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Social Commerce
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Unique Vintage, a retailer of vintage-inspired fashions for women, is successfully using social and visual commerce technology to acquire, retain and reward customers. In episode 19 of Total Retail Talks, Courtney Lear Wallace, director of digital marketing and e-commerce at Unique Vintage, discusses the retailer's visual commerce strategy and why it's paying big dividends.
Attention bargain hunters and people who hate paying full price (so, everyone): Pinterest is adding a game-changing feature to the buyable pins it launched earlier this year. The platform has made it possible to track the price of any buyable pins users have put on their boards, meaning Pinterest will alert you with an emailโฆ
Add J.Crew and American Girl to the list of retailers betting big with their holiday campaigns on ad units launched by Facebook and Instagram. J.Crew bought Instagram ads that include a "Shop Now" button, making its gift guide digital. And for the past week, J.Crew's Instagram page has been promoting an iPhone case that doubles asโฆ
For eBay, it's all about the re-pins these days. The e-commerce company is realizing just how big of an opportunity social media represents for online retail, and as a result is ramping up its social game, especially on Pinterest. "We think social is a huge opportunity," Brad Matthews, senior director of social commerce and CRM atโฆ
Retailers everywhere are counting on one thing this holiday shopping season: the likes, swipes and tweets by their fans on social media will drive consumer behavior. Whether itโs in their favorite app or store, retailers are leaning on social media more and more to drive the bottom line. This holiday season will be different though.โฆ
Pinterest started adding a buy button to pins back in June, and today those buyable pins are becoming even easier to shop. First, buyable pins are rolling out to Android, so they're now available on both of Pinterest's mobile apps. But the bigger news is that Pinterest is also making buyable pins much simpler toโฆ
In episode 10 of Total Retail Talks, Total Retail's Executive Editor Joe Keenan interviews Rob Garf, vice president of industry insights and strategy at Demandware, an enterprise, cloud-based commerce platform provider, on the impact Twitter's "Buy" button will have on retailersโ operations, as well as consumersโ growing acceptance of social commerce.
This webinar offers insights and tips on how retailers can leverage digital technologies to better engage and sell to consumers.
As Facebook angles to become the one and only place you spend your digital life, its effort to transform your news feed into a storefront is once again ramping up. The tech giant said Monday that it will be testing a few new ways to shop in its app. Facebook says that in coming weeks it will test aโฆ