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4 Ecommerce trends you need to know for 2022

Sprout Social

Social commerce. Social commerce is when you buy and sell products or services directly from a social media platform. With the maturing of the influencer industry, the natural next step is for platforms to help influencers and companies sell to consumers. Livestream shopping.

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Analytics: what are you really learning?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Last week at Social Capital Ottawa I moderated rountable discussions on analytics and digging deep to gain real insight. It was clear from those who participated that people are using and are keenly interested in analytics, but that information they are gleaning is largely superficial. Measuring online influence.

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Klout and the Reality of Return on Influence

Convince & Convert

Jay: Which brings us to today’s book, Return On Influence. There was a reason why nobody in social media has written a book about the nature of influence. I turned to experts like you and to Robert Scoble , and the famous acclaimed author, Robert Cialdini , the author of “ Influence at Work.”

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