Social shopping constitutes a new e-commerce’s method and of traditional shopping in which consumers shop in a social networking environment. Many sites allow users to create custom shopping lists and share them with friends. Users communicate and aggregate information about products, prices, and deals. While word of mouth recommendations have always helped sell products, social shopping sites now allow groups of people to connect with each other based on their personal interests or even earn revenue from your picks.

1. Shopflick
Shopflick is an online video-shopping marketplace that enables sellers to tell the story behind their products, creating an immersive customer experience. What makes Shopflick unique is that besides the big 3 (+ Youtube) they incorporate niche sites, Stylehive, ThisNext and Kaboddle in their newsletter.Because listings involve videos and detail, you don’t find yourself having to scroll through pages of products as you tend to on eBay. Items are more hip and trendy.

2. Kaboodle.com
Launched in October 2005, Kaboodle offers an easy way to collect information from the web and also search for things you may be interested in. Kaboodle gives users a simple way to save their choices on one page, share the page, get input and publish their recommendations. kaboodle.com automatically summarizes web pages by extracting image, title, price and other key information and compiles the choices on a new customizable page. In addition to conversation and interaction with other shoppers, visitors to Kaboodle will find interactive tools to aid them in their online shopping choices. There is a collage-like feature called a “Styleboard,” which helps shoppers to visualize their intended purchases. Rooms can be arranged and decorated. Entire outfits can be coordinated and accessorized.

3. fluid.com
Fluid creates engaging online retail experiences that drive conversion, customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Founded in 1990, Fluid has a customer list that includes major online retailers such as Reebok, Lucky Brand Jeans, Diapers.com, Warner.
Fluid provides leading edge custom design and development as well as the most advanced, flexible and easy to use social shopping and interactive merchandising solutions for online retail.  Fluid Social 2.0 lets retailers quickly and easily incorporate Facebook and online chat functionality- the two most powerful social networking tools – directly into the online conversion flow. Fluid Social 2.0 lets shoppers get immediate purchase validation from within the retail site and encourages shared discovery of new products by shopping with friends.

4. Design society
Design society intends to strengthen it’s various users in specific areas of networking, self-promotion, and marketing.It  is home to all indie fashion lovers: fashionistas, designers, fans, fashion students, street fashion bloggers, photographers, anyone who expresses themselves through fashion.  Designsociety.net presents the tools to advance each individual’s company whether: designer, photographer, model, or buyer. Moreover It gives easy way to post resumes and build business contacts by sharing an on-line profile with the world concerning with this free marketplace of ideas for designers.  Including features such as adding digital portfolios, video uploads, and individual listing in DesignSociety.net’s exclusive business directory.

5. Shopseen
ShopSeen is a social shopping website that lets you share your shopping experience with the world. Using technologies such as location-based search, mobile uploads, and integration with Facebook and Twitter, the site makes it easy for users to share and discover products, sales, trends and events in their city. Shopseen gives a real-time look at the products and events available around you. Since the store name is required for each post and links to store pages, retailers also have a great opportunity to claim their stores and set up shop on Shopseen. Retailers can use the site to create their owns events, add products, and engage with their shoppers and product sharers.

6. At Fruugo
Fruugo is an aggregator bringing the online web stores under one service. Fruugo  combines social shopping, a product finder, price comparison and a slick e-commerce site. Fruugo  brings retailers and consumers throughout Europe together for a new kind of shopping experience, one where consumers find a better way to shop and retailers find better ways to grow their business. The business model  is based on transaction commissions. The cut Fruugo takes is around 10 percent, more or less depending on the product category. The company believes the rate is justifiable to merchants, as using the service Fruugo will take care of payment systems, fraud management, customer service, and currency exchange.

7. Select2gether
Select2gether is a shopping community that is truly live, mobile and social, allowing people to compare items and get purchase advice in real time no matter where they’re shopping. The company intends to employ the group dynamics that characterize Web 2.0 sites and use that power to reach better deals collectively. On Select2gether you can add any product from the web to a giant database, share selections with friends, and get help with tough buying decisions. You can also find out where to get the best deal on things you’d like to buy – you can even specify whether you want to buy locally or shop online! Members get discounts when shopping on Select2gether.

8. Veedow
Veedow is a ‘social shopping’ website, where the individual shopping experience is enhanced by a social environment. The service aims to replicate the best bits of the traditional shopping experience in a more effective and satisfactory way by aggregating every topic of interest into a customized page filled with the most relevant and appealing products for each user in every moment.

How it works is that you sign up to Veedow, you give them your gender and age, and then they show you a bunch of products that they think you’ll like. The system generates a personalized page where users can browse through product recommendations catered to their specific interests, get inspired to discover new products, rate products, add them to their wish list, share products with their friends and like-minded shoppers and comment on products.

9. GoToDaily
GotoDaily is a social shopping community. GotoDaily.com makes it easy to discover, share and recommend online store coupons, deals, and promotions. Bargain hunters are going to relish visiting the GoToDaily website, a portal where finding the best ways to save money when shopping is the order of the day. The site collects together free coupon codes and promotional that can be used straightaway in order to shop more and pay less. The listings are updated daily, and users can add deals they’ve found and remove codes that don’t work. Search by keyword or shopping site URL. The site’s blog also highlights good deals

10. ShopFiber
ShopFiber is a free social shopping tool you can use to research, gather, and share product information as you shop online. Compared to traditional tools, which are decentralized and offline, ShopFiber allows you track product research in one place. Collaborative shopping is easy with ShopFiber because community research is seamlessly shared, saving you time and money.

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