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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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JUNE 2, 2021

Ecommerce marketers and business owners weighed down with growing their business while retaining customers typically turn to AI (Artificial Intelligence) to make demanding eMarketing tasks easier. Entrepreneurs using ecommerce platforms like WooCommerce, Shopify or PrestaShop want to automate some of their processes and access reliable data to forecast sales and manage their stock.

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SellBrite

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you’re an ecommerce seller, we have good news—online shopping isn’t slowing down any time soon. According to Statista, there are 4.28 trillion U.S. dollars in the ecommerce industry, and it’s expected to rise to $5.4 trillion in 2022. With this rise in shopping activity, ecommerce marketing automation(EMA) is a no-brainer for sellers. EMA and its software will make your life easier, allowing you to dedicate more time to high-priority tasks like fostering customer relationships.

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Inflow Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Your eCommerce site’s goal should be to match shoppers to products as seamlessly as possible. In order to accomplish this, you’ll need to consider an important SEO file: the sitemap. Your sitemap (or, more likely, sitemaps) helps search engines understand the pages on your site and all of the products you offer — so they can better show your pages to searchers.

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Store Growers

JANUARY 29, 2021

Last Updated on January 29, 2021. Let me give you the bad news first. Getting a Google Ads Certification won’t make you a Google Ads expert. Further, it’s unlikely you’ll get paid more because of the certificate, and it doesn’t prepare you to deal with actual challenges that a Google Ads manager faces. But there are a few cases where it might be a good idea to get that certification.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you want to know the cheapest way to ship packages or if you run an ecommerce business and want to keep your shipping costs down, this article will teach you all of the cheap shipping methods I use for my 7 figure online store. Because ecommerce is booming and there’s a nationwide shortage of manpower, all of the major shipping carriers have increased their prices.

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BigCommerce

JUNE 2, 2021

Within the B2B market, there are several metrics you can measure, analyze and compare.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ahh, the age-old problem for your brand—how to win more share of shelf. It’s common knowledge that optimizing shelf space at your top-performing retailers (and edging out the competitors in your category) is a core part of increasing sales. What’s not always common knowledge? That there are easier ways out there to convince stores to give you better placements on the shelf.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Helping people collaborate effectively to design experiences is a higher priority than ever. It would have been even if Covid-19 hadn’t hit us, simply because it’s increasingly clear that better experiences drive higher engagement, enrichment, retention, and recommendation. But the pandemic kicked remote work into high gear and, with it, the importance of being able […].

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SheerID

AUGUST 9, 2021

SheerID have made exclusive discounts available to millions of students and teachers as they prepare for the new school year.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 8, 2021

Bots That Write Code Are Landing On Planet Earth The future of work for AD&D pros will have to change! Today about 70% of the work is all about the development of glue code and wiring things together. From the UI front end, to the backend of apps, as well as in the integration layer […].

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JULY 22, 2021

As is expected with any new market segment or capability, questions about Extended Detection & Response (XDR) abound. I wrote this blog to answer a few of the more common questions I’m getting from Forrester clients and from security vendors that are trying to figure this space out. What is XDR? An incredibly simplified way […].

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BigCommerce

JULY 6, 2021

Intense competition is driving rapid technological innovation in ecommerce.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 11, 2021

The week of July 12 was a big one (not in a good way) for showcasing the persistence and depth of harassment and exclusion for women in cybersecurity. Those on infosec social media were flooded with bikini selfies protesting the harassment that a woman received for posting her own bikini selfie. Men and women took […].

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BigCommerce

JULY 14, 2021

Fashion is a fast-growing industry with new trends being introduced every year or even within a quarter.

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 14, 2021

Social, mobile, big data and cloud are mainstream. What is next? These technologies helped startups become multibillion-dollar enterprises and led to an AI revival. Today, however, only about ¼ of efforts gets past pilot phase with AI. Is implementing AI in production going to trigger new waves of change? Will the pattern be similar to […].

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 7, 2021

Forrester’s latest research on digital business maturity shows that business leaders now consider accelerating the shift to digital business the most critical priority in 2021. It should come as no surprise that COVID-19 has widened the digital business gap between digitally advanced firms and firms that were caught off guard by the pandemic. Less obvious […].

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BigCommerce

APRIL 26, 2021

So you want to make your ecommerce store the best it can be, minimize cart abandonment and deliver a great…

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APRIL 20, 2021

We have heard it again and again: the pace of change has never been faster, and it is not going to slow down. To win, the most successful organizations will those who are able to capitalize on this market dynamism. Forrester finds that firms with a future fit strategy succeed in this new reality by […].

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 8, 2021

My previous blog noted that “technology has been modernized separately, to a meaningful degree, from the people and processes interacting with that technology.” This phenomenon has been driven primarily from the outdated managerial approach that the application of technology simply supports the efficiency of a given product or service. Organizations can no longer use this mindset and […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 10, 2021

There are two people in a wood, and they run into a bear. The first person gets down on his knees to pray; the second person starts lacing up his boots. The first person asks the second person, “My dear friend, what are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear.” To which the second person […].

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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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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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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

One of the top challenges and misunderstandings that I continue to see here at Forrester is about what the definition of Zero Trust actually is. Zero Trust is not one product or platform; it’s a security framework built around the concept of “never trust, always verify” and “assuming breach.” Attempting to buy Zero Trust as […].

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 27, 2021

In our prior Tech Titans research, we mentioned that Microsoft was poised to become a security behemoth. Today, Microsoft announced that its cybersecurity business has grown to over $10 billion in revenue. Ten billion dollars in revenue with 400,000 customers cements the vendor as a cybersecurity behemoth, without a doubt. As more and more businesses […].

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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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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 12, 2021

^CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN^ The channel software stack comprises a group of technologies that help companies develop, design, and execute plans to find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incent, co-sell with, manage, measure, and report on partners. Delivering automation of indirect sales processes, workflows, and partner programs, channel software is becoming increasingly critical to a […].

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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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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 22, 2021

There’s no shortage of obstacles holding back folks from finding meaningful employment in the cybersecurity sector. Some of these obstacles are imposed by human resources policies and the software used to automatically scan through resumes in a game of electronic buzzword bingo. One of the most insidious of these being the requirement of a college […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 13, 2021

This may be a bit of a long blog due to the extensive nature of the Executive Order On Improving The Nation’s Cybersecurity and its impact on cybersecurity and the Zero Trust approach. The Biden administration also published a “FACT SHEET: President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect […].

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 22, 2021

Significant gaps continue to exist in private banking, forcing firms to rethink pricing and organizational models. As a result, high-net-worth clients are not fully benefiting from some of the digital innovations that are changing how customers interact with their private banks. To identify “The Top Global Private Banking Trends In 2021,” we interviewed senior executives […].

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 3, 2021

Revenge Of The SaaS: Mandiant Dumps FEYE In a cybersecurity divorce that had fewer leading indicators than the dissolution of Kim and Kanye, Mandiant has finally untangled itself from FireEye (FEYE) by selling the product portion of the firm to Symphony Technology Group (STG) for $1.2 billion. FireEye’s history as the most “almost acquired vendor” […].

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