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Etsy Pros and Cons. What Are the Best Platforms for Creative Businesses?

If you are considering selling handmade goods or artwork, you may be interested in opening an Etsy shop. The popular online marketplace provides a space for artists and designers to sell their unique products without...

byCora Gold

March 27, 2024

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4 Creative Approaches to Leverage More Ecommerce Store Sales

There have been many trials and tribulations in the world of ecommerce over recent years. From the pandemic to the rise of digital transformation and an ongoing cost of living crisis, store owners have been...

byRebecca Barnatt-Smith

October 3, 2023

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LISTEN: Omnichannel Shopping is the Future

How are consumers using online to influence offline purchases? Before shopping in store, 58% are researching deals and prices, 51% check product reviews, and 42% check in stock status. And now consumers are not only...

byStartupNation

August 16, 2023

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6 Tactics to Reduce Bounce Rates and Boost Engagement on Your Ecommerce Site

You've spent a lot of time and effort driving traffic to your ecommerce store. You've optimized your site for SEO, created catchy ads, posted engaging content on social media — the whole works. But then...

byJohn Hurley

July 11, 2023

LISTEN: E-Commerce in the US is Heating Up

One emerging sector of online retail showing promise as a channel is known as live commerce. Think of it as like QVC or Home Shopping Network, but online. Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR...

byStartupNation

June 7, 2023

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LISTEN: The Psychology Behind Online Shopping

Jeff, Kristin and Mark discuss why online shopping is so addicting. Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 5 a.m. for The Pre W. Smith Show. Listeners outside of the Detroit area...

byStartupNation

May 19, 2023

How to Enhance Your E-Commerce Experience with a Smart Shopping Assistant

Consumer habits are evolving quite dramatically. In the wake of the global pandemic, there has been a marked uptick in e-commerce, and there is little indication of this coming to a halt in the near...

byJacob Davis

April 28, 2023

Consumer Behavior in the New Normal: How to Better Serve Your Customers

Due to the pandemic, changes in consumer behavior have emerged across all areas of our lives. For example, more people are now shopping online than ever before: U.S. e-commerce sales grew 44% in 2020, and...

byShay Berman

September 27, 2022

How Your New E-Commerce Brand Can Drive Exponential Growth

As retailers worldwide make the shift to e-commerce, how can your business follow suit? Total e-commerce revenue is expected to reach $4.2T in 2020, a pie that startup companies are sure to want a piece...

byRohan Thambrahalli

July 27, 2022

5 Reasons for Shopping Cart Abandonment (and How to Reduce it)

Online shopping has been a convenient commerce alternative for a little over the past two decades, and as many retailers in the past months have had to temporarily close their stores due to COVID-19, the...

byLuke Heinecke

August 3, 2020

4 Ways the Crisis is Changing Customer Engagement for Online Businesses

There are few silver linings when it comes to the economic impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on American small businesses. One area of the economy seeing a boom? E-commerce. In these socially distant...

byEric Goldschein

June 8, 2020

Should the E-Commerce Industry Scale Back Two-Day Shipping?

Once a consumer purchases an item online, the clock starts ticking. Their expectations have aligned with the two-day shipping standard set by large corporations like Amazon. According to a Clutch study, 48 percent of online...

byNicole Schlabach

December 29, 2019

How E-Commerce Businesses Can Boost Brand Marketing

Even in a thriving digital economy, print still plays a big role in brand marketing. For e-commerce businesses that ship goods directly to customers, printed add-ons are a tactful way to dramatically enhance the unboxing experience....

byLD Products

August 6, 2016

Are consumers still interested in shopping in retail stores?

Do shoppers still like going into retail stores to buy products? I was just reading an article in Chain Store Age that asked this very question. To my surprise, there is still major interest from...

byJim Debetta

September 9, 2015

Taobao: a key to the China market?

Taobao: a key to the China market? This article will focus on the best strategy to enter online shopping market in China, through a Taobao shop. First, we will see why a Taobao shop is...

byThibaud Andre

October 3, 2014

eCommerce: 45 Tips to Turbocharge Your Sales

If you are the owner of an eCommerce website, you are continuously looking for ways to improve the conversion rate on your site and to drive more sales. To that end, here are 45 tips...

byTom Shapiro

June 9, 2009