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Marketing Your Video Game Outside of Game Marketplaces & App Stores

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Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. As the former COO and Co-Founder of Hi-Rez Studios, he spent 15 years making games and marketing them to gamers — with the studio’s games reaching 150 million players. (At

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. Brands can include a number of features in a 2D barcode that can help improve and ease access to customer service. alongside a large QR code. A true win-win!

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Best Platform to Sell Online in 2020: An In-Depth Analysis

Ecommerce Platforms

Whereas a standard website platform/builder has features for adding pages and posts and menus, an ecommerce platform takes it a step further by including product management, shipping tools, payment processing, and more. Some other elements that add more costs include third-party apps, hosting, domain names, and processing fees.

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BrickSeek: The Hidden Tool Online Consumers Use to Find Hidden Inventory Sales

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Launched in 2014, BrickSeek started as a website to help Lego enthusiasts find hard-to-find pieces—on and offline. Now that you know what BrickSeek is, you’re probably wondering why you should even consider using the platform—especially the paid services. As a result, you speed up the process and get the best deals.

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How Does Amazon Make Money? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Do they make their money on books, or on merchant sales, or on TV shows? Failure is an option: Amazon Fire Phone fizzled out in 2014―instead of giving up, Amazon has since launched Amazon Echo and other successful tech. 2014: $89 billion. 2014: $178 million. Amazon Web Services (AWS) (9%). 11% Toys and Games.

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China’s Antimonopoly Fine Leads to First Quarterly Loss for Alibaba Since Going Public

Retail TouchPoints

The number of active users on Alibaba Group ’s ecommerce platforms topped 1 billion for the first time in fiscal year 2021, but this milestone was tainted by the company’s first quarterly operating loss since it went public in 2014 — a result of the historic antitrust penalty levied against the company earlier this year. billion yuan ($1.2

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How to Sell Toys Online (Sep 2020): A Beginner’s Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

To help kickstart this process, we've collated the following stats: First off, the online US toy industry has grown 13.3% between 2014–2019. These span traditional toys, action figures, video games, board games, hobby kits, lego, craft supplies, etc. For UK merchants, this will set you back £25 (excl. VAT) a month.

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