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. In other words, it can help you build a data-driven ecommerce business.

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lateshipment

MARCH 25, 2025

What is the Shipping Journey? Key Stages Involved in the Shipping Journey The stages in an online shopping journey refer to the steps that customers take from the time they realize a need for a product to the time they purchase it and even after. If these expectations arent met, customers will quickly move to a competitor.

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BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Earlier this year, Michael Mandel from Progressive Policy published a piece about the growth of ecommerce sector jobs based on the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. How to combine big data + human charm to get the best of both worlds (and beat your competition). What is Multi-Channel Ecommerce Customer Service?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Many shoppers are becoming increasingly interested in choosing ethical brands and caring about how their data is captured and used. The beauty with vision AI and sensing technologies is in the insights that can be drawn without the need for personally identifiable data or images.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 14, 2017

The simple process of keeping track of goods purchased and sold is complicated by costs, overhead, rate of sale or turnover, cost of purchase, and other details that can be difficult to manage as your online sales grow. Cross-Channel Inventory. How to Physically Organize Your Inventory. Label bins. Create a structured order.

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BigCommerce

JUNE 1, 2017

Ship products to customers in a timely manner. Managing your inventory properly across all of your sales channels helps to lower your product cost and increase shipping speed – ultimately earning you increased customer loyalty and love. Use Data to Make a Difference. Optimizing it can help you to: Save money.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Our data at Rival Technologies revealed that Gen Z shops just two to three times per month. Minimal-touch shopping and buying processes and flexible shipping options will keep your Gen Z customers coming back. Rethink Your Discounts With inflation driving up prices, its no surprise that Gen Zers are drawn to discounts and promotions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2024

Ryan Kelly: So many trends over the past decade — from the surge in residential delivery over commercial delivery to “free shipping” to expectations on click-to-door speeds — have truly shifted the parcel industry. That’s why you’ve got to leverage predictive data, using machine learning in real time, to better anticipate delivery windows.

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BigCommerce

JUNE 19, 2018

Historically, however, in order to properly organize and orchestrate ERP data flow, customer-facing tool options have been limited. EDI is the more traditional approach and still often used in B2B and wholesale channels, and Walmart specifically. The benefits of SaaS integration, specifically for the ecommerce channel, are huge.

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BigCommerce

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Those millions sold have been made selling a variety of products, among various industries, at a mix of price points and using several different methods. Within 18 months they were selling more on Amazon than through their traditional channels. Collect pictures, feature data and descriptions. How did they do it? Actual Factory.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The company decided to invest in technology that would help it harness the power of data to improve its customer insights and the shopper experience. “At “With COVID and recent market dynamics, tracking variable costs in real time becomes even more important.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

The industry also will need to keep an eye on global conflicts that can slow down transportation and logistics, such as the attacks by Houthi rebels that slowed down ship traffic in the Red Sea in 2024. is still uncertain, the impact of social channels overall on retail sales continues to explode, and thats not expected to stop.

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ROI Revolution

JANUARY 8, 2025

Diving into your 2024 holiday advertising data and looking for helpful insights for the new year. However, many marketing teams miss a huge opportunity by not performing a deep dive into the plethora of holiday advertising data that they just collected from one of their busiest selling seasons of the year. But at what price point?

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BigCommerce

APRIL 26, 2018

Amazon Customer Base, Revenue & Shipping Data. More than 5 billion items shipped worldwide with Amazon Prime. Channel expansion and high-growth pains. Data shows that as of 2017, Amazon’s global retail revenue continued to climb, as seen below (note the reporting change in Q1 of 2017). Amazon Growth Highlights.

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BigCommerce

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It’s the data. They are broken down by annual business revenue size to you can better gauge what you can expect: What all of this data suggests is that your email campaigns are in fact revenue. Shipping costs clearly advertised to alleviate any cost concerns. Are Your Shipping Costs Too High?

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BigCommerce

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

One bug undetected for months that could have cost you millions (but you thankfully caught!). One more feature that will cost way too much and take much too long to build. It is definitely best accompanied with a cover letter with further details on pricing needs and services requirements. How do you price your application?

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BigCommerce

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Sure, you might be able to sell your item for much less than the competition, but will shipping costs obliterate your margins? Figure out which one works best for your margins, your sales channel and your customer’s expectations. This is because there is: A low cost to entry. How much do they cost? PCI compliance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

While companies are certainly collecting more and more data, data alone can’t drive this level of hyper-personalization — especially not in a traditional wholesale retail model. As a result, many retailers are seeking to scale up their selection through models like drop ship and marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2021

Traditionally, inconsistent data sharing and a lack of full alignment on trends and goals have hindered most demand forecasting processes. There is broad skepticism around extremely recent sales data; to many, it seems “too current to be accurate.” RTP: Data sharing is a key recommendation that underlies this report.

