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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Rules for the Revolution: Interview with Fashism Founder, Brooke Moreland
Social Commerce Today is starting a new series titled “Rules for the Revolution,” which consists of interviews with entrepreneurs that we refer to as social commerce “revolutionaries.” Without question, there is a revolution taking place at the intersection of social media and e-commerce and these [...]
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Top Ten Social Commerce Infographics for 2011
Rounding out our list of top 10′s for the year is this post that contains the most viewed social commerce infographics for 2011 based on page views. We like using infographics and have scoured the web to find those that furnish the best portrayal of [...]
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Top Ten Social Commerce Posts During 2011
The following is a list of the top ten most read social commerce posts during 2011 based on number of page views. To say this year has been a good one for Social Commerce Today is an understatement and we thank you, our readers, for [...]
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Speed Summary & Download | 360i Report on Facebook Commerce [Report]
Here’s quick 8-point speed summary of the latest report on f-commerce, entitled Facebook Commerce just out from digital agency 360i. The full report can be viewed and downloaded below. It’s a nice introduction to f-commerce – and makes some good points. We especially like the [...]
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The Fonz on Social Skis? Walmart’s $300m+ social commerce investment
So Walmart, the world’s largest retailer has decided to vote for social commerce with its wallet. $300m for a social media startup to combine social media, shopping and mobile. The startup in question, Kosmix (Wiki entry), is right now in the business of ‘taming social media overload’ by tracking, filtering [...]
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List of F-Commerce Success Stories (and why 45 Likes = 1 sale)
F-Commerce, the use of Facebook to assist in the buying and selling of products and services, is new, controversial, and next to group-buy, the hottest thing in digital retail right now. We’ve been summarising the state of the f-commerce nation in the last few articles, and [...]
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The case against f-commerce: faddish, foolish and “far-fetched” [data, charts, report]
Should brands, retailers and businesses bother investing time, effort and money to sell with Facebook? Yesterday, market research agency, Forrester, published a report “Will Facebook Ever Drive eCommerce?” answering the question with a NO and with analysis to support their scepticism about the viability of [...]
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Social Commerce on TV: TV Social Shopping – Buy What You See With Friends
We’ve long thought that elephant in the social commerce corner was TV, and that next-generation TV will have social and commercial layers built-in. French Connection made an early attempt linking YouTube to stores with their ‘plinking’ (product linking) YouTique, but here’s a concept app (codenamed [...]
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For and Against F-Commerce: Econsultancy vs Computing Magazine
A couple of interesting UK articles out on f-commerce – one by Dawinderpal Sahota of Computing Magazine arguing that Facebook has a limited future in e-commerce, and the other by Jake Hird of Econsultancy who argues, on the contrary the opportunities for e-commerce on Facebook are limitless. Here’s [...]
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