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

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2009 BigCommerce launches as an online storefront platform. 2009 Square, Inc. With the help of short text ad copy and display URLs, online retailers began using the tool in a pay-per-click (PPC) context. 2009 – Square launches. Square was founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey. 1995 Amazon and eBay launch.

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Growing Through Fanatical Customer Engagement

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But it wasn’t really until 2009 that I started getting into selling fountain pen products. Like, I’ll give Gary Vee a ton of credit because he wrote his book, “ Crush It ,” back in 2009. He’s on his fifth book now, but he wrote his first business book back in 2009 called “Crush It.”