Optimizely

MAY 15, 2018

IRCE 2018 takes place from June 5 to 8 at McCormick Place West in Chicago and, with an agenda put together by the experts at Internet Retailer magazine, it’s a can’t-miss event for everyone in ecommerce. Here are the sessions you absolutely have to attend at IRCE 2018. Marketplaces in 2018 and What’s Coming in 2019. 97% of U.S.

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 31, 2019

2018 brought no calm to the smartphone industry, and Apple’s Q1 2019 earnings are an indication that this trend will continue this year. After years of consistent double-digit growth rates, a slowdown in smartphone sales that started in 2017 continued in 2018. In 2018, many of […].

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

The FreedomPay Next Level Commerce platform is designed to provide secure contactless payments and data solutions through transactions that FreedomPay President Chris Kronenthal said give a “fast, frictionless and innovative consumer experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Since the pandemic, seven in 10 consumers have used mobile devices and apps for shopping, and it’s not just millennials and Gen Z; Gen X and baby boomers are 68% and 56% more likely, respectively, to use their mobile device to make purchases than they were a few years ago. of ecommerce sales in 2024. of ecommerce sales in 2024.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

This post will outline some of our predictions for those new opportunities and trends that will emerge into 2018. Blended Marketing Will Continue to Dominate in 2018. As a result, consumers are being much more selective about the apps they install, the sites they visit and the emails they receive. Let’s take a closer look: 1.

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Optimizely

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If you want to meet some of the best minds in ecommerce, you no doubt already made plans to attend eTail West 2018 in Palm Springs. Day one of eTail West focuses on omnichannel and unified commerce; day two focuses on digital and omnichannel success ; and on day three, tech, AI, mobile and immersive media is the theme.

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RTP blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

After years of small yet steady growth, mobile commerce has officially reached a tipping point. For the first time, shoppers went to their mobile device more than their laptops to browse and buy, according to Rob Garf, VP of Industry Strategy and Insights at Salesforce. By Alicia Esposito, Content Strategist.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

How’s it doing in 2018? Video and messaging apps are leading the charge in 2018. 86% of B2C and 91% of B2B marketers are using content marketing according to the 2018 State of Content report from CMI. So, what’s happening in content marketing, version 2018? Let’s talk about content. Is it still the king? Let’s find out.

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GetElastic

MARCH 13, 2019

According to Mobify’s 2018 Q4 Mobile Commerce Insights Report , mobile overall, showed continued growth with purchases made between Black Friday and Christmas. Somewhat surprising from Mobify’s findings was that the most frequent traffic source for mobile was email. According to Forbes, “retailers sent 3.5

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Optimizely

AUGUST 9, 2018

This week, thousands of retailers converged on Boston for Etail East 2018 to network and learn the cutting edge of ecommerce. While Etail East 2018 is sadly over, that doesn’t mean the learning has to stop now. The challenge is how to convey that understanding of what your product does to the consumer on the other side of the keyboard.”

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Sailthru

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The sea change for mobile is here. Throughout the last several years everyone was talking about the importance of mobile, but the conversion rates — or perhaps lack of attribution — tricked some marketers into undervaluing the channel. Today, it’s a much different landscape when it comes to mobile revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

CommentSold , a provider of live selling technology, has acquired the assets of mobile livestreaming marketplace Popshoplive. The deal coincides with the wide launch of CommentSold’s drop shipping capabilities, creating an end-to-end platform for direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. CS has stood out in the live commerce sector in the U.S.

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Sailthru

JANUARY 8, 2019

Even though brick-and-mortar foot traffic was down during Cyber Weekend , American consumers spent a whopping $58.5 Here are some of the 2018 holiday season’s biggest takeaways: The Highlight of the Holiday Season. Ecommerce growth was 28% higher YoY, while consumers grow more accepting of brick-and-mortar stores staying open.

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GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Editor's Note: This post was originally published April 4th, 2018 and has been updated to reflect the current state of GDPR and other data privacy regulations impacting eCommerce in 2021. Shopping online, interacting with social media, installing mobile apps – all these actions leave a trail of data used to identify people.

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BigCommerce

APRIL 3, 2018

Today, BigCommerce is excited to announce the first native ecommerce integration for accelerated mobile pages –– i.e. Google AMP. This integration simplifies category and product detail pages, improving mobile site speed and click-through for online sellers. This will affect all sites by July 2018. What is Google AMP?

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

Without getting into specifics about “hyper-local” and “geo-social” (hot new buzzwords for 2018), my research and discussions centered on common themes around the Story Brand: Create a story around your brand, and stay consistent with that. Other humans – living, breathing consumers – keep them alive by doing business with them.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2020

Virtually all recent smartphones come with NFC built in, so you can use a mobile wallet to pay with your phone without ever touching a terminal. The less good news is that contactless cards were involved in 3% of card fraud in 2018 in the UK. How can consumers stay safe while using contactless payments?

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Steve Dennis

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

It’s no secret that mobile is becoming increasingly important in consumers’ shopping journeys. And of course when we say “digital,” often we mean mobile. In fact, for many retailers, mobile is becoming the front door to the store. It would appear that there is no going back in the move to mobile.

