BigCommerce

AUGUST 27, 2019

When was the last time you thought to yourself, “Oh look, I only have a few emails today!

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RTP blog

AUGUST 30, 2019

By Sampo Parkkinen, Revieve Beauty is one of the most personal verticals of all of retail, if not the most personal. After all, in beauty, we are talking about products that you as the consumer put on your face, quite literally. In physical brick-and-mortar stores, the personal nature of the beauty industry is clearly evident in the important role the in-store beauty consultant plays in helping consumers discover, evaluate, try on and ultimately purchase beauty products.

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ESW

AUGUST 12, 2019

Unless you’ve been living under a bridge, you’ve probably come across the terms “KonMari” and “consumer minimalism” more than once. But you may not know what they mean. Ironically, if you have been living under a bridge, you probably understand both terms better than anyone else. KonMari and the wider consumer minimalism trend are changing the way that a significant portion of the western world thinks about shopping and consumerism in general.

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BigCommerce

AUGUST 13, 2019

When we are looking for recommendations, who do we go to?

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Retail Technology Review

AUGUST 13, 2019

By Alex Mills, Sales & Marketing Director, ProSKU. If you’re running a growing e-retail businesses your main priority is to market your products, win customers and satisfy their orders. So until order volumes hit a certain point you probably don’t need to worry about a great deal else, except of course your bank overdraft! And for most growing e-retail businesses getting orders out of the door isn’t usually the biggest problem.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 23, 2019

Social media has created customer groups that coalesce around a brand — in effect, a union. They collectively can and will change your corporate policy. With collective bargaining, business as usual is no longer acceptable. Are you ready for the empowered, technically savvy, and motivated customer? It’s the age of the customer: What are you […].

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RTP blog

AUGUST 9, 2019

By Gary Saarenvirta, Daisy Intelligence Today, offering WiFi access is so ubiquitous that seeing an ad for it seems odd. But check out the window of your local coffee shop and you might still see an old, fading sign that says, “WE OFFER FREE WiFi!” Exclamation point and everything. By now, merchants know WiFi is an expectation, not a value add. But when WiFi was first introduced, it represented a new form of retail one-upmanship.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 13, 2019

My colleague Joe Cicman just published a new report (“The New Commerce Revolution: Off With Their Heads (Or Not!“) to help de-hype headless commerce. Much of that work is also very relevant to headless content management systems (CMSes), which we started covering over three years ago (“The Rise Of The Headless Content Management System“).

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 13, 2019

You’re probably already familiar with Google My Business. If you aren’t, as a quick recap, Google My Business is a simple way to claim your office address or storefront on Google. That way, when someone searches for your business, you’ll show up on the right side of a Google search like the image above. Or better yet, when someone searches for a product or service you’ll offer, you’ll show up in the local pack.

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GetElastic

AUGUST 12, 2019

Every marketing professional knows that an email open rate over 20% is above-average and click rates of over 3% are reserved for the most-engaged customers (sports fans, hobbies, etc). However, these metrics pale in comparison to SMS/text message engagement performance. Year-over-year for the past 10 years, SMS open rates have been over 97% within two minutes of receipt; and near 100% read over the course of 24 hours (though this might often be a user clearing their text messages out).

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 22, 2019

Every business runs on thinking, mostly in two modes: divergent and convergent. I’ve been researching this and I just published my findings in a new report to help individuals, teams, and organizations tap both modes. Divergent thinking helps you create — generating many alternatives. Convergent thinking helps you decide — choosing among alternatives.

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GetElastic

AUGUST 22, 2019

Publishing relevant and quality content is the easiest way to increase your website’s organic traffic. Also, enlisting effective search enginge optimization (SEO) techniques will influence ranking on various search engines. Websites that have higher rankings (i.e. presented higher in the search results) are identified to a larger number of people who will then visit those sites.

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BigCommerce

AUGUST 19, 2019

It’s not every day that a product manages to grasp the attention of a global consumer market within such a…

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Optimizely

AUGUST 20, 2019

Plants make people happy. Or at least that’s the notion behind The Sill , an online greenhouse that will ship a living plant to your door — a convenience any modern gardener will appreciate. Even if you relentlessly kill plants, The Sill’s easy-to-care-for indoor plants will bring out your nurturing side. But how well cultivated is their marketing?

