Who’s Using Pinterest?
News from Pinterest: Today we’re excited to announce that our community has grown to more than 150 million people around the world using Pinterest every month. And we’ve got over 75 billion ideas waiting here […]
Tag: Social networking
A New Way to Generate Shopper Excitement Online
Online sellers are buzzing about a phenomenon called Facebook Pearl Parties, wondering if they can borrow the concept to market their own products and online stores. One seller wrote on the Etsy boards, “Recently there has […]
Twitter Launches Promoted Stickers Ad Product
If a picture is worth a thousand words, slap a sticker on it. Preferably one that advertises something. That seems to be the trend as more people use social networking sites to share photos and […]
eBay Pursues Shoppers on Social Media
eBay announced it is now using 16 different social channels to distribute content, and it’s also running ads in a brand new format called the “branded podcast” – podcasts featuring stories that sound like journalism […]
Facebook Head of Ecommerce Offers Advice to Online Sellers
The crowd that filled up the cavernous meeting space at the IRCE 2016 conference for online merchants in Chicago last week eagerly awaited glimpses of the next new Facebook innovation, the latest way to leverage […]
Important Changes to Selling on Pinterest and Twitter
Pinterest is opening up its Buyable Pins feature to more sellers, while at the same time, Twitter is backing away from Buy buttons that allow online merchants to use its platform as a selling channel. […]
Analyst Eyes Snapchat’s Ecommerce Potential
In October, we posed the question, Should Online Sellers Build a Presence on Snapchat? This week, Wall Street analyst Bob Peck of SunTrust said ecommerce could be next for Snapchat in a new report on why […]
Poshmark Is Proving Social Selling Works on Mobile
Poshmark is the envy of larger, well established marketplaces as it lands another $25 million from investors to continue on its path to bring ecommerce to the fashion minded. The company calls itself “the largest […]
Why Online Sellers May Be Interested in Pinterest How-to Pins
It’s fun to browse Pinterest boards looking at photos of products, places and people that other users have “pinned,” but now the social networking site is offering richer content through its new “how-to pins.” Here’s […]
eBay Launches Social Gratification Program
Sometimes engaging on social platforms is its own reward, but eBay is counting on a financial reward to give users an incentive to promote products on its marketplace. Last month, it launched eBay Social in […]