My Wife Quit Her Job

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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 Omnichannel

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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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ChannelAdvisor

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Around the time of Facebook’s IPO, Mark Zuckerberg famously announced that the company was adopting a “mobile first” approach in everything it did. This was important because they had admitted that the rapid growth in mobile caught them off guard. This approach clearly has paid dividends with 84% of Facebook’s revenue now coming from mobile. In yesterday’s earnings call, Zuckerberg talked about a new era for Facebook — a “video first” world.

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eCommerceFuel

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

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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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

OCTOBER 31, 2016

One of the reasons I love documenting my online business ventures is that I have the ability to go back in time and re-live some of my experiences running a business. And this came in handy the other day when a reader asked me the following question. Steve, it seems like you always know what you are doing. Do you ever get impatient with the progress of your business?

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Dynamic Yield

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Combine the power of Facebook ads with Dynamic Yield's unified dataset to empower micro-targeting for your remarketing campaigns. The post Introducing: Enhanced Facebook Remarketing With Dynamic Yield appeared first on Dynamic Yield.

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ChannelAdvisor

OCTOBER 31, 2016

On Thursday, October 27, 2016, Amazon reported their Q3 2016 results. In this blog post, we analyze the results with an eye towards implications for online and offline retailers, as well as Amazon sellers. Compared with Q1/Q2, this quarter was a bit mixed with a slight deceleration in overall growth driven by EGM NA deceleration. Amazon also missed Wall St’s profitability estimates due to a step up in fulfillment center build-up and launches as well as investments in India and Prime video (in

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Dynamic Yield

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Combine the power of Facebook ads with Dynamic Yield's unified dataset to empower micro-targeting for your remarketing campaigns. The post Introducing: Enhanced Facebook Remarketing With Dynamic Yield appeared first on Dynamic Yield.

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ChannelAdvisor

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Everyone knows that customer support can make or break your business. With consumer expectations constantly on the rise and technologies to improve e-commerce transactions constantly improving, consumers expect personalized responses on multiple platforms. According to a Parature Customer Service Survey of 1,000 consumers, 65 percent said they’ve cut ties with a brand over a single poor customer service experience.

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