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MARCH 4, 2021

Ecommerce was an industry already in flux when the events of 2020 really turned things on their head.

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MARCH 22, 2021

The post will teach you how to get free press for your online business by using Help A Reporter Out (HARO). It was written by Dawn LaFontaine, a successful student in my Create A Profitable Online Store course. Most business owners want free press for their business, but they don’t know how to get it. The world of journalism can seem mysterious to people who are unfamiliar with it.

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MARCH 28, 2021

From free to thousands of dollars, website builders are some of the best ways to get online today. Whether you're making an online store to sell your new sock puppet design or you'd like to run a blog on the topic of neutering pets, launching a platform with a website builder is almost always cheaper than hiring an actual developer to do so. These simple website builders remove the need to know anything about HTML, CSS, or other types of coding languages.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 15, 2021

With the recent announcement that Dapr has reached its first production-ready release, we finally see a viable response to Istio and perhaps the rest of the service mesh industry from Microsoft. If you’re not familiar, Dapr is a coding framework intended to solve the challenges of modern distributed applications. You may be asking, “But isn’t […].

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Optimizely

MARCH 26, 2021

Easter is just around the corner, and while we all may still be discouraged from holding large gatherings during the gradual rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, you may want to tone down the Easter feast this year and opt for a simpler, albeit savory alternative. And I have just the thing that will always be a huge hit. The Charcuterie Trend. Charcuterie boards!

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Groove

MARCH 30, 2021

Last year, Google announced its release of a Core Algorithm update coming in May 2021. Through several internal and external studies, Google has found that users prefer (and are more likely to convert on) websites that offer a great page experience. With this update, Google will increase the importance of page experience metrics, also called Google Core Web Vitals, in ranking criteria for search.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 10, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out or are an old pro, who doesn’t want to be a more successful entrepreneur? Owning a business gives you a sense of freedom and empowerment. You can build things and watch them grow. Entrepreneurs make decisions for themselves, realize their creative visions, and develop lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, customers, and vendors.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Verizon Media — a division of Verizon Communications that includes AOL and Yahoo — will launch Yahoo Shops , a combination marketplace and advertising solution. The Yahoo Shops marketplace will feature a personalized digital storefront. Users go through a brief onboarding where they indicate their tastes and preferences and are then presented with their “own digital mall” featuring brands that align with their interests.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 24, 2021

The future of insurance is here. That’s my view and I am sticking to it. Insurers can no longer wait on the sidelines. You must get in the game. What game you ask? The game for who wins the hearts and wallets of tomorrow’s insurance customer. Your competitors (think Amazon, Tesla, and Lemonade) give consumers […].

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Optimizely

MARCH 17, 2021

No, it’s not what you think. The green beer will not be flowing in abundance this St. Patrick’s Day, as many bars are still taking precautions and staying closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although I’m sure many families will be partaking in the green libation tradition in their own homes paired with a delicious meal of corned beef and cabbage. Some rituals are just too good to skip.

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Groove

MARCH 8, 2021

Oracle NetSuite’s latest announcement about limiting its support for the Bronto marketing platform is leaving its customers with having to evaluate alternatives before it becomes “end of life.”. Oracle NetSuite Announces “End of Life” For Bronto. You read that right. Oracle NetSuite, the company that acquired the Bronto marketing platform back in 2015, declared last week that Bronto will become “end of life” on May 31, 2022.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 29, 2021

In three months, the U.S. retail industry vaulted 10 years ahead in terms of digital penetration.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 22, 2021

Blogging has changed over the years. When I first started blogging, it wasn’t that competitive. You write an article… on pretty much anything… and you get some social shares. And then you would try to build links, but even if you weren’t great at link building you would still naturally generate more backlinks overtime. Just take a look at one of my first blog posts that I wrote on August 31, 2005.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

There’s a modern-day gold rush on, except instead of the hills and creek beds of the American West, the landscape of this one is the vast, rich expanse of Amazon.com. With not a pan or pick in sight, fortunes are yet being made as an ever-increasing number of private equity investors flock to the ecommerce behemoth in search of what has become one of today’s richest commodities — successful Amazon third-party sellers.

