Earlier today Facebook announced on their blog that they have reached 1 billion active monthly users. What does this mean for the marketing of your business? Reaching the 1 billion monthly active user mark is huge news for the social network who’s primary value is in it’s user base. Despite dwindling stock prices, Facebook has

Venture Capitalists are rushing to invest in social commerce, and recently social commerce startups have raised a combined total of over $300 million. Social Commerce Today, our favorite place for news on social commerce, posted a beautiful infographic based on their post about the psychology of social commerce, which received a lot of attention. This

Hopefully you had a fun and stress-free weekend. We’ve gathered the links from the weekend so you don’t have to. Here’s what happened in the world of online marketing: Social Media: The 6 Elements Of Human Behavior That Drive Social Media 5 Clever Social Media Campaigns To Learn From How To Create A Social Media

This was an eventful week for social commerce. An article in Bloomberg about the supposed failure of Facebook commerce (or f-commerce) sparked a wild outburst of posts from blogs across the web. Here, Mashable provides a more neutral view on the large retailers’ f-commerce failures. Other blogs delved deeper into the issue of Facebook commerce, taking an

Social commerce is such a quickly growing industry that the wealth of information about it can be overwhelming. So we have separated the most important articles from the white noise, condensing your social commerce news for the week in one short post. Retail TouchPoints provides some insight into the potential inherent in social commerce and

With the recent beta launch of Ngst Media’s Facebook Commerce Platform, Reverb, it’s an appropriate time to talk a bit about the potential offered by Facebook commerce (commonly called f-commerce). Although Facebook commerce is a young technology, it has had a powerful burst in 2011 as companies like BMW, Ticketmaster, UNICEF, Coca Cola, Adidas, Apple,

In light of speaking where Facebook is going in 2012, the first thing anyone should take note of is the recently added Timeline layout. Most people are aware of what the Timeline layout is but for those who are not, it essentially takes all of your user-generated content as well as content posted by your

I think that only fools make predictions. However, I am going to draw a hypothesis about where Facebook is going in 2012. I have been reading reports about market saturation concerns, as Facebook is projected to hit the 1 billion user mark in 2012 and captures 75% of total time spent online. I have also been

In the article “Psychology Of Social Commerce Infographic States 25 Million Pieces Of Content Shared Through FB” that was recently run on the Simply Zesty blog, author, Quinton O’Reilly does a great job at explaining the simple nature of successful social commerce with some brief words about the topic and an extensive infographic called “Social Commerce Psychology.”

After months of research, development and testing, we are proud to announce that Reverb has moved into its beta phase. You can now sign up for Reverb, create a store and attach it to your brand or business Facebook page, connect your preferred checkout method, and begin selling in minutes. Reverb is a social commerce platform, built and developed by Ngst