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Inside the Online Bookstore Building a ‘Model for Small Businesses to Compete with Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

“Right before we launched, I had a panic attack when I did the math of how many customers we would need to survive,” recounted Andy Hunter, Founder and CEO of Bookshop.org in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said.

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The Facebook Retail Reinvention

RTP blog

By Debbie Hauss, Editor-in-Chief A few years ago retailers were lamenting their decisions to try to use Facebook as a commerce channel. A Business Insider article made the statement clearly: “Companies first started selling things directly through Facebook in 2009. They all ended up closing their stores within a year.”

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Investment in BigCommerce, Our Customers and Our Partners

BigCommerce

BigCommerce’s founders, Eddie Machaalani and Mitch Harper, launched the company in 2009 after meeting in an online chat room while living in Sydney. They shared a mutual passion for small businesses and believed that selling online shouldn’t require $100,000+ in up-front development work. BigCommerce History .

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The Best eCommerce Frameworks For Online Selling

Groove

This blog will be discussing the different types of eCommerce frameworks, as well as the best options that eCommerce retailers have available to them. eCommerce frameworks come in many different shapes and sizes to fit a specific retailer's needs. This allows businesses to cut down on costs and maximize their profit margins.

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Optimizing Your Online Presence: Tips For Success

RTP blog

By Suhaib Zaheer, HostGator Having a strong online presence is the key to business success in today’s digital world, especially for small and midsized retailers that need to employ savvy strategies to be seen and convert visitors to customers both online and off. Don’t wait to protect your web site from hackers.

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The 6 Best Mobile POS Systems For 2022

Ecommerce Platforms

The rising average transaction value per user underlines the importance of upgrading to a mobile POS system, especially for small business owners. The company offered an innovative payment solution to businesses in 2009, allowing an average employee to accept payments by plugging the Square Reader into their mobile device via the 3.5

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How Amazon and Independent Ecommerce Brands Grew Online Sales 18,233% in 20 Years [Infographic]

BigCommerce

Either way, the relationship is symbiotic, and though for much of Amazon’s history small business and other verticalized online sellers made an enemy of the marketplace, those tides are very quickly changing. Today, 80% of online shoppers visit retail sites on mobile devices and mobile commerce is expected to top $152B by 2021.

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