Ecommerce Platforms
MARCH 15, 2023
Thinking about selling online? If that is the case, you may have wondered, do you need a business license to sell online at some point. And, in fact, you do — together with a combination of other permits and licenses that are required under state and federal law. It is crucial in establishing your business as legitimate and shows the government’s approval to operate in the area for which the license is valid.
Ecommerce Platforms
MARCH 15, 2023
The best home decor dropshipping suppliers provide entrepreneurs with a convenient way to kickstart an exciting new business venture. The home decor landscape is one of the most attractive sectors for retailers, appealing to countless consumers across the globe. Although home decor might not be the fastest-growing industry out there, it’s one that offers relatively consistent profitability for many brands.
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Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 13, 2023
What a difference a year makes: 12 months ago, Mirakl released the first edition of its consumer survey of 10,000 shoppers around the globe, The State of Online Marketplace Adoption. We marveled at the influence of the “power shopper” — high-frequency shoppers who made online purchases once a week or more. These highly valuable customers were coveted by online retailers across categories, reshaping the internet economy according to their preferences.
My Wife Quit Her Job
MARCH 14, 2023
Today I’m excited to have Nathan Resnick back on the show. Nathan is the founder of Sourcify, which is a company that helps you find manufacturers to produce your products. The sourcing landscape has changed dramatically since COVID, so Nathan is going to give us a run down of the sourcing environment in China and how you should negotiate with suppliers today.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 14, 2023
Returns are, like it or not, as much a part of retail operations as the sales themselves. The exact return rate varies among different verticals and individual retailers, but online sales consistently generate higher levels of returns compared to brick-and-mortar. No matter what the channel, however, there will always be customers who second-guess their purchase, have something arrive too late for its intended use or receive something other than what they expected.
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 17, 2023
Marketing Operations must rationalize revenue technology by removing point solutions to both reduce costs and achieve customer experience goals.
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My Wife Quit Her Job
MARCH 17, 2023
Selling books online can make a great side hustle or full-time business, and Amazon is one of the best ecommerce platforms you can use to sell books. Amazon started as an online bookstore, so they know a thing or two about the book business. In this post, I show you how to sell books on Amazon and share my best practices and tips for success. The post How To Sell Books On Amazon: A Step-By-Step Guide appeared first on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 16, 2023
[Editor’s note: This is the third article in our series on AI in retail. Be sure to check out our other stories on consumer attitudes toward AI and store design applications.] Since OpenAI debuted ChatGPT a little over three months ago , “generative AI” has become a hot topic and no industry has been left untouched — least of all retail. “The advancements in just three months feel like they should have taken 10 years,” said Darren Hill, Chief Digital Office at BrandX , which owns the Bon-Ton bra
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 16, 2023
I don’t follow the Eurovision song contest closely, but I know that ABBA famously won decades ago with “Waterloo” and that a few other contest winners – Celine Dion, Måneskin – have achieved global success afterwards. This year, though, an article about Eurovision got my attention.
FastSpring
MARCH 16, 2023
From 2015 to 2020, MapTiler doubled the number of countries where it has customers. The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers. I chatted with Tom Armitage, MapTiler’s Senior Technical Writer, about how MapTiler uses strategic partnerships to grow its global customer base. 1.
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MakeWebBetter
MARCH 14, 2023
Create your own Shopline store without any coding knowledge. Employ an easy-to-use interface to create, customize, manage, and perform daily operations of an eCommerce business. Limitations are none — social commerce, SEO, website design, page & menu editor, marketing & analytics, order & inventory, and whatnot. Shopline offers painless online store creation and helps you [.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 17, 2023
The first currency goes back to 3000 B.C. when the world’s earliest civilization developed in Mesopotamia. The retail store, on the other hand, appeared further down the road in ancient Greece, where merchants sold goods in the Agora city center. Thousands of years later, in 2009, the market for digital assets arose. As these digital assets became prevalent, so did fraud.
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 13, 2023
In recent years, digital retail payments have transformed the way we shop and conduct financial transactions. With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the adoption of digital payments, it’s no surprise that the digital payments landscape is constantly evolving.
Salsify
MARCH 14, 2023
Just as the vast biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest can often serve as a microcosm of the planet’s broader ecology, the sheer scale of Amazon.com’s operation can also provide some insights into the behaviors and trends shaping the global economy.
