Next up in our series of “There’s Nothing so Practical as Good Theory”; a speed summary of February’s social media week (London) session on social commerce by James Poulter (@jamespoulter), thought leader and digital consultant for Lexis...
Next up in our series of “There’s Nothing so Practical as Good Theory”; a speed summary of February’s social commerce webinar by Lora Cecere and Jeremiah Owyang from the Altimeter Group. The webinar itself, which you’ll also find below...
With social commerce innovation coming thick and fast, it’s sometimes easy to get caught up with the executional aspects of social commerce – who’s do what in terms of adding a social layer to retail or adding a retail layer to...
The first ‘social shopping mall‘ on Facebook has opened its doors – and it’s run by Payvment, the leading f-commerce payment solutions provider. Since its inception in 2009, Payvment has signed up around 50,000 independent...
The latest Global Internet Statistics Compendium is available from Econsultancy, the useful curated reference tome of third party data for planning, business case development and selling, including some useful stats on the social web and social...
Speed Summary | The Key to Happiness is Excitement for the Future: Econsultancy Future Trends Report
Econsultancy has published it’s Future Trends report, a 147 page deck of inspiration and innovation – smartly put together by New Media Age columnist and digital media consultant Neil Perkin. Members can access the report here, but...
PPR, one of France’s largest retail and luxury groups (Gucci, YSL, Boucheron, Puma, Fnac…) has opened a full Facebook store in France for the new collection of its European catalogue and retail chain La Redoute. Powered by Boosket...
Social commerce platform ChompOn, which offers a white-label service allowing websites to set up, host and run their own on-site Group Buy and Flash Sales, has published some interesting data on how much a Facebook share and tweet is worth in terms...
US department store chain Nordstrom is to acquire LA-based social commerce platform HauteLook ($100m+ 2010 sales, 4m members) for $270m ($180m stock + $90m earn-out incentive stock) in a similar move to Comcast’s purchase of DailyCandy (Swirl)...
Are group-buy promotions profitable for businesses? Well it depends; for 66% of businesses trialling Groupon, the promotion generates profits. But for 32%, the social commerce platform was unprofitable. That’s the finding of the Rice Report...
For anyone caught in a time warp and still thinks your Facebook strategy should be about ‘engagement’ (whatever the vague notion of engagement actually denotes), here’s some get-real data suggesting that your Facebook strategy...
Here’s a super infographic on the pros’s and con’s of group-buy social commerce platforms from both a customer-focused perspective and a retailer perspective – from the team over at review site – SiteJabber. Smart...