Social shopping site Wishpot went mobile this week with a product that seeks to extend social shopping to the bricks and mortar world.
Mobile support with Wishpot allows users to save and share all “interesting things” they find by sending a text message or picture to Wishpot from their mobile phone. When online, users can later view saved items, research prices, view ratings and reviews, ask friends for opinions or share recommendations.
This ability to easily save, research and recommend products is an interesting offering, although there must be some level of irony in extending the concept of “social shopping” to the offline world; I would have thought friends would fill that social void in a local mall.
Wishpot competes in the same space as Kaboodle, Stylehive, Yahoo Shoposphere, Zlio and MyPickList.
If you’re a shopaholic who loves a good brand and telling everyone about it, you’ll probably like Wishpot.
This form of viral marketing can be a godsend for a small business. It is the grapevine doing all the promoting by word of mouth, without any cost to the business owner.
The trick is getting one of those shopaholics to visit you - the odds must be one in thousands
Both of us are working too late.
Craig
/quote: there must be some level of irony in extending the concept of “social shopping” to the offline world; I would have thought friends would fill that social void in a local mall. /unquote
unless “social shopping” here strictly refers to “online social shopping”. lol!
As was suggested to our company, they may want to niche initially in order to gain the traction needed to capture sufficient early adopters to spread virally.
Congrats Max!
Is there really a volume of people that would photograph something they have seen and then add it to their website when they get home.
I guess this is a female thing, if it works this will be amazing for viral marketing.
Chris@ http://www.frostfirebuzz.com - New Internet Businesses
Could you use payment systems like KushCash with this?
Chris - if you email a photo to Wishpot from your mobile phone, it is automatically saved to your online Wishpot list. No additional step is required.
Also, you can save and share stuff you find online too. Whenever you find something you like, at any online store or website, you click a browser button and details including the product name, image, price and where to buy are collected automatically. Personal notes and tags can also be added.
You can also search for products and research prices, ratings and reviews on millions of items from thousands of stores right on Wishpot.com with product search powered by Shopping.com.
Individual items or entire Wishpot lists can be kept private, shared with select friends or family or made available to everyone.
cool web2.0 site.
i’m from wuhan city ,Hubei Province, China.
i prepare to copy Wishpot.com ,let it into china. haha…
Most high fashion retail joints don’t let you photograph any of their stuff, for fear of knockoffs. For hardcore women shoppers, the photo thing may not be feasible.