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Groupon Fever: CityDeal Gets Another 5 Million Euro
Veröffentlicht 18 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

The next round in CityDeal poker: Not two months have passed for the Groupon clone since their first 4 million euro, and now they are getting a 5 million euro injection from the Samwer house: + Read more

Groupon Fever: LivingSocial Nabs Another $25 Million
Veröffentlicht 15 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Not a long time ago, Groupon clone LivingSocial raised $5 million for itself. A few days ago, they put another $25 million on top: + Read more

Swoopo Loses Another CEO
Veröffentlicht 13 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

After the departure of CEO Gunnar Piening last December, his successor Ralph Werner has also left Swoopo at the beginning of February (after only 8 months). + Read more

The Amazon WebStore and the Shopping System of the Future
Veröffentlicht 11 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

This is a further post for our loose series on “Shopping Systems of the Future”.While the next e-commerce generation has long been hoping for new and more sales oriented shopping systems, in the classical warehouse oriented e-commerce world, Amazon is still the ultimate role model for online trade. + Read more

Extreme Retailing: Change Is Coming to Online Shopping
Veröffentlicht 09 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Everything is suddenly possible again in the e-commerce world. In the US in particular, interest in extreme e-commerce models is rising steeply (“Are you ready for extreme retailing?”).Joshua Goldman from Norwest Venture Partners gave a short introduction to Swooponomics at the Retail Innovation & Marketing Conference: + Read more

Oliver Jung’s Global Shopping Club Empire
Veröffentlicht 08 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Brands4Friends Goes the World: It feels almost like there aren’t any more countries where B4F founding investor Oliver Jung and his cohorts haven’t got a shopping club investment stake.A few days ago an announcement came by email which mentions for the first time publicly the “global shopping club alliance”: + Read more

Groupon Fever: How Groupon Wards Off Class Action Lawsuits
Veröffentlicht 08 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Overambitious lawyers are the bane of every serious startup company. At the moment, Groupon is finding it necessary to defend against a class action lawsuit in the USA - and is doing so with its customary tongue-in-cheek style (“Groupon Organizes Class Action Against Itself”): + Read more

Web Currencies: Facebook Imposes 30% Tax on Credits
Veröffentlicht 04 Mar 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Facebook is getting serious with their efforts to create a global web currency. With the start of their closed beta phase, Facebook will burden their Facebook credits with a 30% fee. + Read more

Game Mechanics: The Gameification of the Web World (video)
Veröffentlicht 28 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

At latest since Facebook, the gameification of the (web) world is continuing its steady advance: "Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era." What can be learnt with this presentation, amongst others: + Read more

The Polyvore Founders Give Way To Professional CEO
Veröffentlicht 25 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Be it Spreadshirt, Threadless, Etsy or now Polyvore, nowadays you can set your watch against the time it takes between a big round of financing and the point where investors lose their patience and get a professional CEO to take the reins.And it isn’t as if they aren’t making enough efforts: + Read more

Hollrr: The Perfect Look & Feel For A Twitter For Shopping
Veröffentlicht 22 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Hollrr is the answer to the question we raised earlier: how should a Twitter for shoppers look like?Even their tagline “Shout about the things you love!” is pretty close to the question/slogan we put out in the German language “Was ist gerade cool und angesagt?” (what is cool and hip?) + Read more

Groupon Investors Put $5 Million into 1BOG
Veröffentlicht 18 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

One Block Off the Grid (1BOG) is proving that the Groupon model can be intelligently adapted. They have recently secured $5 million from the Groupon investors: + Read more

TheBakery: How Intershop intends to revolutionize the retail industry
Veröffentlicht 15 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

In the present phase of upheaval the e-commerce industry has the chance to completely get rid of obsolete mail order structures that have been maintained by catalog retailers so far and rapidly establish modern retail and distribution structures. + Read more

Magento Strategies: Seeking Crowdsourcing Extensions
Veröffentlicht 14 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

While Magento already delivers very useable solutions for live shopping events, solutions for user driven shopping models are still scarce. + Read more

Game Mechanics: Putting the Fun into Functional (Video)
Veröffentlicht 11 Feb 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Amy Jo Kim from Shufflebrain with a good introduction to game mechanics (“Putting the Fun into Functional”), which is being increasingly applied to social apps. In the presentation she repeatedly refers to good examples from e-commerce: A question which immediately arises from this is: Why are shopping systems so bad at presenting already purchased products?Related posts: + Read more