June, 2020

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Channel Software Tech Stack 2020 – PRM, TCMA, Ecosystem, Incentives, Channel Data, Learning, Readiness, and Pricing

Forrester eCommerce

^^ CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN ^^ The channel technology stack is a group of technologies that firms leverage to plan with, find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incentivize, co-sell with, co-market with, manage, measure, and report on partners. Delivering automation of indirect sales processes, workflows and partner programs, channel software is becoming increasingly critical […].

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How to Use Instagram Video to Promote Your Ecommerce Store

BigCommerce

The ecommerce industry is expected to exceed $4 trillion by the end of this year.

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How to Build Links Using Google Alerts

Kissmetrics

Link building is hard. But did you know that Google makes it easier for you? Seriously… they do make it easier because they provide you with free tools. No, I’m not talking about the ones you already use like Google Search Console and Google Analytics …. They actually have tons of other tools. Some you may have heard of, but I bet you don’t use them.

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Case Study: How Two Facebook Ads Generated Seven Months of B2C Sales in 30 Days

Inflow Insights

Sometimes, in the digital advertising world, things just click. A customer testimonial sparks a wave of qualified buyers, a popular site stumbles across your product and provides a juicy backlink, or an exciting client–agency relationship is born with a clear strategy to achieve success. The following is a story about how Facebook and Instagram ads supercharged Seltzer Goods sales to record-breaking heights, and how the success was felt beyond both platforms.

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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Shopify Blog – Should I Use WordPress For My Shopify Or BigCommerce Blog?

My Wife Quit Her Job

This post will teach you how to start a Shopify blog and answer the age old debate on whether you should use Shopify’s native blogging platform versus a WordPress blog on a subdomain. Most people do things backwards when it comes to selling and making money online. For example, the other day a reader emailed me to complain that he’d spent 3 months designing a beautiful website on Shopify but wasn’t making any sales because of a lack of traffic.

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How Performance Marketing for Customer Acquisition Works within Your Marketing Strategy

Omnisend

Reading Time: 5 minutes. Long gone are the days where the customer experience exists solely on your website. The complex customer journey continues to evolve rapidly from its linear beginnings. From discovery to purchase (and beyond), merchants have countless channels to track and nurture. Generally speaking, advertisers utilize various marketing channels to focus on either customer acquisition or retention.

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Supercharge Your Ecommerce Sales Using These SMS Marketing Best Practices

BigCommerce

Ecommerce is growing faster than ever. In 2019, ecommerce generated $3.5 trillion in sales and is expected to hit $4.

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8 eCommerce PPC Tips To Increase Your Ad Conversion

Groove

Getting caught up in the complexities of paid ads can be frustrating and time consuming. That's why our team is here to help. From Google Shopping ads to social media advertising, Groove is here to help you increase ROI and improve overall conversion. 8 eCommerce PPC Tips. If you want to improve your paid media conversion rate, follow these 8 PPC tips convert searchers into customers: Know your demand curve.

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Welcome to E-Commerce Unlocked: Your Free E-Commerce Marketing Course

Kissmetrics

E-commerce is booming. There are currently 24 million e-commerce sites and counting. And with only 12% of sales taking place online , you can expect there to be massive growth in the years to come. So if you want to create an online business, one of the best ones to create is an e-commerce store. But how do you market it? How do you grow your traffic?

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The Future of Retail, Reimagined

Retail TouchPoints

Even before COVID-19, the retail industry was already going through significant challenges, disruption and transformation. That has all been turned on its head. Get ready for the “new abnormal.”. Going forward there will be a fundamental shift in consumers’ reengagement and behavior towards physical environments, including the size and program of space.

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Is Your Business AI-Ready? Find Out with Orium’s Maturity Model

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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How To Sell Art Online – The Complete Guide for 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

According to statistics, the online art market grew 9.8% in 2018. This means that now is the best time to start selling your art online. However, if you want to be successful, it definitely pays off spending some time learning how to sell art online. While selling your art online is not difficult, there are a number of steps involved. That’s why we’ve put together this guide where we’ll talk about what you need to consider before selling your art online, discuss different options for selling art

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Amazon The Disrupter Enters Low-Code Market; Doesn’t Disrupt Anything

Forrester eCommerce

After years of high expectations for Amazon’s low-code platform project, its Honeycode product has finally arrived. Unfortunately, in its present release, Honeycode is far from the market disrupter that we and others expected from Amazon. The goal for the platform is clear: Combine the intuitive simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power and scale of […].

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How Customer Feedback Can Improve Your Ecommerce Business

BigCommerce

Do you know what the last customer who bought something from your ecommerce store thought about the product they received?

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4 BigCommerce Site Speed Solutions

Groove

The evolving eCommerce landscape is making it increasingly easier for merchants to accommodate to the tech-savvy consumer. With this instant gratification at our fingertips, how do you ensure the products on your BigCommerce store are seen? The short answer: show up! You can't expect customers to purchase something that fails to load on your website.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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The SEO Tool Kit: 11 Tools That’ll Save You Time

Kissmetrics

When I first got into the world of SEO, you could literally optimize your site for any term and rank at the top of Google within a month or two. But of course, that was ages ago. Now with Google’s ever-evolving algorithm , it takes more time and effort to get results. But what happens if you don’t have the luxury of time? Or you don’t have the financial resources to put in the effort that is truly needed.

