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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Easing Small Business Concerns About eCommerce
December 7, 2011 By Michael Smith, Author of eBusiness Buddy Using the Internet as a sales channel can be a highly beneficial business activity that can lead to significant growth in customers and revenue. For a small business, eCommerce makes it possible to grow from a local presence to a global one without the costs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Holiday Tips for Merchants: Nine Carts Converting
November 23, 2011 By Jimmy Rodriguez, CTO and co-founder of 3DCart The words “cart abandonment” are enough to send shivers down a merchant’s spine and for good reason, average abandonment rates skyrocketed to 75 percent earlier this year! The surprising numbers underline how important it is for merchants to put serious thought into how they [...]
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 [...]
Geek Gift Ideas For The Holidays
November 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s that time of year again, time for you to be thinking about what gifts to get the geek in your family this holiday shopping season. We have compiled a list of different ideas for your shopping cart, available from ThinkGeek.com, that will appeal to geeks of [...]
Amazon Offers Early Black Friday Savings
November 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s still days before notorious Black Friday, but a series of e-tailers have already launched unbeatable deals. Amazon.com along with Walmart, Toys “R” Us, Sears, Target, and eBay are currently hosting Black Friday deals on their online stores- all of which started 4 days early! Featured deals [...]
Southwest Launches Online Rapid Rewards in Time for Cyber Monday
November 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Southwest Airlines has launched Rapid Rewards Shopping, a new online program through which loyalty members can earn points by redeeming special offers from hundreds of online retailers. The launch of Southwest’s Rapid Rewards Shopping program marks the first [...]
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 [...]
BookRenter Continues to Innovate On and Offline
November 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team BookRenter, a college textbook rental ecommerce solution, this week announced plans to expand its local services. The San Mateo-based leader in textbook rentals provides a unique platform on which students can rent textbooks both online and directly from on-campus bookstores. The BookRenter platform allows students to rent [...]
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