Sorted by Tag: eCommerce
What We’re Reading: Click and Collect, Same-Day Delivery, One-Hour Delivery
As we enter the “last mile” of the holiday season, we decided to take a look at some of the ways you can optimize the “last mile” of your customer experience. This is one of the more complicated parts of running a retail business. It’s also where an effective multichannel retailer can beat out online-only retailers and traditional, brick-and-mortar retailers (no matter how large they are).
Top 5 Magento Shopping Cart Abandonment Extensions
You’re losing money. But, you’re not alone. All online sellers suffer from cart abandonment issues. Every day you’re losing potential orders online.
With a market flooded with extensions for your Magento web store, it’s hard to figure out which one is best for you. We’ve done the research and narrowed down the choices for you. (more…)
What We’re Reading: Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2014 Recap
The Thanksgiving-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday mega weekend has come and gone. We’re over the first major hurdle of the retail silly season. Though we know you’re focused on continuing to rack up your holiday sales, now is a good time to look back at how the weekend went. Early reports are showing some significant growth and some notable trends. The key takeaways: you need to focus on digital and you need to invest in mobile.
What We’re Reading: Small Business Saturday, Customer Experience, The Golden Age of Retail
Although our software and services are enterprise class and support customers with billions of dollars in transactions, we have a soft spot for our smallest customers. We don’t like to call them “small businesses” though. Because they’ve invested in eCommerce, we believe they are focused and intentional about their future and are aggressively pursuing it. For that reason, we prefer to call them “growing businesses” as we feel that captures the essence of their aspirations.
Frankly, that’s why we’re here, to help them get there. In honor of Small Business Saturday coming up on November 29th, I’ve highlighted a few articles that can help those “small” businesses “grow!”
Amazon’s New Holiday Rules & Guidelines for “Toys & Games” Sellers
Is it already the holiday season? According to Amazon, it’s at least time for merchants to prepare.
Amazon set record sales for the 2013 holiday season. Last year, more than one million customers became Prime members during the third week of December. The annual membership program offers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items.
On Amazon’s peak shipping day in December 2013, more Prime items were shipped worldwide than ever before. Before December, more than 36.8 million items were ordered worldwide on Cyber Monday, which is an astonishing 426 items per second.
So, while you’re cheering on your favorite football team and sending kids back to school, Amazon has already started prepping their sellers for an even more successful holiday season this year.
