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webshaun
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 Posted - February 03 2010 : 21:37:50
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| Are you guys on twitter or facebook? I couldn't find anything. I'd love to be able to follow you guys for updates on there. |
Edited by - webshaun on February 03 2010 21:42:56 |
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - February 04 2010 : 04:22:07
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Hi Shaun
We aren't actually. I am possibly a bit of a dinosaur  but I am actually not sure what you do with Twitter or Facebook for a product like ours?
Thanks
Cam
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webshaun
Starting Member
39 Posts |
Posted - February 05 2010 : 23:21:55
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| I can think of many uses for twitter and facebook for an eCommerce software package. Not only do you get more exposure but it's a great place to post update notifications or anything you want people to know. I'd seriously recommend getting an account... it is free after all... |
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - February 06 2010 : 09:04:53
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I've been looking into Twitter etc too. My initial reaction was exactly the same as Cam's; being new to twitter I couldn't work out what the point was as it was almost totally a 1-way communication tool and it's severely restricted in the length of the message for what you can "tweet" etc, and blogs, forums, mailshots seemed to be better suited to achieve what twitter tries to achieve.
In the end, after using/testing it for a while, it finally twigged in my mind what kind of thing it can be used for when it comes to businesses (as opposed to personal).
After trying it and banging my head against the wall wondering what the point was for quite a while, I now see it in the same way as webshaun sees it; for businesses you'd basically use it like a public (short) mailshot, telling people the latest info about what your business is doing.
It's not a replacement for mailshots, blogs, forums etc, it's just a different way of people being able to get info about things that you think they should know about.
So, we're intending to use it to let people know when new addons get released, or when upgrades get released to existing addons, and to float ideas about other stuff generally.
We've now officially enabled our bigyellowzone twitter account and posted a couple of tweets. We'll add more tweets as/when it's appropriate, probably once or twice a week.
Having played around with it, I can now see the point of businesses using it, but I still don't understand the appeal of using it for personal use (ie the "I'm going to the toilet now, I'll be going down the shops at 2pm" usage), but maybe I'm missing something.
Anyway; we're on it for business, feel free to follow if you want (but bear in mind that if you reply to a tweet, it's likely that your reply will be public, or that the reply to your reply will be public; in this regard I see it as almost a totally 1-way communication tool) -
http://twitter.com/bigyellowzone
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
www.BigYellowKey.com
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bigyellowzone
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons |
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webshaun
Starting Member
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Posted - February 06 2010 : 12:09:39
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Fantastic Simon, you spelled it out exactly. I, like many people, get tweets from sites i follow as an alert on my desktop. Facebook is even more comprehensive as you are not limited to what you post and the length of the message you post. Also facebook is more of a shared discussion than twitter, facebook is my personal favorite though i don't get notifications like i do with twitter. Most companies post to both facebook and twitter.
Facebook/Twitter integration into VPASP would be really incredible as well. Like, any new blog or news post into VPASP is pushed into the sites facebook/twitter account. |
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webshaun
Starting Member
39 Posts |
Posted - February 11 2010 : 20:42:42
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Just a follow up, there's a nice application out there in beta called TweetDeck that allows you to post to all social networking sites you have an account with at once. http://www.tweetdeck.com/
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savvymedias
VP-CART New User
191 Posts |
Posted - March 06 2010 : 20:05:51
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| http://www.involver.com makes an app add-on so that you can add your tweets to your FB fan page. |
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Steve2507
VP-CART Expert
590 Posts |
Posted - March 14 2010 : 06:11:40
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We use seesmic (http://seesmic.com/) for our tweeting, but after testing 3 or 4 I came to the conclusion that there was no best on the market. I only settled for seesmic as it was the last one I tested and didn't put any annoying addin into outlook or other places as some did.
Back to the uses of twitter - we didn't use it at all but started very slowly and are now trying to at least do 1 tweet every other day. As Simon said it is good for short bursts of info. In our case new products, new site functionality, items back in stock ect. We are planning to really push our new look checkout pages which are currently being designed (we are enclosing them - i.e. removing all the menus etc) and hopefully get feedback as to whether people like or hate them.
I would agree it is harder for VP, but just because you can't post every day or so doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
Steve
Sex toys from a UK sex shop including vibrators and dildos. |
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - April 03 2010 : 00:58:23
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Hi everyone,
We are including the Addthis module in the new service pac for Twitter and Facebook.
Believe it or not the dinosaurs here, me, have also signed up on Twitter and Facebook. We have posted a couple of "tweets" as well. Will take me awhile to get my head around these new terms. Sigh.
Thanks
Cam
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tester
Starting Member
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Posted - June 15 2010 : 12:21:16
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Glad to hear the dinosaur is breathing new life.
When and where can we get our hands on the new service pac for Twitter and Facebook? We're also after the addthis module.
We're on ver7 |
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - June 16 2010 : 11:22:46
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This will be in the new Service Pac SP1.
The delivery date for this is being pushed out a bit, mostly due to me. 
Apparently I keep asking for new features to be installed or improved based on chatting with people on the forum.
I have just been told I have to stop submitting these so hopefully it should be coming in the next couple of weeks.
We have the beta testers sinking their teeth into it currently.
Thank you.
Cam Flanigan
VP-ASP Cart Support
Follow us on Twitter:
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faolie
VP-CART New User
98 Posts |
Posted - July 29 2010 : 08:12:37
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Looking around Facebook and ecommerce, I saw this page from threadless: http://www.facebook.com/threadless?v=app_116832620224. You choose a size and click add to cart, and get transferred to the threadless site to complete the txn.
Looks brilliant. Is something like this on the development list?
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - July 29 2010 : 09:38:32
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Hi David,
Very nice. Nothing in the wings for this but if you can get me some info on how to do this I will see what we can do.
Thank you.
Cam Flanigan
VP-ASP Cart Support
Follow us on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/vpasp
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faolie
VP-CART New User
98 Posts |
Posted - August 04 2010 : 06:55:55
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Cam, no idea - just starting to explore links between websites and Facebook pages. However, it was done for threadless by a company called Context Optional (contextoptional.com).
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