BigCommerce

MARCH 17, 2017

Before you launch an online store , one of the first questions you need to answer is where you’ll get your products. This encompasses everything from sourcing to inventory management, which can be challenging for store owners. Once you make it over that hurdle, it’s time to deal with order fulfillment and shipping. And don’t forget about all the other things, like marketing and customer service, you need to focus on to build a successful business.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

MARCH 8, 2017

Today I’ve have someone really special on the show, Chris Boerner. Now I met Chris at the Ecommerce Fuel conference in Savannah Georgia a month ago and I’m really glad that we met. She has an amazing story and she runs a successful business called CieloPillHolders.com where she sells premium key chain pill fobs. She’s done exceptionally well on Amazon, is extremely well connected with the Amazon community and she has a lot of experience with the platform.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 17, 2017

With the increasing significance of the online channel in retail, we need variables other than macroeconomic data or consumer market size to assess the readiness of a market for eCommerce. While there is no universal tool for selecting expansion opportunities, the Forrester Readiness Index (FRI) provides a holistic assessment of the eCommerce setting for each country.

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Bryan Eisenberg

MARCH 10, 2017

Some of you might have seen through our social media channels that Jeffrey and I have been working on a new book with our friend and mentor Roy H Williams. We have been sharing a new chapter every week. This Monday we will release Chapter 11. The book has only 12 chapters. If you would like to be among the first to read the book head over to BrandLikeAmazon.com.

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Traffic and Sales

MARCH 16, 2017

It’s no secret, website pop ups have changed the way online businesses engage, interact, and convert their visitors. Whether you like them or not, they are incredibly effective, especially when used right. Still, many marketers are missing the boat when using pop ups on their website. In this article, we’ll cover the key elements of a high converting website pop up and how you can pop up conversions with a few simple tweaks.

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RTP blog

MARCH 24, 2017

By Peter Edlund, DiCentral Brick-and-mortar retailers spent decades building infrastructure to guarantee merchandise is on the shelf when customers walk into the store. Unfortunately, store traffic is declining, leaving too much perfectly allocated inventory to get marked down, crushing profitability. To survive, major retailers have shuttered hundreds of underperforming stores.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

MARCH 20, 2017

I’ve been helping would be entrepreneurs for nearly eight years now and one thing I’ve discovered is that you can’t really push someone to take the entrepreneurial plunge. Either you have the desire to start your own business or you don’t and most people can’t get over the uncertainty that’s involved with being your own boss.

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Groove

MARCH 2, 2017

If you were one of 50 attendees here at Groove or more than 300 viewers on Facebook Live of the last Baltimore HubSpot User Group (HUG) on February 23, you may already be re-writing your executive summaries, removing jargon from your scope of services, and enforcing a deadline on a proposal. Just as likely, you could be shopping for a turquoise "Coffee is for Closers" t-shirt.

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Optimizely

MARCH 24, 2017

One of the most important aspects of web push is the real-time factor: where email is still largely at the mercy of a customer’s delay in opening and reading each message, web push allows marketers to deliver campaigns exactly when a customer needs them, in a way that creates urgency and encourages more in-the-moment engagement. But the real-time factor is accompanied by an increased danger of irrelevance – because web push is inherently more invasive than email (and even more so than mobi

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Traffic and Sales

MARCH 16, 2017

Have you ever clicked on a Facebook ad and dropped on an unfamiliar site with an unknown brand? If the product’s common enough (like jewelry, toothbrushes, or sunglasses), would you prefer an unknown brand over the rest? I don’t think so. Driving traffic to your site doesn’t make sense if it does not have enough reputation to unlock conversions.

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Generative AI is poised to redefine B2B, but scaling AI success in this space isn’t without obstacles. From fragmented data sources and complex buyer journeys to operational inefficiencies, the road to AI-powered growth can be challenging. To achieve a competitive edge, understanding your organization’s AI-readiness is essential. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model provides a quick, actionable way to assess your starting point.

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RTP blog

MARCH 31, 2017

By Kate Munro, Bamboo Rose Blindly navigating cultural differences can land a world traveler in a sea of trouble with one wrong move. Decades of globalization have established corporate giants as ubiquitous global icons, but their global presence doesn’t mean their employees have worldly etiquette. For example, would you know better than to bring marigolds to a dinner party in Mexico (as they signify death there), give a pink onesie to a Japanese baby girl (pink is largely for men in Japan) or s

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BigCommerce

MARCH 3, 2017

Let’s talk about ecommerce content marketing and it’s importance. So many online store owners and marketers ignore the power of content marketing. But, every other traffic-driving activity you do will work even better for you (that means lower cost of acquisition) if you have a good content marketing strategy and execution. I could dive in and tell you all about PPC (which I will) or how to optimize your site for search (which we will talk a bit about), but neither of those activities will get y

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My Wife Quit Her Job

MARCH 27, 2017

Every business requires a little bit of luck in order to succeed. And often times, success depends on timing and being at the right place at the right time. But do you ever wonder how some people keep getting lucky over and over again? Is it just a coincidence that some entrepreneurs always seem to find a way to steer luck in their direction? Personally, I don’t believe in coincidences but I know many of you are skeptical.

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Groove

MARCH 21, 2017

The greatest piece of sales advice I ever received was from my very first sales manager who would always say, "Time is the killer of all deals." Not so coincidentally, it took me some time - and some lost sales - to fully understand exactly what he meant.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

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Optimizely

MARCH 10, 2017

A customer has just made their first purchase with your brand – certainly a moment to celebrate as a marketer. But the journey isn’t over. Without further nurturing from your brand, the vast majority of customers will make one purchase, and then disappear: and it’s important to remember that 80% of a brand’s revenue will come from 20% of their customers.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 22, 2017

With the ever changing market, it's difficult to understand exactly where and how to sell your products online, regardless of whether they're physical or digital. A band, for example, might want to sell merchandise and music tracks, but trying to figure out the best outlet to do so is troublesome. After all, selling a digital product would push you towards one platform while physical products like shirts and hats would send you elsewhere.

