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**The Social Commerce Revolution: A New Era of Digital Shopping 🌐🛍️** Hey savvy shoppers and digital trendsetters! 🛒✨ Get ready to explore a groundbreaking shift in the way we shop online – it's The Social Commerce Revolution! Join us on this exciting journey into a new era where social media and e-commerce collide to redefine the way we discover, connect, and shop. ### **Unveiling the Social Commerce Landscape** In the not-so-distant past, social media was all about sharing cat videos and vacation photos. Fast forward to today, and it's transformed into a bustling marketplace where you can not only share but also shop seamlessly. Welcome to the social commerce playground! ### **Why Social Commerce Matters for You** 1. **Trust and Engagement:** Social commerce isn't just about selling stuff. It's about building trust and engaging with your favorite brands in a more personal way. It's like having a virtual shopping buddy who knows your style. 2. **Simplified Shopping Experience:** No more jumping from app to app. With social commerce, the entire shopping experience happens within your favorite social media platform. Discover, decide, and purchase without missing a beat. 3. **User-Generated Content (UGC) Influence:** Your opinions matter! Social commerce thrives on user-generated content. Reviews, photos, and recommendations from fellow shoppers play a huge role in shaping your purchasing decisions. ### **Navigating the Social Commerce Playground** 1. **Setting Up Shop:** Brands are not just hanging out on social media; they're setting up shop. Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping – these are the new shop windows where your favorite brands showcase their latest and greatest. 2. **Shoppable Posts and Stories:** Your social feed is no longer just for scrolling; it's a shopping spree waiting to happen. Shoppable posts and stories let you discover products and make purchases without leaving the app. 3. **Influencers Leading the Way:** Ever wondered what your favorite influencer is wearing or using? Social commerce has influencers taking center stage, showcasing products and creating trends that you can shop instantly. ### **Overcoming Social Commerce Challenges** 1. **Privacy and Security:** With great shopping power comes great responsibility. Social commerce platforms are addressing privacy and security concerns to ensure your shopping experience is as safe as it is enjoyable. 2. **Meeting Customer Experience Expectations:** Social commerce isn't just about selling; it's about creating an experience. Platforms are constantly innovating to meet and exceed your expectations, making every shopping interaction memorable. ### **The Future of Social Commerce: What's Next?** 1. **Augmented Reality (AR) Shopping:** Imagine trying on clothes or testing out furniture virtually before you buy. AR is making that possible, adding a touch of magic to your social commerce experience. 2. **Live Shopping Experiences:** Live streams aren't just for events; they're for shopping too! Brands and influencers are hosting live shopping experiences, giving you real-time access to exclusive deals and product launches. ### **Embrace the Social Commerce Revolution** In this new era of digital shopping, social commerce isn't just a trend; it's a lifestyle. Whether you're a brand looking to connect with your audience or a shopper looking for the latest trends, the social commerce revolution is here to stay. *Get ready to shop, connect, and embrace the future of digital shopping with The Social Commerce Revolution! 🌐🛍️* #SocialCommerce #DigitalShopping #ECommerceRevolution #ShopSocially #InfluencerMarketing #UserGeneratedContent #ARShopping #LiveShopping #DigitalExperience

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ShopSocially Delivers 14X ROI to its Customers in 2014

ShopSocially Delivers 14X ROI to its Customers in 2014

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2014

ShopSociallytoday announced that it has delivered 14X Return-On-Investment (ROI) to its customers on an average in 2014. Through its one-stop platform for social, referral and retention needs of online marketer, ShopSocially helped its customers to drive higher sales conversion rate and resulting in substantial revenue uplift. In 2014, ShopSocially saw…

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Retailers searching for consumer ‘love’ on Facebook

True love needs deeper understanding Like many love stories, retailers’ search for the “affection” Facebook consumers has gone through some rocky patches, only to emerge stronger and more mature.

Retailers often fail to recognize that Facebook is a peer-to-peer communication channel which needs a consumer-to-consumer strategy rather than a business-to-consumer brand-push. A newsfeed is private space for users, and crowding it with branded content can be seen as a nuisance by those users and can actually harm your brand. Instead retailers should be focusing on maximizing consumer-to-consumer communication and the viral spread of their brand on Facebook. They need real fans on Facebook who are passionate about the brand, can become brand ambassadors, and spread the brand message via word-of-mouth.

Real fans love your brand For real love from Facebook, retailers should find their fans not on Facebook but on their own sites. Users are most interested in your brand when they are on your website. Their purchase intent is highest and their attention towards your brand is at its peak, making it the most opportune time to convert them into Facebook fans. Social needs to be applied in the right context of commerce to convert website visitors into real passionate Facebook fans. That will move the relationship of Facebook and retailers from “it’s complicated” to “engaged”!

Relationship status: Engaged An onsite fan acquisition tool is needed to weave this magic of converting users into genuine fans for your brand.

ShopSocially’s Get-a-Fan app has been the fan-acquisition tool of choice for many brands, and has now been added to the Yahoo Commerce Central app gallery. It offers a simple slider which can be embedded on your site in 2 minutes by inserting a couple of lines of code. Users can be incentivized to become Facebook fans through social couponing.

Get-a-Fan app offers discount coupons on the slider itself, helping keep users on your website. The app also allows users to email the coupon to themselves and opt-in to become email subscribers in the process. Users now feel they have “earned” the coupon by doing a social action of Like, and they convert at a 5-7 times higher rate.

Case Study: Fabness USA gets 33.28% sales conversion rate from genuine Facebook fans

Leading creative canvas designer, Fabness USA used Get-a-Fan app to convert website visitors into their Facebook fans. Using the incentivized Like-gate from the app, Fabness rewarded the site visitors with a $10 coupon for Liking Fabness on Facebook. The coupon was delivered in-line and immediately – pushing shoppers into becoming paying customers. The result was acquisition of more than 15,000 Facebook fans who converted at a rate of 33.28%. Also, 1 out of 3 new fans opted in to become a qualified email subscriber.

This is a guest post by ShopSocially -- a social commerce platform app which is now part of the Yahoo Commerce Central app gallery. ShopSocially offers ROI-focused onsite social commerce modules that can drive meaningful uplift in sales conversion and revenue for internet retailers. Visit Commerce Central to learn more.

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ShopSocially – a leading social commerce platform – today announced the launch of “Share-on-Mobile”, a pioneering mobile app to promote social commerce through offline sharing on mobile. This app captures the point of delight when a shopper receives a purchased product. Using their mobile phone, shoppers can share a photo and a comment about that product on social networks, driving word-of-mouth advertising for the brand. Additionally, this generates valuable social photo testimonials that can be embedded on the website or on a Facebook page. This app can also be implemented to run a popularity contest via mobile using social voting.

ShopSocially offers a comprehensive suite of on-site social commerce modules which can be integrated on an e-commerce site to drive user engagement, sales conversion uplift and increase in social revenues. Adding to this suite, Share-on-Mobile brings the off-site component of social commerce using which retailers can encourage customers to share their product-usage photos via mobile. These can be photos of un-boxing the product, unique or novel usage of product or just an attractive picture featuring the product; especially for fashion or beauty products. Retailer can choose to curate these social photo testimonials and showcase them on their Facebook page or on their website.