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Silky Gem: Turning Resilience and Tradition into Social Sales

Silky Gem: Turning Resilience and Tradition into Social Sales

About Silky Gem Silky Gem isn’t just a candy store – it is the story of Gia Huynh’s grit and artistry. Rooted in Vietnam, her parents taught her that everything worth having requires hard work. She worked long days in a nail salon and spent nights crafting candies in her apartment. Within months, her crystal candies went viral on social media, and the orders overflowing her living room turned into Silky Gem, a premium candy brand that sold more than 2 million pieces and 160,000 collection boxes
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How KIAURA Turned Word-of-Mouth Into a Scalable Growth Engine With Shop with Friends

How KIAURA Turned Word-of-Mouth Into a Scalable Growth Engine With Shop with Friends

About KIAURA KIAURA isn’t just a sunglasses brand — it’s a vision of a lifestyle. Founded by CEO Parker Godfrey in Southern California, KIAURA creates handmade, architecturally inspired eyewear that invites customers to “see life through a new lens.” “I didn’t want to create a run-of-the-mill sunglass brand. I wanted to create a new world people can step into with KIAURA,” says Parker. Every pair is hand-drawn and built with purpose — a balance of striking design and functional features. And
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Case Study: How Billy Reid Uses Shop with Friends to Drive Fast, High-Intent Sales Through Referrals

Case Study: How Billy Reid Uses Shop with Friends to Drive Fast, High-Intent Sales Through Referrals

About Billy Reid Billy Reid is an American men’s fashion brand known for its effortless blend of Southern charm and modern sophistication. The brand crafts timeless apparel, footwear, and accessories with a commitment to quality and detail — and is beloved by style-conscious customers worldwide. The Challenge While Billy Reid has a loyal customer base, they were looking for ways to capitalize on enthusiasm from existing customers and turn that energy into measurable sales. The team knew tha
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How a Canadian Leggings Brand Leveraged Social Shopping to Boost Conversion Rates and Sales

How a Canadian Leggings Brand Leveraged Social Shopping to Boost Conversion Rates and Sales

When SweetLegs, a leading Shopify store that offers ultra-comfortable, patterned leggings, and body-positive ethos, sought to improve customer engagement and drive more sales, they turned to our innovative social shopping app. The results? Impressive conversion rates, higher-than-average order values (AOV), and rapid purchase timelines that outperformed expectations. Here’s how we made it happen: The Challenge Selling leggings in a competitive eCommerce market isn’t easy. SweetLegs wanted a
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How a Jewelry brand doubled its AOV by letting customers shop with their friends online

How a Jewelry brand doubled its AOV by letting customers shop with their friends online

Background: Founded in 2012, the Erimish brand of Boutique Stackable Bracelets & Jewelry is built on empowering women to bring out their own style and share it with the world. Erimish jewelry is available in over 10,000 locations, from Nordstrom’s to local jewelry stores. Erimish sought to increase sales for its Shopify store and enlisted Nomad to help them with their marketing strategy. Nomad adopted a strategic approach to revamp their advertising efforts without disrupting existing performa
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How Shop with Friends Drove Over $200k in New Revenue for a Swimwear Brand Before Summer

How Shop with Friends Drove Over $200k in New Revenue for a Swimwear Brand Before Summer

Background  Founded in 2003, Luli Fama is a globally recognized women’s luxury swim and resort wear brand. They were spending most of their marketing budget on Facebook and Instagram ads, but found that it was becoming more expensive to acquire new visitors and challenging to convert them into customers. Luli Fama added Polls near the end of February 2024 because they recognized that shoppers wanted to get input from friends, and they wanted a more efficient way to acquire new customers.  Im
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Ever Pretty Achieves Over 45x ROI with Polls, Expands Feature to UK

Ever Pretty Achieves Over 45x ROI with Polls, Expands Feature to UK

Background: Ever Pretty has over 20 years of experience in the fashion industry and has served millions of customers across the globe. Their company was founded on the principle of putting their customers first, and they are always looking for innovative ways to improve their customers’ shopping experience. Ever Pretty installed Polls in early 2024 to add social shopping capabilities to their U.S. focused e-commerce store. Impact: Ever Pretty immediately saw a positive impact on key revenue-
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Blog Post: How Shop with Friends Increases Conversion & Growth

Blog Post: How Shop with Friends Increases Conversion & Growth

Growing your e-commerce store can be challenging. While your website may look ready for business, it won’t do a whole lot of good until you implement strategies that answer two major questions: 1. How do you drive shoppers to your store? 2. How do you get them to actually buy something? When it comes to e-commerce, the answer to both lies in properly harnessing the power of web traffic. Increasing web traffic means more people visiting your store, and more visitors means more opportunities t
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Blog Post: Why Polls Work

Blog Post: Why Polls Work

Shop with Friends: Tap Into Existing Organic Behavior  Whether you’re picking out a new dress or just choosing what to eat for dinner, it’s easier to make a decision when you have access to data and feedback you trust. The right information allows customers to better understand their choices, assess positives and negatives, and ultimately feel more confident in their decision-making process. Polling friends and family is an easy way for customers to gather the information that drives their pu
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Little Trouble's Secret Weapon Against Cart Abandonment

Little Trouble's Secret Weapon Against Cart Abandonment

Little Trouble makes cool clothes to celebrate kids for being kids. They added polls to make it easier for parents to share their cool clothes with other parents. Challenge:  Little Trouble already had a strong content marketing strategy and lots of Instagram followers, but they wanted a way to drive more word-of-mouth sales while reducing cart abandonment rates.  Polls made it easier for shoppers to share Little Trouble with their ideal demographic (young parents with young kids) while givin
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Blog Post: What is Social Shopping?

Blog Post: What is Social Shopping?

You may not realize it, but you've probably already had some experience with social shopping. Social shopping is the intersection of your social network and online shopping, and it can be critical to the decision-making process. It's the part of online shopping where users engage others in their shopping experience, and it happens in group chats, in comment sections, in the sharing of posts, and more. It's also important to note that social shopping is different from social commerce (selling p
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How 12th Tribe 4x'd Their Conversion Rates in 60 Days

How 12th Tribe 4x'd Their Conversion Rates in 60 Days

12th Tribe is on a mission to dress customers for their favorite memories. They added Shop with Friend's polling feature to help shoppers get input from their friends while browsing their online store, and the results are incredible: Word-of-Mouth Growth Getting input from friends is a critical part of the purchase journey for online retail. With 12th Tribe, we turned this existing behavior into a word of mouth growth engine. With a single tap, shoppers can turn their cart into a poll and
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