January 6, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team There are several activities people engage in while drunk that are generally looked down upon like drunk driving, dialing or texting. However, ecommerce retailers are loving a new activity that is swiftly gaining popularity: drunk online shopping. According to a recent study in the UK, many respondents [...]
Why You Should Always Include a URL
January 5, 2012 By Myron.com The Internet is king these days, and fewer companies can come up with good enough reasons not to offer their products online. The few companies that haven’t adopted online shopping are more likely to lose business as the interest in shopping electronically grows. Borders Bookstores, America’s second largest book selling [...]
New Steve Jobs Action Figure: Creepy or Collectible?
January 4, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team Only 3 short months after the highly publicized death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Chinese company In Icon has created an extremely realistic looking action figure of the late technology mogul. The 12-inch “Collectible Figure” will be available this February for $99.99- a price quite a bit [...]
4 Ways to Increase Consumer Satisfaction on Your Ecommerce Solution
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 [...]
Ecommerce Solution Sharing Spree Combines Daily Deals and Philanthropy
December 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The concept of linking sales to non-profits is a swiftly growing phenomenon. Websites like Nonprofitshoppingmall.com and GoodShop.com allow consumers to donate to charities through their ecommerce purchases using a click-through technology. Although these websites have been around for the past decade, their success has been limited and [...]
Ecommerce Credit Card Processing Fees Can Be Deceiving
December 21, 2011 Guest post By Michael Dolen, founder and CEO of CreditCardForum How much does your eStore pay for card processing? Unfortunately the answer is rarely clear-cut. There are many factors that go into the calculation of card credit card processing fees: 1. Your Business Type – What are you selling and to whom? [...]
Ecommerce Solution Offers Non-Profit “Shopping Mall”
December 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A new study shows more holiday shoppers are bound to make last minute purchases this year. A recent survey by BIGresearch found that by the second week of December the majority of shoppers had completed less than 50% of their holiday shopping. According to the study, 37 [...]
TransPerfect Minimizes Risks Of Using Multilingual E-commerce Sites
December 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Countless ecommerce sites are offering holiday deals this year, but shoppers will gravitate to retailers that provide security and efforts to prevent identity theft. Given the ease of global Internet shopping, consumers are buying products from companies all over the world, and, especially when dealing with foreign [...]
“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 [...]
Amazon’s Weekend Promotion Faced Retailer Opposition
December 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Many small brick and mortar retailers around the country were less than pleased with Amazon’s promotion of their new Price Check mobile application this past weekend. On Saturday (12/10), Amazon offered customers a 5% discount up to $5 for using the new application. The application, called Price [...]
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 [...]
Walmart Enters F-Commerce Scene With ShopyCat
December 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Walmart, one of the highest grossing retailers on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, last week launched a holiday shopping gift-guide application on Facebook called Shopycat. Created by @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s tech shop in the Silicon Valley, the app is designed to help users with often difficult task [...]
6 Emerging Ecommerce Trends for 2012
December 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The successes of both Black Friday and Cyber Monday are encouraging signs for the ecommerce industry. Merchants worked hard this season to draw shoppers to their online stores and get them to fill their shopping carts. Record numbers of consumers flocked to retailers online storefronts to make [...]
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 [...]
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