November 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We recently got in touch with Thibaud Clement to find out more about his year-long ecommerce focused tour of the world that he has dubbed the DODEQA project. The DODEQA project is a 12 month, 12 city, 12 objective journey during which Clement will focus on gaining [...]
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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Ecommerce Solution BigCommerce Announces New Milestone
November 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team BigCommerce recently announced that it now powers more than 20,000 online stores and retailers who use the ecommerce solution have processed a total of more than $350 million in sales. Launched in 2009, the ecommerce software company has grown to nearly 100 employees and plans to hire [...]
Holiday Survey by Alibaba Suggests E-tailer Optimism
November 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team E-tailers are more optimistic this holiday season, according to a holiday survey conducted by Alibaba. Alibaba is one of the largest business-to-business online marketplaces and owns Vendio and Auctiva, both of which provide online merchants with ecommerce software solutions. Alibaba recently conducted a survey of over 1200 [...]
Ecommerce Startup ReDigi to Cease-and-Desist?
November 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The Recording Industry Association of America is demanding that ecommerce solution ReDigi entirely shuts down their recently launched website. ReDigi is an online marketplace for the buying and selling of legally downloaded “used” digital music tracks. The company’s vision is to enable users to sell their legally [...]
CEOs Increasing Use Of Ecommerce Solutions
November 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A recent survey of retail CEOs revealed that retailers are currently increasing their investments in a variety of multi-channel growth strategies including ecommerce and international expansion. The study, conducted by PwC Canada Retail Consulting Services, surveyed CEOs of 21 U.S. and Canadian specialty and department national retail [...]
Groupon Gets in the Holiday Spirit With Grouponicus
November 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Groupo the Bargain Bird is back and that can only mean one thing: It’s Grouponicus time! For those of you who missed it last year, Grouponicus is a holiday created by daily deal site Groupon in 2010. It is symbolized by Groupo the Bargain Bird (nothing says [...]
Ecommerce Solutions Tapping Into the “Murderabilia” Market
November 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Some businesses will go to unusual lengths in order to make a profit. Several southern-based websites have taken their ecommerce solutions to a dark and twisted place by collecting and selling “murderabilia”. There are currently six different ecommerce solutions focused on the selling of memorabilia from some [...]
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 [...]
Room 77 Now Offers Online Booking
November 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Room 77 has expanded their comprehensive search engine and hotel room review website and will now allow travelers to book hotel rooms directly from their site. The new Room 77 feature helps travelers ensure they are booking the perfect room at their desired hotel. The site launched [...]
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 [...]
Ecommerce Solution Leader Rakuten Acquires Kobo
November 10, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Japanese ecommerce solution giant Rakuten will be acquiring the Canadian ereading service Kobo from majority shareholder and founder of the service Indigo. Indigo is Canada’s largest book retailer and founded Kobo in 2009 to compete with Amazon’s and Barnes & Noble’s ereaders. The Kobo ereading platform has a [...]
myTab Provides New Social Gifting Ecommerce Solution
November 9, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team myTab provides an ecommerce solution for those who want to travel but need a creative way to generate funding. For example, studying abroad is without a doubt one of the best experiences one can have when in college. However, it can also be terribly expensive, making it [...]
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 [...]
Amazon Releases Holiday Toy List 2011
November 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team With Black Friday and Cyber Monday swiftly approaching, Amazon has released their much-anticipated 2011 Holiday Toy List. Revealed on Wednesday (11/2), this year’s Toy List features items such as games, movies, electronics, and sporting goods in addition to popular toys. Amazon’s list is a great tool for [...]
Lot18 Gets $30 Million For Its First Birthday
November 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Wine flash sale site Lot18 will be turning one year old next week and certainly has a lot to celebrate. Since Lot18 began selling wine last November the site has gained more than 500,000 members, sold more than 500,000 bottles of wine, grown from six employees to [...]
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 [...]
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