ShopSocially Joins Demandware LINK to Accelerate Social Commerce
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) October 15, 2013 -- ShopSocially, the leading social commerce platform today announced that it has become a Demandware LINK Technology Partner, joining a best-of-breed community committed to accelerating the adoption of innovative commerce technologies that are complementary to the Demandware® Commerce platform. Through the LINK Technology Partner Program, ShopSocially has developed a pre-built integration between ShopSocially social commerce platform and Demandware Commerce, enabling Demandware clients to add high-impact social commerce modules to their digital commerce sites in a fraction of time normally required.
ShopSocially’s social commerce platform provides a comprehensive set of tools that enable an online retailer to leverage the true power of social media. It has consistently delivered extraordinary ROI with an average of 17.5% revenue uplift. Additional benefits include new customers, SEO boost, deep user insights, email & fan acquisition and word-of-mouth branding. ShopSocially has an impressive roster of customers and case studies, has won several awards and is the platform of choice for online retail vertical.
Apps like Get-a-Fan and Social Connect help identify loyal shoppers and convert them into Facebook fans and brand ambassadors on social networks. Using social couponing, these modules not only reward shoppers for their social engagement with brand and boost sales conversion rate, but also collect rich social profiles of website users. These deep social insights into users’ interests and shopping preferences help retailers to understand their users better and offer more relevant promotions.
Social sharing apps like Share-a-Purchase and Share-on-Mobile allow brands to tap customers at the point of maximum delight in the shopping process and disseminate this delight on social media channels, creating authentic word-of-mouth endorsements. These social testimonials bring high quality social traffic back to website which converts at a significantly higher rate.
ShopSocially believes that this pre-built integration with Demandware will be an advantage for retailers who have many demands on its technology resources. Often technical integration and ongoing maintenance turns out to be one of the key obstacles in implementing a successful social commerce strategy.
“ShopSocially’s solution will provide our clients with another alternative to integrate social media with ecommerce and better engage with consumers,” stated Tom Griffin, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Demandware. “We are pleased to welcome ShopSocially to the LINK Technology Partner Program.”
The Demandware LINK Technology Partner Program provides Demandware clients with a rich of set of pre-built integrations to cutting-edge commerce technologies and applications that can unlock revenue generating opportunities and enhance the brand experience. By reducing the cost and complexity of integration, Demandware LINK allows retailers to adopt innovative third party technologies quickly and cost-effectively, allowing them to accelerate time to market and realize a faster return on their investment.
“We are excited to extend the full capabilities of our social commerce platform to Demandware clients and enhance the ROI for their social media marketing efforts,” said Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially.
About ShopSocially:
ShopSocially is a SaaS social commerce platform driving millions of dollars in incremental revenue, new customer acquisition, improved SEO rank, growth in Facebook fan base, and word-of-mouth branding for 100s of top brands.
ShopSocially platform enables a suite of onsite social apps for e-commerce sites. Examples of these apps include Ask-a-Friend, purchase sharing, fan acquisition, shopping community, social reviews and more.
ShopSocially has won several awards and has also been featured by Facebook in a Social Commerce case study. Launched in Oct 2010, ShopSocially is a privately held company in Mountain View, CA.
For contact information, please visit: http://shopsocially.com/platform/contact-shopsocially.html.
Samir Palnitkar, ShopSocially, http://www.ShopSocially.com, +1 (650) 209-0726, [email protected]
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