Sat.Dec 30, 2017 - Fri.Jan 05, 2018

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Finding Dropshipping Companies & Suppliers (Free Directory Updated for 2018)

BigCommerce

Are you looking to start an ecommerce business without the need to stock inventory yourself? Or are you wanting to expand your existing business by offering more products? Dropshipping may be the way to go. What is Dropshipping? Dropshipping allows you to partner with a supplier to display their products in your store. In other words, you can sell their goods. .

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Want Fewer Returns? Try a Longer Return Window

Optimizely

The holidays are over (thankfully), and your ecommerce business is back to normal. Or, almost. It’s now returns season, and that can be almost as difficult for B2C businesses as the holidays themselves. Customers are trying to return gifts that are the wrong size, broken, unwanted, or otherwise flawed in some way. It’s tough for your customer service team to sort through it all and still make sure you end up with happy customers at the end of the day.

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Retailer Finds Savings in Carrier Costs

RTP blog

| Big Lots Enhances Transportation Network through Partnership with Chainalytics | With over 1400 stores in 47 states, Big Lots is one of America’s largest discount retailers of brand name foods, home furnishings and accessories, furniture, seasonal merchandise, toys, electronics, gifts, and 100s of everyday items. Maintaining their mission of “Surprises in every aisle, every … The post Retailer Finds Savings in Carrier Costs appeared first on Chainalytics.

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How to Sell Food Online: A Comprehensive Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

More often than not, a new ecommerce entrepreneur is thinking about a cool invention for solving problems somewhere around the house. Or maybe they're considering ways to source products for their online stores from China and amaze customers with service, speed, and quality. Yet, it's not too often you hear about selling food online. And since this is the case, there's a limited amount of information on learning how to sell food online.

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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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190: 9 Lessons Learned On Business, Life And Happiness With Steve Chou

My Wife Quit Her Job

Happy New Year everyone! Today is a special New Years episode where I wanted to take some time to recap the year which was actually one of the most challenging years that I’ve had in a very long time. Because I have a lot to talk about, I’m actually going to split this into 3 episodes. In today’s podcast, I’m going to go over some of the lessons that I learned this past year.

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Get a Handle on Rising Unsubscribe Rates

Optimizely

This post originally appeared on the Marketo Blog. . You checked the report and confirmed it: your email unsubscribe rate is creeping up. You noticed it rising slightly in the past few months, but it’s really starting to get out of hand. What do you do? One thing you can’t do is nothing. A high unsubscribe rate can seriously hurt your reputation as a sender and could even impact your ability to hit the inbox.

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Omnichannel eCommerce Strategies: a 3-Step Plan To The Perfect Customer Journey

SellBrite

Creating a seamless customer journey is the key to generating recurring sales. Making every touchpoint and every user experience flawless. First, they land on your website. Next, they shop in the store. And finally, check out on a mobile app. Omnichannel strategies have the power to create memorable, lasting experiences for consumers. And the better the experience, the higher chance you have of landing higher lifetime value customers.

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Most Companies Shouldn’t Be Split Testing… Here’s Why & What They Should Do Instead

Omniconvert

Quite a few years ago, I discovered split testing and instantly I was hooked… the fact that you could create two versions of a website page, landing page or advert with one difference and data could tell you which one was the best version was awesome. So I set about testing everything across all the […]. The post Most Companies Shouldn’t Be Split Testing… Here’s Why & What They Should Do Instead appeared first on Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) Blog.

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2017 Year in Review

Klaviyo

When we started Klaviyo in 2012, we set out to change the way businesses communicate with consumers. It didn’t seem right that the interactions we, as individuals, had with brands and products we liked were so impersonal — so irrelevant and generic. Klaviyo was founded on the idea that every single interaction would be better if it were powered by the data brands already have about their customers.

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Listen Up! 3 Retail Podcasts With Something To Say

RTP blog

By Klaudia Tirico, Features Editor One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2018 — albeit easy to accomplish — is to listen to more podcasts. Whether they’re simply just for fun or for editorial purposes, I resolve to listen more and hear what influential people in the world have to say about important topics. I watch more TV than I’d like to admit so it will be refreshing to shut my eyes and digest content in a new way.

