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 [...]
Shopping Cart Tool TapBuy Now Available for Retailers
December 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team TapBuy is a new technology that aims to simplify the m-commerce checkout process and increase conversion rates. Available now to retailers, developers, and shopping aggregators, TapBuy facilitates a quick and easy sales conversion by storing shopper’s billing and shipping information. TapBuy technology can be integrated into retailer’s [...]
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 [...]
Shazam Integrates Television and Mobile Ecommerce
November 10, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Mobile discovery company Shazam announced Tuesday (11/8) that USA Network’s hit show Covert Affairs will now feature Shazam for TV. Covert Affairs joins several other “Shazamable” shows, which means it will include call-outs during the show for viewers to use the Shazam app to tag music in [...]
An Interview with Visible Delivery Founder Dave Bell
October 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team One of the most common reasons for shopping cart abandonment is that people fear high shipping costs. Customers are often tempted to look up where they can get the same product in a retail store, and consequently overlook the additional costs implicit in in-person purchasing. They don’t [...]
Guest Blogger Monday: Three Powerful Tools to Engage Customers
September 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Our guest blog this week comes to us from Ross Kramer of Listrak. He covers three simple, but sometimes overlooked, strategies for increasing your customer loyalty and satisfaction. Introduction A survey conducted earlier this year with internet retailers revealed that while respondents almost unanimously agree that audience [...]
Major E-Commerce Solution Shopatron Celebrates Ten Years
September 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Shopatron, one of the world’s largest and most successful providers of ecommerce solutions, is celebrating a decade of being in business. Shopatron is a tool available to large-scale ecommerce solutions who are interested in not only selling online, but also maintaining their relationships with retail outlets. Manufacturers [...]
Google Prepares to Launch Google Wallet in San Francisco
September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Hot on the heels of the leaked documents stating that Google Wallet would officially launch on September 19th, it appears that the NFC mobile payment platform has started to show up in retail stores in San Francisco. Multiple sources reported that Google had sent a notification to [...]
Missoni Mayhem Crashes Target Website
September 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Fashionistas descended upon Target stores and crashed the company’s website Tuesday trying to get their hands on pieces from the new Missoni for Target line. Target’s website formerly relied on Amazon’s ecommerce software but switched to its own platform three weeks ago. The new platform was evidently [...]
Shopify’s Build-A-Business Contest Reaches Halfway Point
September 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team After four months, e-commerce company Shopify has reached the halfway point in their Build-A-Business Competition. A grand prize of $100,000, plus a VIP trip for two to New York City to have lunch with Seth Godin, meet with Gary Vaynerchuk, then a trip to California to have [...]
DollarDays and EasyAsk Partner To Better Search Results
September 9, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team EasyAsk, a leader in e-commerce search and merchandising software today announced their partnership with wholesale ecommerce solution DollarDays. DollarDays is using the natural language conversion power of EasyAsk eCommerce software to get customers from the DollarDays home page to the right products they are searching for in as [...]
Zara Launches Ecommerce Software In U.S.
September 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Spanish fashion retailer Zara launched its first ecommerce solution in the United States Wednesday. To celebrate the launch of Zara’s online shop in the U.S. the company enlisted a variety of photographers to create a collection of 50 unique photographs representing each state. The collection is called [...]
Women Now Dominate E-Reader Ownership Rates
September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Reading is one of those activities that bridges the gender gap. While their book interests may vary, men and women of all ages love to read. And the most recent explosion in the popularity of devices like Amazon’s Kindle and the Nook Color has made reading even [...]
Halloween Costume Ideas For Couples in 2011
September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Like it or not, summer is drawing to a close and the holiday season is right around the corner. All the ecommerce sites out there are starting to stock up on the latest and greatest Halloween costumes for the 2011 holiday. The costume parties seem to begin [...]
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