Social commerce sites, services and apps watch out, Amazon is beginning throw its weight around. Having already shown the world how to use Facebook to help Amazon customers shop smarter with Facebook-powered birthday reminders and recommendations, the retail giant is now stepping up its assault on the group-buy/daily deals sector with AmazonLocal. Already the #3 [...]
Facebook is the darling of the social commerce world and, perhaps, for good reason. With the exception of Google, the social network gets more traffic than just about any other site on the planet. In terms of time spent on site, it far exceeds Google. Cathy Halligan, CMO at PowerReviews, has an insightful post on [...]
In the last few weeks, news has come across the web that retail giants Amazon and Walmart have acquired several start-up companies with a view toward taking full advantage of the benefits offered by social and mobile technologies. Amazon Acquires Quorus WebProNews reports that Amazon has acquired social commerce software company Quorus, not so much [...]
Klout, which bills itself as the “standard for influence,” just released a list of the season’s 10 most influential retailers based on their Klout score. Topping the list is Amazon, followed by Victoria’s Secret, JC Penney, Sports Authority, Walgreens, HSN, ThinkGeek, Best Buy, Target and Macys, respectively. Klout bases its ranking algorithm on three factors: True [...]
“I get by with a little help from my friends.” – The Beatles Paul, John, George and Ringo were onto a truth that has bearing on social commerce – that is, from to time, we can all use a little help from friends in making product purchase decisions. In his December 2009 post, How Social [...]
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 to stimulate demand with a demand-driven deal app. Users get [...]
