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Ecommerce Trends: 147 Stats Revealing How Modern Customers Shop in 2017

BigCommerce

A 2017 point-of-sale solutions survey of 1,164 U.S. However, despite how easy it is to launch a webstore, scaling an online business remains extremely difficult even for the most seasoned ecommerce expert. Ecommerce sales are growing, but many retailers are struggling to capitalize on their digital sales channels.

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5 Most Important Factors for Success in E-commerce (Make Sure You Hit These)

Kissmetrics

E-commerce seems to be eating up the retail world right now. We’re seeing longtime brick-and-mortar retail brands closing or going bankrupt that we never would have expected to see disappear ten years ago. Here are the five most important factors for success in e-commerce that you can’t afford to ignore.

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Top Risks For Retail Businesses In 2021 (And in The Next Decade)

Retail TouchPoints

As lockdowns became the new normal, consumers and retailers started going ‘digital’. This has increased e-commerce’s share of global retail to 17% in 2020, up from 14% in 2019. With the adoption of e-commerce on the rise, brick and mortar retail businesses face increased risks of having to shut down.

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The 19 Ecommerce Growth Challenges of 2018, Outlined by Amazon’s Annual Report

BigCommerce

On May 18th, Amazon released its Annual Report for the past fiscal year (2017). From general Amazon growing pains to government regulation, part of the report took a hard look at some of the major issues and potential risks ahead that all ecommerce retailers need to consider (as Amazon third-party retailers or otherwise).

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Digital Commerce and the Threat of Card-not-present Fraud

BigCommerce

Digital commerce continues to be top of mind for online retailers. Retailers continually optimize their sales channels to deliver more seamless consumer experiences. But within this focus on digital commerce is also increasing pressure from fraudulent activities. . Take digital commerce, for example.

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Singles Day 2017: What Happened in Europe?

Prisync

billion in sales on Singles Day 2017 (11.11.2017) – a 40% jump from Singles Day 2016. We all know that special days and special discounts are popular phenomena across the global e-commerce market, and all sizes of e-commerce companies try to participate in them by offering their best deals to their customers.

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The Complete List: All 49+ Global Marketplaces

BigCommerce

However, we have aggregated a complete list of all global marketplaces as of 2017, by region and country. At approximately $630 billion of sales in 2015 , China’s online retail market is the world’s largest, nearly 80 percent bigger than the United States’. Ecommerce in China accounts for 13.5 Social Commerce.

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