7 Tips Make Social Commerce Work

Despite the fact that Facebook commerce has emerged as a big disappointment for some large companies and that poorly executed strategies can do more harm than good, social media marketing as a channel isn't about to disappear.

In fact, consulting firm Booz & Co. thinks that social media is a great way to influence buyers and will eventually result in $30 billion in global social commerce revenue ($14 billion in the U.S. alone).

Given the way some companies are backing away from the Facebook f-commerce efforts, you might wonder whether Booz might need to reevaluate its estimate. And yet, a Booz survey suggested that 27% of consumers who spent at least one hour a month on social networking sites would be willing to make purchases through social networking.

It might just take more time, as e-commerce did, as people change their habits to adapt to new circumstances and capabilities. As Booz noted:

Tutorial easy Install WAMP Server

For PHP programing we need a web server, so we use WAMP and it has the following components:
Apache 2.2.17
Php 5.3.5, Mysql 5.5.8
PhpMyadmin 3.2.0.1
SQLBuddy 1.3.2
XDebug 2.1.0-5.3
webGrind 1.0
XDC 1.5
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For now we will use only Apache and PHP, followed by MySQL and phpmyadmin.
  
Step 1 Klik double icon wampServer and klik next

 

 Step 2 Klik I accept the agreement

 

Step 3 Klik Next

XML ??? Why Not..???

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) might sound like an intimidating coding language for a small business owner, let alone a technology manager, to master. The odds are, however, that if your company has a website, XML is already part of the technology you are using to do business.

XML is a simple, flexible text format that was originally designed in the mid-1990s by an 11-member working group under the guise of the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3), an international standards body, to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing. More recently, XML has become widely used to facilitate sharing data between different information systems over the Internet.

“If you need XML you’ll know it, because it is already part of the technology you’re using,” says Greg Bowling, senior analyst at Jupiter Research. XML, he explains, is part of the underlying communication online. “When you’re communicating between two websites, the XML tags the key attributes. This allows companies, and site operators to set data definitions for the trading of information.”

Essentially XML makes sure that all the various companies are on the same page when sharing information over the Internet. In this way, XML is akin to a digital glossary. But, without it, data couldn’t be easily shared between businesses without having to reformat that information at each step of the process.

XML and your business

Essentially businesses that need to share basic information with a common nomenclature are the ones that will mostly likely need to use XML. As a result of the increasing need for businesses to do business with other companies and customers over the Internet, XML is used in nearly every industry. It’s an integral aspect of what makes the Internet work.