Amazon Marketing: Allocate Your Budget, Maximize ROI

| Vitalii Khyzhniak

Each business must concentrate on certain marketing areas during various growth stages. However, the biggest mistake is being afraid to market. Amazon marketing is a system of accruing progress, and it can’t be profitable from the start. Here are some budgeting guidelines for each stage of your business development.

Your Ecommerce Website: Optimizing the Digital Core

| Randi Mohr

Your ecommerce website must be a living, breathing content channel to drive meaningful success. Why? Business goals, audience preferences, digital capabilities and best practices are all constantly evolving, and your site must reflect these changing expectations. Optimize these three areas of your website continually to improve results.

Beyond the Jargon: the Future of IoT and Retail

| Ilan Hertz

Cost savings play a major role in the IoT messaging of major software vendors. But in a recent survey, retailers valued IoT data analytics as a way to improve merchandising, not operations. See what is happening and what does IoT data analytics offer retailers.

Natural Language Generation Is Coming to Ecommerce

| Adam Long

If you ask an ecommerce professional to list the most important skills in their industry, writing may not be at the top of the list. But well-written copy is essential to the business, both for describing products and reaching out to customers.

8 Ecommerce Insights Google Analytics Won’t Provide

| Cheryl Amaya

Fifty-six percent of businesses rely solely on Google Analytics (GA) to track their web metrics. And this isn’t just because it’s free. Here are the top insights Google Analytics won’t provide about your ecommerce site.

SEM Tops Online Retail Customer Acquisition Tactics

| MCM Staff

Search engine marketing is lauded by 85% of retailers as one of the most effective customer acquisition tactics, according to the 2014 Shop.org/Forrester Research Inc. State of Retailing Online study. Here’s a look at what others

4 Unique Ways to Increase Sales with Site Search Data

| Tim Callan

To avoid losing out on sales and new customers that can be gained by using search data, put the following ideas into place – they’ll help you get the most value out of your marketing campaigns, making them more appealing to shoppers and featuring products you know they want.

Most Merchants Aren’t Optimizing Site Search to Improve ROI

| MCM Staff

Global ecommerce merchants are missing significant opportunities to improve the effectiveness, reach and return of their marketing and sales programs, according to a new survey of 160 global retail organizations conducted by SLI Systems