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Here's a big social business success story...The 'love' button may be the most-clicked on ModCloth's platform. But with $100 M in 2012 revenue, 'checkout' is a close second....“The ‘love’ button is the most used button on our site,” ModCloth CEO Eric Koger told me this June on a visit to the East Coast from the company’s San Francisco HQ. Tuesday’s announcement that the company he founded back in 2002 with wife Susan Gregg Korger has reached $100 million in 2012 revenue makes another thing clear: the check-out button is closing in on ‘Like’ for number one.ModCloth’s commitment to a mobile-first, unabashedly social strategy is credited with getting them to the $100 million mark according to today’s press release. According to the founders nearly a third of their traffic is same-day repeat traffic, meaning they’ve visited the site more than once a day as a result of a roll-out of a slew of social features over the past 12 months. Among them: a virtual buyer program that allows users to vote samples into production and a style gallery of user-submitted photos that’s turned the e-commerce platform into its own internal social network. Since its launch last year more than 6,000 outfit photos have been shared through the site....
Via Jeff Domansky
Almost everyone has a story about a cousin or an aunt who bought a box of junk at an auction and found in it a diamond ring worth several hundred dollars. Every once in a while a valuable painting by a famous artist turns up in someone’s attic. “Antiques Roadshow” sometimes features odd items that have been sitting around in someone’s house for years and that are appraised for thousands of dollars.
This doesn’t mean buying and selling art or collectibles is a good way to make money.
Buying art, antiques, or collectibles is extremely speculative, in part because values are so subjective. What a given item is worth depends entirely on what a collector might be willing to pay at any given time. A piece of pottery or jewelry might fluctuate considerably in value as trends come and go. Yesterday’s hot collectible (think Beanie Babies or Jim Beam bottles) might be tomorrow’s overpriced embarrassment. Does this mean you should never buy art or antiques in hopes that they’ll increase in value? Not necessarily. I am suggesting, though, that investment shouldn’t be the primary reason for your purchase.
Doctors have the American Medical Association; lawyers are represented by the American Bar Association, car dealers, teachers, religions, and even countries have organized representation to promote their best interests to the public and government. Art and antiques dealers, one can categorically say, do not have any form of an umbrella organization that can advocate for its interests. The many organizations that do attempt to be representatives of the industry are narrow in focus and small in membership. Whether it is the Art and Antiques Dealer’s League of America (AADLA), Antiques Dealers’ Association of American (ADA), National Antiques & Art Dealers Association of American (NAADAA), or the various state and local associations, they all have limited membership, finances, and interests. Individually they are just groups that attempt to create their own exclusivity of membership and can’t look at industry issues, be it a simple standard form of invoice or other business documents that have dealer and customer interests in mind; how about the larger purpose of the public’s image of dealers?
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July 22, 2013 12:44 AM
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Nifti, a Boston startup offering a shopping service which helps consumers track product discounts, said Thursday it's raised $800,000 in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Otto Capital.
...Nifti "lets shoppers follow any product they find on any website, and then notifies them when these items drop to the price they want to pay," the startup said in a news release.
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July 22, 2013 12:37 AM
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Amazon is now allowing third-party sellers to add photographs showing their used and collectible items in the Offer Listing page, providing shoppers with a more eBay-like experience.
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July 17, 2013 9:44 PM
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A new generation of body-positive fashionistas are celebrating their curves and the custom offerings of Etsy's forward-thinking fashion designers. (It's my body. I'll wear what I want. More women are embracing their curves and look awesome doing it.
A new study conducted by the Internet Advertising Bureau has found that 90 per cent of consumers would recommend a brand to others after...
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July 10, 2013 3:58 PM
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The results of our On What Channels Do You Sell ? Poll are in, and we have some results that are both surprising and ...
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July 10, 2013 3:14 PM
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PayPal wants shoppers to know they can use its service at real-life cash registers, and is enlisting the aid of a hip fashion blogger to help it spread the word through a social networking campaign on Instagram. Fashion and lifestyle blogger Keiko Groves is guest posting on PayPal's Instagram account this week.
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July 7, 2013 1:01 PM
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Pinterest, the online bulletin board site that allows users to post pictures of their favorite things or creations, has spawned a new category in retail.
“Home decor” and “DIY and crafts” are among the most popular categories, with pinners posting pictures of decor and apparel items they have created from art supplies and found objects. And these mini works of art are inspiring others, sending a growing legion of shoppers out looking for items to utilize in their own creations (think furniture pieces with great lines that will become magical with just the right paint technique, or vintage clothing ready to be transformed). Those without a crafty bent are searching for one-of-a-kind objects already created.
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July 2, 2013 5:44 PM
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Stolen Beauty is a boycott campaign against Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories ( www.ahava.co.il ) - a privately held Israeli cosmetics company that manufactures products using minerals and mud...
