BigCommerce

MAY 1, 2018

The surfacing of the Facebook debacle involving Cambridge Analytica and the massive amounts of data collected from 87 million users, which was used to influence the 2016 presidential election, revealed big data as the powerful beast it can be. 71% of online customers expect to be able to access help online within 5 minutes.

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Optimizely

OCTOBER 31, 2017

billion in revenue in 2016 , up 27.1% Amazon has all the sales — 43% of ALL online retail sales in the US went through Amazon in 2016. It seems like no matter what you do as an ecommerce retailer, Amazon is pushing into your space and taking over. Amazon has all the money — the company generated $136.0

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BigCommerce

MARCH 23, 2017

For ecommerce businesses, there are few better advertising tools and channels out there than Google and Facebook. These channels require on-going optimization to churn out return on ad spend at levels of 595% (as seen in the apparel industry for optimized Google Shopping ads) or the 14.2X Learn More. Google Shopping Optimization Tips.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2020

Brick-and-mortar stores are beginning to reopen in some geographies, but e-Commerce is still riding high: online retail transactions grew 81% year-over-year in May, led by sportswear and sporting goods ( 216% ), housewares and DIY supplies ( 190% ) and gaming ( 84% ), according to ACI Worldwide. drop in overall retail sales.

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Kissmetrics

JUNE 27, 2017

Email marketing alone drives as much revenue as all other digital channels combined according to a survey of US marketing execs. Email marketing delivered an average ROI of $38 for every $1 spent in 2015, and that figure jumped to $44 for every $1 in 2016. Make it a core strategy on your email channel. Image Source.

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BigCommerce

JULY 25, 2017

The 10X Ecommerce Slack channel is a great place for that, if you aren’t already using something else. With photos unrivaled across the web and an already loyal following thanks to the blog, John’s job when he came onto the Spearmint LOVE team in early 2016 was to grow loyalty –– and Facebook Ads was how he planned to do it.

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Optimizely

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Customers who shop on mobile do so with a different mindset than they do on any other channel. A mobile app should contribute to a customer’s shopping experience in a way that no other channel can – because customers simply don’t use other channels/devices in the way that they use mobile.

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SellBrite

JANUARY 5, 2018

Most often it gets confused with multi-channel, which is a vastly different strategy. This is vastly different from a traditional multi-channel approach where you optimize individual channels as their own entity. It goes beyond simply having a presence on different channels. But that’s easier said than done.

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BigCommerce

APRIL 24, 2018

The benefits of this option include more control over your online retail platform, greater visibility of your own data, and a better understanding of data security. How do you support real-time Inventory sync within multiple channels? The ability to personalize sales and services to your liking. Is Inventory Management built-in?

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Sailthru

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

As predicted, online retail results from this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday were record breaking. While this is big news, other online sales stats reveal that sales for the entire month of November have grown as well. Online Sales Records Set for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and November. percent over 2016 to $7.9

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BigCommerce

OCTOBER 17, 2017

By taking on that more personable approach with your messaging and style –– across all channels –– you can improve your brand’s perception. Raven + Lily is proud to be a B Corporation , and we were named the Best for the World in Community Impact in both 2014 and 2016. And here is how an online retailer follows a similar strategy.

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GetElastic

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

During Thanksgiving 2016, Black Friday and Cyber Monday hit record breaking ecommerce sales in the United States. Over 108 million shopped online. Online sales outpaced brick and mortar sales, as more people (notably the millennial demographic) chose to surf online for the best deals. Total sales reached $9.36

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GetElastic

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

During Thanksgiving 2016, Black Friday and Cyber Monday hit record breaking ecommerce sales in the United States. Over 108 million shopped online. Online sales outpaced brick and mortar sales, as more people (notably the millennial demographic) chose to surf online for the best deals. Total sales reached $9.36

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365 Retail

JULY 5, 2022

Under Lionel’s stewardship, Seiyu accelerated its move into digital through a joint venture with online retailer Rakuten, secured record-breaking colleague engagement, grew customer satisfaction and increased market share. He led Walmart’s subsequent partial exit from Seiyu to investor KKR and Rakuten.

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BigCommerce

APRIL 6, 2018

Originally created by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express in 2004, the PCI DSS has evolved over the years to ensure that online sellers have the systems and processes in place to prevent a data breach. was introduced in April 2016 and officially replaced version 3.1 The most recent version is PCI DSS 3.2.

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ChannelAdvisor

OCTOBER 31, 2016

On Thursday, October 27, 2016, Amazon reported their Q3 2016 results. In this blog post, we analyze the results with an eye towards implications for online and offline retailers, as well as Amazon sellers. That equates to 18 new FCs launching in Q3 and another 5 in Q4 for a total of 26 in 2016 compared to 14 last year.

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OrderDynamics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Omni-Channel Retail Grows 5.6% This year’s omni-channel research was bigger than ever. It included over 2,000 retailers from seven different countries around the world. of retailers in this group of seven, offer click & collect, or BOPIS services. BOPIS being buy online pickup in-store. improvement.

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Steve Dennis

AUGUST 14, 2017

The fact that very few online dominant brands’ profit margins exceed those of “traditional” retailers is one clue that this isn’t true. At the risk of oversimplification, this means that to make money online gross profit/order needs to exceed the variable costs associated with that order.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This past Black Friday was another excellent reminder of what works and what doesn’t during this critical holiday season for brands and retailers. . According to Adobe Analytics, more than $5 billion was spent online alone on Black Friday 2017. billion in 2016. Which channels are used to deliver the promotions .