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RTP blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

So, I looked back at my digital folders containing articles from 2008 and, not really surprisingly, I found a lot of similarities between the topics we covered 10 years ago and the topics we’re focused on moving into 2018. Note: IDC has been credited with coining the term “omnichannel.”)

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BigCommerce

JANUARY 3, 2018

According to the McKinsey Global Fashion Index , fashion industry sales growth is forecasted to nearly triple between 2016 and 2018 (from 1.5 Born Pretty is a consumer-facing webstore that also offers dropshipping for no additional charge. Born Pretty is a consumer-facing webstore that also offers dropshipping for no additional charge.

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BigCommerce

JULY 19, 2018

has been the highest consumer of wine in the world since 2014. But the sector of the wine industry with the largest growth is direct-to-consumer sales (D2C). According to the 2018 Direct-to-Consumer Wine Shipping Report , there are two primary reasons for this growth. Since the late ‘90s, wine sales in the U.S.

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BigCommerce

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

But don’t assume consumers know these things as well. Those consumers who find your product or service appealing often share similar characteristics, which will help you fine-tune your messaging from top to bottom. Conduct interviews: Talk to consumers who might fit in your target market. That took me six months to figure out.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

Wozny, who joined Madison Reed in March 2018 as SVP of Digital, has been responsible for new digital experiences designed to strengthen client interactions, including consumer mobile apps and proprietary SaaS software that fuels operations at the Hair Color Bars. Prior to joining Madison Reed Wozny led mobile product at Sephora.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

CVS Health has introduced Aetna Virtual Primary Care, connecting consumers with physicians and specialists anytime and anywhere. The ecommerce titan entered pharmaceuticals with the acquisition of PillPack in 2018 and has since focused on building off this base.

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ESW

MAY 11, 2020

Consumers used physical currency in just over one quarter (26%) of transactions in 2018, according to research by the Federal Reserve. Debit and credit cards are now the most popular choice for consumers, but even these trusted payment methods are under threat. Electronic and mobile payment solutions are proliferating.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 5, 2018

Today I’m on stage in New York speaking to hundreds of marketing executives at our Consumer Marketing Forum 2018. I’m there to unveil the 2018 US Benchmark Data Overview, which for the first time ever we are making available to all Forrester clients. See the report here: The Consumer Tech Stack.

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RTP blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Store closures abound — Q1 2019 saw more brick-and-mortar shutdowns than the entirety of 2018. is on pace to see more than 3X as many brick-and-mortar store openings in 2019 than in 2018.[1] Mobile Isn’t Optional In just two years, mobile will make up 75% of all e-Commerce globally. App Annie, 2018.

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Ecommerce Platforms

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Their new shiny multi-currency borderless account helps consumers, freelancers, and businesses to send, receive and spend money across borders with minimum fees. The checkouts are also mobile-friendly, branded, and localized. Mobile payments are available. A free mobile app and swiper come along with your account.

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BigCommerce

MARCH 13, 2018

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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GetElastic

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The numbers are in and there is no denying that the 2018 holiday season outshined the 2017 holiday in terms of ecommerce revenue. From Black Friday through Christmas week, consumers spent more dollars overall and spent more time on mobile. Source: 2018 Q4 Mobile Commerce Insights Report?. Strategize special offers.

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Sailthru

JANUARY 11, 2018

We’ll look into both these stories as well as news that branded shopping apps and the mobile internet showed equal conversion rates during 2017. Mobile Apps and Mobile Internet Are Running Neck-And-Neck In Sales. Consumers may have a retail app, but they may still buy through via mobile internet if it’s faster.

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SellBrite

MAY 3, 2019

As of 2017, mobile commerce sales in the United States reached $156 billion. However, during the third quarter of 2018, the conversion rate of online shoppers using a smartphone was 1.56 Poor Mobile Website Design. Make sure your site loads quickly on both mobile and desktop browsers. Analyze your website’s data.

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RTP blog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The following year, in 2018, that number dropped to $6.4 And technology is one way to heighten security, both for FinTech companies and consumers. trillion biometrically secured transactions will take place annually via mobile devices. trillion biometrically secured transactions will take place annually via mobile devices.

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ChannelAdvisor

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This blog post is part of our 2018 Holiday Planning series. Inspired by the convenience of mobile payments and shopping apps, consumers also made purchases from their smartphones more than ever before — leading to the first-ever $2 billion mobile shopping day on Cyber Monday. Consumer confidence.

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Groove

AUGUST 4, 2020

billion in 2019, the second largest online shopping day ever (right behind 2018's Cyber Monday). Follow these 5 Black Friday strategy tips to drive more online revenue this year: Optimize for mobile. Optimize For Mobile. Optimize your mobile eCommerce design to target consumers who holiday shop on devices other than a desktop.

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ecomdash

JANUARY 8, 2019

2018 Marks the Biggest Online Shopping Period Ever. Also, 58% of online sales were completed with a mobile phone. This change in shopping behavior is even more of a reason for sellers to optimize their websites for mobile consumers ! The post Ecommerce Lately: December 2018 appeared first on Ecomdash.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Video is taking over our social feeds, and it’s no wonder: as content goes, it’s the most dynamic, engaging and perhaps the best for demanding consumer attention at several different intervals. That includes advertising content — 86% of consumers say they’d like to see more videos from brands.

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