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Uber is looking to food delivery for rescue from falling revenues caused by people staying at home because of the pandemic, as gross bookings for Uber Rides have decreased by three percent year over year, the company noted in its Q1 2020...Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
The ability to measure changes to pricing, shipping, and other items is essential to successful ecommerce merchants. Google Analytics has features to document and track changes to provide critical feedback. Annotations in Google...Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Instagram today is starting a small global test of the Instagram Shop tab, first announced this May, which allows Instagram users to shop from top brands and creators via a new tab in the app’s navigation bar with just one tap....Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Ecommerce News
Supermercato24 has announced its rebranding. The Italian same-day delivery service for online groceries has now become Everli. The name should be more easy to remember for both Italians and non-Italians. The reason why Supermercato24...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Alizila RSS
To help small businesses regain their footing after Covid-19, Taobao University, Alibaba Group’s training and education platform, has curated a free webinar series to share the company’s best-practice case studies and...Monday, July 6, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Despite the slow reopening of the U.S. economy over the past several weeks, online grocery shopping is continuing to reach ever-higher numbers as Americans seem to be in no rush to return to the store. According to new research released...Monday, July 6, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
With billions of dollars of federal contracts at stake, information technology providers are being swept up in the tide of a new U.S. Department of Defense information security requirement that will become mandatory for IT providers and...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Product descriptions are vital to attracting website traffic and closing sales. But the type of description to use depends on your target audience and the channel, beyond your own ecommerce site. Potential customers are everywhere,...Monday, July 6, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
At Early Stage, the first event of its kind from TechCrunch, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds in the tech world across categories like fundraising, scaling, operations and marketing....Monday, July 6, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of the top-selling shops on Etsy, along with the number of each shop’s sales and admirers. Etsy’s top sellers offer products to get organized, favors for celebrations, design patterns to build from, and supplies for making...Monday, July 6, 2020 from E-commerce | The Guardian
If small businesses fail after Covid-19, the big boys will become even more powerful. A radical 1930s policy could be the answer The economy we knew before the pandemic has disappeared. Rather than simply returning to how things were...Sunday, July 5, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
During the on-going coronavirus pandemic, many retailers have been forced to furlough or lay off workers. While this is never an easy process, good communication may help make it relatively less emotional and painful for everyone...Friday, July 3, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
As a result of the severe business disruptions brought about in recent months by the pandemic, many businesses have been reconsidering how to retool their supply chain to build in more resiliency. From digitizing the supply chain to...Friday, July 3, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Computer vision summit CVPR has just (virtually) taken place, and like other CV-focused conferences, there are quite a few interesting papers. More than I could possibly write up individually, in fact, so I’ve collected the most...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Keyword research can help improve your organic search performance. Search engines attempt to sync the words and intent of consumers' queries with web pages. Ecommerce merchants should therefore align their pages using the right keywords...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Alizila RSS
The Alibaba News Roundup is a weekly digest of events and happenings across the company. This week’s coverage looks at Alibaba Cloud’s growth ambitions, Freshippo and Beyond Meat’s plant-based partnership and how a...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Alizila RSS
This week, global communications group WPP and consulting firm Kantar released their annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands rankings, with Alibaba Group ranked sixth overall. The rankings, which included brands like Apple,...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
A company's ability to answer customer questions and resolve problems has become as essential as product, quality, and price. When customers are ignored, or given the impression they are unimportant by slow response times, the...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Alizila RSS
Alibaba Group’s cloud-computing division on Thursday said it has worked with nearly 40% of the Fortune 500 companies in the past fiscal year, underscoring its push to become the world’s leading cloud-services provider by...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Ecommerce News
Logistics company DSV plans to invest about 270 million euros in a new logistics center, which will become Europe’s largest with just one leaseholder. The new site will cover 700,000 square meters. The reason for a new logistics...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Content may well be one of the most powerful forms of modern marketing. When a business creates content, publishes that content, and then promotes it, it has the potential to attract, engage, and keep customers. What follows are five...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Managing a fast-growing ecommerce business is not for the faint of heart. I've picked up a few practices over the last decade to keep my mental and physical health while scaling FringeSport. The post How I maintain mental and physical...Wednesday, July 1, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
One of the e-tail world's most pressing questions is: When will Amazon have its Prime Day sale this year? Perhaps a better question is: Will Prime Day happen at all? Amazon so far is not telling. If Prime Day 2020 takes place in the...Wednesday, July 1, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
Some years ago, Marc Benioff told me he was not interested in developing back office apps that would compete with SAP and Oracle in the ERP and finance market. Many people, myself included, looked askance at that idea and wondered out...Wednesday, July 1, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late June from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on website builders, logistics tools, free product listings, predictive artificial intelligence,...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Alizila RSS
