Another social commerce tool that allows Facebook users to complete purchases without leaving the Facebook platform debuted this week with ePaymentAmerica’s launch of Yapyzal, which allows retailers to design, post, and share offers on Facebook and complete transactions via secure processing of credit-card and debit-card information.
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Retail giant Target teamed up with Facebook on the launch of Cartwheel, which debuted on beta Wednesday and is aimed at using the social network’s offers feature to drive shoppers into its stores.
Global digital agency Isobar announced the release of SeeItShopIt, which allows retailers to showcase collections of products within single posts that appear on Facebook users’ News Feeds.
Retailers in Europe have embraced the use of login with Facebook at a rate more than double that of their counterparts in the U.S., according to a study released Tuesday by Betapond, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer.
While marketers figure out how to convert sales on Facebook, it appears that Pinterest is beating the social network to the punch. New research from RichRelevance shows that Pinterest is starting to take up a bigger slice of the marketing pie among brands seeking conversions.
Recently, Facebook announced something called partner category targeting, which lets us run ads based on a user’s retail shopping behavior and other offline information.
Facebook is testing a new type of targeted advertising that will allow brands to market to users based on items they have purchased in stores, and it teamed up with data providers Epsilon, Acxiom, and Datalogix on the trial, according to a report in Ad Age.
Online retailer Zappos ran a two-month test of an integrated Facebook marketing campaign with social marketing suite Kenshoo Social and cloud-based social marketing platform Shoutlet, and it resulted in some 85,000 visits to the Zappos website from a single Facebook page, as well as metrics that compared favorably with those achieved via other paid search and social marketing campaigns.
Social commerce platform Payvment is shuttering its Facebook storefront business, but its clients will not be left in the cold, as the company reached an agreement with Facebook storefront provider Ecwid to allow Payvment users to transfer their stores to the Ecwid platform.
Facebook commerce provider Ecwid said Monday that Facebook-driven purchases from its small and midsized retail clients during the 2012 holiday shopping season more than doubled when compared with the period prior to the holidays.
