Kaboodle, the social shopping site, has launched PopPicks, a community-driven flash sale feature. Like Gilt.com, members can get access to private flash sales, short time-sensitive brand-name deals at high discounts, but like Threadless.com members...
So did hell just freeze over? Amazon, the grand dame of e-commerce has set up shop with the new kid on the e-commerce block, Facebook, in a curious ménage-à-trois with leading consumer brand manufacturer, Procter & Gamble (photographic evidence...
Want to set up a fashion store selling top labels such as Diane Von Furstenberg, Gap, Barneys New York, Juicy Couture, Banana Republic, Tory Burch and TopShop? Well now you can. The Sugar Inc. blog...
Free Mashable-Sponsored Social Commerce Webinar by Hallmark & 8thBridge – Wed July, 28 (12 Noon EST)
A heads up on a free Mashable-sponsored social commerce webinar next week (Wed July 28, 12 noon EST) from Alvenda 8thBridge and Hallmark: “Learn How Hallmark and Alvenda Launched a Social Commerce Channel on Facebook” Details below, and registration...
Incase you’ve missed it, the ever-insightful Paul Chaney, social media consultant, and contributor to Practical E-Commerce is running a series of articles reviewing the growing number of social media store/storefront applications that allow...
It’s good to feel part of something big – so here’s the latest 15 minute inspirational TED talk – from popular science author Matt Ridley (The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, The Rational Optimist) at Oxford University – on “When Ideas...
Just as Yipit, DealRadar, and DailyFlock have emerged as clearing houses for group-buy deals from Groupon, LivingSocial et al, the group-buy phenomenon has given rise to another new business opportunity – marketplaces for buying and selling...
Head over to paywithatweet.com, and you’ll find an intriguing new social commerce model – where you can buy digital goods (music, software, ebooks, videos etc) and pay for them simply by tweeting them. It works like this; you simply click on the...
There are two sides of the social commerce coin – helping people to connect where they buy, and buy where they connect. Whilst much of the current buzz around social commerce is about helping people buy where they connect – i.e. on social platforms...
Interesting headline survey results published this week from e-commerce conversion experts SeeWhy. In a social commerce survey of 467 marketers that was conducted in June 2010 and that focused on marketers’ plans to use Facebook as a social commerce...
Social commerce site Ideeli, the US private sale club and Gilt competitor, has just launched ideelACCESS – a group-buy service for off-site (non-Ideeli) deals (press release). The first deal offered by ideelACCESS is with Spa Chakra, a chain of spas...
Over at Gigaom, ShinyOrb co-founder Elizabeth Yin has posted a useful primer on social shopping; “e-commerce sites that facilitate interaction among customers as part of a shopping experience“. It’s jargon free, succinct and practical. Elizabeth...