http://stuartwhitman.co.uk/journal en stuart@collateit.com Copyright 2009 2009-05-29T04:27:07+00:00 http://stuartwhitman.co.uk/journal/article/discover-7-social-shopping-websites/ http://stuartwhitman.co.uk/journal/article/discover-7-social-shopping-websites/#When:04:27:07Z {textile}You've got your lovely shiny new website back from the the web developer/ web designer, you've added your products, someone has done something called "seo" where you sent a list of keywords that will appear on the first page of Google and you sit back and wait for the sales to come in...and then nothing. If this is your website then your not alone, with more than half of all new ecommerce sites failing because they have no strategy. It's all very well having a fancy website but if you don't get your content in front of potential customers then it just won't work. You may have heard the phrase "user generated content" banded around recently. Without going into too much detail its all about your customers generating unique information by recommending, reviewing and generally sharing your product data. The easiest way to do this for ecommerce sites is to use some of the "wishlist and social shopping sites":http://www.feedmyapp.com/web_20_shopping_applications_sites that are currently available. Kaboodle !http://stuartwhitman.co.uk/images/uploads/docblack_kaboodle.jpg(Kaboodle)!:http://www.kaboodle.com{/textile} 2009-05-29T04:27:07+00:00