Beyond Meat has teamed up with Freshippo to launch its products in the Alibaba Group-owned New Retail supermarket as the plant-based market heats up in China. Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat is launching its flagship Beyond Burger – a...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
Shoppers are starting to come back to their favorite brick and mortar storefronts as the pandemic restrictions allow consumers to exit from lockdown. But the impact of COVID-19 has etched some far-reaching changes in the retail industry...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Ecommerce News
Wix announced the launch of an extended ecommerce solution. The new solution provides online merchants features like customizable branded storefronts, multi-channel sales, dropshipping, native payment processing, and analytics and report...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Google and Microsoft advertisers have had to rethink quality copy with the format of expanded text ads and responsive search ads. But the principles of the copy are the same for all pay-per-click ads: include the searcher's query, the...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
We publish roughly 45 articles each month, hopefully helping ecommerce merchants improve their businesses. What follows are the 10 most popular articles that we published in June 2020. Articles from early in the month are more likely to...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
If Postmates has managed anything like revenue growth acceleration because people have been staying home and ordering more food and other goods, its IPO story could prove attractive.Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Ecommerce News
Swedish fintech company Klarna has entered Spain today with the launch of its ‘buy now, pay later’ service. This service allows shoppers to pay in three interest-free installments at some online retailers across the Southern...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Ecommerce News
Ziticity, a urban logistics platform from Lithuania, has raised 2.2 million euros. The seed equity investment round was led by NordicNinja VC. With the money, the same-day delivery platform wants to expand in Europe. Currently, Ziticity...Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from Ecommerce News
Manufacturers increasingly want to digitize their sales- and buying processes. But what is the current maturity level of their online sales- and services capabilities? And how does it come that manufacturers act so protective in the...Monday, June 29, 2020 from Alizila RSS
Alibaba Group wrapped up its 6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival earlier this month with new record highs across categories, pointing to strong signs of post-pandemic economic recovery in the world’s second-largest economy. We sat down...Monday, June 29, 2020 from E-Commerce Times
The heart of the manufacturing world was the first region to feel the effects of the pandemic. While we have seen some stabilization, many challenges remain in terms of pricing, reliability, and the supply chain itself. Let's take a...Monday, June 29, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
As e-commerce companies aim to capitalize on the online spending boom connected to shelter-in-place and keep the party going as physical retailers open back up, more are turning their attention to how they can juice the functionality of...Monday, June 29, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of top private label brands from Amazon. The brands are sorted by the total number of customer reviews, as on average 3 to 5 percent of units sold generate reviews for these brands. I also used the Jungle Scout Chrome...Monday, June 29, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Earlier this year, Google made a significant change to its Shopping search tab in the U.S. to allow the service to primarily feature free product listings selected by Google’s algorithms, instead of paid ads. Building on that...Monday, June 29, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many physical-store merchants considered contactless payments to be a fad. My previous article addressed near field communication, the technology that powers most contactless payment methods in North...Monday, June 29, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Amazon warehouse workers in Germany are striking for 48 hours this week, to protest conditions that have led to COVID-19 infections among fellow employees. Strikes began today at six warehouses and are set to continue through end of day...Monday, June 29, 2020 from Ecommerce News
SwipBox has reached every part of Scandinavia. Because after the summer, PostNord Sweden will test the parcel lockers in Stockholm. The Danish company is now active in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. PostNord and SwipBox have agreed to...Monday, June 29, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Amazon said on Monday it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its fulfillment centers in India, delivering on a pledge it made last year to achieve this goal by June. The American e-commerce group said it had...Monday, June 29, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
E-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to launch a hyperlocal service that would enable customers to buy items from local stores and have those delivered to them in an hour and a half or less. Yatra, an online travel and hotel ticketing...Sunday, June 28, 2020 from Alizila RSS
Alibaba.com has launched a new initiative to scale up global recruitment and training efforts for businesses in the wake of Covid-19. Dubbed “Project Sprout Up,” the program will see the B2B trade platform double down on...Sunday, June 28, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Last month I addressed content ideas to maximize an Instagram feed to attract followers. In this post, I'll discuss strategies to optimize Instagram posts to retain and engage an audience of potential buyers. The post Advanced Strategies...Friday, June 26, 2020 from Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
This post is an excerpt from Brian Beck's Billion Dollar B2B Ecommerce: Seize the Opportunity , available now Channel conflict is largely centered on product price When a manufacturer or brand sells directly to the end user of the...Friday, June 26, 2020 from TechCrunch » eCommerce
Up until 2013, Adobe sold its software in cardboard boxes that were distributed mostly by third party vendors.Friday, June 26, 2020 from Practical Ecommerce
Kurt Elster's "The Unofficial Shopify Podcast" has been downloaded more than 1 million times. His agency, Ethercycle, helps Shopify merchants drive revenue and profit. You might call Elster the unauthorized Mr. Shopify. The post...Friday, June 26, 2020 from Alizila RSS
On the heels of its 6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival, Alibaba Group hosted a livestreamed webinar with global analysis and advisory firm Coresight Research to discuss the results of and learnings gleaned from the biggest shopping event in...