Ah yes, the end of 2015 is approaching and so is the speculation about what the ecommerce world has in-store for us in the future.
As with just about every industry, trends change (see our 2015 trends roundup!), making it necessary to catch up and follow along in order to keep your business relevant. Heck, ten years ago social selling and digital receipt upsells were far less common if not impossible.
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An online store owner will examine their customer data in order to find news ways to grow their business, and better ways to target customers. Mostly they will look at stats on certain purchasing groups, but it’s not too often we stop and take a hard look at what the clear cut differences are between male and female shoppers.
Therefore, we have created this info graphic in order to examine the differences between men and women in their online shopping habits. While you might be tempted to say you know everything there is to know about the differences, a broader look into the two sexes reveals some interesting information that all online shop owners can use.
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From Black Friday blowouts to attention-generating big press exposures, online stores need to be able to handle massive online traffic and convert that traffic into sales. If an online store isn’t supported by a reliable ecommerce platform, business owners could quickly find themselves drowning in the tsunami of visitors that flood a website during a flash sale or Black Friday event. And if their webstore crashes, they can lose hundreds of sales in a single hour! So how do business avoid this kind of disaster? They choose platforms like Shopify as their ecommerce solution.
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According to multiple rumors, Amazon has begun telling online merchants that the company has plans to shut down the Amazon Webstore, which is a platform where small and midsize retailers create and run their own online shop.
Continue reading “How Shopify and BigCommerce Killed Amazon Webstore”
When you are considering the largest ecommerce sites in the world by their monthly visitors, you would be quick to think that Amazon or eBay would top the chart, however as you can see in the chart below, the biggest ecommerce company in the world isn't located in the U.S. but is Taobao in China with more than 600 million monthly visitors.
Continue reading “10 Largest Ecommerce Sites Globally are Located Mainly in China and U.S.”
Throughout the past few years internet retail sales have seen a steady growth, and in the U.S. alone it is expected to increase 10% during 2015. As more and more people start using their smartphones and tablets to complete their shopping, brick-and-mortar stores will soon see a decline in their sales. Check out our first infographic to to see a detailed view of the state of ecommerce in 2015.
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The guys at Shopify are always looking for new ways to make the purchasing process as easy as possible. This is why the company has just announced that they have created a responsive checkout, which in essence is a brand new ecommerce checkout experience for online stores.
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Shopify (platform reviewed here) launched a brand new free fully responsive theme aimed at stores with large inventories. Features include prominent navigation, multiple homepage collections, sidebar filtering, and easy integration with the Product Reviews app (which is free as well). So I decided to write this quick Shopify Supply theme review:
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