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The 7 Perfect Verticals for Generating Recurring Revenue

Groove

Selling products online often means wild swings in revenue generation based upon trends, seasonality or consumer sentiments. This translates to many eCommerce merchants seeing massively profitable summer or winter months. On the flip side, upwards of 75% of a business’s revenue comes from these same months.

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Identifying the ‘Faces’ Behind Faceless Online Transactions

Retail TouchPoints

According to McKinsey , ecommerce sales in apparel, department stores and beauty products have increased by nearly 10%, on average, since the onset of the pandemic. Because of this ease, merchants have begun relying on POS financing to drive sales growth. According to McKinsey, merchants face up to 2.4X

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

Revenues were down more than expected, decreasing 42% YoY to $78 million ; adjusted EBITDA was in line with expectations but still represented a loss of $66 million in the quarter; and monthly active users were down 48% to 12 million. “The Doubling down on merchants outside of China. A Little Bit of History Repeating?

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear.

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Printful vs Printify: The Ultimate Print-on-Demand Services Comparison in 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

So far, both Printful and Printify stand as the two biggest print-on-demand services. But before we share deep insights on these services, let’s first define what print-on-demand entails. . If you’ve built an audience whether organically or through campaigns, print-on-demand is an option to help you monetize your content. .

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What is Printful and How Does it Work? (June 2021)

Ecommerce Platforms

One area that keeps popping up is called print-on-demand services, and you can find a wide range of tools online to help you adopt that form of selling. Quite a few apps and services are available for establishing a print-on-demand operation. Where Do Payments Go Through Printful? Is Printful Right for Your Business?

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Weaponized Bots And The Risk To Merchants

RTP blog

Attempts to defraud apparel web sites were up nearly 70% in 2016, and attacks on food delivery sites jumped 49.8%, according to research by Forter and the Merchant Research Council. Hoarding, or inventory exhaustion is a DoS (Denial of Service) attack that directly sabotages a retailer’s revenue generation.