November, 2016

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143: How To Make 6 Figures As A Food Blogger With Bjork Ostrom Of PinchOfYum

My Wife Quit Her Job

I’m really happy to have my friend Bjork Ostrum on the podcast today. While Bjork and I have not met in person, we have mutual friends in Erin Chase and Jim Wang, both of whom I’ve had on the podcast in previous episodes. Bjork runs the very popular site Pinch Of Yum where he blogs about food. And when I say that his site is popular, I mean that it is crazy popular.

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How To Double Your Revenue With Google Shopping Custom Labels

Store Growers

High costs are a problem that plague most advertising campaigns. A lot of the store owners I speak to, tell me that they could easily plow more money into more and bigger ad campaigns. But they don’t because of these high acquisition costs. That’s pretty sobering because they know advertising can grow their business, they’re just not sure on how to take make it work.

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Assess Your Digital Store Functionality

Forrester Omnichannel

The role of the store is changing. Consumers are increasingly able to research products and services they are interested in buying, via their own digital devices, anywhere they choose - whether it's browsing on their tablet while watching TV or their smartphone during the morning commute. Customers often arrive in store armed with a wealth of information, which can put sales associates on the back foot.

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How To Start a Dropshipping Business In a Week

A Better Lemonade Stand

Drop shipping enables you sell products you don't own, so you can focus on the marketing, customer support and daily functions of your store. Instead of investing thousands of dollars into product inventory that may or may not sell, you can invest your resources into paid ads, SEO, and content marketing. The post How To Start a Dropshipping Business In a Week appeared first on A Better Lemonade Stand.

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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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Who’s the preppiest of them all? Ralph Lauren’s marketplace performance analyzed

Jumpshot

Amazon is without a doubt the one-stop-shop for consumers’ online shopping needs. With the e-commerce giant now pushing into the fashion industry, we wanted a clearer picture of the apparel market. We analyzed apparel product sales on Amazon as well as other popular 3rd-party marketplaces to benchmark apparel brands by marketplace transactions. We went a little deeper too, and attributed marketplace sales to brand marketing campaigns to understand the influence of marketing efforts on off-site t

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The BEST Event Ever!

Canadian Special Events

Exhilarating! Wildly Entertaining! One-of-a Kind Event Performance! These are words planners across the country are using to describe 7Sould. This multi-dimensional show is the most innovative and refreshing entertainment experience to hit the event scene in years. For your corporate and social events, entertaining your guests is key to success.

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How To Keep Your CPCs Sane (Holiday Edition)

Store Growers

The holiday season always shows up earlier than you’d like it to. All those to-dos that kept getting postponed, till we’re here, on the verge of the busiest time of the year for most stores. And while it’s too late to make drastic changes, there are still things you can do to get the most out of this years holiday sales. Here are a couple of ideas: A Santa hat on your logo might be funny, but if you’re short on time, focus on things that will move the needle.

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Six Ways to Increase Revenue This Black Friday Through Search

UpSellIt

Black Friday has quickly become the largest retail shopping day of the year in the U.S., with in-store purchases reaching $1.8 billion in 2015. But more importantly, online Black Friday sales reached an all-time high amounting $2.74 billion – an increase of 14.3% from 2014. Due to the success of Black Friday, retailers need to ensure that they are doing everything they can to improve their site search shopping experience, which will not only increase revenue but also encourage shoppers to return

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Ecommerce Deals for 2016

A Better Lemonade Stand

Black Friday Ecommerce Deals for 2016. The post Black Friday & Cyber Monday Ecommerce Deals for 2016 appeared first on A Better Lemonade Stand.

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Release 2.19

Talkoot

This release included two key features. Multi-Image Viewer. The first is the multi-image viewer. As writers and editors work through the product copy process the different image angles and colorways provide a valuable insights and inspiration. The model view was the only view where users could see all the images associated with a model, yet most tend to work within the Job (list) view.

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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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Top Entertainment Trends With No Signs of Slowing Down

Canadian Special Events

Today’s planners are constantly on the hunt for innovative and “never seen before” entertainment ideas. Clients are digging deep to find the engagement in their programs and are looking for WOW performances that resonate with their audience. With advances in technology, the possibilities are endless but, no one wants to do what every other event has already done and everyone either wants to be first or believes that they thought of it first.

