Category: social commerce for brands
Launched only four years ago, Pinterest is already the #1 ecommerce traffic driver. And with more than 70 million registered users, rapid growth and the launch of new business features, it has become a highly attractive channel for business that deserves full consideration to be a part, even a big part, of social media plans. […]
We’ve come full circle. For most of our existence people sold things to others through one-on-one relationships. It’s only since World War II that mass media has enabled the few to sell to the many with any effect utilizing one-way communication. Now we’re going back to two-way conversations, enabled by new technologies – social media. […]
Forty-three percent of adults say they’ve participated in showrooming, according to a Harris Poll from November 2012. Yet, tomorrow’s biggest headline isn’t going to be about how e-commerce cannibalized brick-and-mortar stores. The future lies in integration and leveraging the best of each to grow revenue across the board. Today’s savviest retailers are rethinking the very […]
Yesterday I came across Heidi Cohen’s thought-provoking collection of 19 social commerce definitions. While it may seem that 19 definitions is enough, I have a slightly different slant to add to the mix, along with a social commerce hierarchy. Social commerce is offline or online shopping facilitated by or otherwise involved with social media. For centuries […]