Shopit’s Social Commerce Network “Grabs” Big Brands by Giving Sellers the Viral Hand

Shopit’s Social Commerce Network “Grabs” Big Brands by Giving Sellers the Viral Hand

Shopit’s Social Commerce Storefronts Are Launching Big Brands into Web 2.0 by Going Viral

Shopit, the pioneer of Social Commerce, now gives established brands the ability to build their own customizable and viral storefronts. Brands can now spread their stores to their loyal customers, broaden their demographic reach, and expand their market to generate more revenue.

With Shopit’s new “Grab” function, a customer can take their favorite brand’s store and post it on their own social network pages or anywhere else they spend time online. This feature offers unlimited distribution for their stores across the internet.

“Viral Selling is in the future of ECommerce. Getting dynamic branded stores with your products, images and video directly in the hands of your target market is what Shopit’s technology does for us,” says Ivan Correa, branding manager for X-Large and co-creator of the women’s version X’e By X-Large. X’e is utilizing Shopit to launch into the social networking space. X’e is spearheading its online sales effort with Shopit stores. “Shopit’s Social Commerce tool will keep our core customer informed of what is new with X’e as well as expanding our outreach and interest in X’e within our strategic online initiative. Keeping everything Viral will give us the target market exposure and grass roots push we are looking for.”

Shopit’s commerce solution works for everyone. Smaller brands looking to build brand awareness and gain momentum can sell their merchandise across social networks and blogs. Larger established brands can also harness the viral marketing power of social media by posting their message and entire catalog on Shopit. “We’re excited that brands looking to connect with their customers in social settings are using Shopit as their gateway,” states Matt Hill, the company’s founder and CEO.

The viral nature of Grab also empowers a brand’s most loyal customers to create visibility for products they believe in across the Internet. This is Shopit’s first step towards establishing an affiliate system in which users will eventually be rewarded for selling products from other stores within the network.

The Platform

Shopit provides a simple, fast, secure and reliable transaction platform that enables efficient selling, trading and sharing of products and information. Products and services can be directly linked and embedded from a Shopit store to any site, including popular sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, FaceBook, Friendster, Blogger and many more. Shopit’s Grab Feature allows users to take a store they like and put it on their own site, email or blog. Users can quickly and easily change their inventory from Shopit’s administration pages, thus dynamically updating every virtual store posted on any other network.

About Shopit:

Shopit is a free Social Commerce Network that allows users to download from existing online sales channels (eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, Yahoo) and then mass syndicate via social networks. Users simply build a store and Shopit provides the tools to promote, sell, auction or trade products and services via widgets and store pages on the network. The widgets and applications can be used to sell in blogs, sites, emails or instant messages. Shopit manages transactions, payments and dynamic updates to storefronts in multiple locations, all for free.

Shopit is venture-backed and based in Los Angeles, CA. More information may be found at www.shopit.com.

Contacts

Shopit
Cameron Casey, 310-987-7970