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RTP blog

MARCH 29, 2017

Organized retail crime (ORC) continues to be a thorn in the side of merchants everywhere. In the latest high-profile example of retail theft, New York State officials indicted 12 people for stealing $12 million in merchandise from various major retailers and reselling the products on Amazon and eBay. Retail stores affected included Staples , Best Buy and Office Depot locations in NYC, as well as stores in 27 other U.S. states.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 28, 2017

Health and Beauty, a $300 billion industry according to estimates from the US Department of Commerce, remains one of the fastest-growing ecommerce categories with online sales rising 17% YoY in 2016 to $28 billion globally. With so much revenue on the table, health and beauty companies are stepping up their online selling game to stand out among the competition.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

MARCH 6, 2017

Sometimes a seemingly insignificant change to your website or online strategy can pay huge dividends. And in many cases, the answer to improving sales requires very little effort to implement. In this article, I’m going to discuss some simple tweaks that we made to our website that had a dramatic impact on our business. Before I get into the guts of what we did, I just want to stress the importance of obtaining quality metrics for your website.

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Groove

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 23, Kyle Racki, CEO of Proposify, made a trip down to Baltimore to teach the audience how to build a business proposal and proposal system that sells.

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Optimizely

MARCH 2, 2017

Until recently, the vast majority of subscription boxes came from subscription brands – that is, brands that exclusively sell curated boxes of themed merchandise. But in the past year, many bigger brands decided to dip their toes into the subscription box business: the beauty brand Sephora released the monthly subscription “PLAY! by Sephora,” Starbucks introduced a coffee subscription called Reserve Roastery, and Target has a themed subscription box with products for babies/new parents, to

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Fastr

MARCH 2, 2017

Of-the-moment content is an up and coming trend in ecommerce; by creating relevant and seasonal content that is perfectly tailored to their audience, brands can increase engagement and conversions. And interactive holiday-driven content is a powerful way to stand out from the competition and cut through the ecommerce noise. Holidays are some of the busiest times of the year for ecommerce retailers, The post Guided Selling With Godiva appeared first on Zmags.

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I’m getting in touch with the news that fashion retailer, Gina Trictot, has achieved 98% inventory accuracy thanks to its partnership with SML RFID. Please see the full press release below, including exclusive quotes.

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RTP blog

MARCH 28, 2017

By Tim Parry, Managing Editor The end is near, and I believe Q2 2017 will finally be the quarter when Sears Holdings files for bankruptcy and calls it quits. I’m not saying that solely because of its most-recent SEC filings, but also as someone who shops Kmart and Sears stores and e-Commerce sites. I moved to a small town in Connecticut about a year and a half ago, and quickly became a Kmart shopper.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 7, 2017

90% of online small businesses expect to grow their revenue in 2017. 45% expect to grow more than 25% year over year. This data, collected from a survey of 596 BigCommerce customers, mirrors that of the National Federation of Independent Businesses’ report, which found small business optimism and confidence in the economy is at a 12-year high. While the NFIB’s data pointed to a political climate that may be more sympathetic to SMBs as the cause of a rise in confidence, BigCommerce’s survey found

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My Wife Quit Her Job

MARCH 15, 2017

Today I have someone really special on the show. He’s actually someone who I’ve looked up to for a very long time and someone who I never thought I would have access to especially since he lives in Australia. And he’s actually one of the reasons why I got started blogging in the first place back in 2009. His blog ProBlogger.net started a revolution of professional bloggers all over the world.

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SellBrite

MARCH 12, 2017

You can have the best products in the world, but if you don’t take the time to build conversion-driven product pages , you’re not going to be able to convince your target customers to buy. There are a number of techniques and components that you can leverage to build better product pages, but at the end of the day, it really just comes down to how you ultimately choose to describe your products.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Optimizely

MARCH 28, 2017

It’s a marketer’s worst nightmare: for whatever reasons, a once active customer has stopped engaging with your brand entirely. Maybe it’s been over six months, or maybe even a year, but either way the relationship has gone cold and you weren’t able to save it – or, you didn’t know you needed to. But there is still hope! Winback campaigns, when executed well, are proven to not only capture your customer’s attention, but also encourage your customer to start shopping again.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 5, 2017

Whether a customer contacts you through email, phone, chat or a support ticket, they want a fast response. At that moment in time that's the only thing they desire. Therefore, a speedy response time should always be your primary objective when establishing a support system. After that the customer is going to judge you on the quality of support. This ties into how knowledgeable you sound, if you resolve their problem on the first try and if you're accommodating to any problems they have encounte

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RTP blog

MARCH 27, 2017

By Thomas Torre, Copatient The healthcare industry has gone through many changes that have resulted in a major shift of financial responsibility onto the consumer. Plus, Washington is planning drastic revisions to the way we receive and pay for healthcare, making the future uncertain. Retail is one space particularly susceptible to skyrocketing medical costs, in large part due to its dependence on an hourly work force.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 14, 2017

Inventory management is a crucial element of running an ecommerce business, but it can be one of the most difficult and technical parts of the job to learn. 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.

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The opportunity for e-commerce merchants in international markets is immense. Data indicates that when international options are available at checkout, merchants see up to 20-60% higher cart conversion and a 128% higher gross merchandise value (GMV) than domestic orders. However, while the opportunities are significant, so are the risks. Without careful planning and strategic partnerships, merchants may face challenges, including high shipping costs, complex customs regulations, and unexpected p

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