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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

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Adii Pienaar, Founder of Conversio and WooThemes (later acquired by WooCommerce), sums this up best: Customers worldwide are using their mobile devices for online shopping more often. Depending on who you want to believe, it’s estimated that since late-2014 more than 50% of all online purchases are made from mobile devices.

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5 Ways E-Commerce Companies Can Use BrickSeek to Increase Sales

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However, to give a brief overview, BrickSeek started out in 2014 as a web application enabling LEGO collectors to track down popular sets online and in-store. The same things that make BrickSeek such a useful tool for consumers also make it a potentially invaluable resource for online retailers. Think about it.

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The Top Ecommerce Trends You Need to Know About for 2020

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But as businesses experiment and try to give consumers what they want, the online retail space is changing rapidly. If you’re looking for ideas to improve and expand your own online retail business, check out what to expect in ecommerce trends in 2020. The ecommerce business is booming and will continue to grow in 2020.

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Six Ways to Increase Revenue This Black Friday Through Search

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Black Friday has quickly become the largest retail shopping day of the year in the U.S., But more importantly, online Black Friday sales reached an all-time high amounting $2.74 This Black Friday, enhance your online shopping experience and increase revenue by implementing these six proven site search enhancement tools.

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From Retail to e-Tail: How to Launch an Ecommerce Website for Your Brick-and-Mortar

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If you’ve got a wide selection of products to choose from in your brick-and-mortar store, we recommend narrowing your inventory down to approximately 100 of the best-selling items for your online marketplace. “We Give shoppers a generous timeframe to return their items—we recommend a 20-day return window.

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How to Start an Ecommerce Business

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For example, when bed-in-a-box startup Casper started in 2014, the company had only one product to offer. Consumers seek product recommendations from influencers nearly as often as they do from friends, which is why influencer marketing has already become a $1.7 Use Influencers. billion industry on Instagram alone. Form Partnerships.

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Voice Shopping and eCommerce: Should Retailers get Ready for a Change?

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And after Amazon introduced its digital assistant Alexa back in 2014, the company has been constantly working on various innovations in order to develop Alexa into something more than just an assistant. The first online stores appeared approximately in 1994, and e-commerce reached 6% share of total sales volume only in 2014.