Georges Berzgal says, “For any online retailer, transporting a consumer seamlessly from the shopping to buying stage brings its challenges. Checkout, the pivotal moment to secure the sale, is still an area where many retailers struggle to provide a customer-centric experience.Whether the customer is shopping in-store or online, a poor customer experience is likely to result in an abandoned basket.So, how can you prevent valuable online customers from straying from their shopping baskets?1. Keep it clear and simpleMany customers are time poor, easily distracted, and perhaps most notably,... [...]
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Matt McGee says, “The holidays saw a big increase in online sales in the US, according to the Census Bureau’s latest quarterly e-commerce sales report.The bureau estimates $89.1 billion in e-commerce sales during Q4 of 2015, a 14.7-percent jump from Q4 2014. The figure also represents a quarterly gain of 2.1 percent over the third quarter of 2015. For comparison, overall retail sales — online and offline — were up 1.3 percent in Q4.The full-year estimate for 2015 was up about the same as the Q4 numbers. The Census Bureau pegs total e-commerce sales last year at $341.7 billion, a 14.6-percent... [...]
Matt McGee says, “The holidays saw a big increase in online sales in the US, according to the Census Bureau’s latest quarterly e-commerce sales report.The bureau estimates $89.1 billion in e-commerce sales during Q4 of 2015, a 14.7-percent jump from Q4 2014. The figure also represents a quarterly gain of 2.1 percent over the third quarter of 2015. For comparison, overall retail sales — online and offline — were up 1.3 percent in Q4.The full-year estimate for 2015 was up about the same as the Q4 numbers. The Census Bureau pegs total e-commerce sales last year at $341.7 billion, a 14.6-percent... [...]
eCom Pages Pro, being released today, is the world’s first “drag and drop” Shopify store builder that is hosted in the cloud. Regardless of your technical skills or your experience, you can uses this new software to build attractive Shopify stores in a matter of minutes.Unfortunately, many people struggle to set up their Shopify stores manually. But now, with eCom Pages Pro, you can build your site and customize it however you want it while bypassing all the struggle of manual methods.The creators have included a variety of store templates that can generate successful stores... [...]
Danny Halarewich says, “Moving from project to project is a challenge for agencies, to say the least. Revenue is inconsistent from month to month, causing an unstable work environment and a ton of stress and pressure.Another problem with the project approach is that it sets the client’s expectation to believing that there’s nothing left to do once the initial work is complete. And we all know that’s just not true.A successful online business is all about experimenting and making changes to improve performance and grow faster, and this is especially important for online retailers... [...]
Ben Davis says, “Ecommerce technology is improving all the time, but the retail market also grows more competitive.What must it be like to start your own ecommerce venture from scratch?Postcards Home founder, Lucy Coleman, has recently done exactly that. Her business offers homeware and gifts from independent designers around the world; Lucy describes it as ‘products that transport us to our favourite places’.I caught up with her to ask about her journey so far.Tell us how Postcards Home started.It began in Kerala, South India when I was living in Thiruvananthapuram with... [...]
Lisa Froelings says, “At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Media Conference in San Francisco on Feb. 10, Wenig revealed that the company is thinking more as a merchandiser or retailer, instead of just an open marketplace.“We’re changing from an unstructured to highly structured marketplace,” said Wenig. “The brilliance of eBay’s model is its greatest challenge. It’s a friction free marketplace, which means sellers can sell anything they want, and that makes it complicated.”eBay, the huge online auction house for hard-to-find items and antiques, used clothing and cars, has... [...]
Charlie Keegan says, “Online marketplaces such as Etsy, eBay, and Amazon Marketplace helped to create and then boost an online shopping environment. There’s no denying that online marketplaces—something like a flea market for the internet—have been useful to thousands of startup ecommerce companies.At some point, however, you have to leave the flea market behind and start your own endeavor. If you’re still bringing in plenty of money as a vendor through one of these marketplaces, the idea of moving on may seem ludicrous. Why shake up a good thing? Why risk everything you have while... [...]
Ameen Khwaja says, “The market works with the only characteristic and that is to change. Market has always been under a shift since very early in time. While the multi mega stores were a big hit a few decades ago, it actually revolutionized how people shopped.The mega stores addressed huge problems of shopping for different things at different shops requiring a lot of time and efforts. The one stop solution was a utility boon for common public, saving time and money both.The e-commerce industry further ease upped this issue by eliminating the need to even step out of your home and make... [...]
Arie Shpanya says, “Ecommerce giants like Amazon are becoming stronger, and ecommerce as a whole is experiencing growth at an unprecedented level.However, there’s one statistic that is slightly disconcerting for many retailers. A new report by Shop.org and Forrester Research revealed a startling fact: 2015 online sales were flat for 17% of 195 surveyed retailers.This doesn’t sound too bad until you realize that 2014’s report only indicated flat sales for 3% of survey respondents.It’s up to retailers in 2016 to provide a lift in their plateaued conversion rates... [...]