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Social Gift Giving
Partnering With GiveButtons: Put Social Gift Giving to Work for your Products!
For more information contact:
Dr. Mark Chignell (mark.chignell@vocalage.com)
151 Bloor St W., Suite 800
Toronto, ON M5S 1S4
Canada
GiveButtons is a social commerce gift giving site. We offer attractive gifts to our community of users. The GiveButtons web site allows people to buy gifts and send them to recipients in North America currently and eventually the world.
We would like to partner with vendors in North America and worldwide who offer attractive gifts and can offer reliable shipping and delivery methods. We will aggregate demand from a gift giving community and generate a set of purchases. We will order products from the vendor and request that the vendor ship the products to the listed recipients.
How it works
Your products will be featured in the GiveButtons online catalogue and some of them may also be chosen by our gift giving experts for our curated collections. There are two basic ways for us to partner with you. The first way is as a typical affiliate relationship where you advertise your products in the GiveButtons catalogue, and if users click through to purchase a product on your site, you give us a commission as an affiliate. They second way is where we host your product on your website. In that case we act as a retailer and purchase the product from you at a wholesale or discounted price and you ship it to the user. In either of these approaches we can increase the gift giving potential of your product by adding a Give Button to it, allowing a group of people to team up to buy an individual product. In the affiliate relationship, and with your agreement, we will place a Give Button on your site, so that when people see the product they can purchase it collaboratively, choosing a recipient and inviting others to contribute to the cost of the product. When someone clicks on the Give Button, we will organize the collaborative payments, organize the communications amongst the group buying the gift, and send the order to you once the money for the cost of the product plus applicable shipping and taxes has been collected. If we receive a commission of 10% or greater, we will not charge you for providing the Give Button collaborative payment functionality. For commissions of less then 10% we charge the difference between the commission amount and 10% (e.g., with a 5% commission we would charge 5% of the product price for use of the GiveButton, and if there is no commission we would charge 10%). For products where we host the product (i.e., we act as the retailer) we will generally not charge for the use of Give Buttons to buy your products collaboratively.
In addition to generating demand for vendors products we can also provide, at an additional fee, market research information concerning the popularity of your products, what sorts of people are buying them and for what types of gift, and what people are saying about the products. Market research data will be provided to vendors at no cost on a monthly basis, for those vendors who give us a product price that allows us to be competitive with other online channels.
What we offer
- A new sales channel that leverages the customers social network connections
- A new method of market research which allows the vendor to learn about the buyers for the products and their intentions
- An inexpensive way to advertise products, through personal recommendations, to potential customers
- An opportunity for vendors to gain instant exposure in social media
- Money up front to the vendor for gifts ordered
- Online presence that requires no investment in infrastructure, maintenance, staffing or online advertising
- Instant access to our user community
- A gift giving community where members can people can share ideas and learn from each other
What we need from Vendors
- An inventory of ready-to-ship In-stock products, with firm pricing and continuous availability. (We require one month notice or greater if products are going to be discontinued or become unavailable).
- Well defined shipping and tax costs for each product.
- Well defined shipping locations for each product.
- An efficient method for us to pay the vendor that minimizes transaction fees paid to third parties.
While we can order products manually if necessary, it would be preferable to have an API that would allow us to generate orders to the vendor automatically, based on gift requests on our site.
For more information, please contact Dr. Mark Chignell at mark.chignell@vocalage.com