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Thursday, 28 May 2015

Social Commerce Trends – What we expect in 2015




Social Media Platform for Start-up Business


After Social media revolution make tweets, fb promotion, we don’t found any progress in sales charts. We have analytic but hard to track impact of social channels on people who regular or rare use of social media. We have knowledge, with social media we build awareness, consideration of company products or services. 

Social networking sites understand this trend and are making changes to make it even easier to purchase directly from within their platform.

Social commerce for interaction:- 

Someone post on facebook or twitter, running shoes for promotional purpose. We wait for like on fb post & after this we looking for someone clicks on link who represent our website. Some description, some hastag command useful for promotional & sales.

This tech use for sharing of content but in present use for improve sale in short period. In this tech we share link through Affiliate or Advocate style to improve clicks with specific design ads.

Above all this start-up but we want customer review for specific brands or products.

Snapchat Commerce

Another platform making strides with social commerce is Snapchat. Snapchat partnered with Square to deliver a transfer system it’s calling SquareCash. With this system, users can register their debit cards and then transfer and receive money — which is being called Snapchash — to and from their friends on Snapchat. While it’s currently a free service, Snapchat plans are to allow its users to buy products from its platform.

Facebook Commerce

This summer, Facebook shared a mobile screen of what its “Buy” button is going to look like. A suggested post will show up in your newsfeed with a product or service and an image of that product or service, which you can buy right then and there by simply clicking the “Buy” button in the post. I imagine Facebook will be rolling this out in 2015 after they figure out the payment and privacy details.

Twitter Commerce

Twitter is one platform that’s been rolling out its social commerce plans. In the early part of 2014, Twitter partnered with Stripe, a company providing all the back-end payment processing for Twitter. Twitter, and other social networks, haven’t wanted to store users’ credit card details, so Stripe is taking on the challenge. You can view and buy a product directly within your Twitter feed by simply clicking a “Buy” button that will appear alongside an image of the item that’s for sale. Twitter’s head of commerce Nathan Hubbard told The Verge in an interview, “Anything with a perishable component, temporal nature, or limited supply, is going to thrive on Twitter. Given the speed at which word can spread across our network, it feels like an opportunity to create a new kind of sales.”


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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Internet giants scramble for social media pie



Internet giants scramble for social media pie

In India, mobile advertising set to touch $144 crore by 2013. In March 2012, the market was pegged at $105 crore , according to the findings of the Internet and Mobile Association of India

   Last week, when news about Facebook acquiring the startup photo-sharing app Instagram for a whopping $1 billion surfaced, the digital world was abuzz with frantic activity and comments. While the investors and market watchers got busy analysing  the valuation of Instagram  in the wake of the deal, others talked about how Facebook’s appetite to gobble up players had increased over the years.

    Scratch the surface a little a bit and one can see that Facebook was not just trying to net the 30-million strong user base of Instagram, but was rather making a strategic move to  keep competitors (read Google) at bay. As Gartner’s principal research analyst (India)  Asheesh Raina puts it, “Facebook paid a premium, as it wanted to keep Instagram out of the hands of the competitors.”

    Though an eye-popping $1 billion may sound too much a price for protecting its turf from a potential threat, it is nowhere close to what Google paid ($12 billion) last year to Motorola  Mobility to protect its mobile franchise. Or, when Microsoft shelled out $8.5 billion to acquire Skype. Google acquired Motorola Mobility to protect its popular Android mobile operating system from Apple and Microsoft’s anti-competitive threats to its patent portfolio.

     Analysts however believe there’s another compelling reason why Facebook spent big on the acquisition. As research firm Forrester’s CEO George Colony wrote, Facebook is too web-centric:” App internet poses mortal danger for any player that remains too web-centric. It will enable companies to directly link with their customers.”

    The acquisition of Instagram puts Facebook in a better position in the app internet market and perhaps becomes a template for how Facebook will expand its model into the new high engagement architecture, Colony added. Without Facebook’s own app presence, “Apple, Google, Amazon, (and potentially Microsoft) ecosystems can become too powerful, blocking the Facebook’s growth and presence,” he wrote.

     Instagram, a free photo sharing programme, was launched in October 2010 by Kevin Systrom. It allows users to take photos and apply digital filters and effects, before sharing them on social networking sites.
     An article in Fortune magazine in November suggested how the mobile is going to be the next battlefront for Silicon Valley’s web giants. Facebook, Google, and Apple are all competing to attract mobile users and make money off their actions. “Google may also find ways to build many Google+ features right into Android phones and tablets, making it harder for rivals to compete. That last point is not lost on (Mark) Zuckerberg.  It prompted him to seek closer ties with Google’s biggest rival in mobile  ¬¬¬¬¬--- Apple,” the Fortune article said.

      In India, mobile advertising is all set to touch $144 crore by 2013. In March, the market was pegged at $105 crore, according to the findings of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Raina feels Facebook is aware that its strength lies in easy interface, photo-tagging and sharing capabilities. Instagram strengthens  its presence in the space. “More, it gives them access to mobile devices and helps users instantly edit, upload and share photos through their devices,” he says.


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