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How Mobile Payments Are Taking Over eCommerce

Groove

The new way of purchasing goods and services is through Mobile Payments whether you are shopping online or in-store. As millions of users start to use mobile payments each year, it is projected that 4.8 billion people will be completing transactions through mobile payments by 2025. What Are Mobile Payments?

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5 Holiday Trends to Watch Include Rise of ‘Couch Commerce,’ Curbside Pickup

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers and industry experts have been forecasting a 2020 holiday season dominated by ecommerce almost since the world started taking COVID-19 seriously, and results from “Cyber Weekend,” or BFCM (Black Friday/Cyber Monday), effectively made their case. over the 2019 holiday. We’ve been stuck at home, not at work or traveling.

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Hit Hard by the Pandemic, Most Minority Business Owners Optimistic About the Future

Retail TouchPoints

In May 2020, McKinsey issued a report stating while the COVID-19 pandemic was shaking up small businesses across the board, it was disproportionately affecting minority-owned small businesses. Think food services, retail and personal and laundry services, for instance. Reasons cited were that the country’s 1.1

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Recapping 2019’s Record-Breaking Cyber Weekend

Sailthru

With an unusually late Thanksgiving, the 2019 holiday season is the shortest in seven years, though you wouldn’t know that from Cyber Weekend. Small Business Saturday: $3.6 Mobile Commerce Milestones. In 2018, mobile devices accounted for more than half of retail traffic during the holiday season for the first time.

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Square for Retail Review (2019) – Everything You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

Square is one of the best-known solutions in the world for small business eCommerce, mobile selling, and backend business management. For instance, if you run a specific kind of business, Square can give you a software solution that's been tailor-made to suit your needs. What is Square for Retail?

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Know How to Plan for Black Friday Deals in 2019

MakeWebBetter

Before anybody could start with their black friday deals, online-shopping retailer-Amazon releases daily deals at every hour. Not only that, to celebrate the biggest day of the year for retailers, Amazon pushes exclusive offers and deep discounts through ‘Countdown to Black Friday’.

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April 2020 Industry Updates: Amazon’s Coronavirus Journey & Mobile’s Decline

ROI Revolution

Amazon, along with other retail giants like Walmart and Target, experienced a huge surge in demand for these kinds of products at the onset of the virus. Many 3P sellers are struggling to stay afloat and Prime Day , which provided more than $2 billion in sales for small businesses last year, may have been a shining light for them.