Categorie: E-commerce

Dozens Of Top E-Commerce Retailers Find It Pays To Put Customers’ Instagram Photos On Their Sites

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” The ROI of social media is something of a black box for many e-commerce companies, but New York-based startup Olapic is beginning to change that. The company, which allows brands to collect user-generated photos from services like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to display on their websites, is now offering an analytics suite to help retailers and brands understand what content works and how it’s affecting conversions. Olapic was founded by Pau Sabria, Luis Sanz and Jose de Cabo; they met while attending Columbia University, and this past summer the company closed on $1 million in seed funding from Bonobos and Warby Parker backer  Great Oaks Venture Capital , plus  Brad Harrison Ventures ,  Columbia University’s Lang Fund , and other angels. It’s now cash-flow positive. At the time of the initial funding, the team said the plan was to expand the software-as-a-service platform beyond the publishers and brands it had previously worked with (which included Condé Nast, Pepsi, NY Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, and various sports teams) to reach those in the e-commerce sector”



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Crowdsourced Shopping Site The Hunt Raises Additional $700K From Ashton Kutcher, Other High-Profile Investors

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” The Hunt , a site that helps you find items to buy from photos posted on Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and elsewhere, is today announcing $700,000 in additional funding, on top of the $2 million it had previously raised from Javelin Venture Partners  and others. The new round involves several high-profile investors including Ashton Kutcher , Guy Oseary’s (Madonna’s manager) A-Grade Investments , marketing and branding expert   Rohan Oza , Desi Hits CEO Anjula Acharia Bath , and media investor Michael Banks . Reportedly, the site has already attracted a handful of half a dozen “celeb” users, including a few TV actresses, as well as  Christina Milian , and others which the company is not yet disclosing. “



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Payments Startup Ribbon Now Lets You Buy In-Stream On Twitter.com, Launches YouTube Support & Price-Matches PayPal

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” Ribbon , the AngelPad-backed payments startup that introduces a simpler checkout experience when buying from merchants online or via social media, is today rolling out two big new features: support for YouTube payments and a new Twitter “in-stream” payment option that lets you buy without ever clicking away from Twitter.com. The company has also reduced its fees in order to be more competitive with payments competitors like PayPal and Stripe. You can think of Ribbon as a “ bit.ly with payments ,” co-founder Hany Rashwan once said when describing the service. That is, Ribbon offers sellers a shortened URL that can then be shared in an email or anywhere on the web, including Twitter, Facebook, or even a seller’s own website or e-commerce shop, for instance. Clicking a Ribbon link takes users to an easy-to-use, one-page checkout. But what makes Ribbon unique is how it’s been working to bring that simplified checkout directly to the supported platforms themselves”



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Lightbank Invests $650,000 In Walk.by, A New Platform Connecting Local Merchants With Online Shoppers By Way Of Smartphones

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” Lightbank has invested $650,000 in its own Founder-in-Residence Josh Hernandez’s new startup, Walk.by , a platform for bringing local merchants into the e-commerce world by way of smartphones. The company is today announcing the release of its consumer-facing iPhone app which lets shoppers browse and follow offline retailers, the brands they carry, as well as very specific items, like “brown leather boots” or “black Kate Spade maxi dress,” for example. If one of Walk.by’s merchants has the product in stock, the shopper is alerted by push notification and can then choose to either purchase the item outright or place a reservation. The latter essentially means placing the item on hold so they can see it in person, or, in the case of apparel, go try it on. “



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Aggregift Turns Anything On Amazon Into A Crowdfunded, Group Gift

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” A new gifting startup called  Aggregift  is launching an entirely new way to purchase goods on Amazon. The company, which has been quietly running its beta tests with a few thousand users over the past several months, allows users to initiate crowdfunding campaigns for gifts, which involve posting the call for contributions to the recipient’s Facebook Timeline. The service is designed to be dead simple to use , too. “



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