Commerce

How to Avoid Social Commerce Scams and Build Trust with your Customers

When you have customers who trust in your business, you will be found to be credible, making them want to do business with you. If you can harness a good level of trust, you will gain greater advocacy, loyalty and engagement from those who chose to do business with you. But at the same time, …

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The Rise of Social Commerce [Infographic]

The adaption of eCommerce has been rising for a while now, but because of the pandemic in 2020, it seems that that adaption rate for it has accelerated it by about five years. Because of that, many social platforms really stepped things up with their eCommerce integration efforts, Each of these platforms are doing their …

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How Is Barnes & Noble Dealing With COVID

With Covid still going strong all over the world, how are companies dealing with the pandemic that is changing the way they are doing business? For Josh Zelman, the Senior Director, Customer Experience at the familiar high street bookstore chain Barnes & Noble, he took the stage (virtually, of course) at Movable Ink’s recent (Re)Think …

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Amazon Internal Data Suggest ‘Voice-Commerce’ Virtually Nonexistent

Over the past two years, a number of consumer studies that were released found that a significant numbers of smart speaker owners are engaged in “voice commerce.”  But, there is a new report that is apparently based on internal Amazon data that indicates something different – smart speakers owners aren’t engaging in voice activated commerce. …

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How Salesforce’s Acquisition Of CloudCraze Expands Its Commerce Cloud

Back in 2016, Salesforce purchased commerce platform Demandware, which ended up becoming the basis for its new Commerce Cloud. Salesforce, with its recent closing its acquisition of commerce platform CloudCraze, is now adding B2B to its Commerce Cloud.  But there’s more to it than that, according to CloudCraze CEO, Andy Peebler. CloudCraze as another advantage, other …

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Salesforce Commerce Cloud Integrates With Instagram, Adds Other Enhancements

At the National Retail Federation Show (NRF) in New York City, Salesforce has announced a number of new features for its Commercial Cloud e-commerce platform. For the first time, Instagram is now integrated with Commerce Cloud.  This allows retailers to create shoppable posts directly in Commerce Cloud — where they are already managing their commerce sites — …

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IBM buys Fluid’s Expert Personal Shopper for Watson

It looks like IBM is trying to get its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer Watson to become a champ at finding the best product or service you are search for. In order for that to happen, Big Blue’s digital marketing division, Interactive Experience (iX), has acquired customer experience provider Fluid’s Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) division. Financial terms of the …

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