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One feature of successful f-commerce is building a community of fans and offering them exclusive products and offers
This is a guest article from Vandana U. If you plan to just sell on your Facebook store, then forget it. Offering something exclusive or special on read more

Browsers to buyers | Social Commerce

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Converting online window-shoppers to customers

The combination of lower disposable incomes, cheaper prices and technology advances has made online shopping more attractive and easy for people. However, with just a laptop, tablet or mobile screen to convert browsers read more

The power of a story | Campaigns

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Effective storytelling helps brands create campaigns that strengthen their customer communities

The Origins:  A fundamental human trait is that we need patterns to understand and relate to the new. That is why most people find it very easy to relate to stories read more

Why auto marketers love social media? | Brands and Social Media

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How some of the best social media marketing campaigns have come from automobile brands

For many of us, our car (or our bike) is more of a passion than a product. We spend months researching which car / bike we should buy. They are our prized possession, conversation read more

The true nature of flash mobs | Campaigns

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The true potential of a flash mob lies in triggering instantaneous social movements

The Genesis: Pranks may be one of the most elusive form of comic behavior. Even dictionaries don't seem to have a precise definition. They define pranks as  " it is, by turns, a read more

Retailing to the SoLoMo | Mobile Apps

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How are the world’s top retail brands selling to a consumer who is Social, Local and Mobile

With the growing numbers of smart phones, the consumer brands today are preparing themselves for a new breed of consumers – the SoLoMo. These consumers are Social (they are read more

Celebrities and social media | Brands and Social Media

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How celebrities are using social tools for personal brand, causes and promotions

Celebrities often manage themselves like brands when it comes to their promotion and marketing. With the advent of social technologies and social media, they now have a new set of impactful read more

jQuery Learning Series for Beginners (2/6) | Engineering

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How to get element from HTML page using jQuery

Before I start how to get element from HTML page by using jQuery, lets understand tree structure of HTML page. HTML, like other markup languages, uses tree structure model to describe the relationships of things on a read more

jQuery Learning Series for Beginners (1/6) | Engineering

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Learn jQuery and create the best user interface for web applications

In this series each article will have information related to jQuery that I feel every developer should know. Recently I have seen that many developers want to learn jQuery but they don’t know how to read more

Growing a brand’s community | Communities

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Reflecting a community’s shared interest areas to increase brand engagement

Social media forms a core element of a brand’s marketing as it provides a range of tools for them to connect to and interact with customers. As Facebook is the fastest growing social read more