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141: Ryan Deiss On How To Launch An 8 Figure Ecommerce Brand

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today, I’m happy to have Ryan Deiss on the show. Now I’ve actually been following Ryan for quite some time. He is the founder and CEO of Digital Marketer and over the last 3 years, he’s invested over 15 million on marketing tests, generated tens of millions of visitors and sent over a billion emails. He is an expert when it comes to online marketing and brand building.

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How To Double Your Revenue With Google Shopping Custom Labels

Store Growers

High costs are a problem that plague most advertising campaigns. A lot of the store owners I speak to, tell me that they could easily plow more money into more and bigger ad campaigns. But they don’t because of these high acquisition costs. That’s pretty sobering because they know advertising can grow their business, they’re just not sure on how to take make it work.

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Price and Prejudice: Putting a Price Tag on Brand Value

Wiser

*Originally published on the Quad Analytix Blog. FLASH SALE! PRICES SO LOW, WE CAN’T ADVERTISE THEM! With Black Friday and the holiday shopping season fast approaching, promotional copy like the above will soon be splashed across ecommerce sites all over the web. Holiday sales, doorbusters, and loss-leaders will lure customers looking for presents for their loved ones (or maybe themselves), and sales outlets large and small are scrambling to get an edge on their competitors.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Developer Choice Days Celebrate Ideas, Innovation, Individuals

ChannelAdvisor

width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen">. To keep up with the ever-changing and increasingly complicated e-commerce industry, the ChannelAdvisor platform is in a constant state of development. Our software developers are hard at work year round creating solutions, solving problems, inventing workarounds and building other efficiencies that enable our clients to sell more products online and our company to operate more efficiently.

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TALKOOT BLOG, ACTIVATE

Talkoot

Talkoot: a Finnish word that means “a gathering together of friends and neighbors to accomplish a shared goal.”. Talkoot’s a thing we made to make life a little easier and headacheless-ier for the bazillion or so people out there who work in content production. We feel their pain, because we ARE them – Talkoot was built by Thread, a small-but-mighty writing studio with over 10 years of experience crafting stories for global brands.

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Canadian Producers Score an Emmy

Canadian Special Events

David Clark, President, and Shane Droucker, Director of Production, for of BC Event Management , won a coveted Sports Emmy Awards from the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences for the construction of the Fox Sports Studio on Jack Poole Plaza for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 in the category of Outstanding Technical Team Studio. BC Event Management, one of Canada’s leading event production companies was contracted by Fox Sports to technically design, engineer, and construct the temporary

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How To Approach A New Wholesale Vendor Or Supplier When You Have No Store, No Site And No Sales

My Wife Quit Her Job

In this post, you will learn how to approach a new wholesale vendor or supplier whether you’re dropshipping, selling wholesale, or private label. Picture this scenario… You’ve put together a list of potential vendors that you want to work with either from a tradeshow or from a manufacturer’s distributor list. You’ve never purchased in bulk before.

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The B2B Digital Commerce Playbook for Manufacturers

In this comprehensive guide, we delve into four essential ecommerce strategies for manufacturers. Each strategy is backed by a clear vision to ensure your efforts are aligned. Whether you’re a seasoned industry player or a budding digitalization champion, these strategies offer actionable insights to drive success. What will you find in the guide: Overview of how current events and external pressures impact business priorities.

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How To Keep Your CPCs Sane (Holiday Edition)

Store Growers

The holiday season always shows up earlier than you’d like it to. All those to-dos that kept getting postponed, till we’re here, on the verge of the busiest time of the year for most stores. And while it’s too late to make drastic changes, there are still things you can do to get the most out of this years holiday sales. Here are a couple of ideas: A Santa hat on your logo might be funny, but if you’re short on time, focus on things that will move the needle.

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Predicting the Holidays: Analyzing Competitor Holiday Trends

Wiser

This post was originally published on the Quad Analytix blog. “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” But the inverse can also be true: those who study the past can profit from it. As the holiday shopping season begins, retailers large and small are looking to meet and surpass sales expectations for the year. E-commerce sales revenue for the 2016 holiday season is expected to reach almost $95 billion.

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We Drank Our Own Brew & Here’s What Happened: A B2B Optimization Story

Dynamic Yield

Here are some strategies we deploy at Dynamic Yield to be sure our visitors receive a personalized experience from awareness stage to conversion. The post We Drank Our Own Brew & Here’s What Happened: A B2B Optimization Story appeared first on Dynamic Yield.

