BigCommerce

MARCH 13, 2018

Technology is restructuring how money moves. From crypto-currencies to peer-topper payments and one-click checkouts, modern innovations are shifting the basic payment infrastructure of our economy. The gadget we carry in our pockets is becoming more than ever thought possible. And the wallet is its next target. Adii Pienaar, Founder of Conversio and WooThemes (later acquired by WooCommerce), sums this up best: Customers worldwide are using their mobile devices for online shopping more often.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 22, 2018

PartnerWorld kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday and, for the first time, colocated with IBM’s Think main event. The 1,000-plus partners who packed the MGM Grand Arena heard some great messaging around simplified programs, reduced contractual requirements, and a direct sales team who was finally getting channel religion delivered through its paychecks.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 22, 2018

A form of this article originally appeared on Stitch Labs. Stitch Labs is a purpose-built inventory management software to help brands improve customer experience and scale efficiency. Download the original guide here. When we talk about the future of retail, industry news is abuzz with the idea of brands creating experiences for their customers. Consumers want more than an email newsletter—they want easy tracking and personalization.

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Optimizely

MARCH 29, 2018

You’ve designed a very pretty marketing email and are ready to send it out to a dynamic segment that signed up for a 10% off promotion from your B2C brand. You send it out via your email marketing software and check in a couple of hours later. As a believer in data-driven marketing, you immediately look at the metrics. A 20% open rate, way to go! And a 10% click-through rate.

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MARCH 12, 2018

For the past year, I’ve been experimenting with Facebook Messenger marketing and Facebook Messenger chatbots and my results have been nothing short of incredible. Right now, my Facebook messenger marketing numbers are blowing my email marketing numbers out of the water. For example… My open rates are 5X better than email My click through rates are 8X better than email My revenue per subscriber is about 3.5X better than email Pretty amazing right?

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RTP blog

MARCH 16, 2018

By John Kueber, LiveShopCast QVC launched on Nov. 24, 1986 and sold $7,400 worth of merchandise in its first 24 hours of live programming. It would become one of the most effective retailing machines ever created, as it mimicked the homes and product values of a new generation of stay-at-home buyers. More than three decades (and several large corporate acquisitions) later, QVC continues to innovate their live programming options as a means of staying close to its customers and to compete with th

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 29, 2018

AI, blockchain, chatbot, digital identity, etc. — there’s enough emerging technology in financial services to fill a whole alphabet book. And it’s difficult not to get swept off your feet by visions of bionic men, self-executing smart contracts, and virtual assistants that anticipate our every need. Investing in emerging technology is one of the main […].

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 16, 2018

Online marketing promises a holy grail of customer acquisition where you can flip a switch and watch leads waltz through the door. But that fairytale notion is becoming exceedingly rare and infinitely more difficult to achieve. More than 60% of marketers say their Facebook Ads aren’t working. So the try organic posting. But, Facebook organic reach is hovering at just 2%.

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Optimizely

MARCH 6, 2018

B2C marketers have to work harder than ever to personalize and customize email marketing campaigns. Buyers today simply expect personalized emails. In fact, 63% of Millennial consumers and 58% of GenX consumers are willing to share data with companies in exchange for personalized offers and discounts. Even more importantly, personalization can reduce acquisition costs by up to 50% and increase the efficiency of marketing spend by 30% percent, according to McKinsey.

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MARCH 26, 2018

The eventual success of your online store will depend on several factors. But probably the single most important factor will be where and how you are indexed in the search engines. Unlike social media and referral traffic, search engine traffic is consistent and predictable. If you rank in search, you will receive a steady stream of targeted traffic that you can depend on for sales.

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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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MARCH 2, 2018

Ecommerce businesses are popping up all around us. Are all of them successful? No. Most fail.But why? One simple reason: they do not put the needs of the user before the ideas the businesses have. Good user experience is one of the key features of any successful ecommerce store, and without taking care of this one aspect, you're in an uphill battle to drive sales.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 30, 2018

Don’t even say it out loud: Subscription boxes are not dead. Heralded as the newest, greatest ecommerce strategy beginning around 2010, subscription box services like BirchBox, Trunk Club and Dollar Shave Club have not only made headlines – they’ve made billions. In 2011, subscription brands made an estimated $57,000,000. In 2016, that revenue jumped to $2.6 billion – a 4,461% increase.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 19, 2018

Dear Marketers, I know how important it is to you to grow revenue. I also know how that focus will help expand your remit — to align with your organization’s strategic priorities and rally around an explicit path to revenue. Any of these 20 examples (and countless more) are more substantial, manageable, and productive than an […].

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 6, 2018

Most people are worried about how to get Google to index their pages , not deindex them. In fact, most folks try and avoid getting deindexed like the plague. If you’re trying to increase your authority on search engine results pages, it can be tempting to index as many pages on your website as possible. And most of the time, it works. But this might not always help you get the most amount of traffic possible.

