2021

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How Headless Commerce Helps Businesses Adapt to Current Ecommerce Challenges

BigCommerce

Ecommerce was an industry already in flux when the events of 2020 really turned things on their head.

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Shimoku Review: Is This Right for Your Ecommerce Store?

Ecommerce Platforms

Ecommerce marketers and business owners weighed down with growing their business while retaining customers typically turn to AI (Artificial Intelligence) to make demanding eMarketing tasks easier. Entrepreneurs using ecommerce platforms like WooCommerce, Shopify or PrestaShop want to automate some of their processes and access reliable data to forecast sales and manage their stock.

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The Seller’s Guide to Ecommerce Marketing Automation

SellBrite

If you’re an ecommerce seller, we have good news—online shopping isn’t slowing down any time soon. According to Statista, there are 4.28 trillion U.S. dollars in the ecommerce industry, and it’s expected to rise to $5.4 trillion in 2022. With this rise in shopping activity, ecommerce marketing automation(EMA) is a no-brainer for sellers. EMA and its software will make your life easier, allowing you to dedicate more time to high-priority tasks like fostering customer relationships.

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HTML & XML Sitemaps for eCommerce Websites

Inflow Insights

Your eCommerce site’s goal should be to match shoppers to products as seamlessly as possible. In order to accomplish this, you’ll need to consider an important SEO file: the sitemap. Your sitemap (or, more likely, sitemaps) helps search engines understand the pages on your site and all of the products you offer — so they can better show your pages to searchers.

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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Should You Still Get A Google Ads Certification?

Store Growers

Last Updated on January 29, 2021. Let me give you the bad news first. Getting a Google Ads Certification won’t make you a Google Ads expert. Further, it’s unlikely you’ll get paid more because of the certificate, and it doesn’t prepare you to deal with actual challenges that a Google Ads manager faces. But there are a few cases where it might be a good idea to get that certification.

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What Is The Cheapest Shipping Option – USPS, FedEx Or UPS?

My Wife Quit Her Job

If you want to know the cheapest way to ship packages or if you run an ecommerce business and want to keep your shipping costs down, this article will teach you all of the cheap shipping methods I use for my 7 figure online store. Because ecommerce is booming and there’s a nationwide shortage of manpower, all of the major shipping carriers have increased their prices.

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How to Track the B2B Ecommerce Metrics That Matter

BigCommerce

Within the B2B market, there are several metrics you can measure, analyze and compare.

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How You Win Share of Shelf Smarter, Not Harder

Wiser

Ahh, the age-old problem for your brand—how to win more share of shelf. It’s common knowledge that optimizing shelf space at your top-performing retailers (and edging out the competitors in your category) is a core part of increasing sales. What’s not always common knowledge? That there are easier ways out there to convince stores to give you better placements on the shelf.

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Adobe’s Virtual Collaboration Bet Will Win If It Evolves Fast

Forrester eCommerce

Helping people collaborate effectively to design experiences is a higher priority than ever. It would have been even if Covid-19 hadn’t hit us, simply because it’s increasingly clear that better experiences drive higher engagement, enrichment, retention, and recommendation. But the pandemic kicked remote work into high gear and, with it, the importance of being able […].

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Students and Teachers Can Save Big With Exclusive Back-to-School Deals

SheerID

SheerID have made exclusive discounts available to millions of students and teachers as they prepare for the new school year.

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Is Your Business AI-Ready? Find Out with Orium’s Maturity Model

Generative AI is poised to redefine B2B, but scaling AI success in this space isn’t without obstacles. From fragmented data sources and complex buyer journeys to operational inefficiencies, the road to AI-powered growth can be challenging. To achieve a competitive edge, understanding your organization’s AI-readiness is essential. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model provides a quick, actionable way to assess your starting point.

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Prepare For AI That Learns To Code Your Enterprise Applications (Part2)

Forrester eCommerce

Bots That Write Code Are Landing On Planet Earth The future of work for AD&D pros will have to change! Today about 70% of the work is all about the development of glue code and wiring things together. From the UI front end, to the backend of apps, as well as in the integration layer […].

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XDR FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions on Extended Detection and Response

Forrester eCommerce

As is expected with any new market segment or capability, questions about Extended Detection & Response (XDR) abound. I wrote this blog to answer a few of the more common questions I’m getting from Forrester clients and from security vendors that are trying to figure this space out. What is XDR? An incredibly simplified way […].

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The Headless Ecommerce Experience and Implementation for Enterprise Organizations

BigCommerce

Intense competition is driving rapid technological innovation in ecommerce.

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It’s Time For The Infosec Industry To Address Gender Bias And Bullying Head On

Forrester eCommerce

The week of July 12 was a big one (not in a good way) for showcasing the persistence and depth of harassment and exclusion for women in cybersecurity. Those on infosec social media were flooded with bikini selfies protesting the harassment that a woman received for posting her own bikini selfie. Men and women took […].

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How To Make Your Fashion Brand Stand Out: Thriving In A Competitive Market

BigCommerce

Fashion is a fast-growing industry with new trends being introduced every year or even within a quarter.

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How To Master Emerging Technologies in the 2020s?

Forrester eCommerce

Social, mobile, big data and cloud are mainstream. What is next? These technologies helped startups become multibillion-dollar enterprises and led to an AI revival. Today, however, only about ¼ of efforts gets past pilot phase with AI. Is implementing AI in production going to trigger new waves of change? Will the pattern be similar to […].

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COVID-19 Accelerates Digital Business In 2021

Forrester eCommerce

Forrester’s latest research on digital business maturity shows that business leaders now consider accelerating the shift to digital business the most critical priority in 2021. It should come as no surprise that COVID-19 has widened the digital business gap between digitally advanced firms and firms that were caught off guard by the pandemic. Less obvious […].

