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Retailers, Are You Funding Amazon?

OrderDynamics

An ecommerce Business Insider report in Feb 2017 noted that “ 43% of all online retail sales in the US went through Amazon in 2016 ”. Phillipe Masiello of Internet Retailer estimates that worldwide, “ 2016’s e-commerce global retail sales share is approximately 9% and is projected to be somewhere around 15% by 2020 ”.

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The Ultimate 2018 Ecommerce Checklist: 31 Experts Prioritize 19 Growth Tactics to Implement Now

BigCommerce

Here are the top 19 ecommerce growth strategies recommended by Internet Retailer 1000 brands and the experts that advise them, in order of priority. Community Building, Customer Engagement & CRM. Now, brands must look to new tactics to make their customer experience a differentiator. Springboard Retail.

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The State of Ecommerce Platforms in 2018: Cloud Commerce, Open SaaS and The API Economy

BigCommerce

The cart or the SaaS platform manages PCI compliance for the brand, as well as checkout best practices, and pulls on APIs or EDIs to sync with other decoupled solutions to ensure brand data is updated across the board. How do you import/export catalog & customer data? Marketplaces like Amazon or Ebay. BigCommerce vs Shopify.