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9 Internet Trends You Need to Know About This Year

FastSpring

In the US alone, ecommerce now accounts for 15 percent of total retail spending. Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai said millions of small businesses are now using the platform. Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai said millions of small businesses are now using the platform. That’s about 3.8

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Ecommerce Statistics

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Ascend2, 2013). Ecommerce sales account for just 8% of total retail sales in the U.S. Econsultancy, 2013). Ascend2, 2013). Voice Search. 86% of consumers said they would like to receive promotional emails from companies they do business with at least monthly.(Statista,2016). (IBM, 2011). on non-mobile devices.

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