Great shopping experiences are made to be shared.

What we do for shoppers

Catching a sale with a friend … consulting with your family about a purchase … letting a neighbour know about a great deal — the best shopping experiences are social.

At Social-Circle, shoppers use their social intelligence to find and make the smartest buys.

Social-Circle blends daily deals and social networking. Shoppers can search deals by location, category, or keyword. Then the conversations begin, between shopper and shopper, shopper and merchant, and shopper and friends.

Shoppers can share hot tips with friends and brainstorm on shopping dilemmas. They can use the social network to dialogue and problem solve with merchants before and after a deal is bought.

They can rate and review products and stores and read other shoppers’ reviews to evaluate quality. And they can follow their favorite retailers and receive personalized email notifications about deals. Through the magic of word-of-mouth, shoppers discover the perfect deal quickly and easily, and then spread the news!

We also list merchants in high-traffic local directories so their customers will find them—and their Social-Circle deals—when they search for products or services online.

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What we do for merchants

Social commerce is the latest evolution of e-commerce. While e-commerce is about convenience, value, and choice, social commerce is about helping people use their social intelligence to make better shopping decisions. Shoppers make smarter choices when they have more input, particularly from people they know and trust. Consumers are increasingly tapping into their online social networks to discover, discuss, and buy goods and services.

Social-Circle gives merchants a great new way to engage with social shoppers, build their online networks, and make the most of the new opportunities created by social-commerce. In short, we help merchants provide the great shopping experiences today’s shoppers look for.

We start by giving the merchant a footprint on the Internet. We list the business in the leading search engines and online directories so local shoppers find the business when they search online. We also create a profile page for the business in the Social-Circle social network, where customers who search for the business online can land.

The next step is to attract shoppers by offering deals on products and services. On Social-Circle, merchants can place as many deals as they want, when they want, and they design the deal—everything from discount percentage and number of coupons offered to time frame for the deal.

Social-Circle’s social network allows merchants direct and meaningful communication with their customers before and after they purchase deals. Shoppers can also choose to follow their favorite merchants and be the first to hear news about products, services, and special offers. This creates satisfied, repeat customers who create great word of mouth for the business.

Social commerce generates valuable business intelligence. We provide members of our merchant community with metrics on their deals and teach them how to use this information to build their knowledge and understanding of their market.

Members of the Social-Circle merchant community enjoy our full support to make the most of the opportunities created by social commerce and Social-Circle, including the advice and hands-on assistance of our marketing consultants, regular customer support, and access to our online seminars on topics chosen to maximize each merchant’s results.

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