November 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team New collaborative ecommerce solution Giftiki is a group gift giving platform that allows friends to pool their money together to buy a friend a combined gift. Launched less than 4 weeks ago, Giftiki is in its first stage of beta but has already enjoyed more success than [...]
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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2011 Holiday Shopping Season Trends
November 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It is now officially the 2011 holiday shopping season and a number of recent studies have forecast some interesting trends that will be taking place this season. Holiday sales in the U.S. are projected to reach $466 billion this year, a nearly three percent rise from last [...]
The 3 Biggest Ecommerce Selling Mistakes – and What to Do About Them
November 2, 2011 By Leigh Ashton, London-Based Author, Speaker, Trainer and Coach However brilliant your ecommerce platform is, selling anything in this way usually means an automated, impersonal selling process, conducted with someone you’ve probably never met who could be some distance away in kilometers and maybe light years in culture. So how can you [...]
4 Ecommerce Tips For Thanksgiving Weekend Sales
November 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team November is here and if you haven’t started already, now is the time to optimize your ecommerce solution and marketing plan for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This Thanksgiving weekend is predicted to be more profitable than last year, but there will also be more competition for [...]
Macy’s Incorporates Blogging Into Ecommerce Solution
October 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Mega-retailer Macy’s is adding a blog to their already successful ecommerce solution. Macy’s blog, or mBLOG, was officially launched last Wednesday (October 26th) and is set to include posts on various topics such as men and women’s fashion trends, home and lifestyle news, and beauty. The blog [...]
Performics’ 2011 Social Shopping Survey Yeilds Interesting Results
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Millions of Internet users are members of social websites. In order to access that growing market, more and more retailers are utilizing social shopping platforms in addition to their ecommerce solutions. Just this week, Sociable Labs, a popular social ecommerce software provider, announced the $7 million success [...]
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 [...]
Social Ecommmerce Solution Sociable Labs Raises $7 Million
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Social ecommerce solution provider Sociable Labs has raised $7 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. The announcement came Wednesday after the company emerged out of stealth. Existing investor Javelin Venture Partners also contributed to this round of funding. Sociable Labs, a 25-person [...]
Slice Launches Ecommerce Solution To Organize Purchases
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Slice is a free service for Gmail and Yahoo! Mail users that takes information about online purchases from their inbox and organizes it all in one place. The ecommerce solution aims to ease the hassle of sorting through an inbox full of order confirmation emails and tracking [...]
Offline Purchases to be Used For Targeting Web Ads?
October 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team “You are what you buy.” Whether or not you agree with this statement, it’s the way the folks at MasterCard see it and they want access to everything you buy. MasterCard and Visa want to take what they know about your purchasing habits and use that information [...]
Barnes & Noble Plays Villain In DC Universe
October 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Earlier this month Barnes & Noble began pulling 100 DC graphic novel titles from shelves in its brick-and-mortar stores. The decision came after DC Entertainment made an exclusive digital deal with ecommerce solution Amazon to supply graphic novels for the new Kindle Fire. DC fans can still [...]
2011 Holiday Shoppers Turning to Ecommerce Solutions
October 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce solutions are the preferred method of shopping for many consumers due to the convenience of 24/7 availability. Some consumers enjoy the one-stop-shop the Internet provides, and others appreciate free shipping and other incentives online retailers offer. Whatever their reasons, more shoppers than previously expected will be [...]
Retailers To Offer More Incentives This Holiday Season
October 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Anxiety is rising among retailers as the holiday season approaches causing them to offer some unusual promotions. This holiday season, many ecommerce retailers are willing to sacrifice profit in order to make a sale. Beyond that, some retailers are even giving away free gifts as shopper incentives. [...]
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 [...]
Major Publishers Provide Ecommerce Solutions For Authors
October 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Three major publishers will soon provide authors with access to book sales data online through new author portals. Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday the creation of its author portal that will allow authors and illustrators to see data online about the sales of their published material. [...]
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