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June 5, 2013 2:20 PM
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Send us a picture of your own version, then you could win a £50 voucher!
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June 4, 2013 5:27 PM
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It’s a huge hit!Plus-size bikinis are being gobbled up even before the swimsuit season begins — as plumper women prove they don’t need teeny-weeny two-pieces to make a splash.The...
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May 31, 2013 4:38 AM
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MUMBAI: There is no provision in law which allows the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to tell shopkeepers not to put mannequins displaying lingerie inside their shops, said civic officials. "Mannequins, regardless of what they are wearing, can be seized only if they are kept outside the shop on footpath for encroachment of public space. But there is no law or rule that empowers the BMC to regulate what a shopkeeper wants to exhibit inside his shop," a civic official told TOI on Wednesday.
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May 29, 2013 2:59 AM
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The Roman gold pendant in the shape of a phallus that was discovered in 2011 in Hillington, Norfolk, has become such a popular exhibit at the Lynn Museum that replicas will be sold at the gift shop.
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May 29, 2013 2:53 AM
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An insight on why indie designers must sell their products at a higher price and why it's a worthy extra cost for us.
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Moms Stressed Out by Pinterest - 05/13/2013 While Pinterest might seem like a place for caring and sharing, the female-dominated social network is actually stressing a lot of users out, according to a Today.com survey of 7,000 U.S. mothers: in fact, 42% of respondents said they suffer from “Pinterest stress,” stemming from anxiety that they can’t live up to the ideal suggested by images of domestic perfection posted on the site.... "Of course, this phenomenon -- in which people carefully craft their online images to show themselves in the best possible light, and other people mistakenly assume this somehow corresponds to reality -- isn’t limited to Pinterest..."
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May 23, 2013 11:11 PM
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girljanitor: “ mariavontraphouse: “ princessneeshydoomcuddles: “ tashabilities: “ When I tell you white folks are trying to take over ALL our shit, Including the language that they call us ‘ghetto’...
Flickr made some big changes to its service; what do they mean for Flickr Pro users?
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May 15, 2013 11:40 PM
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The Pornocalypse Comes For Us All: Recently I’ve been seeing lots of tweets and headlines suggesting that Amazon is going through another round of cracking down on porn ebooks, generally burying them deeper and making them harder to f...
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May 15, 2013 11:20 PM
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My name is Jon Contino, and I'd like to welcome you to my Skillshare class on creating awesome hand-drawn labels!
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May 11, 2013 12:40 AM
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Not a size 2? Don't have washboard abs? Then Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries says don't bother shopping in his stores. The head of the apparel store set off a firestorm following an article on the Business Insider. The website interviewed Robin Lewis, the co-author of The New Rules of Retail. Lewis says Abercrombie is all about sex appeal. He says Jeffries is only interested in attracting beautiful people into his stores and wearing their clothes.
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May 2, 2013 6:34 PM
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What does a woman REALLY want?
Salt Lake Tribune
Underarm laser hair removal! Purses! Botox! Cleaning products! These apparently are What a Woman Wants.
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April 29, 2013 7:00 PM
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Plus-size magazine SLiNK has joined forces with leading modelling agency Models 1 to search for their next plus-size face.
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April 26, 2013 4:36 PM
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Curated by Deanna Dahlsad
An opinionated woman obsessed with objects, entertained by ephemera, intrigued by researching, fascinated by culture & addicted to writing. The wind says my name; doesn't put an @ in front of it, so maybe you don't notice. http://www.kitsch-slapped.com
Other Topics
Antiques & Vintage Collectibles
Crimes Against Humanity
From lone gunmen on hills to mass movements. Depressing as hell, really.
Cultural History
The roots of culture; history and pre-history.
In The Name Of God
Mainly acts done in the name of religion, but also discussions of atheism, faith, & spirituality.
Kinsanity
Let's just say I have reasons to learn more about mental health, special needs children, psychology, and the like.
Nerdy Needs
The stuff of nerdy, geeky, dreams.
Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic
The meaning behind the math of the bottom line in publishing and the media. For writers, publishers, and bloggers (which are a combination of the two).
Sex Positive
Sexuality as a human right.
Vintage Living Today For A Future Tomorrow
It's as easy to romanticize the past as it is to demonize it; instead, let's learn from it. More than living simply, more than living 'green', thrifty grandmas knew the importance of the 'economics' in Home Economics. The history of home ec, lessons in thrift, practical tips and ideas from the past focused on sustainability for families and out planet. Companion to http://www.thingsyourgrandmotherknew.com/
Visiting The Past
Travel based on grande ideas, locations, and persons of the past.
Walking On Sunshine
Stuff that makes me smile.
You Call It Obsession & Obscure; I Call It Research & Important
Links to (many of) my columns and articles.
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Here's a big social business success story with lots of valuable social marketing lessons.