January 3, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team The 2011 holiday shopping season is officially over and retailers have shifted their focus to the heaps of holiday gift returns coming in as we begin the New Year. Holiday returns are up 8% this year from the same time last year, which is due to more [...]
Consumers Use Ecommerce Solutions for More Expensive Purchases
December 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Shopify app SumAll has completed an analysis of current Shopify customers providing insight on rising prices, increasing discounts, and decreased shipping costs. The study was conducted over four years (2007-2011) and derived findings from 30 million transactions from stores powered by Shopify. Overall the data shows retailers [...]
“Green Monday” Marks Continuing Holiday Ecommerce Success
December 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce solution eBay coined the term “Green Monday” in 2007 to describe the second Monday in December, which for the past six years has marked the most (or second-most in 2005 and 2007) profitable shopping day of the year for online retailers. “Green Monday” has been exceptionally [...]
Paid Search Ads Benefit Offline Sales More Than Ecommerce
December 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce campaigns are more effective at driving more sales in brick and mortar stores than online store fronts. According to a two year long study recently completed by RevTrax, paid search and display ads generate $6 of offline retail spending for every $1 of ecommerce spending. Although [...]
StoreYa Offers Retailers Convenient F-Commerce Platform
December 9th, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Facebook commerce, or f-commerce, will undoubtedly be one of the fastest spreading ecommerce trends of 2012. Many mega-retailers have already begun to leverage f-commerce technology and create retail storefronts on the social media website. With more than 800 million active Facebook users globally, f-commerce is a great [...]
Ecommerce Solutions Counting The Cash From Cyber Monday
This year’s Cyber Monday attracted record numbers of online shoppers, making it a huge success for retailers as expected. According to IBM Benchmark, sales this year were up 33 percent from 2010. Online shoppers also spent more, the average customer order was $198.26 compared to $193.24 last year. In accordance with 2011 holiday shopping season [...]
Cyber Week Off to Successful Start
November 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Holiday shopping season 2011 got off to a great start with retailers reporting record-breaking Black Friday sales in both brick-and-mortar and online storefronts. According to research by comScore released yesterday, online sales in the U.S. surged on Black Friday and generated an estimated $816 million, up from [...]
Shopcade Integrates Social Networking and Ecommerce
November 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Shopcade has introduced a new social shopping application for Facebook users. Launched yesterday, Shopcade attempts to offer the millions of users on Facebook a true social shopping experience. The app allows users to browse, buy, and share products while [...]
CEOs Increasing Use Of Ecommerce Solutions
November 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A recent survey of retail CEOs revealed that retailers are currently increasing their investments in a variety of multi-channel growth strategies including ecommerce and international expansion. The study, conducted by PwC Canada Retail Consulting Services, surveyed CEOs of 21 U.S. and Canadian specialty and department national retail [...]
2011: An Online Spending Odyssey
November 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Online holiday spending, aided by mobile and tablet commerce, is expected to grow 15 percent this year. Forrester released a report predicting that online sales during the 2011 holiday shopping season will amount to $59.5 billion, compared to $51.7 billion last year. Although consumers are more deal-conscious [...]
4 Ecommerce Tips For Thanksgiving Weekend Sales
November 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team November is here and if you haven’t started already, now is the time to optimize your ecommerce solution and marketing plan for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This Thanksgiving weekend is predicted to be more profitable than last year, but there will also be more competition for [...]
Performics’ 2011 Social Shopping Survey Yeilds Interesting Results
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Millions of Internet users are members of social websites. In order to access that growing market, more and more retailers are utilizing social shopping platforms in addition to their ecommerce solutions. Just this week, Sociable Labs, a popular social ecommerce software provider, announced the $7 million success [...]
2011 Holiday Shoppers Turning to Ecommerce Solutions
October 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce solutions are the preferred method of shopping for many consumers due to the convenience of 24/7 availability. Some consumers enjoy the one-stop-shop the Internet provides, and others appreciate free shipping and other incentives online retailers offer. Whatever their reasons, more shoppers than previously expected will be [...]
Prepare Your Ecommerce Solution for DNS Failure
October 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Domain Name Service (DNS) issues may be more of a concern this holiday shopping season than expected, according to a recent study commissioned by VeriSign, Inc. Ecommerce solutions of all sizes could be at risk of experiencing the devastating effects of DNS failure and website downtime. The [...]
2011 Holiday Shoppers Look To Ecommerce Solutions
September 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Offering the right online deals to shoppers will be critical for retailers to attract customers this holiday shopping season. A recent survey by SteelHouse revealed that 82 percent of respondents will change the way they shop this year. Of those respondents, 62 percent plan to spend less [...]
Carriers Prepare to Invest $100 M In ISIS Mobile Payment
August 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Near Field Communication (NFC) is widely considered the next frontier in the mobile payment world. Multiple tech heavyweights are preparing their NFC solutions, including Google. Eventually, even online purchases may be possible via NFC scanners. Today, the three major US wireless carriers announced their plan to invest [...]
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