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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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2018 New Year’s Resolution Stack for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs

A Better Lemonade Stand

The ultimate 2018 New Year's resolution stack for achieving massive productivity & success through strategy, planning, implementation and organization. The post 2018 New Year’s Resolution Stack for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs appeared first on A Better Lemonade Stand.

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What is web based inventory management and how is it going to benefit your business?

TradeGecko

Web based inventory management is the monitoring and maintenance of a business’ inventory levels using online software. Moving away from the errors and issues that arise with traditional methods of measuring stock levels, web based inventory management seamlessly keeps track of inventory coming in and going out of your business.

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Under the hood: Two top Fashion & Apparel abandoned cart series

Klaviyo

Running a successful ecommerce store in the fashion and apparel industry can take some serious hussle and a whole lot of strategy. With seemingly endless options for shoppers, turning browsers into buyers is not an easy task. If you’ve moved beyond the basics of sending campaigns and into autoresponders (or as we call them flows), the first one you probably launched was an abandoned cart email.

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How to Use Emojis to Increase Push Notification Tap Through By 25%

Sailthru

Think marketers are full of crap? Well, the best mobile marketers are definitively full of — and they are reaping the rewards because push notifications with emojis get an average of 25% greater direct tap throughs than mobile messages without a thumbs up, high five, dollar sign, or any other emoji you can think of. With 40% of Cyber Monday sales coming from mobile devices and nearly 70% of consumers getting news on mobile devices, every app engagement matters.

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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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Dropshipping Made Easy: How You Can Dropship With a $0 Budget

Bootstrapping Ecommerce

Dropshipping is the perfect solution for new entrepreneurs with a low budget & it’s the best way to start a low-cost business with minimal upkeep required. The post Dropshipping Made Easy: How You Can Dropship With a $0 Budget appeared first on Bootstrapping Ecommerce.

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How Good Content Lets Your Customers Know You Care

GetElastic

How Good Content Lets Your Customers Know You Care. Whether you are a start-up company, regional SME or global corporation, chances are how you and your staff provide great service to your own customers is a process that has been carefully honed and refined. The customer care you provide should after all be your biggest USP as a brand, especially as super savvy consumers expect more from the companies they spend their hard earned cash with.

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Starting An Online Store From Scratch: Month 4 Update

Store Growers

December marked the fourth month of operations for Apes in Space, my online store that sells space posters. In the last couple of months I’ve slowly figured out how to grow traffic. But the results haven’t been exactly stellar. I’m happy to say that last months was different and I’ve finally made some sales! December always is one of the top months for most of my consulting clients, so I’ve been busy with other projects.

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Gratitude

Steve Dennis

With 2017 now in the rear view mirror, I’ve been reflecting on the people (and organizations) to whom I am most grateful for their support, the examples they’ve set and for challenging me to keep pushing to make my little dent in the universe. A precious few extended a measure of grace when I didn’t feel like I deserved it. Others were simply there to listen or give me a hug when my heart felt broken and shattered.

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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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2017: A year in review (and a preview of 2018)

Ecommerce Platforms

2017 was an interesting year for me. I bought a new house in February after being homeless for about 4 months. In October 2016, my wife and I sold our house and spent the 2.5 months of 2016 and the first 1.5 months of 2017 traveling around the Southwest (we spent the time in Colorado and New Mexico). Our plan was to spend 6 months to a year traveling around the country but we both realized quickly that we need a ‘home base’ and weren’t cut out for living out of vacation rentals

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Formula For A Profitable Ecommerce Business

SellBrite

You don’t need a fortune to start an ecommerce business. Without a physical store, maintenance expenses and (usually) labor expenses are significantly reduced for online sellers. With these low startup costs, many merchants flock to sell online with the hope of making an easy profit. Selling online, however, isn’t automatically profitable.

