Commerce by Community^TM

Not Just Another Social Community!

Let's face it, online social communities are a dime a dozen. We are already having trouble keeping up with their friend's requests. Sad but true...many of our advertisers don't have time to keep up the social communities they belong to and haven't had the opportunity to learn how to use social networking to their advantage. We are not trying to be just another social community. Our community supports Commerce by Community™. Sellers are contacting each other about wholesale and product purchase when needed, and of course want to hear from their customers, but do not have to keep up friend requests. We are all friends here. If the opportunity is there to support another Girl Shop Spot seller, they will. Our members are here to support small business success.

What is Girl Shop Spot's Community Mission?

The mission of Commerce by Community™ is to support the success of emerging as well as established businesses catering to women by participating in networking, viral marketing, and providing smoother, smarter, and better communications directly between buyer and seller to expedite success. More and more consumers are leaving traditional e-commerce sites for superior one-on-one communications GSS's Commerce by Community™ can bring.

How does Girl Shop Spot carry out this mission?

We are reinforcing small business support through discovery by:

1) Allowing women and sellers to share their fab life and fab finds to help support small business success and to help other women discover what they've been missing!

2) Allowing business owners to connect with their shoppers, shoppers to connect with other shoppers, and shoppers to connect with business owners. That's a mouth full. Girl Shop Spot provides many opportunities for everyone to connect.

For many small businesses it's very costly to add a user control for chatting and connecting with their buyers. Even with contact information, many consumers do not have the time to find the “contact us” page to ask questions. The personalization simply is not available to reinforce a conversation between buyer and seller. Girl Shop Spot reinforces the owners to connect with their customers. We provide many opportunities for the buyer to connect with the seller and vice versa. Girl Shop Spot provides a robust online marketing for e-commerce and brick-and-mortar businesses seeking a direct connection with their customers through many options and opportunities the site provides, at highly affordable rates.

Superior Communications

GSS offers unique opportunities for shoppers to come in contact directly with eachother as well as with sellers. While interacting directly, advertisers have the opportunity to provide the superior service we are all seeking today. Unlike retail or wholesale selling or even other online selling, advertisers can also receive valuable feedback to their products and services. In fact this data becomes invaluable for product/service development, planning/logistics for shipping, competitive and marketplace analysis, as well as relationship building and referrals. It's "virtually" close-loop business analysis in real time.

Shop Talk

Girl Shop Spot's feature, Shop Talk, is not your typical comments section. With Shop Talk, you own and manage it. Use it as a forum or micro-blog on your Shop Spot page (see definition of micro-blog below). Create new topics, blog about your finds or business, share exciting ideas; be creative with how you use it. Stay connected by adding topics, asking and answering questions. Join in on other Shop Talks.

Anyone who contributes to a specific thread of your Shop Talk topic will receive instant messaging that a new post has been made from that thread, so Shop Talk gives you a hand-free way to keep conversations rolling. You can also manage your Shop Talk's discussion threads by deciding which topic threads you want to showcase on your Shop Spot page under Shop Talk Manager.

So share, listen, learn, and prosper through GSS Shop Talk.

Micro-Blog Definition -

"Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web. The popular social networking websites Facebook and MySpace also have a micro-blogging feature, called Status Update." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Why is Commerce by Community™ Important to my Business?

Girl Shop Spot (GSS) delivers an online one-stop shopping resource for those who want a streamlined connection to local stores, products and services tailored to women - a purchasing powerhouse. By 2010 women will control more than half of private U.S. wealth - about $14 trillion. Girl Shop Spot is becoming a prominent shopping resource for women and the online B2C community for this market.

GSS's Commerce by Community™ is offering a wealth of opportunities and information that makes both seller and consumer more intelligent...all the while, and just as importantly, making the entire experience enjoyable.