E-commerce and Retail
E-commerce and retail technologies are transforming the way businesses sell products and services online. From building online stores to optimizing checkout processes and managing shipping and logistics, these tools and strategies help companies create seamless shopping experiences for their customers. Key subtopics within ecommerce and retail include ecommerce platforms, payment gateways, conversion rate optimization, product information management, and order fulfillment. Whether you’re a small business just starting out with ecommerce or a large retailer looking to optimize your online operations, staying up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices is essential for success. Explore the articles below to learn more about how ecommerce and retail technologies can help you grow your business.
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Five Digital Trends Shaking Up Europe
Big data, multi-channel, mobile and social media are all impacting online buying behaviors. While this infographic is focused on Europe, the rest of the world isn't too different . Big data is helping e-commerce providers predict purchase behavior and helping…
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The Evolution of Magento
Selecting an e-commerce platform is dependent upon a lot of variables. The number of products you're selling, the customization of those products available, the integration requirements, and the resources for enhancing and improving the platform all play a role. Magento…
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Zero Moment of Truth: 8 Steps to Readiness
Late last year, I stood in for a colleague who was doing a presentation on Google's Zero Moment of Truth ( ZMOT ). While a lot of effort and material is put into documenting the strategy, for most modern marketers,…
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Social Gifting and Wish Lists
One trend in e-commerce that's arriving is the ability to collaboratively purchase gifts. While we do it with charity raises, now you can get together with friends and raise money to purchase a more expensive gift for a friend. It's…
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The Cost of Poor Web Performance
It's always hard to listen to someone selling their products or services tell you that you have to buy their product or service in order to make more money. With the Internet, it's simply true, though. Fast sites, good tools,…
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Impact of Mobile and Tablet Gifting
While we're seeing a huge increase in the use of mobile devices for researching purchases and measuring subsequent increases in shopping purchases via mobile and tablet device, many of those purchases aren't for the owner of the device. Mobile gifting…
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Plurro is Bringing the Cash Mob to Your Local Retail Business
There have been some serious holes found in the group discounting industry that haven't been overcome yet. Complaints from businesses utilizing Groupon and LivingSocial have pointed to several issues: The required discounts are so steep that it hurts the businesses.…
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Give Your Website a Trust Audit
Several times a week I happen across a company's website only to question whether or not they are really in business, actually doing any business, or are trustworthy enough to engage with. Companies invest in a web presence and don't…
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Tablet & Mobile Shoppers Holiday Plans
Our digital catalog publisher client , Zmags, recently conducted a survey on what consumers' shopping habits would be this holiday season. Based on the results, the majority of shoppers will be purchasing on their mobile and tablet devices this year…
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The Perfect Basket Abandonment Email
We recently shared an infographic that provided evidence that the faster a sales representative returns a call to a prospective client via the web, the higher conversion rate. Not surprisingly, along the same line of logic... the folks at SaleCycle…