Social Shopping Boosts Small Business Traffic

lindac — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:40:23 +0000

From emarketer, small businesses with small marketing budgets are using “social shopping” sites to generate eyeballs to their sites. Interesting to note the difference in mediums used…

Use YourSpace to Sell OurStuff [emarketer.com]
The New York Times reported this month on a new hybrid of social networking and e-commerce called “social shopping.”… These sites can be a boon to small businesses, with a word-of-mouth factor that outstrips what they might otherwise be able to generate…

Seems social shopping sites are more popular that social networking sites:

Media Giant Robots taking over the web?

lindac — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:44:24 +0000

I found this over at Paul O’Flaherty’s blog. IMHO, I don’t see commercial use of the web as a bad thing. Even in the old days, the average consumer needed the grocer and the blacksmith and the guy who made saddles and horse shoes. I see lack of ethics as the problem. Lack of ethics seems to be part of corporate culture all too often… but it’s not just corporations. I’ve met plenty of individuals whose ethics are on the short side, too.

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Social Shopping Boosts Small Business Traffic

Media Giant Robots taking over the web?