Walmart Launches Shopycat Facebook App for Holiday Season [screenshots]
Today, Walmart launched a Facebook app called Shopycat, which is designed to make gift giving “less stressful and more fun,” says the @Walmart Labs blog. (See the previous SCT post on the topic.) Using the app involves two steps. First, Shopycat looks at your Facebook [...]
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UK Cinema Chain Odeon to Launch Fully Transactional F-Commerce Ticket Purchase App
The UK’s largest cinema chain, Odeon, has made its move into f-commerce by launching a fully-transactional Facebook app, its first, that enables movie goers to book tickets without leaving the social network, says Marketing Magazine’s Sarah Shearman. The app – labeled the Odeon Event Organiser [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Buddy Media – Big Brands’ Friend in Social Media
Every brand needs a buddy in social media. At least that’s what social commerce platform provider Buddy Media thinks. Founded in 2007, the company has developed a suite of products that enable brands to leverage social media – Facebook in particular – to take advantage [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Venpop – Straightforward Social Commerce, Pure and Simple
Visit the Venpop website and it’s readily apparent the company’s interest lies solely with social commerce, and its approach to the sector is very straightforward. Marketing managers can sign-up, complete the Venpop set-up wizard, and in a few clicks have everything set up to synchronize [...]
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Swedish-Style Social Commerce – Pop-up Shops for Blogs
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 online pop-up fan-shop trend. Rather than [...]
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Extra: Amazon launches Vote-for-Discounts App on Facebook [Screenshots]
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 (11/25) through Cyber Monday (11/28). Nice way [...]
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Top 25 Retailers on Facebook (List and Download)
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 retailers on Facebook Whilst the index is called Facebook [...]
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F-Commerce à la Française: La Redoute and SNCF (screenshots)
“Selling tickets on Facebook is a waste of time” says Pierre Matuchet, associate CTO at French railways SNCF. Nevertheless, French railways has just added a natty Facebook app to its Facebook page that allows groups of friends discuss and plan group trips – and then [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Usablenet – Social, Mobile and More
Usablenet is a leading mobile and multi-channel platform company that serves 25% of Fortune 1000 companies including FedEx, British Airways, Delta, Marriott, Walgreens, Tesco and PacSun. Overall, the company claims more than 300 clients in its roster. The company provides far more than social commerce [...]
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New Burberry Pop-Up Fan-Store: Upping the UX Game [Screenshots]
So here’s Burberry’s latest f-commerce initiative – a pop-up fan-store selling their latest Burberry Body fragrance (hot on the heels of their brilliant Facebook tryvertising initiative for the new line). So what do we like? The pop-up fan-store is slick, stylish, internationalised, allows people to browse [...]
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