Posts Tagged ‘social shopping’

It’s Awards Season!

Sunday, January 27th, 2013

By Sareena Denis, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

Awards season is in full swing! Between the SAGs, the BAFTAs, the Critic’s Choice, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the culmination of them all—the Oscars—the glam and glitz of Hollywood will soon be inescapable (that’s a good thing).

With this year’s top movie contenders winning awards left and right, its stars are shining brighter than ever on the red carpet.

Last week’s Golden Globes gave us a taste of the glam life, and with this week’s release of Oscar nominations, we will have to keep our eyes open for more red carpet fashions that will be popping up in stores everywhere.

At this year’s Golden Globes we saw the makings of trends to come such as gold embellishments, cutouts and keyhole necklines, colorful lace, high slits, and lovely spring colors such as blush, peachy red, and seafoam blue.

You can find these soon-to-be popular trends easily at ShopYourWay with our responsive search bar, and then purchase them directly from ShopYourWay. It’s hassle-free shopping at its best!

Blush Sheeth: 
JBS Women’s Shimmer Sheath Dress; $13.99
Seafoam Blue Cutout:
Make the Sky Blush Dress; $125.00
Gold Cutout:
AX Paris Side Cut Out; $46.50
Peachy Red:
Stanzino Women’s Sleeveless Dress; $21.75

ShopYourWay Sponsors PennApps Hackathon

Friday, January 18th, 2013

By Eui Chung, Divisional Vice President, Social Commerce – ShopYourWay.com

ShopYourWay is sponsoring and on the ground for the world’s largest university hackathon

With the largest university Hackathon in the world starting tonight, ShopYourWay is gearing up to get developers ready, excited, and inspired about creating new apps using the ShopYourWay platform.

The perfect place for developers to prove their innovation’s value, ShopYourWay has the audience, program, and network needed to give developers the freedom of choice to make an amazing application.

ShopYourWay is providing experts, guidance, advice, and plenty of SWAG to give participants direction and a launching pad to build for their application in order to take the coveted number one spot in the contest.

ShopYourWay is an innovative shopping site built around a member’s social network. Shoppers can quickly get relevant product information, comments, and recommendations all with the help of friends.

Finding and tracking products online, getting the best prices, and deciding what to buy should always be fun. By creating and sharing virtual product catalogs, users can keep friends in the loop and stay informed with brands, retailers, and experts.

Please visit www.shopyourway.com for more information regarding the ShopYourWay website and mobile application.

Search, With a Little Help From Friends

Monday, December 10th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

The holidays are keeping our little elves busy, crating lovely new features to make your shopping lives better. You may have already noticed their work…

Did you feel something different about your newsfeed lately? Did you notice it’s got more of that Christmas cheer? Well it’s no coincidence. By giving Holiday related stories a little boost we made sure your experience on the site will be in the holiday spirit. We also have a special Christmas page!

Who Owns that?

Our hard working elves were also busy improving our search engine – adding new capabilities that will make your holiday shopping that much easier.

After typing your desired item and clicking enter, you’ll notice lots of new options. You can sort the results by price, relevancy and alphabetical order. Which is great and makes sense, but the really exciting part is sorting by your friends’ relation to the item.

What does that mean? You can sort items by how many indications of like, own and want they got on the site. Is the product you’re looking for on everybody’s wish list? Did it get lots of likes? Definitely something you’d like to know, isn’t it?

We’ve got a lot more coming your way. Stay tuned!

 

Holiday Season – Get Smart

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

The preparations for the great shopping season continue at full speed. This week we concentrated our efforts on two important fronts: shoppers, and page curators.

Shoppers come first: for you guys we upgraded our newsfeed, making it even smarter and more effective than before, so you can easily find those awesome items and get them.

So here’s the deal: you can now take control of the feed and choose how it’s presented. You can either see the latest, newest stories, or choose to see the ones most relevant to you. You decide, you’ve got the power.

Pages, Get Ready

Our page curators are getting ready for the holiday rush as well – and by the way, you can manage your own page as well. Just go to our page creating tool, and make one for yourself, or claim ownership of an existing topic or brand page by clicking the relevant link on the page.

Now that you own a page, you should make it attractive and engaging. How? It’s not hard. Upload a cool image, and an impressive hero banner. Publish some interesting content – status messages, pictures and videos. Add catalogs of products, images of Christmas trees and what not.

The main idea is simple: decorate your page for the holidays, post interesting and diverse content – text, images and videos – and tag it accordingly, to the right categories, brands etc. If you build it, they will come.

And that’s exactly what we told our curators in the newsletter we recently sent them, in order to help them make their pages as cool as possible for you guys. Check them out – and stay tuned.

 

The Holidays are Coming! And Pictures too

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

Tis the season to get busy: Black Friday, Christmas and all their shopping goodness are just around the corner. Shopyourway.com is the place to do your holiday shopping, and we’ve added even more features to make the experience that much better.

The biggest news is in the details – order details to be exact. Go to your account history and click on an order, and you’ll immediately notice the change. Yes, those are product images, clickable and leading to the page of the product you just bought.

So now you can rate that new TV you bought, or write a review about that cool new console you got your kids for the holidays. This is what shopping on our site is all about.

More Content!

And we’re not done yet. We added a share button to all content on the newsfeed – even if it wasn’t published by the user. Just click the button and share the joy with your friends.

And on the same note, the social tab on the homepage just got even more interesting. We decided that since it seems you guys like this tab, it should be social all the way – and now it’ll include content created by curators of pages you follow.

