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What’s Your Social Commerce Strategy? 5 Steps Brands can Take Now to Meet their Holiday Sales Goals

Retail TouchPoints

By implementing a comprehensive social commerce strategy, marketers can move the needle on their brand’s most important holiday goals, including increased revenue and new customer acquisition. Shoppable social posts are the cornerstone of social commerce. Step Four: Implement live shopping experiences.

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Deep dive: What social commerce looks like around the world

Inside Retail

Social commerceshopping on social media platforms – is expected to reach US$1.2 It is growing three times faster than traditional e-commerce. McKinsey & Co stated in mid-2022 that social commerce comprised more than 13 per cent of China’s total e-commerce sales. trillion ($1.9

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Havas Study Highlights 5 Key Social Commerce Preferences of Gen Z and Millennials

Retail TouchPoints

It’s no secret that social commerce — that is, retail interactions that begin (and sometimes also end) on social media platforms — is big business. UK, France, Germany, India, Mexico and United Arab Emirates, and found that not only is Gen Next interested in social commerce, but most of them already are engaging in it.

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Facebook Shops And The Rise Of Social Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

Facebook recently announced the launch of Facebook Shops. Facebook Shops is offering businesses the chance to tap into a community of 2.6 billion people, engage them with relevant content and lead them quickly down the marketing funnel to purchase at an unparalleled scale. The potential is enormous. from 2019.

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Don’t be Fooled, Meta isn’t Abandoning Social Commerce — and Here’s Why

Retail TouchPoints

Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. Social commerce sales in the U.S. Social commerce sales in the U.S. In fact they are anything but — and with good reason.

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3 Ways to Benefit from the Inevitable Social Commerce Boom

Retail TouchPoints

Although social commerce sales in the U.S. To capitalize on this growing opportunity, brands, retailers and even grocers are sharpening their social media strategies and placing authentic content creation at the center of everything they do.

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Social Commerce: Retailers (and Platforms) Struggle to Catch up With Consumers’ Enthusiasm

Retail TouchPoints

In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products. Suffice it to say that social commerce has arrived in America.