July 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The mobile shopping market, which includes mobile payments, NFC (near-field communication) chips, money transfers, and mobile ecommerce solutions, are projected to hit $670 billion worldwide in 2015. With the mobile market currently at around $240 billion, it is projected to almost triple in under 4 years. Juniper, [...]
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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Stylemint Gives Olsen Twins Their Own Ecommerce Solution
July 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In a move that we reported was set to happen in the coming weeks, the Olsen Twins (Mary Kate and Ashley, just so that you don’t confuse them with some other set of Olsen Twins) now have their own ecommerce solution. Dubbed “Stylemint,” they are the flagship [...]
eCommerce: The New Frontier for Small Business
July 5, 2011 by Marc McDermott of Merchant Express If you’re a small business owner who thinks tapping into the eCommerce marketplace would be reaching too far, think again. With the right merchant account from your merchant services provider, you can be accepting credit cards on the Internet sooner than you may think! The U.S. [...]
Q and A with VeriShow
July 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you want to run a successful ecommerce solution, one of the most important things that you can do is interact with your customers in a friendly, effective, efficient way. One technological advancement that can help with this is online live chat. Live chat has become a [...]
Consumers Turning to Ecommerce Solutions for Fireworks
July 4, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It seems that this July Fourth consumers are turning to the internet to change the way that they do business when it comes to fireworks. Like everything else these days, fireworks and fireworks-related information have become increasingly available through online means like personal websites and ecommerce solutions. [...]
Nokia Shuts Down Online Stores
July 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s a story that may have some Nokia investors trembling in their cushy leather business chairs, as most of them probably already were after hopelessly watching the company’s stock dive bomb over the last several months. As a result, today the mobile giant announced that it has [...]
Guest Blog: Social Media in Retail
July 1, 2011 By Susanne Newman, Co-founder of Garmentology With the development of social media, it is easier than ever to spread the word about new fashion ranges and products launches. Co-founder of online personal shopping service Garmentology, Susanne Newman, talks about retailers should be utilising their online space. At the moment we keep hearing [...]
Google+ is the Cool New Kid Not Everyone Can be Friends With
July 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Google+ has become Google’s foray into the social media world. Recently launched this week, Google+ is an invite-only, Facebook-like, social network that has rapidly evolved into a social club that everyone wants into, but at this point in time, no one can. According to the site, it [...]
Madonna Comic Due in August
July 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you thought you had every piece of Madonna memorabilia available for purchase, than you might want to think again. Loyal Madonna disciples across the world were pleased to hear this week that they had another item to add to their shopping cart. This time it’s a [...]
Woobox Rolls Out “FriendGate” Feature
July 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Facebook is a must-have for every ecommerce solution and brick-and-mortar business out there. A good social media campaign can make or break your business. Getting your customers to help you spread the word is a great way to leverage the people who already love you into bringing [...]
The Clymb Raises $2M for the Outdoor Enthusiast
June 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We’ve all heard the phrase ‘there’s an app for that.’ Well now it seems there’s also ‘a flash sales site for that’ as well. The private flash sales business model is becoming the next gold rush for many start-ups in ecommerce. This market is expected to reach [...]
Yelp Rolls Out Its Own Daily Deals
June 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team There is another new player in the daily deal sector…Yelp. The mobile application that you normally use to check reviews, hours, and to find something good nearby had decided to offer daily deals. Groupon, LivingSocial, and other similar ecommerce solutions know how important going mobile is. Yelp [...]
AmazonFresh App Launches on Windows Phone
June 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you currently reside in Seattle and are the owner of a Windows Phone 7, we have great news you might want to hear. You will now be one of several thousand people who are able to order groceries via the AmazonFresh App developed by Metia. AmazonFresh [...]
Zestii Adds Zest To Your Ecommerce Experience
June 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Zestii launched today and has plenty of features that help shoppers have a better ecommerce experience while saving money. We all know that daily deal sites that are sweeping the web. Plus everyone is looking to save some money these days, but Zestii isn’t a daily deal [...]
Square Secures $100 Million in Funding
June 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Jack Dorsey, the innovative entrepreneur who is well known for creating Twitter secured $100 million in a financing round for Square led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Square plans to use the money to speed up growth according to Dorsey who is currently the company’s chief [...]
Most Tablet Users Stream TV While Shopping
June 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A recent study by Pew showed that 8% of United States adults own a tablet. Shopzilla, an ecommerce solution that sells just about everything, recently conducted a study in the UK that showed 71% of tablets owners shop online while streaming television shows. The same thing is [...]
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