Pinterest is now the 3rd most popular social network site in the U.S.
, and ecommerce stores can leverage its popularity to significantly increase traffic and sales (as seen in this Pinterest Ecommerce Infographic).
To better understand how Pinterest is impacting the ecommerce industry, Shopify analyzed data from over 25,000 online stores. Interestingly, referral traffic from Pinterest to Shopify stores is equal to traffic coming from Twitter; of that traffic, shoppers are 10% more likely to make a purchase compared to those who arrive from other social sites. Of those purchases, the average order is double the average order from Facebook. Pinterest has already become a huge player in the world of ecommerce.
Check out all of our findings in the Pinterest Ecommerce Infographic below. Please click on the image to view it in full-screen.
read moreCollection of charts summing up a perspective and Facebook IPO Analysis curating and focusing on all the buzz leading up to the big event, and the controversy proceeding it.
Shares in the social-media giant Facebook (NAS: FB) have been public for more than two weeks now. The bad news is that they’re down more than 35% since opening at $42 on May 18. The good news is that things could have been a lot worse.
read moreIf you had traded FB Stock the IPO Opening day based on Twitter sentiment signals, how would you have done? Think Twitter could be a valid indicator of Facebook Stock Price?
Probably pretty well! Claims
data collection and analysis company Datasift.
They monitored Twitter’s social data and its relation to the Facebook stock price. What they found was pretty interesting: the positive and negative posts on Twitter mirrored the fluctuations in Facebook stock price.
read moreAwesome hack by StinkDigital
- they setup a Nike+ FuelBand
to measure the “health” of their twitter account. It’s been rigged up via an Arduino
board and motor kit to read #TweetFuel
tagged tweets, digesting each tweeters followers, along with total retweets and mentions to power the spins of the Nike+ FuelBand, ultimately measuring the health of their own Twitter Feed.
read moreBuddy Media was acquired by SalesForce
last week for $689 million. Amazing journey and accomplishment for a small start-up, now part of one of the best companies in the world. But for Michael Lazerow the journey started much earlier. Michael has a heart condition and cheated death a few times - he opens up and share his story with the world. He made a video with a bit of his story, and bit around the acquisition, but sharing with the world the secret to life: conquer fear, and you’ll conquer the world.
read moreAwesome ad featuring wwo of the world’s biggest athletes go head-to-head in a battle of explosive speed. On-court, Rafael Nadal’s supremacy is almost unrivaled, but against Cristiano Ronaldo and the new Mercurial Vapor VIII, things get interesting. Start serving soft balls, and slowly picking up… I want to see Ronaldo stop a 160mph serve with his chest in real life - that should hurt! :)
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