How to Use Paid Social Media to Increase Holiday Sales

| Ellen Jantsch

The holiday shopping season is upon us and many retailers hoping to reach shoppers online will put paid social media at the center of their marketing efforts this season. Here’s how you can create the right message at the right time and yield the right increase in sales.

How to Connect With Nordic Customers

| Maureen Gleeson, Oban Digital

The Nordic countries – Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland – are an attractive group of markets for international ecommerce businesses for a number of reasons. With more than 15 million consumers online in the Nordic region, we discuss the factors you should be aware of when entering the ecommerce market in the Nordics.

European Engineers Embrace Digi-Key for Online Component Sales

| Tim Parry

Digi-Key, a full-service provider of electronic components, has announced an enormous spike in web traffic and online orders placed by design engineers in Europe. Here is why engineers in Germany, the UK, France and Italy, among other regions of Europe, are rapidly embracing Digi-Key as their go-to resource for electronic component selection and availability.

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11 Main Unveils Mobile Shopping App

| Tim Parry

Alibaba-owned ecommerce marketplace 11 Main has unveiled its new mobile shopping applications for iPhone, iPod touch and Android, and added that an iPad version coming later this year. Here’s how 11 Main says its apps will provide a better mobile user experience.