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Three Fluid Clients Make the Internet Retailer Hot 100 Best of the Web

by Stephanie Aldrete
Thursday, December 15th, 2011

IR_Hot100_1211_mainBadgeRGB_jpg_280x280_crop_q95As we close out another strong year at Fluid, we’ve learned that three of our clients have made the Internet Retailer “2012 Hot 100 Best of the Web – the annual list of e-commerce sites that the magazine’s editors believe to have broken new ground in ways that other e-retailers can learn from.  We’re thrilled to see our clients land a spot on the list this year.  Congratulations to Benefit Cosmetics, Sur la Table and Wag.com and to the Fluid team for creating breakthrough designs.

Benefit Cosmetics

The Internet Retailer editors liked the bold graphics, video tutorials on how to use its cosmetics, along with the social features, including a tool that lets consumers post and answer product questions, and a social club that connects Benefit fans with others around the world.

Sur la Table

Innovative navigation that puts relevant deals right in the front of the shopper caught the attention of the editors when they reviewed Sur la Table. For this site, Fluid focused on interactive merchandising and conversion.

Wag.com

Fluid helped combine the hallmark efficiency of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com and Soap.com, to deliver a whimsical experience that changes the way people shop for pet supplies.  Internet Retailers’ editors noted the site’s novel navigation approach, which lets pet owners browse by animal type — not only cats and dogs — to find needed products in one section, each with its own color scheme that serves as an anchor. Wag.com has the benefit of learning from sister site Diapers.com, which was also developed by Fluid.

Follow this link to see the complete Hot 100 list of companies.

-The Fluid Team


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Fluid + eTail East: Join us!

by Amy Lanigan
Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Fluid is excited to see you at eTail East in Boston this upcoming week (Aug 8-11). On the agenda:

- Booth #52: Our product and agency teams will be showcasing how Fluid can have a positive impact on your digital commerce plan. Stop by with hard questions or just to say hello. We’re looking forward to meeting you in person.

- Aug. 8th 2:25pm session: Fluid presents “Social Commerce: 5 Strategies that Work.” I’ve 20 minutes to show you cutting edge industry examples of what is working in social commerce and to put a stake in the ground about what two trends will hit next.

My end goal: Get your minds racing with ideas for your social commerce plan. And arm you with examples (ideally a few you’ve never seen) to make the case for action in this area.

Contact Isaac Newton to set up an in-person meeting. (How can you resist meeting Isaac Newton?) Safe travels!

Cheers,
Amy

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Last is the New First: 3 Reasons to come to our Shop.org Panel!

by Andrew Sirotnik
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

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The universe is chock-full of awesome things coming last. Like retirement, dessert, fat ladies singing and nice guys.

“Last” is definitely the new “first” and our panel at Shop.org, Social Commerce: 7 Strategies That Work is the last-est! Wednesday 3:30-4:30 in the “Customer Experience” track is where all the savvy show-goers will be for the perfect end to Shop.org.

Top 3 reasons you should come…

  1. The real deal. We’re going to skip the hype, dive into the details of actual initiatives and get our panel’s point-of-view on social’s real role in digital retail.
  2. All-star panel. The top minds from Sears, Jones Apparel Group and Diapers.com/Soap.com will tell us how they’ve used social media to move the needle on their businesses.
  3. Happy hour. Yes. Unless the teamsters shut us down :)

Ron Offir, President of eCommerce at Jones Apparel Group, Josh Himwich, VP eCommerce Solutions at Quidsi (Diapers.com/Soap.com), and Ryan Ostrom, Director of Multi-Channel Brands for Sears, will be sharing the inside details of their social initiatives, sneak peeks at new ideas in the works, and data on what worked and what didn’t.

Topics they will cover…

  • Creating the “Everywhere Experience”
  • Facebook Pop-Up Stores
  • Making In-Store a Digital, Social Experience
  • “Like” as the New Review
  • Mobile-Friendly E-Commerce Makes Money
  • Letting Your Customers Own the Brand
  • Using Facebook Connect for your site registration

Plus you’ll hear the top 3 social innovations they think should be on retailers’ radar for the near future. Plus 1 bonus idea from me!

We hope to see you there!


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Designing a Tweet-Powered Interactive Fashion Catalog for DVF

by Andrew Sirotnik
Friday, August 20th, 2010

Mariano Ferrario contributed to this post.

Fluid (@Fluid) collaborated with Lipman and Diane von Furstenberg to create a tweet-infused online catalog for DVF’s fall collection. You can experience the interactive catalog here.

DVF Fall 2010 Interactive Catalog

Rich interactivity + iPad / iPhone compatibility.

The online catalog is richly interactive but coded so that it can be fully experienced on the iPad / iPhone. The video player, interactive carousels and screen transitions are all HTML5, delivering a great shopping experience and letting DVF reach its audience on the all the devices that matter.

Fully twitter-enabled catalog experience.

To put it mildly, Diane von Furstenberg is an avid twitterer (<@InsideDVF>) and her posts are addictive. The catalog is built around her most iconic statements – like “I always wanted to live a man’s life in a woman’s body” – and letting users retweet her latest posts directly from within the catalog.

Integrated product tweeting with hashtags + bit.ly links to product pages

Most interesting is that each product has it’s own hashtag – e.g. #jane bolero – encouraging users to tweet out what they like at a product level (they can tweet/share/like the catalog as a whole as well). The result is product-specific tweets with unique bit.ly links to each product detail page that help track the consumer’s path through the social shopping funnel and the traffic driven from their shares, likes & tweets.

Follow Andrew Sirotnik at twitter.com/asirotnik

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DVF Fashion Catalog Video

by Mariano Ferrario
Friday, August 20th, 2010

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eCommerce Sites Look to the iPad for New Catalog Experiences

by David Hogue
Friday, July 16th, 2010

A recent article on Advertising Age, “Brands bet on iPad to Expand eCommerce Reach“, discusses how eCommerce sites are looking to the iPad to provide more interactive and engaging product browsing experiences.

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How Old Spice Made Virality Happen

by David Hogue
Friday, July 16th, 2010

Almost everyone has heard about and seen the Old Spice videos swarming across the Internet this week, and nearly everyone has regarded this campaign as brilliant, because Old Spice has done something that is very hard to do: they successfully and intentionally created something viral.

How did Old Spice make virality happen?

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Webinar Today: Social that Sells

by Amy Lanigan
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Join us today for a Webinar focused on Social the Sells. We’ll present 7 ideas that work (and 3 that we’re keeping our eyes on).

Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET

Speakers:
Andrew Sirotnik, Fluid, Founder/CXO
Amy Lanigan, Fluid, Director of Strategy

A sneak peak:
- Sold out sales on Facebook
- Liking after Levi’s
- Mobile sharing during shopping
- Live streaming chefs

There are still a few slots available. Register here.

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