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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

BigCommerce

Let’s look at each type of electronic commerce in a bit more detail. Business-to-Consumer (B2C). B2C ecommerce ecompasses transcations made between a business and a consumer. This is one of the most widely used sales models in the ecommerce context. Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C). 2009 Square, Inc.

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What Does ‘Omnichannel’ Mean in 2021? How Marketplaces are Reshaping the Digital Landscape

Retail TouchPoints

Gee: We’re entering what I call attention commerce , which means anybody who has an audience doesn’t want to send people away from their owned spaces. As data privacy increases, it becomes more and more challenging to get data about [consumers] from other places.

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How 3 Global Brands Scaled Using a Product Information Management (PIM) Solution

BigCommerce

“Before we leveraged [a product information management (PIM) solution] to manage our global Skullcandy.com site content, we lacked a system of record and ended up with some outdated data being presented to consumers. Order fulfillment. Headless Commerce (API-First) Initiatives. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System.

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7 B2B Ecommerce Trends + 13 B2B Brands Changing How Businesses Buy

BigCommerce

Both of those strategies have long worked –– and will likely continue to –– but the B2B brands capitalizing on the new B2B buyer shopping habits (as more and more millennials age into Director, VP and C-Suite positions) are using their ecommerce channel to grow revenue and customer acquisition. Let’s look at a couple examples.

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