Scroll, Click, Buy: The Dynamic Blend of Social Media and Shopping
Explore the present state of eCommerce and how social shopping should impact how you market your products on your website.
How Important Are Return Policies to Your Customers?
Your business’s return policy is more important to customers than you might think.
From Scrolling to Sold: Selling Products on Instagram
Increase sales by connecting your product catalog to Instagram and allowing purchases directly from your followers’ Instagram feeds.
The Amazon Effect: Get with It or Get Lost in eCommerce
E-commerce has become an integral element of the global retail system in recent years. Like many other businesses, the retail sector has changed dramatically since the start of the internet, and increased internet access throughout the world means the number of digital buyers grows with each passing year. Because of the growing digitization of modern […]
Amazon Ads: What You Need to Know
Online spending represented 21.3% of total retail sales in 2020, according to estimates. Amazon accounted for nearly one-third of all eCommerce in the United States.* Consumers spent over $860 billion shopping ecommerce in 2020 just on U.S. merchants alone. That’s a 44% increase year-over-year, not to mention the highest annual U.S. ecommerce growth in at […]
BigCommerce vs. Shopify for WordPress
BigCommerce vs. Shopify:Which eCommerce Platform Should I Integrate with WordPress? Congratulations— you’ve officially set up a WordPress site for your small business. You’ve optimized for top-ranking SEO keywords, dropped in a number of eye-catching visuals, and published some well-written, strategically-crafted copy. Perhaps you’re even getting a nice, steady trickle of traffic coming in (which you’re […]
How Hard Is It to Make a Website?
There’s so much more than meets the eye when it comes to making a website. It’s not merely creating the website that you need to think about— it’s all the other components of that site that add time, complexity, and value to your build. The goal of this blog post is to help familiarize small businesses and […]
Thinking About a Digital Pop-Up Store? Here’s What You Need to Know
When you can’t see your customers in person, you need to see them online. Whether you’re an established online retailer or you’re new to eCommerce, it’s important to know that a digital pop-up store is a tool you can use to address specific business challenges. For example: Your Regular Customers Have Specific Needs They Want […]
As Black Friday Approaches – 4 Ways to Boost Cyber Week Sales
Retailer experts are predicting an increase in holiday season sales, with double digit growth in e-commerce expected. The busiest part of the fourth quarter is Cyber Week, which includes Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. Here are 4 ways to help you capture your share of these sales: [Tweet “Black Friday searches have increased […]
Stores Aren’t Dead, But Good Luck Trying to Find a Store-Only Shopper
New research from Internet Retailer reveals something you may already know: today’s customer wants it all. The 2018 Online Apparel Report investigates how a marketplace that was once fairly limited to physical retail locations has been disrupted by Amazon, Walmart, and digital native brands. Some of the insights shared are quite eye-opening, including: – Amazon […]