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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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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 1, 2021

Your digital transformation initiatives may have been floundering pre-COVID, but that’s ancient history now. Like many other firms, the global pandemic likely forced you to shift almost overnight to only engaging your customers virtually, thrusting the digital teams to the forefront of your firm’s business strategy. The impact on digital strategy, priorities, and approaches has […].

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Optimizely

MARCH 5, 2021

COVID-19. I barely knew what it was at this time last year and yet, it has now made its way into my vernacular on a daily basis. All of ours, for that matter, so I’m sure you can relate. Other terms and phrases that have become ubiquitous staples in our rhetoric over the past year include: Pandemic Shelter-in-place Social distancing Wear a mask Flatten the curve Quarantine.

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Groove

MARCH 24, 2021

Elevate your HubSpot eCommerce strategy by utilizing all the tools and features that the platform has to offer. HubSpot has three primary features: the Marketing Hub, Sales Hub and Service Hub. In this blog, we're covering all things related to content marketing, which can be accessed through HubSpot's Marketing Hub ? one of the most beneficial tools that provides teams with 5x the power.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 15, 2021

Headless architecture has become widely known as an emerging technology strategy that many merchants are considering.

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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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MARCH 15, 2021

Is email marketing dead? With all the talk of video, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and chatbots, it sometimes seems like email is long past its prime. But if you think email is dead, you’re missing out on the real metrics. The truth? Email marketing is still going strong and is possibly the best possible strategy to grow your business. The proof?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2021

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 4, 2021

Hyland announced on March 4 that it intends to acquire content platform provider Nuxeo. The deal is expected to close in April or May. Coming on the heels of its acquisition of Alfresco, which we blogged about here, just months ago, Hyland will soon be the home for the two most widely deployed open source […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 8, 2021

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers many benefits, including but not limited to elasticity: the ability to shrink and grow storage and compute resources on demand. Clients of most leading enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms enjoy this cloud elasticity benefit but at a cost. Ultimately, elasticity requires both application and data components (compute and store) to be elastic, […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 17, 2021

Future Fit Organizations are Adaptive Covid-19 has accelerated the need for enterprises to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Satya Nadella in April 2020 told thousands of developers at the online Microsoft Build conference “we’ve seen companies do in 2 months what they normally would do in years…”. The Pandemic also taught us that we […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 24, 2021

ServiceNow just announced that it plans to purchase Intellibot and add to its integration and process capabilities. As we predicted in 2020 (graphic below) the major low-code and cloud vendors are starting to move into the robotic process automation (RPA) market. The 2022 snapshot shows cloud low-code vendors such as ServiceNow and specialized domain-focused cloud […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 26, 2021

During the last 12 months, we’ve talked to many inventive people across companies who are working hard to keep the motivation of their colleagues and teammates high while everybody has to work from home and nobody can hit the office or the innovation lab to collaborate on innovations. Here are some of the top tips […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 23, 2021

When we launched the most recent Forrester Analytics Business Technographics® Security Survey, it was summer of 2020. We’d been in quarantine for about three months, and firms had long since realized that they needed to digitally transform their businesses (and fast) in order to survive the new normal. That meant a lot of application development, as […].

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

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 16, 2021

Building a global campaign content strategy that works across local markets is a challenge for most B2B marketing organisations. In her latest blog post and upcoming webinar, Lisa Gately outlines how regional marketers can drive the conversation in three areas to improve audience-centricity, decision-making, and content collaboration.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 16, 2021

Two words describe the current situation as the world battles to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic: hope and uncertainty. The good news is that there are now multiple vaccines paving the path to an eventual recovery of social and economic activity lost to the pandemic since 2020. However, it will not be an easy path due to tremendous challenges ranging from supply chain and distribution difficulties to ethical and policy-related concerns.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 8, 2021

Mergers and acquisitions and other major changes can place enormous pressure on frontline sales organizations. Learn when the strain becomes too much in this B2B Summit session preview.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year, companies compressed multiyear timelines for technology integration and innovation into a few months as the pandemic pushed office workers into fully remote work environments. As the dust settles from this flurry of reactive, but necessary, activity, it’s time for security and risk (S&R) pros to take stock and streamline operations for longer-term strategic […].

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