So if a you follow the HBO page, and the page curator published a story about a cool DVD of your favorite TV series – you’ll see it on the social tab.

And there’s a lot more coming. Stay tuned!

 

 

Share the Joy with Your Facebook Friends

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

The holidays are upon us – that lovely season of family gatherings and crazy shopping sprees. You know you want to get the latest and greatest stuff – and ShopYourWay is the perfect place to do it. so – why not invite some friends to share the shopping greatness?

Our new feature lets you do just that. Invite your Facebook friends to ShopYourWay with one click, sending them a personal message inviting them to shop with you. The advantages are clear – the more friends you know and trust on ShopYourWay, the more quality recommendations, reviews and comments you’ll get.

The “invite Facebook friends” page will also show you which of your friends from the famous social network are already on ShopYourWay and enable you to follow them on the site. So – start being friendly.

Easier to Find

Holiday shopping is an important and time consuming task. To make your life easier we went and upgraded our search engine. Yes, we made it even better.
Looking for a product? Maybe you want to find a friend whose advice you trust? The new search filter lets you define exactly what you’re looking for. Choose people, and the system will search among other users – and not products.

Oh, and we also invited a friendly bat over for Halloween – you can see right there on our logo.

Enabling you to filter your search results in advance is cool – and we have even cooler stuff coming. Stay tuned!

Check (it) Out In Mobile

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

This is big: coming soon to an iPhone near you – in your pocket or purse, actually – is the ability to buy products on the go. Just choose a product, check out, and you’re done.

 

Our mobile team has been hard at work for the last couple of weeks to bring you this. Think about it: you’re on the move, walking on the sidewalk or commuting, and suddenly you remember that power drill/dress/ console game you just have to buy. No computer around, no time to go to the store.

No problem. Grab your mobile, open the App, find a store near you – mobile means local, right? – and buy the item. You can choose to ship it home, or pick it up in the store.

That’s not all: expect a smoother and better Shopin experience including the ability to add friends when you Shopin somewhere, bug fixes and lots more.

The Plot Thickens

Remember we wrote about that amazing stuff we’re busy with? And how we can’t tell you about it? Well we still can’t. Yes, we are going to keep teasing a little while longer. But trust us – in the very near future, the whole shop your way experience will change, dramatically.

 

 

More Sweepstakes, More Deals

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

This week is about numbers, about more of the good stuff. If you like something, why not have more of it, right?

So we added more sweepstakes to the site – all in all about 80 new ones will be available by the end of March, and a lot more will be ready after that. Soon you’ll be able to enter dozens, even hundreds, of sweepstakes and increase your chances to win.

Then we went and added the new partners page. Because that’s what we’re like, always looking for more ways to make you guys happy. The new page offers great deals and benefits from our good friends and partners, just for you. Check it out!

Smile!

 Give Us A Smile

One of the main things about ShopYourWay is the human connection. We want you to be able to get recommendations and advice from fellow shoppers with similar taste and interests. And for that to happen people need to know who they’re communicating with.

In order to make you all feel at home, we added a little tool that enables you to easily upload a profile picture, giving you a face and a true identity. Simply click on the “Add profile picture” teaser and follow the instructions. You’ll be surprised how much better it feels when everyone has a face to smile at.

Keep coming back for more cool features and surprises.

Calling All Players

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at ShopYourWay

This week we decided to be even better hosts than usual. As we’ve told you, sweepstakes are big. People love them, and why shouldn’t they? They’re simple and fun.

Sweeps!

So starting now, you don’t have to enter the site to take a look at them. We’ve created a page that lets you window shop before you decide to dive in. Take a look, check out the different sweeps awaiting you, and decide which one catches your eye. You’ll still need to sign in as a SHOP YOUR WAY REWARDS member – free of charge and with great benefits, we should mention – but you can take a look before you leap.

Other than that you’ll notice things are moving a little faster and better. We made some improvements to our recommendation engines, and you’ll notice that the suggested products you’re seeing are even more on the spot than before. We aim to please, you know.

We also made some improvements to the SHOP YOUR WAY REWARDS registration, Smoothing the edges and adding friendlier error messages. Lands’ end fans will be happy to know you can now register to the new ShopYourWay from the Lands’ end site.

Expect more cool features and news soon!

It’s All About the View

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

By Noam Reshef, Community Manager at Sears Social

It’s not like we’re shallow – but this week is all about eye candy. A vanity post, if you will.

Last week we told you about the new banners on brand pages, controlled by the page admins. No sooner did we release this capability, than the admins started to go wild with it. Check it out and click on the images to see the brand pages themselves:

Lego Star Wars

 

HBO SopranosHoly brand, Batman

 

That’s not all, in the looks department. We streamlined the site, going for elegance and panache. The search box is leaner and lovelier, and the status box is flatter and better looking. Plus, you can now share a product directly from it!

 

Interested in anything else?

Two other major improvements combine better looks with better functionality. Click on a product you like, or own, or think about owning. The product page now has recommendations for other products you may be interested in, related of course to the one you’re browsing. Relevant, smart and adds color to the page.

Also, the quick view layer is now present in even more areas of the site, enabling you to interact with the product of your choice without too many clicks. Comfort and style folks. That’s us.

The Mobile Way

And on the mobile front: if you’re a Shop Your Way Rewards member – rejoice! From now on you can carry your member card in your iPhone. It’s just permanently there. Pick some items, show your mobile to the associate when you pay – and get some points. Nice and easy.