December 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The concept of linking sales to non-profits is a swiftly growing phenomenon. Websites like Nonprofitshoppingmall.com and GoodShop.com allow consumers to donate to charities through their ecommerce purchases using a click-through technology. Although these websites have been around for the past decade, their success has been limited and [...]
Ecommerce Solution Offers Non-Profit “Shopping Mall”
December 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A new study shows more holiday shoppers are bound to make last minute purchases this year. A recent survey by BIGresearch found that by the second week of December the majority of shoppers had completed less than 50% of their holiday shopping. According to the study, 37 [...]
Groupon Co-founders Invest in Belly
December 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Belly, a Chicago-based startup formerly known as “Bellyflop,” has secured more than $1 million in funding from Lightbank. Lightbank is an investment vehicle owned by Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, that also contributed $1.5 million in seed funding to Benzinga this past May. Belly integrates [...]
StoreYa Offers Retailers Convenient F-Commerce Platform
December 9th, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Facebook commerce, or f-commerce, will undoubtedly be one of the fastest spreading ecommerce trends of 2012. Many mega-retailers have already begun to leverage f-commerce technology and create retail storefronts on the social media website. With more than 800 million active Facebook users globally, f-commerce is a great [...]
Walmart Enters F-Commerce Scene With ShopyCat
December 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Walmart, one of the highest grossing retailers on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, last week launched a holiday shopping gift-guide application on Facebook called Shopycat. Created by @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s tech shop in the Silicon Valley, the app is designed to help users with often difficult task [...]
6 Emerging Ecommerce Trends for 2012
December 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The successes of both Black Friday and Cyber Monday are encouraging signs for the ecommerce industry. Merchants worked hard this season to draw shoppers to their online stores and get them to fill their shopping carts. Record numbers of consumers flocked to retailers online storefronts to make [...]
Shopcade Integrates Social Networking and Ecommerce
November 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Shopcade has introduced a new social shopping application for Facebook users. Launched yesterday, Shopcade attempts to offer the millions of users on Facebook a true social shopping experience. The app allows users to browse, buy, and share products while [...]
myTab Provides New Social Gifting Ecommerce Solution
November 9, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team myTab provides an ecommerce solution for those who want to travel but need a creative way to generate funding. For example, studying abroad is without a doubt one of the best experiences one can have when in college. However, it can also be terribly expensive, making it [...]
An Interview With Digital River: Marketing Strategy Trends
November 9, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We recently got a chance to sit down with Jim Wehmann, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for Digital River, to chat about some strategies that businesses are using to market their ecommerce solutions this holiday season. Multi-Channel Marketing Businesses are increasingly turning to multi-channel marketing techniques [...]
Giftiki Offers a Creative Approach to Collaborative Ecommerce
November 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team New collaborative ecommerce solution Giftiki is a group gift giving platform that allows friends to pool their money together to buy a friend a combined gift. Launched less than 4 weeks ago, Giftiki is in its first stage of beta but has already enjoyed more success than [...]
Performics’ 2011 Social Shopping Survey Yeilds Interesting Results
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Millions of Internet users are members of social websites. In order to access that growing market, more and more retailers are utilizing social shopping platforms in addition to their ecommerce solutions. Just this week, Sociable Labs, a popular social ecommerce software provider, announced the $7 million success [...]
Social Ecommmerce Solution Sociable Labs Raises $7 Million
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Social ecommerce solution provider Sociable Labs has raised $7 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. The announcement came Wednesday after the company emerged out of stealth. Existing investor Javelin Venture Partners also contributed to this round of funding. Sociable Labs, a 25-person [...]
ShopIgniter Introduces New Social Ecommerce Solution
October 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yesterday, social commerce platform ShopIgniter introduced an in-stream technology that will allow merchants to utilize Facebook users newsfeeds to create a more connected social ecommerce solution. ShopIgniter is a Portland-based social ecommerce software platform that aims to help retailers reach customers and revenue through social media platforms. [...]
Crowdpark Allows Social Betting On Almost Anything
October 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Crowdpark is a Berlin-based company that creates social betting games which allow players to make bets in real time on anything going on in the world around them. The company’s first game is called Bet Tycoon and has approximately 500,000 players on Facebook. Crowdpark uses a “dynamic [...]
L2 Releases 2011 Digital IQ Index: Fashion
October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team L2 recently released its third annual Digital IQ Index for fashion, which ranks the digital competence of 49 prestigious fashion brands. The index ranks the brands based on the effectiveness of their digital strategies across four categories: site, digital marketing, social media, and mobile. Brands were given [...]
Taking a “peeq” at Ecommerce Solution “sneakpeeq”
October 7, 2011 By The ZippyCart Content Team If there’s one thing we know about online shoppers, it’s that they can’t pass up a great deal. This truth is validated by the ever-increasing number of people flocking to group-buy and flash sale sites. The booming industry, most often promoting daily deals to create a sense [...]
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