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Entering The New Normal: How To Safely Bring Your Workforce Back

Forrester eCommerce

New Pandemic Management Protocols provide guidance on how to bring employees back to work safely and effectively.

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The Biggest SEO Trend You’re Ignoring

Kissmetrics

The screenshot above is my Google traffic over the last 12 months. As you can see, my traffic is growing. And there are many reasons for that, but there is one trend that’s really caused the majority of my SEO growth. You might be thinking it is Ubersuggest because it makes up 22.4% of my traffic now. But Ubersuggest has been integrated into NeilPatel.com for years, so that’s not it.

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In A Crisis, People Want Dependable Technology

Forrester eCommerce

Cutting-edge takes a back seat to reliability during the pandemic. Yet innovation still has its place.

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Marketing Through Coronavirus: How to Pivot Your Ecommerce Marketing Plan in Times of Crisis

BigCommerce

Good marketing, at its core, has to include a deep understanding of your target market — their day-to-day lives, their challenges,…

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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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Sell More With The BigCommerce Amazon Integration

Groove

According to TechCrunch, Amazon sales make up 49.1% of all eCommerce sales and 5% of all retail sales within the United States. On top of that, 10 companies dominate 71% of the eCommerce space based on sales. As an Elite BigCommerce Partner Agency and full-service eCommerce agency, we've helped multiple clients navigate omni-channel selling. If you’re a BigCommerce customer, selling on Amazon is now significantly easier with the native BigCommerce Amazon Integration.

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eCommerce Fraud Trends Every Online Store Owner Should Know

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More than in almost any other industry, fraud is overwhelmingly present in eCommerce. It negatively affects sales, profits, and brand reputation, and can significantly harm your business if you don’t have active fraud prevention measures. This is all the more important at a time when a global recession as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic looms large.

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See, Believe, Buy: The Selling Power of Social Proof

BigCommerce

The ways people find, research, and purchase products have evolved drastically over the last few decades.

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How To Grow Your Email List

Groove

eCommerce email marketing remains one of the most important channels to generate traffic, conversions and revenue for many businesses. If you want to master email marketing, you must grow and maintain a healthy email list. How To Grow Your Email List. It's not uncommon for consumers to opt out of emails, causing email lists to diminish. If you're having trouble gaining leads or need help motivating users to sign up, these 5 tips on how to grow your email list will help you: Try email pop-ups.

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Discover New One-Click Integrations

Optimizely

Get started connecting your brands’ systems in seconds. The ability to pull together your brands’ most important data is essential to building a single view of the customer. Activating Data out of Zaius is as simple as a single click and it’s what makes us the best Activated CDP in the marketplace. As of today, all of our customers have access to our new App Directory , where Zaius users will find dozens of new integrations that can be installed with a single click.

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Managing Your Company Through The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forrester eCommerce

To navigate the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, governments and companies must design and enforce Pandemic Management Protocols (PMPs) — a set of procedures and processes by which people will go to the office, go to school, congregate in public, eat in restaurants, travel, and move without causing unmanageable new outbreaks of the virus.

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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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The Combined Power of Content and Commerce: How Headless Can Uplevel Your Content Marketing Strategy

BigCommerce

The written word is a powerful thing. Writing ideas and concepts makes them concrete in our minds.

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HubSpot CRM Review: Pros & Cons

Groove

HubSpot CRM is free, intuitive and includes almost everything a sales team needs to organize leads, keep track of their movements and nurture them. It's quick to learn and contains all basic CRM necessities without being overly complex. As a Diamond HubSpot Partner Agency with a team of avid HubSpot CRM users, we assembled our honest review of the tool and how it can help businesses organize their sales processes.

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Amazon Advertising: Is Hiring An Agency Worth It? (Case Study)

My Wife Quit Her Job

Should you hire an Amazon advertising agency or run your Amazon PPC ads by yourself? This post is a case study that I conducted with my own Amazon account to help you answer that exact question. A while back, I published an extremely comprehensive guide on how to run your own Amazon PPC ads. And in this guide, I compared notes with other 7 and 8 figure Amazon sellers to teach you the right way to setup and run your Amazon Sponsored Ad Campaigns.

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The Coronavirus Crisis Puts Telcos Back On The Map As Strategic Providers

Forrester eCommerce

The coronavirus crisis offers telcos an opportunity to reposition themselves. Over the medium and longer term, the stronger telcos will benefit from the crisis.

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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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Bring Your Customers Low-Contact Convenience: Why and How to Add Curbside Pickup to Your Ecommerce Business

BigCommerce

Consumers take a lot of things into consideration when making a new purchase.

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The Best Website Builder On the Market in 2020 (Top 10 Reviewed and Compared)

Ecommerce Platforms

So you’re ready to build a website and start carving out your place on the internet. That’s a big step. So, unsurprisingly, there are many things you need to consider. But, luckily, these days, building and hosting websites isn't as much of a challenge as it was a decade ago. Recently, website building software has exploded, so now, there are tons of companies offering easy-to-use drag-and-drop website builders at affordable prices.

