Lilly Varon says, “The answer: In the markets included in our latest Asia Pacific Online Retail Forecast— China, Japan, South Korea, India, and Australia — total online retail revenues will nearly double from $733 billion in 2015 to $1.4 trillion in 2020. For perspective, $1.4 trillion is about the same amount spent online in 2015 in every market that Forrester forecasts across the globe combined. In our latest report, Asia Pacific Online Retail Forecast 2015 To 2020, (subscription required) we look at the growth in these markets over the next five years and some of the key trends shaping... [...]
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Stefany Zaroban says, “In the just-released 2016 Digital Marketing Series, Internet Retailer—for the first time ever—scores web merchants on their effectiveness in driving sales and traffic from the main online marketing channels—social media, email, and paid and natural search. With e-commerce accounting for all of the growth in retailing last year and then some, it’s no wonder the competition is fierce among e-retailers to get noticed by online consumers. Evidence is mounting that merchants are pouring more time and money into their digital marketing programs to acquire customers... [...]
Vadim Sirbu has released a new eCommerce solution, BigSales Generator. This new software is a complete tool for building your eCommerce sites. Sirbu knew that most people don’t have the training or skills to do heavy-duty technical work, so he designed Big Sales Generator as a tool that can be used by ordinary, non-technical users. So, fortunately for all of us, this makes your sites easy to set up and easy to maintain. You package contains all the information you need in order to succeed in building your online business with this software. You get your marketing plan, your content and... [...]
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 simple Many customers are time poor, easily distracted, and perhaps most notably,... [...]
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... [...]