Daily deal sites have become popular in recent years, with customers jumping on significant discounts and spurred on to buy immediately by the pressure of the limited time nature of the deal offer. As specialty sites offered daily [...]
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Are Merchants Offering Daily Deals Against Their Best Interests?
by Eric on February 16, 2013 · 0 comments
Yelp is a popular review site that many use to find information on restaurants, shopping, hotels, night clubs and even doctors, lawyers or mechanics. Getting the unbiased opinions of a community of people online can seem an invaluable [...]
Four Great Infographics on How Social Media Has Changed Shopping
by Kate on May 7, 2012 · 0 comments
The internet categorically and unequivocally changed the way we shop forever, but there’s a new player in town when it comes to shopping styles for the 21st Century: social media.
While once upon a time, shopping online was [...]
What’s Your Facebook Friends’ Selling Power? Are YOU Being Sold?
by Kate on July 22, 2010 · 2 comments
Shopping with friends is the common favorite habit. We easily trust our friends when it comes to a product review or opinion. Our friend’s word is by far the most reliable thing we can base our judgments on: [...]
How Consumers Are Manipulated and How to Be Protected
by seosmarty on April 20, 2009 · 4 comments
in Arts, Bargain Shopping, General, Grocery Shopping, Shopping Online, Social Shopping, Technology, Trends
Consumers are easily manipulated because:
they are bad at math; they shop with their heart rather than their head.This means you might be wasting your money (that is not so easy to earn) because you are being [...]
Do you know that you don’t have to settle for traditional boring search when searching for products online? New technologies have brought with them new, exciting ways to search for anything and this has naturally affected the ecommerce [...]
Twitter Customer Service – the Ultimate List of Stores on Twitter
by seosmarty on March 30, 2009 · 59 comments
Twitter can be an awesome shopping tool and one of the best things about that more and more companies provide an alternative customer support via Twitter.
This means, you can reach them within your favorite network and also [...]
Do you use FireFox? I bet you do because it is an awesome browser. What makes it even better is quite a number of tools you can add to enhance its functionality and customize it based on your [...]
Twitter is the hugest phenomenon of today’s Internet. Connecting to people real-time (even if they are offline), getting instant updates from friends, being up-to-date with most recent news – these are just few advantages of the tool. Another [...]
14 Applications to Turn Facebook into the Shopping Tool
by seosmarty on February 2, 2009 · 4 comments
Facebook unites your friends, relatives and colleagues for you to easily connect with them. Being thus a handy and popular social tool, it is quite natural it can be also turned into an awesome shopping tool: imagine your [...]