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4 of every 5 ChannelAdvisor Cyber Five orders shipped free for shoppers

ChannelAdvisor

According to comScore, as of Q3 2016, 60% of e-commerce transactions shipped for free. What’s more, when asked which factor was “most important” for shopping online, 53% of shoppers indicated free shipping (comScore State of US Online Retail Economy in Q3 2016). ChannelAdvisor customers are doing their part to meet customers’ expectations this Cyber Five as 80.4% of marketplaces orders placed will receive free shipping.

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The Circular Product Journey: Powering a Sustainable, Data-Driven Future With PIM

The linear flow of make > use > dispose is unsustainable. Not only is it at odds with the realities of modern society, but it also fails to meet evolving demands from consumers and regulators. Linear is out. Circular is in. Going circular is not an overnight switch. It requires forward planning and data-driven decision-making. In this ebook, you’ll see how the right technology can help brands and manufacturers secure the product data governance they need to power this circular transition.

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Calgary Stampede Creates Rodeo Style Dinner Theatre

Canadian Special Events

Tara Sweeney, CSEP and the team at Calgary Stampede produced this high profile gala to take place in succession with an annual conference. They had three goals: a WOW event for their client; a Stampede experience for guests and to showcase the Agrium Western Event Centre , the only indoor rodeo arena in Canada. They called it the “rodeo dinner theatre.”.

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140: How To Bootstrap A 7 Figure Webinar Software Company With Omar Zenhom Of Webinar Ninja

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today, I’m really happy to have Omar Zenhom back on the show. Now Omar is someone who I met at a private mastermind meeting led by John Corcoran and he was actually a guest on the show already back in episode 88 when we talked about his award winning podcast, the $100 MBA. But along with his podcast, he’s been working on another project, Webinar Ninja, which is a software company that he founded last year which is already doing 7 figures.

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Selling Controversial Products Online

eCommerceFuel

New post from eCommerceFuel : Today we’re chatting with Chad Myers of 80-Lower about the challenges, anticipated and otherwise, of selling controversial products online. Chad talks about how he got into selling gun parts, as well as some of the things he’s learned about business and marketing over the years as an entrepreneurial jack-of-all-trades.

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Shades of Gray: MAP Avoidance Tricks, Gray Market Sellers, and How to Beat Them

Wiser

*Originally published on the Quad Analytix Blog. Resellers often want to offer products at competitive prices, and for good reason. Being the low price leader is a quick way to see an uptick in sales. But this can come at a steep cost down the line for their brand value and that of their suppliers. True or not, low cost is often conflated with low quality, and a reseller that focuses on low pricing risks damaging their reputation.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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The Secret to Maximizing the Lifetime Value of Your Holiday Shoppers

Dynamic Yield

While the holiday season is a huge boon to eCommerce sales, this doesn’t mean you should pursue every customer at all costs. The post The Secret to Maximizing the Lifetime Value of Your Holiday Shoppers appeared first on Dynamic Yield.

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“Alexa, Launch ChannelAdvisor”

ChannelAdvisor

Most of you know Alexa. She’s the talk of the town lately, thanks to her ability to make people’s lives a little easier. Her various skills (she’s got over 3,000 , and counting!) allow you to play music, order a pizza, tell you about upcoming concerts and even dim your house lights. She can help you call an Uber, guide you through a new recipe and remind you that you’ll need your raincoat before walking out the door.

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Eglinton Theatre Recognized for Rich & Diverse History

Canadian Special Events

This past Tuesday in Toronto, Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada commemorated the national historic significance of the famous event space; the Eglinton Theatre and the contributions of Kaplan & Sprachman, Architects. This ceremony was attended by members of the Kaplan, Sprachman, and Eglinton families, along with leaders from Dynamic Hospitality Group and members of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

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139: How To Make 7 Figures Selling T-Shirts Online With Kevin Stecko

My Wife Quit Her Job

Kevin Stecko is someone who I met at an ecommerce mastermind retreat earlier in the year. And as luck would have it, I got stuck on a ski lift with the guy and we were forced to chat. Anyway, Kevin runs an awesome site called 80stees.com where he sells tshirts from the 80s. I was on the site the other day and it brought back memories of youth. In fact, I used to watch Robotech when I was a kid and I was pleasantly surprised to find Robotech t-shirts!

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Forrester Report: Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions

Understanding the intricate world of Point-of-Sale (POS) technology is a common challenge for tech buyers. When it comes to defining the functions of Point-of-Sale systems, the communications have yet to be standardized–—until now. Forrester’s new report, Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions, breaks through the noise and provides business leaders with the information and tools they need to evaluate the features of POS systems.