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 [...]
Groupon Co-founders Invest in Belly
December 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Belly, a Chicago-based startup formerly known as “Bellyflop,” has secured more than $1 million in funding from Lightbank. Lightbank is an investment vehicle owned by Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, that also contributed $1.5 million in seed funding to Benzinga this past May. Belly integrates [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
mFoundry Expands Mobile Commerce Solutions
December 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team mFoundry, provider of mobile banking solutions to approximately 600 banks nationwide, will be expanding its mobile commerce business to include mobile payments. The company announced Monday that it has received $18 million in a capital funding round led by MasterCard. Intel Capital, FIS, and Motorola Mobility also [...]
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 [...]
Spotzot Provides Deals To Shoppers With Increased Relevance
November 21, 2011 By the Zippycart Content Team Spotzot is a deal targeting platform that allows retailers to target customers with offers and coupons based on location and intent. The platform searches thousands of sources for in-store and online promotions every day and then categorizes the deals and delivers them through free publisher APIs. The [...]
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 [...]
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 Digital River: Marketing Strategy Trends
November 9, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We recently got a chance to sit down with Jim Wehmann, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for Digital River, to chat about some strategies that businesses are using to market their ecommerce solutions this holiday season. Multi-Channel Marketing Businesses are increasingly turning to multi-channel marketing techniques [...]
ShopSavvy Adds Facebook Co-Founder To Board Of Directors
November 4, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team ShopSavvy, the mobile app that allows users to compare prices on anything, anywhere, will be adding Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin to its board of directors. The company announced Thursday that it has secured a $7 million round of Series A funding led by Saverin. Additional funding came [...]
MoPub Marketplace Gives Mobile Publishers Control Over Ads
October 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team MoPub Marketplace is a real-time bidding platform for mobile ads that directly connects publishers with ad buyers. The marketplace acts as a virtual trading floor that allows mobile ad buyers to bid on ad space from app publishers without going through an ad network. Advertisers are able [...]
Ecommerce Solution eBay Opens 24/7 “Inspiration” Storefront
October 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Looking for that perfect holiday gift but can’t afford the full retail price? Want to know what top designers, tech giants and celebrities are dreaming of this year? Or maybe you need to reward yourself–since about 60 percent of shoppers admit they will buy themselves a gift [...]
Google Wallet Expands SingleTap Technology
October 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Google has partnered with New Jersey transit to offer their contactless payment platform Google Wallet for customers purchasing transit tickets at a couple popular train stations. Both New York City’s Penn Station and Newark’s Liberty International Airport Rail Station have implemented the necessary technology to support a [...]
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