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Navigating Omnichannel Complexities: 3 Tips for Success

GetElastic

Whether they started out online or as physical business, knowing which channels to leverage can be tricky. Stefan Sjostrand, Ikea Canada President, recently shared his views on multi-channel retailing and how many businesses are doing it “wrong”. Navigating the omnichannel universe is a challenge for many retailers.

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

BigCommerce

Integrate Your Systems for Multi-channel Selling. The New B2B Ecommerce Strategy. Like B2C, B2B businesses know the importance of offering a multi-channel experience to drive sales. But historically, that multi-channel experience for B2B buyers meant only having access to an online catalog.

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The Best Ecommerce Courses for Business Owners

Ecommerce Platforms

Ecommerce online courses can teach you everything you need to know to boost your chances of making your business a success. They provide a behind-the-scenes look at how to use some of the most common ecommerce technology, as well as offering tips on things like: Store design and improving user experience for extra sales.

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

BigCommerce

Mid-market and enterprise organizations with large, complex product catalogs often suffer the most as they add and edit volumes of products at a rapid pace across multiple channels. Increased customer dissatisfaction due to incomplete, out-of-date, or inconsistent data across channels. Multi-channel automation.

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The Ultimate Guide to Ecommerce Replatforming and Data Migration

BigCommerce

There are 3 pain points that often forces brands to migrate to new technology – and all of them are signals that you should have done it much, much sooner. Your 3 options when it comes to ecommerce technology. It is pay-to-play in so many channels: Adwords. Marketing Issues Related to Your Ecommerce Platform.

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

BigCommerce

The only real alternatives to using an ecommerce platform are: Building one from scratch, which is out of the question for most businesses — and only justifiable for multimillion (or multi billion) dollar companies. What ecommerce platform options are there? Open Source Ecommerce Platforms. Want more insights like this?

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

BigCommerce

That means there is still endless opportunity for brands to launch an ecommerce website and to expand their reach. Eddie Machaalani and Mitchell Harper co-founded BigCommerce in 2009 and introduced it that year as a 100% bootstrapped ecommerce storefront platform. Other ecommerce technology platform providers launched in the same era.

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