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301: How COVID-19 Has Affected Ecommerce Sales With Jake Cohen

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today I’m thrilled to have Jake Cohen back on the show. Jake is the product marketing leader over at Klaviyo and for the past month or so, he has been heading up a special Covid-19 Coronavirus task force to research, gather and synthesize e-commerce data to share with a broader e-commerce community. In this episode, we are going to go over some hard data on how e-commerce stores are faring during this pandemic along with which industries are doing well, which are not, and how to improve your sal

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Medallia + Voci: Smart Move

Forrester eCommerce

Medallia continues its buying spree – adding to its numerous acquisitions in 2019 and its purchase of video feedback platform LivingLens in February of this year.[i] Acquiring Voci will strengthen Medallia’s overall offering primarily by enabling clients to tap into contact center insights and data. This move will also help Medallia customers overcome one of […].

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Drive More E-Commerce Revenue with Omnichannel Selling

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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The Fault In Our Stores

Steve Dennis

The following is excerpted from my just released book Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Digital Disruption , which I finished writing and editing at the end of last year. Many people believe that the COVID-19 crisis is the proximate cause of quite a few retailers dire situation and imminent bankruptcy filings. Yet the bullet that will kill a good number of them was fired long ago.

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The Top Wix Alternatives for 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

Wix has a lot to offer as a site building solution. Simplicity, with an intuitive user interface that makes designing your site as straightforward as possible, Versatility, with the freedom to create a wide selection of different pages in unique styles. Wix even provides a wide selection of amazing ecommerce themes and templates to choose from. However, as attractive as Wix might be, it’s not the ideal website builder for everyone.

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Amazon Vine Suspended in Response to COVID-19 & Supply Chain Disruptions

ROI Revolution

Published April 24, 2020. Amazon vendors and sellers were greeted this morning with an unexpected notification: Amazon Vine suspended until further notice. This news, which blocks new enrollments for the Amazon Vine program until further notice may be the next step in Amazon’s initiative to slow the flywheel for non-essential items during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Create Meaningful Measurement, Not A Mess Of Metrics

Forrester eCommerce

Before we drown in dashboard dystopia, let’s swing the pendulum back to create meaningful metrics and measurement that will move your business forward and at the same time drive the outcomes that your customers want. At Forrester’s Customer Experience North America virtual event on June 16–18, we have an entire track dedicated to meaningful measurement where we’ll explore how both CX professionals and marketers can up their measurement game across six dimensions.

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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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Barry Schwartz podcast: The key is website UX (User Experience)

Omniconvert

In this week’s episode of Growth Interviews, we invite you to join our podcast conversation with Barry Schwartz, the CEO. The post Barry Schwartz podcast: The key is website UX (User Experience) appeared first on ECOMMERCE GROWTH Blog.

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Templ.io: Here’s What You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

Any business owner with a robust online presence that relies on fast-moving traffic and sales understands the importance of a fully-functioning and quick-loading website. There are plenty of web hosting platforms out there, but many are slow, shared, and painful to use. So, we’re going to look at one of the newer kids on the block called Templ and see how they stand up to scrutiny.

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April 2020 Industry Updates: Amazon’s Coronavirus Journey & Mobile’s Decline

ROI Revolution

Published April 20, 2020. Amazon’s Coronavirus Journey. Coronavirus and Amazon have made up two of the biggest news stories for marketers in April 2020. As the world’s second largest ecommerce company, Amazon has had an eventful month. Their fulfillment services have been crucial in the delivery of essential goods throughout the country.

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The Rise Of The Subscription Business Model

Forrester eCommerce

In a post-COVID-19 world, sellers of products and services might find it easier to charge over an extended period based on consumption rather than asking for large up-front cash payments.

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

Generative AI is reshaping retail, but achieving true AI success isn’t simple. Many brands face hurdles—underdeveloped data strategies, limited AI-ready infrastructure, or lack of seamless integration across systems. As you explore how AI can boost efficiency and transform customer experiences, understanding your business’s readiness is key. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model offers a clear starting point.

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How 10 Shopify stores are positioning during COVID19

Omniconvert

Change is the name of the game these days, as the COVID19 pandemic is changing the way we live. But. The post How 10 Shopify stores are positioning during COVID19 appeared first on ECOMMERCE GROWTH Blog.

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Kajabi vs Thinkific (Apr 2020) – Which Platform Comes Out on Top?

Ecommerce Platforms

The online course industry is booming. At the time of writing, the world is amid a pandemic resulting in a new and different indoor life for most of us. With time on our hands and a hunger for knowledge and self-improvement, it's small wonder entrepreneurs are creating online courses to meet this demand. So, if you want to start selling e-courses, or you already do, and you're considering moving to a different platform, you’re in the right place.

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eBay Suspended Your Account? Here’s What to Do

SellBrite

Having your eBay account suspended can be a major setback, especially if you rely on the online marketplace for income. It’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with eBay’s policies to avoid account suspension in the first place. But because these policies are extensive and always changing, even the most conscientious eBay seller can make a mistake that leads to an account hold, restriction, or even suspension.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester eCommerce

The March Numbers Are In: Retail Sales Are Down, But Not Out The Census Department released preliminary figures for March sales in the US on April 15, which provided an official glimpse of the impact of COVID-19 on the US economy and retail spend. We expect the upcoming slate of earnings releases to reinforce the following narrative: Consumer spend is up at grocery stores (including alcohol stores), mass merchants, […].

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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