Social Commerce
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 at…
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 it’s 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.…
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 to…
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 retailers’ operations, as well as consumers’ 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 a…
Pinterest is hoping to be a shopping destination this holiday season, and it’s adding more partners to make that clear to shoppers. The popular online image board says it's partnered with e-commerce software providers Bigcommerce, Magento and IBM Commerce to give thousands more merchants the ability to sell products on the platform through Pinterest's Buyable Pin…
YouTube used to be for cat videos. How passive. Soon you'll be able to watch it and buy kitty litter. YouTube is introducing the ability to shop for products directly from its videos, a move that opens the door for new revenue as the online video site looks to turn a profit. The ads can appear on…
Listen in to learn what visual commerce is, the importance of it, how to prove it’s worth, and best practices around it.
Facebook launched a host of changes to make business pages more effective when accessed on mobile devices, including a new Shop section. Other changes include new and more prominent call-to-action buttons. And this may be only the beginning of a new push to cater to businesses. Facebook explained it was adding new features to Pages to…