#pricegrabber

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Local Shopping with Pricegrabber & Targeting Gen Y Shoppers...

It’s interesting to see articles around in-store preference alongside stories like Pricegrabber’s latest push into local. I’ve heard that CJU had a heavy focus on local and while that’s exciting for B&M retailers it could make online pure plays, esp. soft goods, a little leery...  

What PriceGrabber's Latest Buy Means for E-Commerce

PriceGrabber, the price comparison site, just snapped up Snapette, a shopping app focused on brick-and-mortar stores.

Many Gen Y shoppers, raised on e-commerce, prefer in-store experience

"They shop online, in stores, they shop in every kind of store you can imagine, whether free-standing or in a mall or a discount big box or specialty," McAvey said. "And young men shop as much as young women. Shopping is seen as part of their social life."

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PriceGrabber, which operates a comparison shopping site and mobile app, announced today it has purchased Snapette, a fashion shopping app.PriceGrabber would not say how much it paid for the app.

Snapette says more than 1.5 million consumers have downloaded its app, which identifies a shopper’s location and sends her alerts about discounts and offers when she is close to participating stores and brands. Shoppers elect to receive alerts from the retailers and brands of their choice. The Snapette mobile app is free for consumers and available on iOS and Android in eight languages.

“The modern day woman is an omnichannel shopper—browsing and buying on web, mobile and in-store,” says Sarah Paiji co-founder and president of Snapette.  “PriceGrabber’s breadth of relationships with retailers and publishers, as well as deep expertise in connecting retailers with consumers, will accelerate Snapette’s penetration of both local and online commerce.”

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Comparison shopping site PriceGrabber has appointed Jeff Goldstein as president, it announced today, disclosing that Goldstein has held the position since April. Goldstein plans to develop new social, local and mobile products for PriceGrabber.com and to enhance the targeted display advertising packages it sells to advertisers, he says.

“Over the last year, the [PriceGrabber] team has focused on enhancing our value to our partners, expanding our product catalog to over 100 million offers and increasing the value of our consumer traffic referred to merchants,” he says. 

From 2010 to April 2013, Goldstein was a managing partner at investment and advisory firm BGT Capital,PriceGrabber says. During his last 10 months in that position, he advised PriceGrabber’s parent company, CPL Holdings LLC, according to his LinkedIn profile.

[youmebrand]

How are entreprises going to embrace what Universal Analytics is going to offer? Interesting video on Pricegrabber's plan to make the most out of the ultimate evolution of the popular Google Analytics service.

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¿Cómo van a utilizar las compañías las nuevas funcionalidades del inminente Universal Analytics? En este vídeo podremos ver cuál es el plan de Pricegrabber para sacarle el máximo provecho a la evolución del utilísimo servicio de métrica de Google.

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I've written for some pretty big sites

Here are the Alexa rankings for sites I've been a contributing writer/blogger for in the past 3 years:

Bizrate (Alexa Traffic Rank: 1,112; US Traffic Rank: 285)

Pricegrabber (Alexa Traffic Rank: 1,740; US Traffic Rank: 538)

Social Fresh (Alexa Traffic Rank: 78,237; US Traffic Rank: 22,002)

I blog a lot.