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2018 Retail: The Predictions You Need To Know

OrderDynamics

2018 Retail: The Predictions You Need To Know. 2018 retail is going to be one heck of a ride. Whether that’s a good ride, or a bad ride, depends on how much retailers learned from the rocky road that was 2017. From trends like voice control to virtual reality, to rumors of the so called retail apocalypse, 2017 retail was one for the books. But let’s not dwell on the past.

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That which we worship

Steve Dennis

“What people revere, they resemble, either for ruin or for restoration.”. – Greg Beale. The word “worship” most often has a religious connotation. But we can revere, adore, exalt, venerate and glorify many things beyond whatever concept of a Higher Power we have (or don’t). We can worship money. We can worship being right. We can worship a bigger house filled with more and ever cooler stuff.

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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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The Week in 3D Printing: Florida Man Wins, Explosive Prints, Wearables for Plants, Safer AM, and a 3D Printed Burn

Bronto

We celebrated a Florida man’s triumph after a quadruple amputation, got a liiiittle bit scared of 3D printed explosives, admired some plants’ new green wearables, found safety in numbers (really, data), and watched Burning Man’s Temple construction go digital, all this week in 3D printing. Florida Man’s Best Tale Yet. We’ve all had some fun with the Florida Man meme from time to time.

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Measuring the Impact of the Digital Shelf | Whiteboard Video | Salsify

Salsify

If you are like most brands, ecommerce sales are a small percentage of your total sales. So how — knowing that the web is gaining eyeballs and dollars — should you scale your investment and team to ensure you get the most out of digital? Salsify Co-founder Rob Gonzalez explains how some global brands are measuring the full impact of digital shelf investments on total sales revenue.

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Amazon Prime Membership Growth May Be Flattening; Home Depot Invests Billions in Omnichannel; and What We’ve Learned From the Holiday Season—So Far

Sailthru

The evolution of the retail economy continues to challenge the status quo. Even online giant Amazon may be facing some uncertainties, as the growth of its Prime program appears to slow. Home Depot plans to spend billions in 2018 to create an ideal omnichannel experience. And this year’s Cyber 5 is already offering lessons for next year. Amazon Prime May Have Reached Saturation.

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Department Store Shares Are Up. Your Hopes Shouldn’t Be.

Steve Dennis

Amidst reports that holiday spending was up nearly 4.9% , some optimism about the American moderate department store sector has started to creep back in. In fact, right after these reports shares of Macys, Dillards, Kohls and JC Penney spiked. It’s all a bit baffling. On the one hand, if I were a betting person, I expect that these brands will report decent, maybe even objectively good, numbers this quarter.

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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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New Direct to Consumer Guide from Wiser and CPC Strategy

Wiser

Brands and manufacturers are seeing increased success with direct to consumer (DTC) channels. We’ve just wrapped up an eBook with our friends over at CPC Strategy called The Wholesale Brand Disruption Guide. It is full of case studies from brands that have made a dent in the DTC market and actionable tips to help brands that are on the fence gain the insights they need to enter new markets confidently. .

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35 Best WordPress Ecommerce Themes For A Fast, Sexy Site

eCommerce CEO

Ecommerce is a booming industry, but making sales takes a few key things, like a great-looking website. We’re doing our best to make your hunt for the perfect simple, clean design – a must when picking a theme. Before we dig into our list of winners, however, we’ll walk you through the key features of templates that you need for your ecommerce store.

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The ABC's of SEO

FastSpring

In a previous post, we kindly reminded you that the entire Internet is judging you. In an infinite sprawl of e-commerce best practices, must do's, and top ten lists, we're going to wade through the sea of marketing jargon for you. Today our focus is Search Engine Optimization.

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The Top 5 E-Commerce Trends for 2018

Salsify

There isn't any question that e-commerce technologies continue to advance and factor strongly in how people buy things online. While Asia has become a leader in e-commerce, the U.S. is still a strong leader through businesses large and small. It's mobile technology where growth has really started to spike in e-commerce, and that's changed the marketing game for companies around the world.

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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