Wed.Dec 04, 2019

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A Roundup Of Key Machine-Learning Announcements From AWS re:Invent

Forrester eCommerce

For data science practitioners, machine learning developers or insights-driven business leaders, here are the key announcements from Amazon's AWS re:invent 2019 show that you should care about.

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Costco’s Minimal Communications Following Thanksgiving Site Outage: A Mistake Or A Strategy?

RTP blog

Costco’s e-Commerce site went down for more than 16 hours on Thanksgiving Day , impacting an estimated 2.65 million customers who were trying to access the web site and creating sales losses that neared $11 million. ( Nordstrom Rack and H&M also experienced technical difficulties, but neither was of the duration of Costco’s.) Costco acknowledged on its home page that its site was “currently experiencing longer than normal response times" during the day and even extended its Thanksgiving

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Retailers: Make Your Website Accessible Or Leave Money On The Table

Forrester eCommerce

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2019 retail series You want anyone to be able to buy from your retail website, right? News flash: You’re missing out on entire segments of your target market because of how your website is designed and coded — unless you’re part of the few brands (just 2.2% […].

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283: How To Segment Your Email List The Right Way With Alexandra Edelstein

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today, I’m thrilled to have Alexandra Edelstein on the show. Alexandra is a senior product manager at Klaviyo and she was also a speaker at my annual ecommerce conference The Sellers Summit. At Klaviyo, she’s known as the resident expert when it comes to email list segmentation. So today we’re going to talk about the right way to segment your email list to maximize revenue for your ecommerce store.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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How to Reduce Walmart Marketplace Returns and Cancellations

SellBrite

Nearly 93% of the products available on Walmart.com are part of Walmart Marketplace, which allows third-party sellers to sell items on the retail giant’s website and reach millions of customers worldwide. Since it was established in 2009, Walmart Marketplace has been working to improve its customer experience and streamline its Walmart Marketplace return policy, and today, most orders purchased in the marketplace can be returned to Walmart stores.

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Boosting Sales with a Tiered Coupon Strategy

UpSellIt

Do larger incentives always lead to more conversions? That’s the question we explore in UpSellit’s new case study, “ Golden Opportunities: Increasing Conversions 5% With Tiered Incentives ”. As you probably know, incentives are a tried and true way of engaging abandoning shoppers. That being said, settling on an optimized incentive often proves challenging.

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December 2019 Bezos Bulletin: An Amazon Advertising Recap

ROI Revolution

Published December 4, 2019. Amazon Amassing In-House Delivery Network. The long-awaited ultra-short 2019 holiday shopping season has arrived. This year, Amazon is facing the challenge of taking on a significant volume of purchases in an exceptionally abbreviated timeframe , with just 26 days between Black Friday and Christmas Day. This doesn’t mean customers will be buying less this holiday season – it means they’ll be purchasing the same amount of products in a much shorter amount of time (near

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Ecommerce Lately: November 2019

ecomdash

The biggest online shopping days have come and gone! We’ve corralled the latest happenings in the ecommerce realm, including a recap on BFCM sales. The post Ecommerce Lately: November 2019 appeared first on Ecomdash.

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Cyber Five 2019 Recap: Strong Sales, Early Sales & More BOPIS

ChannelAdvisor

Another Cyber Five is in the books, and another holiday shopping season is in full swing. . The five busy shopping days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday saw record growth across the board — from overall sales to average order value, mobile usage, in-store pickups and more. Adobe Analytics reports that Cyber Monday, the traditional highwater mark of the holiday season, hit $9.4 billion in revenue, surpassing last year’s record-breaking $7.9 billion. .

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BHP28 How to Get Ungated on Amazon with Karen Summer of Getungated.co.uk

eCommerce Guider

How to Get Ungated In Restricted Amazon Product Categories. Enjoyed this episode? Please leave us a review on Itunes. Listen to more Business Hacker Podcast Episodes here. NEVER MISS AN EPISODE .  SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES.  SUBSCRIBE ON STITCHER. Karen Summer - GetUngated.co.uk. Episode Overview. In Episode 28, I interview Karen Summer of Getungated.co.uk so you can learn the secrets of how to get ungated in those difficult restricted Amazon categories in order to expand your pr

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The Future of Multi-Vendor Commerce

In this on-demand webinar, discover how Logicbroker’s cutting-edge technology enhances the overall experience for both current and future customers and gain insights into how leveraging our seamless integration process unlocks new dimensions of efficiency and functionality. Plus, learn how our advanced marketplace features are set to revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering opportunities for growth and success within your multi-vendor commerce program.

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News Cart for December 4th

eCommerceFuel

Whew! We’ve survived another Black Friday/Cyber Monday. How did online merchants fare this year? Unsurprisingly, the trend toward e-commerce continues, with digital sales up nearly 20 percent. In a first, Black Friday topped Cyber Monday as the busiest day for online shopping. Shopify posted its own Black Friday/Cyber Monday stats, touting $2.9 billion in total sales compared to last year’s $1.8 billion. “This was officially the biggest direct-to-consumer #BlackFriday of all ti

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How To Get Ungated in An Amazon UK Category: Amazon Seller Guide

eCommerce Guider

Ungating your way to more profits is perhaps one of the easiest ways to make more money selling on Amazon as an Arbitrage seller. I mean who doesn’t want to make easy money? So why not start with the easy wins first? If you like this article. Be sure to check out our Business Hacker Podcast on how to get ungated on Amazon with Karen Summer of getungated.co.uk.

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9 Tips to Help You Sell More on eBay

Algopix

Since the company’s founding almost 24 years ago, eBay has grown into an eCommerce giant hosting over 25 million sellers and more than +1.1 billion live product listings – of course, these figures are continually evolving. . As a successful seller on eBay, you must attract the attention of potential customers among an enormous pool of 168 million active buyers to your products.