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BigCommerce

AUGUST 8, 2017

Most channels require significant lead time to yield an ROI (ex. Some channels yield quick results but not day in and day out (ex. And some channels are consistent but time consuming to dial in (ex. In 2017, there are 6 different social media channels where you can follow proven ad strategies and generate consistent ROI.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online. While some are charging customers fees to simultaneously slow and offset rising costs resulting from elevated return rates, others are adopting returnless refund policies.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“We’ve talked for many years about how digital channels influence the buying journey whether or not the consumer ends up buying in a digital channel versus a physical one. That, combined with more stringent data privacy regulations, has made data collection and enrichment a top investment priority for 2022.

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Fabric

MAY 24, 2023

Software engineers working in e-commerce are frequently faced with the decision of building or buying a pricing engine. While developing a pricing engine in-house may appear to be the ideal option, it frequently necessitates a significant investment of resources. What is a Pricing Engine? What is a Pricing Engine?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2023

Opportunity #1: Cost-efficient inventory management. The brand’s program lets customers turn in their worn jeans and jackets for gift cards or credit toward a future purchase via its Levi’s Secondhand online channel or its roughly 260 U.S. Yet scaling recommerce comes with its own set of operational issues and inefficiencies.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2024

That’s putting pressure on brand loyalty, as people switch to lower-cost channels and different brands. Customers are changing where they shop, increasingly choosing discount stores and comparing prices online compared to previous seasons,” said Peter Ramer, Consumer Products Senior Analyst at RSM U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

A lot of the pain points that we’re seeing are in the inventory side, but against that backdrop we’re going to see a steely-eyed focus on improving profitability in stores and digital channels.”. There’s a lot of data and analytics and AI behind great online grocery, and that’s hard.

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BigCommerce

APRIL 24, 2018

Understandably, this decision has wide-ranging implications –– to your customers in engaging with your brand and reducing friction of getting the product they need, to your employees that have to implement campaign strategies, and to your bottom line in terms of sales growth as well as cost of maintenance and installation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2020 he joined Alibaba, where he is now tasked with developing the company’s strategy and building platform-level solutions around international shipping, logistics, cross-border trade and global expansion. Ecommerce became not just a ‘good-to-have’ channel, but a must-have channel for small businesses.

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BigCommerce

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Amazon will charge whichever of these two is higher for each item: Referral Fee as a percentage of sale price: It ranges from 6% to 20% (45% for Amazon devices), but it’s usually 15%. This may be regarding your: Pricing. Know Your Costs. Determining Your Overhead Allocation Cost per Unit. Professional sellers pay $0.

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BigCommerce

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Those two tactics still work wonders for brands, with the caveat that: Competition is fierce and as a result… Costs are high. In 2018, one thing is guaranteed, Facebook Ad inventory will go up in cost. CRO & Data-Driven Optimizations. Omni-Channel Management. Shipping + Fulfillment Optimization.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2023

In a world awash with data, what matters is not how much you have but what you do with it. But data strategy is only one of the beauty brand’s many “superpowers,” according to Ekta Chopra, e.l.f.’s But one thing that has always been consistent is premium quality at an unbelievable price. “I Data is at the Center of Everything’.

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BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Are you an omni-channel seller? It’s easier than ever for businesses to have a digital presence across a variety of channels. Ecommerce sales are growing, but many retailers are struggling to capitalize on their digital sales channels. It’s not just about broadcasting on all channels, though. Online shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

In fact, according to recent data, 68% of B2B buyers are discouraged from ordering online due to order errors. B2B commerce is a primary channel through which customers make purchases and an integral tool in establishing trust. Key issues include inaccurate pricing, stock availability and delivery time information.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

The brands we work with are pursuing a multitude of sustainability initiatives, from improvements in their supply chain to innovative ways to extend the usable life of their products through curated resale channels. Sustainability can be highly data-driven.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. We also can’t ignore inflationary pressures.

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BigCommerce

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Many of these issues are just part of the cost of selling products on the internet, but some may come as a surprise. you’ll likely want to display your prices exclusive of tax. However, if your target market is Australia, where shoppers are accustomed to seeing all-inclusive prices, you’ll want to include tax. First Data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Those disruptions, and their ripple effects on shipping, distribution and warehousing, are expected to continue for months to come and into 2022, meaning that decentralization will remain a core strategy for ensuring business continuity. Do they invest in automation technology to enhance data-sharing between sales channels?

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