October 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yesterday, social commerce platform ShopIgniter introduced an in-stream technology that will allow merchants to utilize Facebook users newsfeeds to create a more connected social ecommerce solution. ShopIgniter is a Portland-based social ecommerce software platform that aims to help retailers reach customers and revenue through social media platforms. [...]
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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Crowdpark Allows Social Betting On Almost Anything
October 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Crowdpark is a Berlin-based company that creates social betting games which allow players to make bets in real time on anything going on in the world around them. The company’s first game is called Bet Tycoon and has approximately 500,000 players on Facebook. Crowdpark uses a “dynamic [...]
Ecommerce Leader Amazon Taking Publishing Into Their Own Hands
October 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce giant Amazon is set to publish 122 books of a variety of genres this fall. By creating their own publishing line, Amazon is removing traditional publishing houses from the process and making their own deals with authors. Amazon Publishing will act similar to a traditional publisher, [...]
Dropbox Secures $250 Million; Competes With iCloud
October 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Dropbox announced Tuesday that it has secured $250 million in a Series B round of funding led by Index Ventures. Dropbox is a company that uses cloud storage technology to provide a place where users can store and share files on the Internet. The service boasts 50 [...]
Shopify Announces $15 Million in Funding
October 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce platform Shopify announced Monday that it has accumulated $15 million in Series B financing. The primary investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Felicis Ventures, and Georgian Partner. The Ottawa, Canada start-up is a popular platform for businesses who are looking for an ecommerce solution but [...]
Ecommerce Software Platform, Vendio, Launches Blogger Contest
October 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Attention all bloggers! Do you live and breathe blogging? Are you passionate about ecommerce and ecommerce solutions? Can you write a more enticing introduction than this (don’t lie to yourself…)? If you answered yes to these questions, you may want to check out Vendio.com. Vendio Services, Inc. [...]
4 Steps to Getting the Right High-Risk Merchant Account
October 17, 2011 By Tina Brandon, Vice President of PayNetSecure.net Happy Guest Blogger Monday! This week our guest talks about establishing the high-risk merchant account that’s right for your ecommerce solution. Without this knowledge, you might be at risk yourself–for winding up without a merchant account. VP of PayNetSecure.net Tina Brandon guides you through four [...]
Prepare Your Ecommerce Solution for DNS Failure
October 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Domain Name Service (DNS) issues may be more of a concern this holiday shopping season than expected, according to a recent study commissioned by VeriSign, Inc. Ecommerce solutions of all sizes could be at risk of experiencing the devastating effects of DNS failure and website downtime. The [...]
VendASnack Provides Ecommerce Solution For Snacking
October 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team You put your only crinkled dollar bill into the dated vending machine, press the button for Peanut M&Ms, and begin to shout angrily and kick the machine as the package gets stuck right in front of your face. This is just one of many frustrated interactions between [...]
X.Commerce Joins Cloud Computing Software, OpenStack
October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce innovator eBay launched the first ever open commerce operating system yesterday. Joining eBay Inc., X.commerce is a completely open source platform where merchants and developers can get all the technologies necessary to launch an ecommerce solution. Coding is available for everything from shopping carts to payment [...]
Kiip and Zynga and iPhone 4S, Oh My! Mobile Gaming Developments
October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world of mobile gaming is expanding all the time, along with mobile commerce and, well, everything mobile. There are tips and tricks all over for improving your mobile-optimized website and ensuring customer satisfaction and ease of use with your m-commerce platform. Everyone is getting involved, and [...]
L2 Releases 2011 Digital IQ Index: Fashion
October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team L2 recently released its third annual Digital IQ Index for fashion, which ranks the digital competence of 49 prestigious fashion brands. The index ranks the brands based on the effectiveness of their digital strategies across four categories: site, digital marketing, social media, and mobile. Brands were given [...]
Get The Most Out Of Mobile Ecommerce Solutions
October 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team There’s no question that if you are in the business of ecommerce you should be concerned about the business of mobile ecommerce, or m-commerce. Whether you choose to embrace the mobile ecommerce world or not, we’re here to offer a simple fact: your website can and will [...]
Kiwi Crate Makes Inspiring Creativity Easier For Parents
October 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Kiwi Crate is a new service for parents who want their kids to do more hands-on type activities, but need a little help providing such activities. Parents who sign up for the subscription service will get a new crate containing a specially designed hands-on craft or activity [...]
Open Source Ecommerce Solution Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding
October 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Popular open source ecommerce solution, Spree, announced yesterday it has officially become incorporated as Spree Commerce Inc. This announcement comes after Spree’s raising of $1.5 million in a seed-funding round led by True Ventures. Other participants in the round include AOL Ventures and Sean Glass. Spree commerce, [...]
5 Tips for Optimizing Ecommerce Sites for Mobile Access
October 10, 2011 By Brian Doll, Principal Performance Analyst for New Relic Welcome back to Guest Blogger Monday! Our writer this week, Brian Doll of New Relic, discusses how your mobile-optimized website can make or break you. Internet users want their information now, not in 30 seconds, and they want it to be clear and [...]
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