Thursday, November 21, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
This week, Salesforce used its annual Dreamforce mega-show to make a host of announcements, ranging from contact center partnership with Amazon to a smart speaker tool for sales. For the most part, the keynote featured practical...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
I have loved the story of Ring doorbells ever since seeing the CEO Jamie Siminoff on TV's Shark Tank several years ago. I also loved the SimpliSafe story with CEO Chad Laurans, and the Nest story too. These companies, started by creative...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. PayPal to acquire shopping and...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Splice is blowing up like a hit song. The audio sample marketplace has doubled revenue and user count in a year, and now reaches 3 million musicians. Many pay $7.99 for unlimited access, and 70% of subscribers visit weekly to hunt down...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Ecommerce can help retain business buyers via expedited reordering, real-time reporting, and improved customer service. B2B retention is often a combination of product quality, consistent delivery, contractual relationships, competitive...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from Ecommerce News
Ecommerce in France has achieved a turnover of 74 billion euros during the first nine months of this year. French ecommerce association Fevad thinks that, due to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, consumers will spend 20 billion euros in the...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Website visitors on smartphones often convert twice as much when they conduct at least one search. Thus it's beneficial to not only provide a helpful mobile search experience but also nudge shoppers into using it. In this post, I'll...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Amazon may have stopped selling its Dash buttons for consumers, but it’s not done with dedicated Dash hardware: The company is launching its new Amazon Dash Smart Shelf today. Aimed at small businesses rather than individuals, the...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Between Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and indie merchants, it’s easy to lose track of when your online purchases will be delivered. And if you’re buying something pricey or important, a lack of shipping insurance can leave you anxious...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Fraudsters manipulate clicks to achieve a variety of goals. For instance, a cybercriminal might create a phishing site, then artificially inflate the site’s click numbers to push it up to the first page of search results. It could also...Thursday, November 21, 2019 from E-commerce | The Guardian
The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes. By Samanth Subramanian A decade ago, the British department-store chain John Lewis built itself a long warehouse,...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
If you wander into the Bandit coffee shop in Midtown New York, you won’t be able to just walk up to the counter and order something. Instead, you’ll need to download a mobile app. I experienced it for myself yesterday...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash. The acquisition, which is PayPal’s largest to date, will...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
In today's highly competitive B2B software industry, it's not enough to staff a call center and sit back and wait for customers to reach out when they need you -- it's imperative that you take the initiative. When customers have so many...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
Got your attention? We thought so. In a recently published Notice, the IRS seems to be offering some cautionary advice about the legal risks associated with using cryptocurrencies to avoid capital gains taxes. Likely displeased by the...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Every year I review trends, changes, and innovations that impact email marketing. What follows are my observations for 2019. The post Email Marketing: 2019 Trends and Innovations appeared first on Practical Ecommerce .Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from Ecommerce News
Miinto, an ecommerce fashion platform from Denmark, has received over 130 million Swedish kronor (12.2 million euros) from both existing and new investors. The company announced the news together with the fact that sales increased...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Inhabitr, a Chicago-based furniture rental platform, has today announced the close of a $4 million in Series A funding, led by Great North Labs. Inhabitr launched in 2016 after the cofounders, who have gone through dozens of moves...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Retailers are letting financial factors dictate their digital strategies to solve common challenges. While they are heavy users of mobile technology, this tends to be driven more by mobile technology ubiquity and consumer expectations...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from Ecommerce News
Just 69 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ireland have a website. And only 32 percent of these online companies sell products or services online. By not selling online, SMEs are losing their share of the Ireland’s...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Alibaba Group on Wednesday announced a price of HK$176 a share for its new global offering, which comprises an international offering and a Hong Kong public offering, and set a date of Nov. 26 for the shares’ listing on The Stock...Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from Alizila RSS
To handle US$ 38.4 billion in gross merchandise value for the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, the first billion in just 68 seconds, Alibaba Group needs computing power – a lot of computing power, in fact. These days, that’s all...Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
With Jinx, three former members of the Casper team are looking to bring what CEO Terri Rockovich called “the Casper playbook” to selling dog food. The startup has raised $5.65 million from an all-star list of investors...Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
For the second time in as many years, Macy’s customers have been hit by a data breach involving countless numbers of credit cards. In a filing with the California attorney general, the retail giant said hackers siphoned off...Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
Microsoft will end support for Windows 7 on Jan. 14, 2020. Windows 7 will continue to run on Jan. 14 as it did on Jan. 13. So why is it so important to upgrade to Windows 10? The answer: cybercrime. End of support means that Windows 7 no...Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
