Ask-a-Friend App
- Social product poll converts indecisive shoppers into buyers
- Increase conversion by up to 5%
- Generate incremental sales via referral traffic. Automatic notifications of poll responses act as reminders
- Reduce support queries and returns by recruiting friends recommendations

How it works?
Ask a Friend is an embeddable app that delivers a poll creation functionality for any website. It supports multiple modes of interactions ranging from user initiated polls to predicting indecision and proactively offering to create a poll. Friends are redirected to the business website for responding to polls resulting in incremental traffic and brand exposure.
This Ask a Friend app is part of the following solution set: Shop with Friends
KEY FEATURES OF ASK-A-FRIEND WIDGET:
- Enable visitors to post a social product poll to ask their friends a question
- Allow friends to vote on the social product poll
- Display compiled voting reports to visitor and friends
- Ability to offer a ‘thank you’ incentive to friends for helping
- Automatic notifications for every poll response
- Template driven, customizable layout to match your brand
- Detailed reports and analytics showing engagement, conversions, referrals, ROI etc.
- A/B testing in show/no-show mode to accurately measure the impact
- A/B testing in experimentation mode to find the best strategy
- Rule-based targeting engine to control where and when the Ask-a-Friend app is shown
- Personalization options to show different messages/offers to users based on their demographics, social profile, purchase history etc.
Integration Requirements
Copy and paste a simple JavaScript tag on your website to enable the ShopSocially Ask-a-Friend app. Once the app is enabled, all other ShopSocially programs can be activated on-demand without any modification to the website.


Suggested Deployment
- Create a top level navigation option to initiate “Ask-a-Friend”. User initiated flow will avoid showing the polling option to those who already know what they want to buy
- Show the Ask-a-Friend app on category pages where multiple products are displayed
- Show the Ask-a-Friend app on individual product pages
Applicable verticals
Retailers and brands who sell products that have higher aesthetic appeal can benefit from the Ask-a-Friend app.