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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Vente-Privée – Flash Sales à la Francaise
Posted on: 11-16-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
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 quantities stock without harming the brand’s image or competing with other distribution channels. Run as [...]
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The Social Commerce Timeline: New Infographic Released [Download]
Posted on: 11-10-2011 Posted by: Paul Marsden
To promote their upcoming Corporate Social Commerce Summit (March 13/14, 2012 Boston) Useful Social Media have gleaned Social Commerce Today and Social Media Influence for factoids to put together a slick Social Commerce Timeline infographic, and here it is. Over at Useful Social Media, Brian Smith discusses [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Fluid, Inc. – Interactive Agency and Social Commerce Platform All in One
Posted on: 10-31-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
Unique among the companies I have covered to date, Fluid is a hybrid – an interactive agency with its own social commerce platform. Fluid designs and builds digital shopping experiences for a broad array of customers. In addition to design and development services, the agency [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: ShopIgniter – More Than Just “One-Off” Promotions
Posted on: 10-28-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
Without a doubt, the social web is changing the way products are discovered, bought and shared – creating new opportunities for companies to engage customers and drive revenue in places like Facebook, mobile and existing eCommerce sites. ShopIgniter - the latest platform to be covered in [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Moontoast – Bringing the Storefront Into the Social Stream
Posted on: 10-26-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
The social commerce platforms I have covered up to this point find their locus inside Facebook. Not Moontoast. It provides social commerce functionality across a variety of channels, including social networks, blogs, ecommerce websites, affiliate sites and advertising networks. “Moontoast provides unique and targeted products [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: Payvment Turns Facebook Into a Virtual Shopping Mall
Posted on: 10-24-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
Payvment’s mission is very clear: “Payvment is the #1 social commerce platform on Facebook. Our goal is simple: to connect people, products, and conversations in new ways to reinvent online shopping.” The San Francisco, CA-based company fulfills its mission by providing an f-commerce shopping cart [...]
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Social Commerce Platform Overview: 8thBridge – Social Shopping via the News Feed
Posted on: 10-20-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
8thBridge – formerly Alvenda – provides a social shopping platform where large retailers can engage customers inside Facebook and on the merchant’s ecommerce site, as well. Customers are empowered to shop with merchants on their own terms in a shopping experience that emphasizes three P’s: [...]
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Milyoni: Leading F-Commerce Platform Provider
Posted on: 10-18-2011 Posted by: Paul Chaney
Milyoni (pronounced million-eye) is a leading enterprise commerce application for f-commerce, e-commerce on Facebook. Its platform – referred to as Conversational Commerce – helps entertainment and lifestyle companies convert Facebook fans into customers. The platform consists of three products: Social Cinema – designed for use by [...]
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