Third Wave Fashion // AUGUST 2013 | Page 33

B2B TOOL I N S PA R Q ere has been a lot of talk lately about the effectiveness of social commerce strategy. Gone are the days when retailers and brands could sit back and assume that consumers wanted a one-sided click-to-shopping cart experience. With the rise of social media and mobile platforms, the ingrained behavior in offline shopping of sharing what we want to purchase or are purchasing has become integral to online shopping. Retailers and brands should be aware of the effectiveness of building-in features that allow consumers to engage with one another as they peruse and purchase. at is where inSparq steps in to assist. (inSparq is a ird Wave Fashion client.) content with friends (for instance, a blast on Twitter leading to a one time offer of free shipping). Lastly, Tell-a-Friend is a feature that enables customers to invite their friends to sign up to a site's newsletter using social channels. inSparq is a streamlined, simple b2b solution for social shopping. e company offers three customizable widget services with actionable analytics that allow retailers and brands to track the effectiveness of sharing behaviors from the start of a sale to its endpoint. eir Trending Products Feed offers a Pinterest-style display of what products are trending in real time via an aggregation of social network metrics. Sharing & Rewards offers consumers customizable incentives for sharing a company's We reached out to the CEO & Founder (and cofounder of Women in Wireless and the WIM Accelerator), Veronika Sonsev to find out more. With their widgets craed in HTML5 and specific applications available for Magento and Shopify, inSparq has taken the headache out of actively integrating social behavior into the framework of retail sites. // 31