Scot Wingo

Editor’s note: Scot Wingo is founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce services provider ChannelAdvisor and self-proclaimed “gadget geek.” MORRISVILLE, N.C. – I’ve been living with my Amazon Kindle Fire for about 24 hours now and I wanted to share my initial thoughts. The goal of this review is to look at the AKF from a couple of viewpoints: • You are new to tablets, should you take the plunge? • You are already in the Kindle family, should you upgrade? • You have an iPad already • You are in the e-commerce ecosystem, what does AKF mean? Executive...

Editor’s note: Scot Wingo is founder and chief executive officer of ecommerce services provider ChannelAdvisor. MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Groupon – changing the game of e-commerce? The first e-commerce shaking topic I wanted to cover is Groupon’s entrance into the marketplace space and it’s impact. I’m pretty shocked this has flown under the radar for so long, but I think it’s time to really shine a bright light on it as it can and will be pretty big. How big? To quote Justin Timberlake playing the semi-fictional role of Sean Parker from Social Network: “A million dollars isn’t cool. You...

Editor’s note: Scot Wingo is founder and chief executive officer of ChannelAdvisor, a provider of e-commerce services to many of the world’s top online retailers. The Facebook Commerce Index tracks what companies are doing to drive growth through social media. MORRISVILLE, NC – Facebook has recently surpassed 700 million fans worldwide! For the June 2011 ChannelAdvisor Facebook Commerce Index we saw fan count continue to rise, but at a slower rate than previous months with the addition of 11.7 million fans (down from 17.5 million in May). This drop could be attributed to a summer slump due to vacations....

Editor’s note: This excerpt of Scot Wingo’s ChannelAdvisor Facebook Commerce index is reprinted with permission. Read here about what the index is and WRAL tech Wire’s plans to publish Wingo’s findings. MORRISVILLE, N.C. – March was a very strong month for fan growth. There were too many new retailer promotions to go into detail, but we’ll pull out a couple of highlights. As retailers continue to wake up to the Facebook Commerce opportunity, we should see continued acceleration in all metrics. Here’s what we saw from a macro level in growth of the audience across the entire index: • Growth...