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Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 27, 2019

Ubersuggest started out as a tool that provided suggestions through Google Suggest. And although that’s great, everyone these days is using Google Suggest to come up with keyword ideas. There have to be more keyword ideas out there that get more search volume and aren’t competitive, right? Well, there are, and now with the new Ubersuggest , you’ll get access to them.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Today I’m really happy to have Amanda Wittenborn on the show. Not only is Amanda a student in my Create A Profitable Online Store Course but she was also a finalist in the 5 Minute Pitch, my Shark Tank like show, where she competed to win $50,000. Amanda started AmandaCreation.com where she makes over 60K/month selling children’s party supplies online.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 23, 2019

A lot has changed in the 25+ years I have spent in the technology channel. New technologies, partner business models, shifting demographics, expanding communication vehicles, and most recently, new technology buyers with different psychology, behavior, and journey have created a whirlwind of change for vendors, distributors, and partners alike. The one constant is the […].

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GetElastic

AUGUST 13, 2019

2018 was unequivocally the “year of mobile holiday shopping.”. 51% of traffic came through mobile, driving 31% of revenue, up 55% YOY. 48% of orders were processed through mobile, up 19% YOY. Mobile drove 68% of traffic and 54% of orders on Thanksgiving, up 15% YOY. 67% of Black Friday traffic and 49% of orders came through mobile. Shoppers say half of their holiday purchases were made through mobile.

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Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.

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BigCommerce

AUGUST 19, 2019

Within the next five years, the global hemp-derived CBD (referred to throughout as “CBD”) market is expected to bring in…

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Optimizely

AUGUST 21, 2019

MarTech Cube. The post Zaius Joins Magento Technology Partner Program appeared first on Zaius.

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 6, 2019

In case you missed it, Google just published advice for SEOs on how to continually do well throughout their algorithm changes. Now, what most people don’t know is Google doesn’t just push out a handful of algorithm changes per year. They publish substantially more. Just to give you an idea of how often Google changes, they had 3,200 algorithm changes in just 1 year.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Today, I’m excited to have Dan Shure on the show. Dan is the founder of a boutique SEO consultancy called Evolving SEO and he is an SEO expert with a fantastic reputation. He’s helped entrepreneurs like Nathan Chan of Foundr Magazine and Noah Kagan of Sumo.com with their SEO in addition to popular startups like Ring, and Hint Water. He also runs a popular podcast called Experts on The Wire.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 7, 2019

Why Infrastructure Automation? I used to kid around with my research director, Glenn O’Donnell, that my previous Forrester Wave™ evaluation on configuration management was the “Wave no vendor wanted to be in.” The term, while valid, is old. Further, configuration management is one part of a larger infrastructure automation story. This led to an interesting […].

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 14, 2019

Have you been swindled by the errands to churn out the easy peasy hacks to sell on Instagram with your Shopify store ? Believe me, I know what it takes, and how demanding it is, to make your brand or whatever niche you're into known to the most precise audience. This dire need follows the immense dominance of Instagram as a sales channel for most of the online retailers.

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BigCommerce

AUGUST 14, 2019

After meeting in a chatroom six years prior, Eddie Machalaani and Mitch Harper founded a company in 2009 with one…

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Optimizely

AUGUST 28, 2019

The health and wellness marketing is crowded with buzzwords, but OWYN wants to put their money quite literally where their mouth is with plant-based and allergen-free protein shakes. OWYN stands for Only What You Need, and the brand goes the extra mile to create new processes and levels of transparency to validate that they are the cleanest beverage brand on the market.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Everyone thinks SEO is a long-term game… that you have to wait months if not years to see results. And, maybe that was the case a few years ago when content was still king. With Google making 3200 algorithm changes in just one year , their goal isn’t to make a website wait a year or two before they are able to achieve a top spot. Instead, they want to show the user the right site as quick as possible.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

AUGUST 26, 2019

Every week, I get at least 2 or 3 requests to write more online tutorials about Ebay dropshipping. And I can certainly understand why. On the surface, the Ebay dropshipping model is attractive because… You don’t need any money to begin. There is practically no upfront risk. You don’t need to worry about inventory. But if you peel back the onion, you’ll quickly realize that dropshipping on Ebay might make you a few bucks here and there but it is definitely not a good, sust

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 13, 2019

It’s now just over 12 months since we first published research on Digital Supply Chain. Some Forrester clients have made progress with Integrated Business Planning and with Control Towers. And they are on the lookout for Blockchain opportunities. But the most common question we hear, is about the role of AI in Supply Chain. The […].

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GetElastic

AUGUST 20, 2019

Statistics show 48% of shoppers abandon a brand’s website and move on to the competitor due to poor customer experience (CX). And 89% of consumers quit shopping from ecommerce sites after experiencing poor CX. The best way to solve this problem of high abandonment rate is to develop an effective customer journey map against your brand’s story that features desired CX.

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