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
Fastr
MARCH 16, 2023
Optimizing your ecommerce product pages is essential for driving sales and increasing conversions. A well-optimized product page can make the difference between a customer quickly moving on to the next website or making a purchase.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 15, 2023
Grove Collaborative has introduced Grove Wellness, a product hub featuring a personalization engine designed to sharpen recommendations around consumers’ evolving health and wellness needs. Grove sells more than 200 products across 40 brands in this category, including multivitamins, women’s health, digestion, immunity, sleep and beauty. Grove plans to introduce more third-party brands throughout 2023, prioritizing products that offer ingredient transparency, National Science Foundation (NSF) ce
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 17, 2023
With enterprises migrating to digital business models, there is immense demand on your content teams to produce highly dynamic, engaging and interactive content, while strictly managing spend.
Salsify
MARCH 16, 2023
Consumers have no shortage of highly personalized, exclusive, and convenient shopping experiences — both in-person and online.
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.
Fabric
MARCH 14, 2023
Welcome to Part 2 of The Modern Retailer’s Guide To Dropshipping Fashion and Apparel. In Part 1, we covered the basics of dropshipping and explored the reasons why every fashion retailer should switch from a traditional retail model to an asset-light dropship model. In this second installment, we will dive deeper into the world of dropshipping, and explore some of the best tips and strategies for successfully dropshipping fashion and apparel products.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 17, 2023
Society is changing rapidly, and retail needs to evolve just as rapidly to keep up, according to the Buying Into Better: The Future of the Consumer Industry report by Deloitte. The headline is that retailers can’t just invest in outside programs or initiatives that focus on diversity and sustainability — changing demographics and customer demands must be addressed at the very foundation of the business.
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 17, 2023
It is critical for marketers and customer experience pros to align their respective metrics with shared business metrics. Use customer lifetime value alignment to achieve this.
lateshipment
MARCH 12, 2023
How many times have you sent out a customer’s package and stayed eager to know their feedback, only to learn from them that it was damaged or didn’t make it to them at all? Truly a haunting experience, given that all your efforts to convert the customer have now taken heavy ‘damage’, thanks to no fault of yours. But if you think about the scale of these issues, you can clearly see that it is not something trivial.
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Fabric
MARCH 14, 2023
Welcome to The Modern Retailer’s Guide To Dropshipping Fashion and Apparel. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we’ll cover the basics of dropshipping and explore the reasons why every fashion retailer should consider switching from a traditional retail model to an asset-light dropship model. In Part 2 , we will delve deeper into the world of dropshipping, and explore some of the best tips and strategies for successfully dropshipping fashion and apparel products.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 16, 2023
The turbulence of the past few years has left the world in a state of economic and political uncertainty, and the severity and impact of these varied events continue to unfold. What we know for sure is that consumer perceptions and choices are affected by culture, which also affects spending habits. To succeed in reaching potential customers where they are, your team must employ a culturally competent localization strategy to establish a competitive advantage.
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 17, 2023
Our new commerce search landscape report publishes in just a few weeks. It features a long list of vendors and illustrates the functions and use cases that digital businesses can expect from them. I am thrilled to announce that our Forrester Wave™ evaluation analyzing this market will follow this year, covering the latest major commerce tech spin-off market!
RetailDive
MARCH 16, 2023
The retailer will also open 200 locations this year as it looks to expand its shop-in-shop of products over $6.
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FastSpring
MARCH 16, 2023
“47% of businesses created 51 or more videos just last year. So there’s all this video being made, and yet, almost none of it gets used more than once. You post it to your website, you post it to social media, and you start working on the next video.” Andrew Levy told me during an interview for the Growth Stage Podcast. Andrew is the founder and CEO of AdPipe , a SaaS platform that repurposes and repackages your existing videos into custom bite-sized content for any channel.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 16, 2023
Following layoffs of 11,000 workers in November 2022, Facebook parent company Meta announced on March 14 that it would let go of an additional 10,000 employees, or approximately 13% of its workforce. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company also would close 5,000 open job postings as part of what he calls the “Year of Efficiency” in a Facebook post announcing the cuts.
Forrester eCommerce
MARCH 17, 2023
Sadly, the world of AI has moved from ethics washing to ethics squashing. Microsoft recently laid off its entire ethics and society team. The team was responsible for transforming the principles created by Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI into consistent rules and practices.
365 Retail
MARCH 17, 2023
Yodel, the UK independent parcel carrier, has announced plans to open a new depot in Longford, Coventry. The company’s sustained growth has led to the need for additional capacity, and the new facility, covering over 6.5 acres of land and at almost 135,000 sq. ft, could process and deliver up to 50,000 parcels per day at peak. This represents a 28% increase in output from the Leamington Spa depot, making it the largest within the Yodel property estate.
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