| Social Commerce Today

Author: Paul Chaney

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- in Mobile · Social
- — 18 Nov, 2011
Social Commerce Platform Review: Foursquare – Turning Check(in)s Into Cash

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[...]

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- in Social
- — 17 Nov, 2011
Social Commerce Platform Overview: Power Reviews – World’s Largest Social Commerce Network?

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[...]

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- in Social
- — 16 Nov, 2011
Social Commerce Platform Overview: Vente-Privée – Flash Sales à la Francaise

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[...]

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- in Mobile · Social
- — 14 Nov, 2011
Social Commerce Platform Overview: Shopkick – Mobile Commerce on Steroids

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[...]

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- in Social
- — 11 Nov, 2011
Social Commerce Platform Overview: Gilt Groupe – Fashion Meets Flash Sales

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%[...]

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- in Social
- — 7 Nov, 2011
Social Commerce Platform Overview: LivingSocial – It’s Not Just a Deal, It’s an Adventure

In the daily coupon deal market, LivingSocial is to Groupon what Pepsi is to Coke, running in second place. That’s not to suggest Living Social is an also ran by[...]

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