The term ‘store’ consistently ranks as one of the highest keywords used in domain registrations across legacy TLDs such as .com. Therefore most retailers, small or large, who adopt a “brand.store” web address will help consumers find them with greater ease. The suffix looks and sounds like a natural destination for online stores of any description. Here’s how you can secure a .store for your brand.
Subscriptions aren’t just for digital content anymore. The online subscription model is expanding to embrace a wider range of vertical industries, from consumer electronics to packaged goods. Just about anything that is consumable, repeatable or has a finite lifespan may be a candidate for subscription commerce. Here are 3 key questions every company needs to ask itself now.
While e-commerce seems to have reached a saturation point when it comes to the number of consumers who shop online, there has been a steady increase year-over-year in the frequency of consumer purchases, according to the Walker Sands 2016 Future of Retail Study.
Aptos announced at IRCE 2016 that Ron Jon Surf Shop and Purdys Chocolatier will launch new ecommerce sites with order management systems through its platforms. Here’s a look at the unique needs of the two very different merchants, and why Aptos was able to provide both with solutions that best fit their customers’ needs.
Bizrate Insights launched a new Abandonment Survey platform that now can recognize when a consumer is about to leave a retail website and triggers an invitation that gives retailers an opportunity to offer help and save the sale.
Digital commerce and marketing have become even more intertwined and both will need to work more closely than ever to create a complete online shopping experience, see what needs to be done in order to make this a reality.
Mobile commerce accounts for 30% of all U.S. ecommerce and is expected to grow at a rate almost triple that of the entire domestic ecommerce sector. See what ways retailers are using mobile to engage with customers.
With mobile apps already constituting a key shopping platform, retailers are constantly searching for new and innovative ways to promote their wares effectively on this channel. See what retailers are doing to implement the in-app experience for customers.
Amazon doesn’t need to take over the last mile of ecommerce delivery, but it does need to reduce its massive shipping cost burden in order to maintain its recent run of profitability, which is the logic behind its recent logistics moves.
Founders of Karmaloop and UpscaleHype announced the launch of Curateur.com, a website of men’s fashion. See what the new site has to offer.