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Forrester: Digital Growth, Consumer Convenience Will Drive The ‘Next Normal’

Retail TouchPoints

Over the past four months, retailers have been scrambling to adapt and respond to customer behaviors that have emerged due to the coronavirus pandemic. Solution providers also have joined the fray, creating new solutions and services to help businesses stay open — and even uncover new revenue opportunities — as we venture into the “New Normal,” or what Aptos calls the “Next Normal.

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The Bullet’s Already Been Fired

Steve Dennis

The bullets that killed RadioShack, Sports Authority, KB Toys, Sharper Image, and many other once iconic brands were fired long before their respective downward spirals of cost cutting and store closings began. They weren’t legislated out of existence. Consumer behavior didn’t change overnight. The superior brands that stole their market share and won over their formerly loyal customers mostly did it over a number of years.

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Do Channel Vendors Need Public Relations Anymore?

Forrester eCommerce

The communications industry is facing a perfect storm of converging forces, from COVID-19 to the rise of influencer marketing and even AI. At Forrester, we research around 10,000 global technology vendors that utilize indirect sales and often get asked about the value of PR in the channel. A trend that is affecting many channel leaders […].

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Omnichannel E-Commerce: Drive More Revenue at Less Cost

Today’s e-commerce landscape is vast and it’s moving fast and is fiercely competitive. To thrive you need to offer the right products to the right customers on the best channels. Learn how to successfully harness the power of omnichannel selling to reach more online buyers, diversify and grow revenue, and reduce cost – while delivering a seamless "shop to ship" customer experience across all channels.

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What Is Adobe Commerce Cloud and Is It the Right Choice for Your Business?

BigCommerce

In the spring of 2018, the multinational software giant Adobe announced they had entered into an agreement to buy the…

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eCommerce Site Designs That Drive Conversion

Groove

You stumble into an elevator on a Monday morning with a much-needed cup of coffee in one hand and an umbrella and briefcase in the other hand. You mutter a grumbled greeting to your riding partner. Looking up, you realize your partner is none other than your idol. Do you tell them how much you love their work? Do you introduce yourself? Ask for an autograph?

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The 4 Ps of Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide (With Examples)

Kissmetrics

The 4 Ps of marketing… You’ve probably heard about them from a friend, a textbook, or even at school. I know it sounds like a boring topic that’s common sense, but there is more to it than meets the eye. And no, it’s not just for large companies… the smaller you are, the more important for you it is to leverage the 4 Ps.

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Lowe’s Dedicates Another $100 Million To Frontline Associate Bonuses

Retail TouchPoints

Lowe’s will pay its frontline employees an additional $100 million in bonuses, bringing the retailer’s total commitment to associates and communities during the pandemic to more than $450 million. The money is being offered to recognize the work they have done for the company during the COVID-19 crisis. All active hourly associates in Lowe’s U.S. stores, distribution centers and store support centers will receive the bonuses in mid-July.

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NEWS: SML RFID Delivers 98% Inventory Accuracy to Gina Tricot

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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Extremists

Steve Dennis

Over the last few years I’ve gotten a fair amount of mileage out of my catch-phrase “Physical retail isn’t dead. Boring retail is.” And, accordingly, I’m often asked: “okay, so what’s the opposite of boring?” My tendency has been to say “remarkable”–if only because I wrote a whole book about this.

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Data Governance for 2020 and Beyond

Forrester eCommerce

Companies have short attention spans when it comes to data governance. Even for organizations with sustained programs, the continuous push and pull of new regulations, projects, or data and analytics investments create constant disruption. To address these expansions, data owners either search for the simple approach or re-educate on data governance 101.

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The Inside Scoop on Ecommerce Reviews: Why They Matter and How to Make the Most of Them

BigCommerce

When you go to make an online purchase, what’s the first thing you do?

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How To Automate Your E-commerce With Ontraport Marketing?

MakeWebBetter

Selling online? Yes! And should I count you among those, who are strong believers of hard work? And don’t tell me, you are still managing your marketing leads, generating sales manually? AHEM! AHEM! As a process-driven person, I am a strong believer in automation; and after researching a lot, what I found is. If you […]. The post How To Automate Your E-commerce With Ontraport Marketing?

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

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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Google?s New Algorithm: Page Experience

Kissmetrics

Don’t worry… your traffic hasn’t gone down (or up) because of the Page Experience algorithm update hasn’t rolled out yet. But it will in 2021 according to Google. Due to the coronavirus, they decided to give us all a heads up on the future algorithm update and what it entails… that way you can adjust your website so your traffic doesn’t tank. So, what’s the Page Experience update and how can you prepare for it?

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Why Christmas Needs To Come Early This Year

Retail TouchPoints

Christmas needs to come early this year (and by Christmas I mean the entire holiday shopping season). Why? There’s a pretty decent chance that the traditional holiday season that occurs in Q4 will fail to materialize, and any retailer that relies on that influx of sales and cash should begin thinking about hosting Black Friday and Cyber Monday-type events in June or July.

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How to Buy an Ecommerce Business: 7 Expert Tips

ecomdash

How do you buy an ecommerce business? Rather than starting from scratch, you can purchase an existing online retail brand. Here are the 7 best tips to help. The post How to Buy an Ecommerce Business: 7 Expert Tips appeared first on Ecomdash.

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Accelerate Digital Transformation With The Right Strategic Partner

Forrester eCommerce

In March 2020, as the implications of a global shutdown of physical offices became apparent, executives responsible for digital initiatives went into overdrive. If your firm is already digitally advanced, it’s likely to be faring far better than less advanced competitors by now. But no matter where your firm is today on it’s pandemic-induced digital […].

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4 Best Practices for Ensuring Success in International Markets Ahead of Peak Season

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