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Twitter Hires First Head of Commerce | Social Media Today

Twitter Hires First Head of Commerce | Social Media Today | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
A study of 250 luxury brands showed that over the past four years, less than 0.25% of new customers have come through Facebook and less than 0.1% have come from Twitter.
Lily-rose's curator insight, March 16, 2014 7:57 PM

"Customer Relationship Management has always been the best form of use for social media rather than sales, so will this move get rid of creative advertising/social media campaigns by brands if they can make users buy their product instantly" - i'm not a fan, for the very short period of time i've been part of the 'Twittersphere' I don't see where the two objectives meet? The beauty of Twitter to me, is it's simplicity, the creativity needed to have an effective campaign with 140 characters and the potential results if you get it right. Twitter has had issues finding it's 'place' in the social media realm (a fb with just statuses, an instagram without pictures). I can see where Twitter is coming from in terms of increasing revenue but it appears to be a change in vision? 

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Amazon's Social Rebirth ScentTrail Marketing

Amazon's Social Rebirth ScentTrail Marketing | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

Amazon's New Social Relevance
Amazon was late to social media and they paid a price for being tardy. Almost 90% of Amazon's pages have been eliminated from Google's index post Panda and Penguin.

Granted we would all like to be left so "high and dry" since Amazon still has 127M pages in Google, but, as this linked post describes, Amazon is embracing social media marketing now with new tools such as Amazon collections and a social share widget that is approaching ubiquity.

If Amazon can learn new social shopping tricks so too can your website. The key idea is even a website that was slouching toward having a billion pages in Google must play for social relevance now as so should we all.  

 

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Amazon's Collections on Scoopit
http://sco.lt/7eE6Tp ;

 

Amazon's Social Rebirth on ScentTrail Marketing
http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2013/08/amazons-social-rebirth.html  ;


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Amazon Fire 2 and new Kindle e-reader rumors heat up: what we know so far

Amazon Fire 2 and new Kindle e-reader rumors heat up: what we know so far | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Amazon is widely expected to be releasing at least one new Kindle Fire tablet and a new Kindle e-reader. There will be an event on September 6th and we have exclusive details on what we can expect next from the ebook giant.

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Curate Product Collections From Any Online Shop with the Amazon Wish List

Curate Product Collections From Any Online Shop with the Amazon Wish List | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

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Robin Good's curator insight, August 7, 2013 7:53 PM



The Amazon Wish List system allows you to create collections of any kind of products which can be collected from any online shop and to have them  published on Amazon.


Using the Amazon Wish List system you can create easily lists of any kind of products that can be easily consulted, sorted, and shared with others.


The Amazon Wish List offers a dedicated extension for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and for your IPad. Alternatively a standard bookmarklet is also available.


My comment: An excellent alternative and complement to Amazon Collections which allows not just to organize and publish lists of Amazon products, but it extends this ability to any online shop. Wherever you are you can clip and collect any product into an Amazon Wish List. Ideally Amazon Collections and Wish Lists should be one thing and the best features of each merged into one facility.


Wish Lists are less appealing visually but offer the opportunity to be viewed as compact lists (handy for large ones), to be sorted and filtered in a numbered of ways and to be printed. Something you cannot do with Amazon Collections.



Free to use.


Find out more: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/universal/ref=cm_wl_xt_top_lm_ff_huc


Here is a sample wish list of Portable Wireless Microphones I have recently created: http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1H58ZIB8Y5N1W/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_ws_MPTasb0JBVQBB




Urs Frei's curator insight, August 10, 2013 3:26 AM

Amazon-Wunschliste mit portablem Audio-Equipment für Video-Interviews.

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How To Build a Competitive Business Model on the Footprints of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple

How To Build a Competitive Business Model on the Footprints of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

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Tom Hood's curator insight, February 22, 2014 10:44 AM

is your next business model a platform?


This great blog post captured by curator Robin Good talks about platforms and the gang of four (Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook). 

 

"Today’s dizzying pace of change shows no signs of abating. If anything, it is likely to accelerate. So do everything you can to heed these lessons today, to be as prepared as possible for a vastly different tomorrow."


The ten lessons identified remind me also of the work of Rita McGrath (End of Competitive Advantage) who talks about six key areas in what she calls "The New Strategy Playbook":


1. Continuous Reconfiguration
2. Healthy Disengagement
3. Deft Resource Allocation
4. Innovation Proficiency
5. Discovery Driven Mindset
6. Entrepreneurial Career Management


and also the book, The Power of Pull...