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Will Facebook Timeline Apps Replace the Need for Pages?
According to Luxury Daily writer Rachel Lamb, new updates by Facebook this week are cause for concern among brands advertising on the platform, in that sharing and interaction will become the order of the day. Quoting a speaker from Women’s Wear Daily’s Digital Forum held this week, Lamb [...]
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Speed Summary IJEC Social Commerce Special Edition – Social Shopping Communities
So here’s the second speed summary of the social commerce special edition just published by the respected peer-reviewed International Journal of Electronic Commerce. This second article is about social shopping communities and modelling behaviour with clickstream data from Rainer Olbrich and Christian Holsing from the marketing department of the [...]
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Convergence and Context Key to Mobile Commerce Says Forbes Editorial
If 2011 was the year when mobile grew in terms of adoption, 2012 will be the year when it attains rapid maturation, says one mCommerce pundit. In a guest editorial at Forbes, John Caron, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Modiv Media, a mobile shopper marketing [...]
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No ROI for Social Media [Infographic]
Here’s a great – but depressing -ColumnFive infographic from social marketing platform Wildfire on social media ROI. The data is taken from a November 2011 global survey of marketers. Points of note: Number of marketers using ROI to measure social media ((gain – cost)/cost) = [...]
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Speed Summary: IJEC Special Edition – Introduction to Social Commerce
So social commerce has just had a credibility-enhancement, with an intellectual injection to accompany the financial injections that the area is already receiving. The respected top peer-reviewed International Journal of Electronic Commerce has just published a special edition on social commerce (access can be purchased [...]
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Radio Shack Recognizes Hobbyists with ‘The Great Create’ Community [screenshots]
Walk into any Radio Shack and immediately upon entry you will see counters containing mobile phones from many brands representing several carriers. That’s the focus of the brand today. Conversely, walk to the rear and you step back in time to a day when the [...]
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Show Me the Money! Where’s my Cut of the $30bn Social Commerce Market?
So you’ve probably read the Booz & Co forecast that social commerce revenues will hit $30bn by 2015 (if you haven’t read our speed summary here). But how do you get a piece of the action? The accompanying Booz & Co report suggests that you [...]
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How to Sell $30,000 of Wine on Facebook
Lot of talk, not many numbers – sums up the state of f-commerce (Facebook e-commerce) right now. So it’s refreshing that VendorShop Social, a Facebook e-commerce app provider has released some top line sales figures for one of its clients; Australian online wine merchant, Winestore.com.au, [...]
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Test Your Digital Smarts [InfoArt Puzzle - 20 Digital Events that Defined 2011]
Say hello to InfoArt, infographics with an artistic spin that convey information through art. Our colleagues at digital agency Syzygy have launched their annual #20Things InfoArt puzzle, this year by Peter Jaworowski, that weaves 20 seminal online events of 2011 into one gorgeous picture. Can you spot them? See [...]
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Pinterest, Ticketmaster, TripAdvisor Among Companies Adding Facebook Timeline Apps
Last week, Facebook announced the launch of apps for Timeline, the updated, opt-in version of user profiles. Companies like Pinterest, TripAdvisor, Urbanspoon and approximately 80 others were immediately on board. Following suit, social commerce company 8thBridge just announced a partnership with Ticketmaster to share their [...]
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