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Why Retailers’ Obsession with Conversion is Keeping Them from…Converting

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately, like many seemingly good ideas, while this approach might drive a few more completed purchases, it fails at the bigger picture metrics that these retailers actually care about: revenue and profit. That’s because neither revenue nor profit is a function of conversion alone. B2B or B2C? Member or non-member?

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Cyber Weekend Benchmarking Data: 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

And does it improve B2B sales too, or is it more just a B2C advantage? We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business. Are you optimizing all possible Q4 sales opportunities for your software business? Below, we’ll cover: U.S.

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Some churn is acceptable, perhaps even necessary — especially if you’re using a more B2C-style sales approach. How FastSpring Can Help.

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Gartner Predicts COVID Will Accelerate These Top 5 Digital Commerce Trends

GetElastic

This makes it more important than ever for both B2B and B2C businesses to invest in digital commerce and diversify their go-to-market strategies. This means digital solutions adopted by B2B businesses need to be made available not only to customers, but to their sales force as well and incorporated as part of the sales process.

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2Checkout vs. Stripe vs. FastSpring: Comparing Payments, Taxes, and Platform Features (+ Pricing)

FastSpring

TL;DR : Stripe markets themselves as a payment services provider (PSP), 2Checkout is a payment service provider with an upgrade option to make them your merchant of record (MoR), and FastSpring is a comprehensive merchant of record from the outset. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?

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Why Cross Border Ecommerce is the Future of Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

Cross-border ecommerce can refer to online trade between a business (retailer or brand) and a consumer (B2C), between two businesses, often brands or wholesalers (B2B), or between two private persons (C2C), e.g. via marketplace platforms such as Amazon or eBay. trillion (Global B2C GMV, growing at CAGR of 13.5

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The Best Ecommerce Website Builder in the UK (Oct 2021)

Ecommerce Platforms

According to Statista, the UK has the biggest eCommerce market in Europe, with revenue reaching £693 billion in 2019, up from £677.8 UK consumers spend more than £197 billion in B2C online sales, with clothes and household goods being some of the most popular items. Payment card logos. Impressive figures, right? Square Online.