Personalizing Your Messaging for Pet Owners

| Jaime Singson

Pet owners are an expanding segment of the population in the United States. Personalizing creative for a large variety of consumers is neither impossible nor cost-prohibitive. Here’s why it takes a two-pronged approach that combines good targeting with dynamic creative tools.

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How to Sell Efficiently on eBay and Amazon

| Lisa Steinhart

Marketplaces represent a great revenue opportunity for omnichannel merchants. But as Midwest Photo Exchange learned, the devil is in the details. Here’s why the more time you spend preparing your items and integrating your infrastructure will help you better control your costs and add to your bottom line.

Keeping a Good Brand Reputation in a Digital World

| Debra Ellis

The addition of ratings to search results can stop prospective buyers before they visit the website or store. The best marketing message on an optimized website and top notch customer service have no effect if people stay away. Here’s how you can build and manage your company’s reputation.

The Amazon Warehouse Boom

| Erin Lynch

Amazon has been making major investments domestically and internationally to its fulfillment operations. In fact, since 2010 alone, Amazon has invested $14 billion in building new warehouses and hiring additional back-end staff all in an effort to bring more products, to more people, the fastest way possible.

BooJee Beads Gets Conversion Lift from Product Videos

| Daniela Forte

BooJee Beads, a maker of decorative lanyards and ID badge holders, saw an increase in the conversion rates of visitors who watched video after it was added to each of its product pages. Here’s how conversion rates of product pages with video differed from product pages without them.

5 Ways Site Search Data Creates Better Merchandising

| Geoff Brash

By understanding your customers’ intent – in their own words – you are better able to merchandise your site (and search results pages) with compelling offers and messages – in a visually optimized way – that will help improve a customer’s likelihood of making a purchase. Here are 5 tips for how you can better use your site search reporting data to create more relevant and engaging online experiences.

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5 Tips to Prepare for Holiday Shipping

| Daniela Forte

The holidays will be here before we know it, so as you prepare for the rush, you will want to think of proactive ways to handle shipping this year. The holidays will be here before we know it, so as you prepare for the rush, you will want to think of proactive ways to handle shipping this year. Find out ways you can create engagement, boost sales and get your site ready to master the holiday rush.

Pet Product Merchants Differentiate Themselves to Succeed

| Daniela Forte

Pet products merchants Ruffwear, Dog is Good, Pet Lifestyle And You and Pup-Pee Solutions have found ways to differentiate themselves and succeed in business. Here’s what these four merchants are doing to differentiate themselves in the crowded pet products category.