B2B ecommerce is expanding rapidly with innovative new services and marketing strategies. Much of the innovation focuses on improving personalization. However, that is typically the last step. There are prerequisites to address first....Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from Ecommerce News
UK online electricals retailer AO announced today that it will close its Netherlands operation. The exit from the Netherlands enables the retailer to focus more on its German business, soon the only operation outside of the United...Monday, November 18, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
Direct-to-consumer commerce, or D2C, is on the rise. Increasingly, consumers are expecting to interact directly with the companies that market and manufacture products. "Direct-to-consumer commerce has been enhanced by the explosion of...Monday, November 18, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
An internal linking strategy around topic clusters or silos can improve site architecture and help search engines understand your content. But topic clusters are not a set-and-forget strategy. They require monitoring. The post How to...Monday, November 18, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
The world has gotten so much faster. Amazon has made two-day shipping the standard and same- or next-day shipping commonplace. And that doesn’t even include the collection of on-demand players who can get us everything from...Monday, November 18, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Google Analytics may be the most important application to understand the behavior of your visitors. And whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, there are many free resources to help. Here is a list of free tutorials for Google...Monday, November 18, 2019 from Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Award-winning marketer and thought leader, Oisin Lunny, recently chaired the Savant eCommerce Barcelona event. Read on for his insightful recap of the two immersive days of networking and learning. The post Taking ecommerce innovation to...Monday, November 18, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more consolidation. Today, Elavon, the payments company that is a subsidiary of US...Sunday, November 17, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The earnings season is here. This week, long-time archrivals in the...Sunday, November 17, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Search engine optimization typically focuses on popular keywords. However, long-tail SEO targets keywords that are searched for less frequently but drive value in the aggregate. The post For Ecommerce SEO, Don’t Ignore the Long...Sunday, November 17, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Temie Giwa-Tubosun, whose company LifeBank delivers blood to in-need hospitals in Nigeria, took first place in Jack Ma’s inaugural Africa Netpreneur Prize contest on Saturday during a five-hour finale taped for TV in Accra, Ghana....Saturday, November 16, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Entrepreneurs should be supported as drivers of change and economic prosperity in Africa, Jack Ma said at the inaugural Africa Netpreneur Conference, held Saturday in the Ghanaian capital of Accra. Reiterating one of his longstanding...Saturday, November 16, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Fifty rangers on the front lines of conservation and wildlife protection in Africa were honored at the second annual African Ranger Awards on Friday at a ceremony in Accra, Ghana, including six who received the award posthumously after...Friday, November 15, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Brands on the Amazon marketplace seem to believe that no one can sell their products. That isn’t true. Surprisingly, even Amazon itself could sell a brand's products without the brand's consent. The post 2 Ways Amazon Directly Sells a...Friday, November 15, 2019 from Alizila RSS
As always, the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival this year delivered big numbers: gross merchandise volume at RMB268.4 billion ($38.4 billion), up 26% from 2018; 1.3 billion delivery orders; a record 200,000 participating brands; and 1...Friday, November 15, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Dear Alibaba Investors, Thank you for your interest in and support for Alibaba Group. Today, we are launching our listing in Hong Kong. As a young company that is only 20 years old, it is a new starting point for Alibaba. The world is...Friday, November 15, 2019 from Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Mobile-first is the way of the future, and your secret to building a successful business in 2020 is embracing that change before the competition catches on. This article covers the basics to a mobile-first design and a few ideas to get...Friday, November 15, 2019 from Ecommerce News
Amazon is testing its Amazon Day service in Germany. With this service, Prime members can have their orders bundled and shipped on a day of their choice. Amazon Day is meant to save packaging material and countless trips from the courier...Friday, November 15, 2019 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites (or any other destination) to their profile biography as well as offer creators the...Friday, November 15, 2019 from Ecommerce News
Black Friday is popular in Germany, where numerous online and physical retailers throw around discounts. But many retailers prefer there was no Black Friday at all. Still, they are captured by the attention this holiday keeps attracting....Friday, November 15, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Lazada Group, Southeast Asia’s e-commerce leader, closed this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival with record-breaking user growth and brands’ participation. The platform said it attracted nearly 10 million more users...Thursday, November 14, 2019 from Alizila RSS
Alibaba Group on Friday announced the launch of its Hong Kong public retail offering, which forms part of a global offering of 500,000,000 new ordinary shares and listing of its ordinary shares on the The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd....Thursday, November 14, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-November from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on email marketing, holiday shipping, ecommerce returns, digital payments, live chat support, and...Thursday, November 14, 2019 from E-Commerce Times
With Dreamforce approaching, it's no surprise that Salesforce is making a flurry of announcements. What is surprising are two big ones involving partnering with other vendors, mostly on infrastructure -- announcements that I believe make...Thursday, November 14, 2019 from Practical Ecommerce
Alibaba’s Singles Day sales on November 11 totaled a record $38.4 billion or 268.4 billion yuan gross merchandise volume, an increase of 26 percent over 2018, according to the company. Gross merchandise volume — GMV — is total sales of...