The use of Facebook and Twitter may have peaked over the past year, with Facebook remaining the most popular social media site used by merchants at 86.9% followed by Twitter at 71.4%, according to results from Multichannel Merchant’s MCM Outlook 2013 report on Ecommerce. Both of these percentages are flat compared to the 2012-13 survey figures.
No matter how prepared your company is when engaging with customers through social media sites there is bound to be a public misstep. It can be a criticism from an unhappy customer or an error made by your social media team but in order to save face, it comes down to how you handle it.
Retailers including Amazon, American Greetings, and Ralph Lauren earned spots on the 2013 Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll report for their high scores in privacy, security, and consumer protection on their ecommerce sites.
A new trend that is building steam throughout the ecommerce world is allowing fans and followers of your brand to log on to your site with their Facebook or Twitter profiles. In this infographic from the Social Annex you will learn how social logins are quickly becoming the backbone to onsite engagement and boosting conversion rates for many online retailers.
The question remains whether social sharing drives sales for ecommerce sites, Addshoppers analyzed $5,000,000 worth of ecommerce transactions influenced by the AddShoppers social commerce platform, this infographic by Addshoppers shows insights from thousands of merchants ranging from mom and pop to household brands.
Using social media as a marketing strategy is important for both B2B and B2C companies. Without a social media manager, social marketing can become a challenge, according to blog post on ExactTarget.com. According to the blog post, marketing automation has been criticized as being impersonal and is directly at odds with the concept of personally interacting with your audience using social media.
Less than 24-hours after the Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, users across Twitter took to the social media site to express their frustration on how the tax, if passed by the House of Representatives, will impact their lives as consumers.
Search marketing goes beyond the organization of a keyword list in order to be effective with content optimization. Marketers need to know the basics in order to enhance their search marketing, according to Social Media Club.
Users from across Twitter have responded to JCP’s new ad campaign in which the retailer apologized for their changes in coupons, discounts and store layout and simply asks their customers to “come back.”
A new report has found that when it comes to social media, the business-to-business community is still trying to find its footing. According to this infographic created by B2B Marketing, only 38% of B2B companies have a defined social media strategy.