Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
ebay forays into physical retail and private sales
eBay announced plans to open "pop-up" boutiques in 12 cities across the USA in an effort to service holiday shopping.
Pop-up retail is IT right now...
Its first ephemeral store popped up on November 20, in a 5,500-square foot Manhattan location, and will close its doors on November 29.
Fashion Vault is open to all eBay members and offers free US shipping. As usual, sales events last for two to three days only, and quantities are limited. Currently on sale: DKNY.
Cool e-commerce & social commerce info this week
Argh. Can't bring myself to post all this info I found this week...
So here's my very own weekly review of things worth noting:
Thanksgiving / Black Friday: US online retail picking up?
According to Mint.com
According to Forrester
According to ComScore
eBay targeting $500m GMS by mobile users this year!
That's a lot. And they're launching a new app called 'Deals Today'.
Woot! launches deals.woot! and it's awesome
A wooters-powered deal finding community website
Milo.com: a very well designed product finder driving traffic to local stores
Complete with price comparison, real-time inventory in stores near you, and consumer reviews straight from the stores' websites. It's Milo.com.
Noteworthy social media tactics by major retailers
Toys'R Us's cool Facebook-only Black Friday catalog and mystery deals campaign
IKEA's genius Facebook campaign:
That's it for this week!
xoxo
Michael.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
French private shopping club Vente-privée.com, an e-commerce European success worth USD 1.5 billion
From Techcrunch Europe, an update on private shopping clubs in the US (a.k.a. closed-community shopping websites), on the interest from e-commerce power players on this awesome business model... and on the mother of all private shopping clubs, Vente Privée.
"TechCrunch Europe thus understands, from some very good sources, that Gilt, Amazon and eBay are all actively looking at acquisitions in the European private shopping club space. The price for Vente Privée alone is being talked about in terms of a $1.5 billion sale. Some sources even put the figure at between $2 billion and $4 billion.
One VC I spoke to said Vente Privee was “very attractive” to the big ecommerce beasts like Amazon and eBay, and a roll-up of these types of clubs is potentially in the offing across Europe. Another said “It would be a good move – depending on price – from either Amazon or eBay.”
Read the whole article here.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
GM, eBay to Test Online NEW Car Sales | via Reuters
The venture, accessible at gm.ebay.com, "currently limited to California, lets shoppers scroll through about 20,000 vehicles sitting on the lots of 225 of GM's 250 dealers in the state. The listings include a "buy it now" price, which customers can accept, or they can enter into online bargaining with a dealer."
Monday, July 6, 2009
Tweba turns Twitter into a social marketplace | Via VentureBeat
Tweba (formerly Tweebay) aims to bring the power of Craigslist and eBay to the swap meet-like community of Twitter, allowing users to sell and buy goods as they stream in real time.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
eBay modules are cool.
eBay launched their own Flash widget embed offering, eBay modules. Hereunder, I pasted the code for an auction for a night at the Everland hotel in Paris. Cool features, and great way to promote one's auctions on blogs, social networks & co.
Friday, October 12, 2007
eBay ventures into Social Shopping
eBay is stepping into the social networking game in a big way, launching over 600 micro-social shopping networks within their site called eBay Neighborhoods. Each of these networks organizes itself around a different theme/item/product category, urging members to find a sense of community in their shared purchasing habits.
Social Shopping in eBay’s New Neighborhoods » eCommerce Cache :: Varien eCommerce Blog
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