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Wiser

AUGUST 17, 2018

Through an online platform, retailers can use countdown clocks to show the remaining time of the sale. Advertise on Multiple Channels. Mobile is a huge part of the online retail industry. Advertise on mobile channels by leveraging social media and email marketing to reach out to shoppers on the go.

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OrderDynamics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This has a huge impact on how and where people buy – and how retailers need to adapt omni-channel strategies to include this new purchasing channel. Another trend that has been and will continue to be big in retail, is the customer’s need for speed and convenience. Online Goes Physical. Speed and Convenience.

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Profitero

MARCH 17, 2017

Japan boasts one of the fastest growing and most ‘frictionless’ online retail markets in the world, with around 10% of all retail transactions now online. As with many markets, Amazon has an increasingly strong influence and was certainly top of the priority list of the brands we spoke to.

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Profitero

JUNE 29, 2017

While the first quarter of the year kicked off with slowed growth , the recipe for selling hasn’t really changed: retailers need to find more customers and get them to load up bigger baskets while raising prices. population growth, fragmented spending across channels and deflationary pressures remain key challenges. Yet slowing U.S.

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Inflow Insights

JANUARY 15, 2020

Even so, we still see more conversions come in from desktop than from Mobile to the online retailers that we work with. As we pointed out in our article about increasing mobile conversions back in 2016, even now there is still an opportunity to compete in search for mobile market share. So, how do we frame thinking around PPC?

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Sailthru

JANUARY 25, 2018

National Retail Federation and Commerce Department Report Better-Than-Expected Holiday Season Sales. Americans spent 5.5 % more from November through December than they did during the same time in 2016, reports the National Retail Federation (NRF). During that same period, online retail grew 1.2%, contributing to a total of 12.7%

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ChannelAdvisor

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

According to comScore, as of Q3 2016, 60% of e-commerce transactions shipped for free. What’s more, when asked which factor was “most important” for shopping online, 53% of shoppers indicated free shipping (comScore State of US Online Retail Economy in Q3 2016).

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OrderDynamics

MARCH 21, 2019

Or is it that physical retail helps online… and vice versa? Retail’s Battle? Headlines that grab our attention scream: Stores are Being Hit by Online Retailing (Economist). What the Amazon Effect Means for Retailers (Forbes). E-commerce Will Overtake Physical Retail in 2024 (Generix Group).

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Profitero

JUNE 14, 2018

eMarketer projects worldwide retail eCommerce sales will grow at a staggering compound annual rate of 21.5% from 2016 to 2021—which is nearly 4x faster than overall retail sales projections. trillion by 2021, amounting to more than 17% of total retail spending. Online will remain the U.K.’s With sales of £11.4

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ROI Revolution

JUNE 22, 2017

With Google holding a near monopoly on online searching, as well as on the still-rising mobile momentum, we at ROI Revolution have determined a general set of Google trends and corresponding opportunities for ecommerce merchants to maintain strong growth through 2017 – and beyond! Ad clicks on these queries rose by 61% in Q4 2016!

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ChannelAdvisor

JUNE 17, 2022

Remember when TikTok first launched in 2016? In 2020, TikTok harnessed its incredible selling power by giving brands and online retailers the ability to sell to new audiences through the launch of TikTok for Business. Add TikTok to Your Channel Mix. Get Started Selling on TikTok. Contact us today. .

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Profitero

AUGUST 1, 2017

As evidenced by Amazon’s recent announcement that it intends to acquire Whole Foods Market, the lines between food and beverage purchase channels are growing increasingly blurry. BloomReach, State of Amazon study, 2016. 31, 2016. 25% have tried meal kits ). That could be overwhelming. Nielsen Answers, Total U.S.,

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OrderDynamics

AUGUST 3, 2017

An ecommerce Business Insider report in Feb 2017 noted that “ 43% of all online retail sales in the US went through Amazon in 2016 ”. Phillipe Masiello of Internet Retailer estimates that worldwide, “ 2016’s e-commerce global retail sales share is approximately 9% and is projected to be somewhere around 15% by 2020 ”.

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ROI Revolution

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In 2016, over 150 million consumers shopped either online or at brick and mortar stores between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. Last year, over 108 million consumers shopped online. This gap has continued to grow over the past several years as more online retailers have offered more deals earlier and earlier.

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SellBrite

DECEMBER 31, 2019

There are numerous sales channels where you can make your products available, from a self-hosted store to options like Amazon, Etsy, and eBay. And consumers aren’t just turning to social media for ideas and inspiration — they’re shopping from social as well, especially on Instagram, which launched shoppable photos in 2016.

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Sailthru

MARCH 8, 2018

As the world’s largest retailer and online retailer go head to head in a battle of Goliath and Goliath, one thing is clear: Omnichannel has become the white whale for retailers. Brands must have seamless integrations between channels and expedited shipping options. Technology has created a complex customer journey.

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Whisbi

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Mobile e-commerce buying behavior has changed the entire online retail market. In general there are two ways to work with e-commerce: a Direct Model and an Online marketplace. An Online marketplace is shared by multiple manufacturers and vendors (Amazon, Alibaba). “It’s almost like sleeping with the enemy.

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ChannelAdvisor

APRIL 27, 2017

According to the US Census Bureau, consumer spending in 2016 grew 16% YoY to a whopping $550 billion, and while traditional department stores saw a downturn in sales, online retailers grew by almost 11%. The post Optimize, Connect and Grow With the Spring 2017 Expanded Product Suite appeared first on Channel Advisor.

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