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How eCommerce Businesses Can Stand Out with Text Messaging

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billion cell phone subscribers at the end of 2017. This creates an opportunity for online stores to take an underused channel and create a unique and personalized experience for their customers and stand out from the competition. More open and direct lines of communication make it easier for your customers to engage with your brand.

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

BigCommerce

For many customers, returning online purchases can feel like a hassle. Coming up with a refund policy that makes returns more efficient is an important step towards building customer loyalty and increasing conversion rates. Mobile commerce made up nearly 60% of digital sales in 2017.

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Weebly Ecommerce Review: Pros and Cons of A Weebly Store

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However, if you can’t deal with your shopping cart being on Weebly’s checkout page, then this plan isn’t for you either. If you want to run a customer loyalty program where customers have the option to earn points, you can’t. Swell used to be there, but they abandoned Weebly in 2017 or thereabout.

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The Complete Ecommerce Analytics Toolkit: 29 Reports, 6 Actionable Steps + 2 Free Guides

BigCommerce

This data can be exported to give you a solid view of repeat customer purchase value by channel. Integrate RFM scoring into your shopping cart abandonment strategy. RFM scores could be used to determine the incentive value threshold you are willing to offer customers that have recently abandoned their shopping carts.

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How to Sell Online – The Ultimate Guide to Go From 0 to $$$

Ecommerce Platforms

Use Live Chat to help potential customers make faster decisions. Improve your shopping cart experience. Mobile Friendly Free Doba integration Free shopping cart migration 24/7 Support. Here's how the 2017 data plays out: But that's not all there is to the mobile story. returning customer discount.

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How to Improve Ecommerce Conversion Right Now

BigCommerce

In this environment, customer loyalty is tricky to maintain, as rival websites can easily snatch your customer away. are projected to grow sixfold, reaching $117 billion USD annually in 2017. Issues of competition and differentiation. Online ecommerce retail sales are estimated at nearly $2 trillion in 2016.

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The Ultimate 2018 Ecommerce Checklist: 31 Experts Prioritize 19 Growth Tactics to Implement Now

BigCommerce

Immediately following Cyber Five of 2017, I sent an email out to a bunch of ecommerce experts and multi-million dollar ecommerce store owners. Let me give you an example: 2017 has been the year of Facebook Advertising. But we’ve all been in that year before, with another tool you have heard of: Google Shopping and PLAs.

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