Social shopping is a process of e-commerce and of traditional shopping in which clients shop in an online social networking atmosphere s related to twitter and face book. Using the understanding of crowds, users communicate and total information about good quality of products, prices and deals. A lost of sites permit users to make tradition shopping lists and share them with friends. Others focus on the user interactions attach information and recommendations that are hard to acquire from the actual sales personnel. Some services even permit users to shop together synchronously to complete the social environment to Social shopping sites can generate revenue not only from advertising and click throughs, but also by sharing information about their users with retailers. Some services even allow users to shop online together to complement the social environment. Many social shopping sites allow to chatting and share a video and images. Almost visitor like to learn that what is popular products and deals. Visitor also gets a chance to meet follow the shoppers and makes friends.
They are a lot of site of sites that are designed exclusively for social shopping like digg, delicious, face book and my personal Shopping site – handyzon.com……All sites are integral Parts of their business.
The success of social shopping as a business model is still undetermined, although several companies like a handyzon.com have managed to publish their services and gather lots of users.

If you are customers, social shopping provides a fun, helpful and intelligent way to learn about and purchase products - and make friends at the same time. If you are a business, it is a fantastic idea to get involved in social shopping now. Once you establish yourself in a community – it will open the door to many other opportunities ahead.

Hi kettywillson,
Thanks for sharing the information,basically social shopping is divided into three categories,the first categorie is Group shopping sites include companies like Groupon, LivingSocial etc,the second categories Shopping communities bring like-minded people together to discuss, share, and shop and the last is recommendation engines allow shoppers to provide advice to fellow shoppers.

Really Nice post. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the post.

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