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Optimizely

MARCH 15, 2018

Shopper Sam has not opened any of the emails you’ve sent her in the last 90 days. Like any good marketer would, you automatically remove Sam from your email list and add her to your inactive email segment. Since inactive subscribers can drag down your email click-through rate, hurt your email deliverability, and send your messages to the spam folder, you remove her in order to maintain a healthy sender reputation and continue to have good inbox placement.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Let me just say it straight away: great product photography isn’t easy to achieve. But I’m not saying this to scare you. Rather, I’m saying this to comfort you. The thing is, if you’ve been struggling to take good product images and haven’t been happy with your results, it’s not necessarily because you’re a bad photographer, it’s just that it’s not the easiest thing to master.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 12, 2018

Best Ecommerce Brands in Instagram – An Introduction. Businesses have always sought to connect with customers and build a good name for themselves; and with the advent of social media , that connecting has been made much easier. Instagram has become a favorite for e-commerce brands to show off their products and engage with their target audience.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 15, 2018

It’s no secret that the rise of the internet heavily disrupted nearly all industries. As consumers gained immediate access to brand and product information, business sales cycles were thrown off. Suddenly, earning customers wasn’t just about putting your number in the Yellow Pages or driving to a new city and taking potential customers out for drinks.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Chatting, by definition, is meaningless, trivial talk – but web “chatting” is anything but; it is starting to transform digital customer experiences. And it works. Customers want to use chat. Forty-five percent have used it to interact with a live agent in 2017. The companies that get it are moving towards a holistic chat strategy […].

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 15, 2018

Getting prospects to convert to customers is one thing. But, how do you get customers to buy again and again after the first purchase? It’s more than just ‘nice to have’, consistent repeat purchases can be the difference between success and failure. This is where attentive, behavior based emails become important. At Kissmetrics , we have a product that is built around the ability to powerfully segment your customers based on their behaviors so you can deliver the right engagement (ad, email, etc

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Canonicalized

MARCH 27, 2018

Everyone is talking about the mobile-first world. The web as we know it is turning upside down. All because people are spending a lot more time on their mobile phones. We rolled up our sleeves and did a study. We analyzed the top 1 million websites in the world to see with our own eyes how mobile-friendly they really are. The post We tested 1 Million Websites to see how Mobile-Friendly they are [Original Study] appeared first on Canonicalized.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Nathan Resnick is someone who I met at The Hustle conference in San Francisco. He is the founder of Sourcify which is a company that helps you find manufacturers to produce your products. Prior to that, he owned 2 ecommerce companies, Yes Man Watches and Cork Supply Co. And recently, he was on the Hustle blog where he made 23k selling Conor McGregor F You Suits.

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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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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 19, 2018

Product videos have the ability to help people better understand the information or product you are selling. According to Kissmetrics —a blog about analytics , marketing , and testing—viewers are anywhere from 64-85 percent more likely to buy a product after watching a product video. There is no correct method for creating a content video, but there are steps to take which helps consumers make informative choices about the product they want and where to purchase the product.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 27, 2018

It’s hard not to start any article about B2B or wholesale ecommerce without dropping the market size bomb: Global B2B online sales surpassed $ 7.6 trillion in 2017. In the U.S. alone, B2B and wholesale ecommerce will top $1.1 trillion by 2021. To give that a bit of perspective, global B2C sales topped $2.1 trillion in 2017. In the U.S., B2C ecommerce accounted for $660 billion in 2017.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 21, 2018

In their quest to become digital insurers, insurance carriers have a revolutionary opportunity to improve their businesses with new and emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It is certainly a balancing act to find that perfect peanut butter-and-jelly combination of operational efficiency and customer engagement, however I believe many insurance carriers to be up to the […].

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

Mobile devices have transformed how we consume content, making it essential that businesses that want to reach their target audience optimize their websites to respond to this trend. People now prefer to access the Internet on the go, and companies that don’t adapt to the fact that their customers are no longer stuck behind a desktop, will pay the price for their inaction.

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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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SellBrite

MARCH 7, 2018

Anyone who’s read a marketing blog in the past few years has come across the buzzword “growth hacking.”. Coined in 2010, the term is thrown around to describe a straightforward concept — that every strategy you develop and implement should be centered around driving growth. Traditionally, growth hacking describes how online services and tech startups gain new users.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Today I’m happy to have Steve Weiss on the show. Steve runs MuteSix.com which is a firm that specializes in customer acquisition. They consult with Facebook ads, Google ads, email marketing…you name it and they were ranked number 341 on the Inc 5000 for 2017. Anyway, Steve is a master of running Facebook ads in the context of ecommerce so today we’re going to pick his brain.

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Bootstrapping Ecommerce

MARCH 6, 2018

With a little creativity, experience and passion, you can devise a budget sales strategy that will help you boost the sales of your small business even when you are working with a small budget. The post Budget Sales Strategy: How to Increase Your Sales on a Budget appeared first on Bootstrapping Ecommerce.

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Canonicalized

MARCH 8, 2018

Listen to the audio transcription of this article Love Google Analytics? Love Tableau? Why not bring them together? Us & Tableau We are working with Google Analytics every single day. Sometimes I get the feeling we’re investing too much time into it. When I re-discovered Tableau, I felt it brought a whole new perspective to […] The post Tableau & Google Analytics – Integrate, Expand, Create appeared first on Canonicalized.

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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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