Marketing Magazine Feb 2012- Facebook, If You Like It Buy It

This week Marketing Magazine published a full issue on marketing with Facebook. Horizon Studios CEO Janice Diner wrote the Facebook Social Commerce three page article that covers the basics and features innovative social commerce applications that demonstrate the begining of the opportunities for Facebook and commerce. The examples in the article are delivering real world measurable results. Included is Motorola Canada and the launch of a social commerce enabled platform called Motorola Insiders. Motorola Insiders a Facebook social community for retail Sales Reps who sell Motorola devices at select retail stores to connect, learn, record product sales and share product information.

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Horizon Studios chosen to present the Catalysta Platform at AlwaysON NYC

We are excited about the opportunity to attend AlwaysOn’s event ‘OnMedia NYC 2012′ and be featured as one of the featured emerging entrepreneurial CEOs. Janice Diner our CEO will be speaking at the event on February 21, 2012 at 2:00pm. Kudos to the MaRS Discovery District, Krista Jones and her team for helping Horizon Studios get get there. It is an honour and privelage to be standing with their support on stage in NYC shoulder to shoulder with some of the best emerging companies.

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Facebook Social Commerce Gets Game With Points, Loyalty, and Rewards

As social commerce gets more momentum, we are seeing new innovative ways to integrate social into every aspect of the shopping process. Classic reward and loyalty programs are starting to move toward the integration of their loyalty card users' databases with users' Facebook data and beginning to leverage the Facebook friend social curve. Three recent Facebook examples are the Amex Link, Like, Love app, the Citibank ThankYou Points sharing app, and Starbucks Rewards.

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How Facebook's Platform for Mobile Will Affect Social Commerce

With the launch of Facebook Platform for Mobile, shoppers can now access Facebook apps and games on a variety of mobile devices and tablets. Businesses, marketers, and developers can leverage a variety of social graph technology that will enable more meaningful engagement anywhere, anytime on multiple screens. This will have a large effect on the social shopping experience going forward.

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f8- A Facebook Social Commerce Primer

We were all eyes and ears last week listening to Facebook's string of announcements at F8. Notably, Facebook announced a new profile design called Timeline, a Ticker, smarter friend lists, and other personal profile items. The good news for businesses, marketers, social commerce, and developers is a new class of applications called Lifestyle Apps for the Open Graph Beta.

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