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Social Commerce is a buzzword and it’s hot lexical real estate, evoking a fusion of two big digital trends of “social media” and “e-commerce”. As a result, social commerce means different things to different people (see list below), and it’s been the target of a [...]

Daniel Flamberg over at iMedia predicts that the mainstreaming of social networking platforms means that marketers could be ready to take social media marketing to the next level; Social Commerce (Level One: Monitoring, Level Two: Brand Building, Level Three: Social Commerce) – using connected networks [...]

In a DMNews article this week entitled: Social commerce: Strategies for extending online shopping beyond the e-commerce site, Fumi Matsumoto, co-founder & CTO of Allurent (Charlotte Russe and Reebok’s Facebook store software), outlines a three phased solution for doing social commerce. For Allurent, social commerce is all about extending [...]

eConsultancy has been producing reports and presentations on social commerce since 2007 – and it’s insightful stuff. So we’ve distilled their work into a top 10 list of social commerce insights and predictions. Sources (some public, some members only) and accompanying facts are listed below. Top [...]

The cartoonist Tom Fishburne is a thorn in the side of social media marketing zealots, with curative cartoons for delusions of grandeur. So, it’s easy to take a swipe at Facebook pages for grocery products like Vanish, like your parents turning up to the school [...]

British high street retail institution Marks & Spencer has revamped its social commerce strategy; incorporating customer reviews on its site, adopting Twitter for promotions and Facebook communities to build community. In an interview for eConsultancy, Business Development Manager for M&S Sienne Veit also indicated openness to [...]