Vintage Clothing, Cute Dresses, Indie & Retro Women's Clothing | ModCloth Mobile Retail + Fashion Apps That Rocked 2010 Guest Post By Justyna Wilson This year the fashion and retail industries swiftly saw the rise of mobile commerce and location-based marketing. The mobile retail app offering is becoming more diverse as online retailers begin to understand the importance of mobility, shopping on the go and the future of mobile streams of revenue. If fact, eBay mobile just announced that their mobile sales doubled this holiday season compared to last year’s numbers, which shows that buyers are adapting to the technology pretty well. I wonder what other consumers enjoy about shopping on the go. Shopping apps are accommodating because you can take your shopping with you everywhere you go and it fits in busy schedules. 1. The ShopStyle app is available for both the iPhone and the iPad. Things I Love: The Facebook and Twitter “Share” button. Things I Don’t Like: Non-seamless transition from ShopStyle app to vendors’ websites to make purchases. 2. Things I Love: Sharing items via e-mail. 3. 4. 5.
Marketing ‹ Retail Minded Twitter & Facebook... Retail Style Social media can be so confusing. Customers, Smart Phones & Back to the Future One of the biggest challenges that brick and mortar retailers will face in the coming years (and are already beginning to face), is the challenge of competing with online retailers accessible to customers... Is Your Store Quirky Enough? Individualism, unexpected finds and - dare I say - rebellion are common components for many successful independently owned stores.