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18 Common Ecommerce Mistakes to Avoid: How Many Are You Making?

BigCommerce

So you want to make your ecommerce store the best it can be, minimize cart abandonment and deliver a great…

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5 Steps to Omnichannel E-Commerce Success

Today’s e-commerce landscape is vast and it’s moving fast and is fiercely competitive. To thrive you need to offer the right products to the right customers on the best channels. Learn how to successfully harness the power of omnichannel selling to reach more online buyers, diversify and grow revenue, and reduce cost – while delivering a seamless "shop to ship" customer experience across all channels.

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Adaptive Firms Outperform The Competition

Forrester eCommerce

We have heard it again and again: the pace of change has never been faster, and it is not going to slow down. To win, the most successful organizations will those who are able to capitalize on this market dynamism. Forrester finds that firms with a future fit strategy succeed in this new reality by […].

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Three Human-Centered Imperatives For Our Tech-Enabled Future

Forrester eCommerce

My previous blog noted that “technology has been modernized separately, to a meaningful degree, from the people and processes interacting with that technology.” This phenomenon has been driven primarily from the outdated managerial approach that the application of technology simply supports the efficiency of a given product or service. Organizations can no longer use this mindset and […].

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Ransomware: Survive By Outrunning The Guy Next To You

Forrester eCommerce

There are two people in a wood, and they run into a bear. The first person gets down on his knees to pray; the second person starts lacing up his boots. The first person asks the second person, “My dear friend, what are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear.” To which the second person […].

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Dapr: Service Mesh Done Right?

Forrester eCommerce

With the recent announcement that Dapr has reached its first production-ready release, we finally see a viable response to Istio and perhaps the rest of the service mesh industry from Microsoft. If you’re not familiar, Dapr is a coding framework intended to solve the challenges of modern distributed applications. You may be asking, “But isn’t […].

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NEWS: SML RFID Delivers 98% Inventory Accuracy to Gina Tricot

I’m getting in touch with the news that fashion retailer, Gina Trictot, has achieved 98% inventory accuracy thanks to its partnership with SML RFID. Please see the full press release below, including exclusive quotes.

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Zero Trust Is Not A Security Solution; It’s A Strategy

Forrester eCommerce

One of the top challenges and misunderstandings that I continue to see here at Forrester is about what the definition of Zero Trust actually is. Zero Trust is not one product or platform; it’s a security framework built around the concept of “never trust, always verify” and “assuming breach.” Attempting to buy Zero Trust as […].

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Microsoft Is Now A Cybersecurity Behemoth

Forrester eCommerce

In our prior Tech Titans research, we mentioned that Microsoft was poised to become a security behemoth. Today, Microsoft announced that its cybersecurity business has grown to over $10 billion in revenue. Ten billion dollars in revenue with 400,000 customers cements the vendor as a cybersecurity behemoth, without a doubt. As more and more businesses […].

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Four Themes Will Shape The Future Of Insurance

Forrester eCommerce

The future of insurance is here. That’s my view and I am sticking to it. Insurers can no longer wait on the sidelines. You must get in the game. What game you ask? The game for who wins the hearts and wallets of tomorrow’s insurance customer. Your competitors (think Amazon, Tesla, and Lemonade) give consumers […].

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Channel Software Tech Stack 2021

Forrester eCommerce

^CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN^ The channel software stack comprises a group of technologies that help companies develop, design, and execute plans to find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incent, co-sell with, manage, measure, and report on partners. Delivering automation of indirect sales processes, workflows, and partner programs, channel software is becoming increasingly critical to a […].

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Degree Requirements Are Poisoning Your Cybersecurity Talent Pool

Forrester eCommerce

There’s no shortage of obstacles holding back folks from finding meaningful employment in the cybersecurity sector. Some of these obstacles are imposed by human resources policies and the software used to automatically scan through resumes in a game of electronic buzzword bingo. One of the most insidious of these being the requirement of a college […].

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Biden Executive Order Bets Big On Zero Trust For Future of US Cybersecurity

Forrester eCommerce

This may be a bit of a long blog due to the extensive nature of the Executive Order On Improving The Nation’s Cybersecurity and its impact on cybersecurity and the Zero Trust approach. The Biden administration also published a “FACT SHEET: President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect […].

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Building A Private Bank For The Next Generation

Forrester eCommerce

Significant gaps continue to exist in private banking, forcing firms to rethink pricing and organizational models. As a result, high-net-worth clients are not fully benefiting from some of the digital innovations that are changing how customers interact with their private banks. To identify “The Top Global Private Banking Trends In 2021,” we interviewed senior executives […].

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Revenge Of The SaaS: Mandiant Uses Services To Escape FireEye

Forrester eCommerce

Revenge Of The SaaS: Mandiant Dumps FEYE In a cybersecurity divorce that had fewer leading indicators than the dissolution of Kim and Kanye, Mandiant has finally untangled itself from FireEye (FEYE) by selling the product portion of the firm to Symphony Technology Group (STG) for $1.2 billion. FireEye’s history as the most “almost acquired vendor” […].

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4 Best Practices for Ensuring Success in International Markets Ahead of Peak Season

The opportunity for e-commerce merchants in international markets is immense. Data indicates that when international options are available at checkout, merchants see up to 20-60% higher cart conversion and a 128% higher gross merchandise value (GMV) than domestic orders. However, while the opportunities are significant, so are the risks. Without careful planning and strategic partnerships, merchants may face challenges, including high shipping costs, complex customs regulations, and unexpected p