Wix’s abandoned cart email is one powerful remarketing tool. Why? 7 of 10 shoppers who add an object to their cart will not purchase it. Abandoned carts are a major problem for eCommerce businesses, costing them $18 billion annually. If you…
Magento’s Community Engineering Program: How Merchants Can Benefit from Working with Partners Magento’s open-source heritage has kept it at the forefront of commerce innovation. It empowers a global community to customize and expand its core capabilities to suit a wide…
The free-shipping age squeezes smaller merchants. They need to match the transport policies of bigger competitors, but they do not obtain the high-volume shipping discounts that the larger companies do. Smaller merchants must pay more, in other words, for offering…
An ecommerce merchant frequently wears many hats — entrepreneur, entrepreneur, and content creator, to name a few. Fortunately there are free online guides to aid with every task. Here’s a listing of online guides to help merchants with their many…
In November 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York preliminarily approved a proposed settlement agreement with Visa and MasterCard. As part of this settlement, Visa and MasterCard were required to permit merchants to charge for…
In”Part 1″ and”Part 2″ of the EvRolution collection, I have addressed consumer shopping trends and how bigger global and web-only retailers are reacting to new customer demands. This report focuses on what little to midsize ecommerce merchants and smaller manufacturer…
With the growing dominance of Amazon and Ebay for regular consumer products, what future is there for the smaller ecommerce enterprise? Amazon and Ebay both highlight price. Many shoppers on these sites don’t care who the real supplier is, as…
The world wide web is buzzing with how blockchains can resolve problems and interrupt numerous industries. But just what is a blockchain and how can it benefit merchants? A blockchain is a”dispersed ledger” –i.e., data spread across several computers —…
With all the talk of a”retail apocalypse,” you may wonder why any merchant would want to open a brick-and-mortar shop. Yet several successful ecommerce businesses are currently operating physical shops and the trend appears to be picking up in 2018.…
Alexa abilities are voice apps that improve Alexa-driven devices. With the ideal skills empowered, Alexa can help merchants tracks sales, get industry-related information and tips, track communications, organize tasks, and much more. There are over 25,000 abilities from the U.S.…