September 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team On Monday Netflix launched its ecommerce software in Brazil, the first of 43 countries and territories throughout Latin America and the Caribbean that will begin receiving the Internet movie and TV streaming service during the next week. Rochelle King, Netflix VP of User Experience and Design, had [...]
The Importance of Regular Website Redesigning
February 3, 2012 By Richard Fisher Building a website and keeping it running is one thing but maintaining it is another. It is crucial to keep constantly change your website design. As time passes, the taste and preference of countless internet users change. Furthermore, integrating the latest internet trend into your website design can be [...]
eCommerce 2012: Expand, Integrate, Refine
January 19, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team January is always a great time for merchants to plan their strategy for the coming year, so it makes sense that they would want to gain some insight as to what type of trends could impact their business in 2012. We recently had the opportunity to discuss [...]
Attention Business Owners: 3 Inventory Sourcing Techniques You Should Know
January 17, 2012 By Andrey Zavyalov, Wrightimc.com When you decide to start an online business, you start with one question, “What should I sell?” The next question then becomes, “Where do I get the products to sell?” When you’re making that decision, how you plan to manage your inventory should be a primary consideration. The [...]
Drunken Debauchery Benefits Retailers’ Ecommerce Solutions
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 [...]
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Vimeo Launches New Tools for Ecommerce Professionals
September 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Having high-quality videos on your ecommerce solution can be a great way to increase conversions, get picked up in Google searches, boost SEO, and just add value to your site. However, what service to use can sometimes be tricky. YouTube is the biggest video-sharing website on the [...]
Amazon.com Pushes for California Tax Exemption; Lawmakers Push Back
September 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce giant Amazon.com is trying to back out of a new sales tax law. In June, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring online businesses outside of California to collect taxes on sales made through in-state affiliates. The tax went into effect July 1, but it appears [...]
5 Step Guide to Designing an Effective Website for a Small Business
September 6, 2011 By Matt Bramowicz, PR Writer, Translation Services USA For any small business, the web serves as the great equalizer for a company’s presence. Whether you have a sprawling three-story storefront on 5th Ave., or a small 100 sq. ft. retail space on a deserted back alley street in Anytown, USA (or no physical store [...]
DC Goes “Day-and-Date” on Digital Comics!
September 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The digital age has brought about many changes. Products that were usually only available in stores are available on ecommerce solutions. Items like books and CDs, which were previously only available in physical form, can now be wirelessly downloaded from remote servers and ecommerce software platforms. The [...]
Wayfair.com Combines 200+ Stores Into New Ecommerce Solution
September 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team “A zillion things home,” boasts Wayfair.com, a new destination for home shopping. They aren’t kidding. CSN Stores launched the site Thursday, gathering all of its shopping sites into a unified ecommerce solution. The new site carries roughly 4.5 million items from over 5,000 brands, and co-founder/chairman Steve [...]
Airbnb Takes On New Challenge With Sublet Option
September 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team San Francisco-based startup Airbnb has made its mark in the travel accommodations industry with a service that has become wildly accepted, letting every day people rent out a portion of their property like it’s a hotel room through its ecommerce solution. The company has now carried its [...]
Starz to End Content Streaming on Netflix
September 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The wound may still be fresh for many movie lovers as Netflix has officially rolled outs its 60 percent price hike on its DVD by mail service, effective September 1. However, not to pour salt into the wound, Starz Entertainment has also announced it will be ending [...]
Marketers Target Smartphone Shoppers Through Browsers
September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Marketers are increasingly reaching out to smartphone-using consumers with apps and ads in their mobile browsers. The average smartphone user spends approximately 7% of their mobile usage time engaged in shopping, according to eMarketer. Nearly three out of four consumers adding items to their shopping cart via [...]
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 [...]
Coeds and Zipcars: Down the Ford Funnel
September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Whenever a person has to look back on a specific period in their life, it’s a sign of aging. Well, thanks to Ford Motor Company and hourly car rental service, Zipcar Inc., here’s another sign — Do you remember the days of being a freshman in college? [...]
H&M Unveils Prequel to 2012 U.S. Online Store
September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team International clothing retailer H&M has at long last launched a limited (how’s that for alliteration?) ecommerce solution for its United States consumers. The company teamed up with Elle Magazine to showcase four fall looks available through shopping cart software on Elle’s website. However, these items are in short [...]
HP Making More TouchPads, Will Be Available On Ecommerce Solution
August 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Well, after the dust had seemingly settled on the roller coaster that has been the HP Touchpad firesale, the computer giant announced today that it is fact making more of the bargain-bin tablets. This final run of TouchPads is being made specifically to fill existing backorders and [...]
Dollar General Rolling Out New Ecommerce Solution
August 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In the wake of better-than-expected Q2 earnings, Dollar General is announcing an ecommerce software platform for their shoppers to take advantage of. In an era when economic growth is stagnant and consumer purchasing power is incredibly weak, Dollar General’s low-price model seems to have struck a chord [...]
GlobalCollect Partners with DemandWare for Pre-Built Ecommerce Solutions
August 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team GlobalCollect has announced an official partnership with Demandware and their LINK community. Demandware is a firm whose ecommerce solutions aim to help eliminate some of the many problems retailers face when integrating front end technologies into their ecommerce solutions. Think of it as on-demand ecommerce functionality. As [...]
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