Social Commerce Psychology of Shoppers

Social Commerce Psychology of Shoppers is a very cool Infographic from TabJuice and Stephania Andrade.

I am sure most of you are like me when making a large purchase.  Customer reviews from Amazon and recommendations form friends are very important in the decision process along with expert trusted advice like Consumer Report reviews or like [...]

Heres Why Amazon Should Buy Pinterest

I’ve been talking about Pinterest and affiliate marketing for awhile.  This is a great article about collaborative commerce and the potential for an amazing opportunity for Amazon to turn customers into sellers.  Or why wait for Amazon to do it?  This could be a great way for Pinterest or potential investor to develop a [...]

Is Direct Selling The Next Driver Of Startup Commerce Companies? | TechCrunch

I think the rise of Direct Selling is coming, not sure if its going to take off like the direct selling of old like Avon and Tupperware or even the new Scentsy.  I think it maybe more integrated into affiliate programs via Facebook and Twitter were our recommendations of products that you own make [...]

Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing? – The Economic Times

I think this will be a home run since everyone wants to keep up with the Jones’.  If your friends can see what you have and or bought or going to buy, I think this psychological push will persuade your friends they need one too.  Look how customer reviews as referrals has driven Amazon [...]

M-commerce is the new e-commerce – Fort Worth Business Press – Fort Worth, TX

Would be interesting to see breakdown of product categories bought on m-commerce.  Is this mostly apps, music and videos?

M-commerce is the new kid on the block, and it’s not going away. Amazon’s report of more than $1 billion in mobile sales this year is proof that mobile shopping is here to stay.

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Consumer Research and Purchasing

I found a great resource for consumer purchasing behavior.  According to a Harris Interactive Brief 12/08, “Evolving the Prototypical Path to Purchase” the shopping begins here

Search Engines 20% Family Friends 15% Retail Stores 15% Retailer Website 9% Multi Brand Website (amazon) 9% Print Media 9% Prod Comp Websites 8% Mfg Wesbites 8% Blogs [...]

BlueFly – Social eCommerce

I’ve always loved BlueFly.com.  I have bought several dresses for my wife at BlueFly and she looks great in them.  The one in the pic is from BlueFly.  It was her Easter dress several years ago.  Anyway, they have come up with a very cool social networking site, Closet Confessions.  I love the [...]

Social Selling through distributed eCommerce

In my last post I spoke about distributed ecommerce, and coincidentally Internet Retailer’s April 2010 magazine issue has an article by Zak Stambor, Social Selling, that summarizes a few forerunner companies testing  Social Selling on Facebook.  Personally, I’ve always thought that Facebook needed an eCommerce revenue model to make legitimate profits outside of advertising.  [...]

CartFly Distributed eCommerce Engine

I’ve been interested in distributed ecommerce and lately came across CartFly.  This is an entry level ecommerce cart engine but has some interesting possibilities.

This is one of their client stores, FabShoes.

I just posted some embed code in my Blog to see below.

Yes its simple, but if you can post this [...]