Here’s a smart idea from Sweden. Pop-up Shops for Blogs. To seed buzz and demand for the opening of a new online store, Swedish interior design retailer Lagerhaus (no they don’t sell lager) has implemented an interesting variation on...
The concept of using a mobile phone to “check-in” to a business such as a store or restaurant to declare one’s location is foreign to many. But to the 10 million users of geo-location social network foursquare, such activity has...
F-commerce solution provider, 8thBridge has just published its latest in its series of social commerce reports covering different industry verticals (free download). This time, it’s the fashion industry, and the 104 page report is a careful...
We are dealing with an insurgency among consumers. No longer do they trust marketing or advertising messages, but, instead, turn to others like themselves for advice and opinion on product purchases. In today’s socially-infused marketplace, to...
Vente-Privée, founded in 2001, is Gilt Groupe’s big sister, the original and world’s largest flash-sales site offering luxury brands in Europe an online event-based sales channel to quickly sell large quantities stock without harming the...
Picture this. You’re a brand tweeting about your amazing new product (as you do); wouldn’t it be great if people could buy directly from your tweet, with a simple tweet message? Well now they can, with a new service called Chirp, from...
Head over to the Facebook pages of Amazon’s specialist sites, Soap.com, Diapers.com, Wag.com (pets) and YoYo.com (toys), and you get to vote for which brand you most want 30% off during the upcoming US national shopping days, Black Friday...
Social commerce news is coming thick and fast as the holiday season gets underway. In the first of several ‘extra’ posts today, Walmart and Etsy have launched Open Graph powered Gift Recommendation apps. The world’s biggest...
Shopkick – the mobile commerce app for iPhone and Android that knows when users walk into a store and rewards them with points called “kicks” just for doing so – may be the traditional retailers newest best friend. At least...
Headquartered in New York, Gilt Groupe is a membership-based e-commerce site that runs daily private sales of high-end designer apparel, accessories and home furnishings, often discounted as much as 60% off retail. Gilt Groupe includes merchandise...
Channel Advisor’s latest Facebook Commerce Index is out, a free listing and analysis of the top 25 US retailers on Facebook by fan count. Victoria’s Secret, adidas Originals and Victoria’s Secret Pink are the most popular...
To promote their upcoming Corporate Social Commerce Summit (March 13/14, 2012 Boston) Useful Social Media have gleaned Social Commerce Today and Social Media Influence for factoids to put together a slick Social Commerce Timeline infographic, and...