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Retail’s Escalating Commitment to a Failing Course of Action

Steve Dennis

I worked at Neiman Marcus from 2004 and 2008 and we invested mightily in e-commerce and saw no share erosion related to the growth in online shopping. None of the other players mentioned above have announced anything remotely game changing. The second force is the on-going redefinition of convenience. So Now What?

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

The designer fashion brand launched its own ecommerce operation in 2008, at a time when many other high-end specialty labels were still turning up their noses at digital. And earn his stripes he has.

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Lesson Learned: Cheaper Is Not Always Better

RetailMinded

That’s what happened for Driveline Baseball , a multichannel B2C company established in 2008 and based in Kent, Washington, that specializes in data-driven baseball performance training. Whereas Brightpearl actually cares and listens – the customer service is a breath of fresh air.” . Driveline’s MVP? Brightpearl.

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What to Sell in 2018: How to Find a Product Niche and Start Selling Online

BigCommerce

Niche products are goods or services that serve a specific segment of customers. So, we decided to up the game. Taking this tack when generating ideas for a product or service is a reliable avenue to kickstart a successful business. Your product or service doesn’t necessarily need to be a huge, complicated endeavor.

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Black Friday 2018: An Ecommerce Survival Guide

BigCommerce

The only year-to-year decrease in Black Friday shopping throughout the past decade came during the Great Recession in 2008. Providing great customer service and easy return options can help earn a customers trust for future purchases. Boost Your Sales: $56.4M+ extra sales generated for BigCommerce merchants in past 2 years.

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Selling Controversial Products Online

eCommerceFuel

The first hurdle we really encountered was even getting a merchant account set up. That’s something that’s generally easy for most businesses and it’s a one or two-day process. I think there’s only one or two merchant accounts that’ll actually work with this type of subject matter in this business.

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9 Predictions for 2018

eCommerceFuel

When you look at their profitability like are they just eking out profits just barely and barely making their debt payments or do they actually have a cushion and they’re just getting penalized by the market? I’m feeling like put more of my skin on the game on some of these predictions now after that. Andrew : Interesting.