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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve. Doubling down on merchants outside of China. based merchants, including an electronics reseller with warehouses in the U.S.,

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ShipStation Review (Jan 2023): What You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

You don't need us to tell you that shipping is a big part of any eCommerce business. Amazon, the deity of customer convenience, is constantly breathing down the necks of smaller merchants. Thanks to its Prime service, customers have come to expect shipping within 1-2 days and, in many cases, desire (or expect) free shipping.

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ShipStation Review (Jan 2023): What You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

You don't need us to tell you that shipping is a big part of any eCommerce business. Amazon, the deity of customer convenience, is constantly breathing down the necks of smaller merchants. Thanks to its Prime service, customers have come to expect shipping within 1-2 days and, in many cases, desire (or expect) free shipping.

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The truth about Apple Pay for ecommerce

GetElastic

This post was originally posted in 2010 and has been updated for relevancy. Mobile wallets have infiltrated digital commerce, offering a way to streamline checkout across desktop, mobile, and apps. Mobile jumped to 39 of 100 sites versus 28 last year, up 39%. Looking to improve your mobile experience?

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5 Alternatives to Wanelo

Kissmetrics

Users could shop for anything they wanted right from their mobile devices. However, Wanelo’s recent decline has made it necessary for online sellers to look elsewhere for the services Wanelo provided. As a merchant, this helps you make your store and products more visible. Wanelo was designed to save users from those scenarios.

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COVID-19 Has Transformed Wine Shopping. Here’s How Vivino Is Adapting

Retail TouchPoints

Vivino , an online wine marketplace and app, is capitalizing on this growth by doubling down on its user-driven ratings process and personalized tools and features. In 2010, when I founded Vivino, there was no easy way to pick out a good wine and I wanted to solve this using the opinions of wine drinkers — not individual critics.

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Cross-Border Commerce 101: The History, The Lingo, The $900B Opportunity

BigCommerce

2010 – Instagram, Pinterest, Shoprunner, SnapDeal, Stripe all launched. 2011 – Bootstrap Mobile-First CSS Framework, Snapchat, WeChat all launched. Merchants who extend product offerings to international customers boost sales by 10-15%. Here are the top 5 countries for mobile commerce (again not including the U.S.