The booming growth of the ecommerce industry has prompted businesses to search for innovative ways to win over consumers’ trust and loyalty. Among the most compelling methods stands social proof, a psychological and social phenomenon that influences consumer behavior. Incorporating social proof into an ecommerce business strategy can significantly boost conversion rates, foster customer loyalty, […]
How to Use Social Proof in Your Marketing Strategy
Social proof is one of the most powerful tools in a marketer’s toolkit. It is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when people are uncertain about what to do and look to the actions of others to guide their decision-making. There are many different ways to use social proof in your marketing, from customer testimonials and […]
5 Ways to Sell using Instagram
Instagram touts 1 billion active users on their platform, with 500 million using it daily. I personally am one of those 500 million daily users. I go to Instagram to see pictures/videos of my friends, my favorite athletes, or just see the curated content they think is best for me (which usually ends up being […]
Social Proof: What it IS and What it is NOT
Do you ever hear a term over and over and wonder to yourself….What the heck does that mean? It happens to me all the time. As crazy as it sounds, when I hear a term I’m unfamiliar with, my mind becomes obsessed and I go into research mode: Defining what the terms IS (generally straight […]
Ready for “Hindsight is 20/20”?
20/20 does not refer to the calendar year, although I think we are all ready to put 2020 (the calendar year) in our hindsight. 20/20 refers to a measure of normal visual acuity, as measured by the Snellen fraction chart developed by ophthalmologist Herman Snellen in 1862. It’s a measure of the sharpness and clarity […]
SiteVibes Partnering with BigCommerce
84% of US online shoppers say that friend’s social media posts influence their purchase decisions. In fact, word of mouth has the most influence on purchase decisions today. SiteVibes allows retailers to harness what their shoppers are doing, in real-time, to increase sales. Today we are excited to announce the launch of our User Generated […]
SiteVibes Product Discovery Platform 2.0 is live and we’d love for you to test it out
Today is an exciting day, not only for us but for our customers too. After a lot of amazing feedback, planning, polishing old features to make them new, and adding new features to compliment the old, I am excited to introduce SiteVibes Product Discovery Platform version 2.0. The “new” Product Discovery for e-commerce In my […]
The Future of Black Friday
Black Friday 2020 will be like no other, or will it?
Automate Social Proof to Increase Site Engagement and Conversions
“There’s a lot of automation that can happen that isn’t a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing bahavior” Stewart Butterfield, Entrepreneur and businessmanCo-founder of FlickrFounder of Slack Introduction According to Forbes, efficiency is one of the basic objectives of any technology. Automation is one way to achieve optimal efficiency on your website. By automating tedious and repetitive […]
Present Day WYSIWYG
Do you remember WYSIWYG? WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. According to Merriam-Webster, WYSIWYG is a noun that means “a display generated by word-processing or desktop-publishing software that exactly reflects the document as it would appear in its finished state”. The term, becoming popular in the 1980s, gave computer users […]