new version of its Connections social commerce service, and followed up with a study showing that Twitter chatter has little correlation with search behavior.
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Oct 16, 2012 -
How can you prove the success across your product engagement strategy?
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Oct 9, 2012 -
A new Facebook wishlist-type feature allows users to tag and group products, which can then then be browsed by friends or linked to purchase pages.
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Oct 9, 2012 -
SapientNitro worked with LensCrafters to digitize the in-store experience. The agency claims most retailers it studied recently did a poor job of enhancing the real-world with digital elements.
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