The Trial and Error Method of Cultural Color Choices

| Donald L. Dunnington

Navigating your online brand through the many design and color choices can be tough enough within your domestic market. The danger really escalates when you apply your brand’s corporate style to other cultures. The real danger comes in either failing to consider cultural differences such as color’s impact on your target market. How do you know you have it right?

Walmart holiday mobile app on an iPhone

Why Mobile is the New Retail Hub

| Bryan Bartlett

Many shoppers start their journey on a smartphone, and finish it at the brick-and-mortar stores on which they’ve always relied. This is prompting retailers to rethink their business model with mobile as the hub.

Aligning IT and Business Goals with Web Performance Initatives

| Mehdi Daoudi

It’s not that the customers’ web performance needs should take a backseat; rather, their needs will be better served if the business and IT teams are able to meet their goals in the fastest and most efficient manner possible. Here are four steps that any online retailer can take to accomplish this.

Growing Global, global, global ecommerce, France, Germany, cross border, retail, online retail, returns fraud, returns policy, Europe, EU, EU consumer rights directive

Are Your Global Ecommerce Sales Growing?

| Tim Parry

If you’re a retailer or a B2B merchant, and you’re selling across borders, then we want you to share your knowledge at Growing Global 2015. Here’s how you can become a part of our speaker faculty.

China, chinese shopping, chinese ecommerce, chinese market, global, global ecommerce, Growing Global, ecommerce, buying online, online marketplace, Marketplaces, tmall.com, Taobao, Shipping/Delivery, shipping, logistics

Ecommerce in China Grew 21.3% in 2014

| Tim Parry

Ecommerce sales in China hit 12.3 trillion yuan in 2014, up 21.3% from 2013, according to data compiled by iResearch. Here’s a look at how China’s ecommerce growth breaks down by sector.

Target, Target Canada, ecommerce, store closings, Canadian retail market, Zellers

3 Lessons Learned From Target’s Marketing Approach

| Paul Mandeville

Modern technology has actually made it much easier for smaller companies to test new models and innovate right alongside Target and their brethren. Here are some examples of how mid-market retailers can learn from Target and use technology to develop more customer-centric marketing approaches.