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According to a Nielson Report , social network usage is up 83 percent from last year. In the commerce realm, that’s big news for companies expanding its marketing efforts into non-traditional social media. Facebook is top dog when it comes to overall minutes spent. Users spent a whopping total...
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The answer is: not so much right now. Facebook and Twitter, two of the most popular social networking sites on the Web, have millions of users each. As of now, that translates to less than 5% of retail traffic , according to Hitwise. That vastly pales in comparison with search engine marketing...
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Wed, May 13 2009
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For those of us in the States, we have a three-day weekend coming up. Martin Luther King Jr. day is on Monday. The next day is the Presidential Inauguration. Amazing, isn’t it? Before you bask in the glory of the weekend wherever you are, take the time to catch up on this past week...
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Fri, Jan 16 2009
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Filed under: ecommerce, social commerce, social networking, Resource Roundup, ECF g5, social media, ecf 5.0, asp.net mvc, social ecommerce, location-based social networks, windows 7, proflowers, cloudberry, asp.net web form, environment synchronization
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Bluetooth and SMS eCommerce have their limitations. Bluetooth hasn’t exactly taken off as a popular way to link eCommerce clients and mobile devices. SMS marketing, while around for a while, can be seen as intrusive and “spammy” for many mobile users . So what’s next? It’s the social...
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Mon, Jan 12 2009
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Filed under: social commerce, social networking, sms, social ecommerce, sms marketing, sms ecommerce, brightkite, bluetooth commerce, bluetooth ecommerce, bluetooth social networking, loopt, location-based social networks, bluehoo, social marketing
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Once again, Happy New Year to everyone! I took a hiatus last week (e.g. vacation), but I return with this week’s Resource Roundup. Some of us are still in the Christmas/New Year vibe and not quite 100 percent in the mood to pull off 80-hour work weeks (but then again, who is?). That...
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Fri, Jan 9 2009
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While doing a Google-search for “Bluetooth commerce,” I came across a rather prophetic article by Zdnet UK from Nov. 2, 1999 boldly entitled “Bluetooth to lead e-commerce revolution – Gartner.” Its claims are: Because of the uptake of mobile devices in Europe, Gartner predicts this will enable...
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I've been talking about social networking and social commerce for a while now. Why? Because, apparently, social networking is getting tied more and more with mobile devices. With the growing availability of unlimited 3G data services, powerful mobile OSes, and the "facebooking" of nations...
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Tue, Dec 23 2008
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Christmas is less than a week away; 2008 is winding down; and many of us are penning our New Year's Resolutions (which will likely break within a couple of months). What's my new year's resolution you ask? One of them, for sure, is keep growing .NET eCommerce Blog and graduate it from its...
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Fri, Dec 19 2008
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Filed under: web 2.0, social networking, sales, google checkout, retail, Twitter, Resource Roundup, customer service, marketing, ECF g5, blogging, sms, micro-blogging, ecommerce 2.0, sms marketing, christmas 2008, new year's resolutions, sms ecommerce
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One of the worse things you can do in a down economy is cut back on your marketing efforts. "Why is that?" you ask. Think about it: if no one knows about your product, the value of your product, and why they shouldn't live without your product then there is no way in heck you're going...
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Wed, Dec 17 2008
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Sometimes the term " Web 2.0 " gets a bit tiring to some people. Yeah, I get it. But the driving forces behind Web 2.0 may help save your commerce butt in a slowing economy. BusinessWeek had an article clamoring for a new era of eCommerce 2.0 . Ecommerce stores need to leverage these new Web...
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Tue, Dec 16 2008
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Filed under: web 2.0, social commerce, social networking, Twitter, iPhone, social media, facebook, amazon.com, checkout, checkout software, ecommerce 2.0, social ecommerce, one-click, ebay, amazon, discovery based search, blogs, forums
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Part of the allure of Twitter is the community. Twitter's popularity is soaring, despite its glaring lack of a reliable revenue model and high noise-to-signal ratio (Yes, we can all get tired of "I'm sitting on the toilet" tweets). But the value of Twitter for end-users and companies...
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Mon, Dec 15 2008
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Filed under: ecommerce, web 2.0, social networking, sales, retail, Twitter, customer service, Customer Service 2.0, social media, Promotion, sms, dell, microblogging, micro-blogging, text messaging
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600,000 small businesses in the US will deploy social networking services within the next year, according to a study by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. This is double the number of businesses that currently use social networks. So far, 5 percent of small businesses in the US use some...
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Social networks are popular both at home and at work as this study shows. More businesses are using YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn—just to name a few—during the work day. NewDiligence found that 60 percent of its 527 respondents use social networking sites during work. 85 percent of those respondents...
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Social networks aren’t commonplace yet in the enterprise world. Modifying IT infrastructure to post messages up to 140 characters long is an arduous task when it comes to creating a cost-effective workflow. Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, and ComCast are just a very small few of big companies getting into...
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Mon, Oct 20 2008
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At least according to Geoff Galt of Tealeaf, a company that provides customer management software. He says that the Internet will become the primary source for commerce trades and transactions in the future . With eCommerce growing at a faster rate than traditional retail, that's not such a farfetched...