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The 19 Ecommerce Growth Challenges of 2018, Outlined by Amazon’s Annual Report

BigCommerce

On May 18th, Amazon released its Annual Report for the past fiscal year (2017). We’re on a mission to provide businesses like yours marketing and sales tips, tricks and industry leading knowledge to build the next house-hold name brand. Data shows that sales jumped from $135 billion to $178 billion between 2016 and 2017 alone.

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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin and Blockchain in Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

But now it’s shifting towards bitcoins and digital currencies. Digital currencies are the future of ecommerce. Local currencies couldn’t be converted to bitcoin easily and, as a result, no retailer would even think of accepting bitcoins as payment. Now how is this valid for us ecommerce marketers?

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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

BigCommerce

Most businesses with an ecommerce presence use an ecommerce store and/or an ecommerce platform to conduct both online marketing and sales activities and to oversee logistics and fulfillment. 2017 Instagram shoppable posts are introduced. 2017 Cyber Monday sales exceed $6.5B. 2017 – Shoppable Instagram is introduced.

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Trends Analysis: Should eCommerce Brands Get Serious About Crypto Payments?

ESW

Even if some of that technology isn’t market-ready right now, you need to be thinking about how you can integrate it in the future. A flash crash at the end of August saw around $10 billion wiped off the currency’s market value, adds The Independent’s Anthony Cuthbertson. What about payments, though?

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NRF 2018 Day 3: Retail – Alive and Kicking

OrderDynamics

BlockChain and Digital Currency. However, what continues to astound me are the small players with unremarkable market penetration continuing to tout their version of single vendor unified commerce. This is so much healthier than the discussions had in early 2017. It will be an interesting area to watch at NRF 2019.

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Are Blockchain and Bitcoin the same?

eCommerce Guider

Blockchain is not Bitcoin – The difference between Blockchain and Bitcoin is that Blockchain is the technology that underpins the digital currency that is Bitcoin and makes the existence of Bitcoin even possible. At the end of 2017, Forbes posted an article titled “ Why Blockchain Is Real and Bitcoin Is A Mirage.”.

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News Cart for June 19th

eCommerceFuel

Facebook dominates e-commerce headlines with its new cryptocurrency, Libra, which aims to address much of the criticism faced by Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Company cited desire to “focus on serving the broader e-commerce market” Amazon sales made up just 1.3% Hey everyone! Pittsburgh; and Vero Beach, Fla.