August 4, 2010 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team The face of ecommerce in China is shifting, as more consumers acquire credit cards, become comfortable with the Internet, and get familiar with the world of online shopping. Recent data from a Nielsen Online survey indicates that consumers in China are heavy online shoppers [...]
Survey Shows Women Lead Online Purchases
July 30, 2010 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team A recent survey published by comScore provides insight into the ways in which women are shaping the Internet, and one area where women seem to be leading the way is with online shopping. The United States is the biggest ecommerce market in the world, [...]
Pixazza Raises $12 Million to Further Ecommerce Efforts
July 19, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team The popularity of Pixazza.com is paying off, as they just raised $12 million in Series B funding, which brings their total funding to roughly $20 million. Pixazza is not the typical ecommerce company, since their business is based upon an advertising platform that connects [...]
Canon Improves Website and Ecommerce Experience
July 15, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team Canon U.S.A. has long been known for their quality line of products which include digital cameras, camcorders, printers, scanners, and binoculars. In order to give consumers the best website experience possible, Canon decided to launch a new redesigned site and improved ecommerce experience. This [...]
Pier 1 Working on Ecommerce Efforts Again
June 30, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team Pier 1 is a well known home furnishing retailer that, surprisingly enough, shut down their ecommerce operations in 2007 to allow the company to have a bigger focus on overall profitability. In late 2003 and early 2004 Pier 1 stock (NYSE:PIR) was hitting all [...]
The Big Chalupa: How to Successfully Migrate a Large eCommerce Site
June 15, 2010 Guest Post By Heather Rast, Director of Marketing at Clickstop, Inc. 50 Percent Planning, 50 Percent Execution Some sites are easy to migrate. Those with little to no PageRank or few product lines make it relatively simple to set up shop on a new content management platform or shopping cart program. Other [...]
Twilight Sales and Deals Heat Up in Ecommerce
June 04, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team On June 30th, the Twilight phenomenon will unveil its 3rd movie in what will most likely become a series of 5 cinematic releases based off of the 4 books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. The Twilight Saga began in the mind of [...]
10 Reasons Why Consumers Love Your Ecommerce Site
April 29, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team Last month, the ZippyCart content team launched an article entitled 10 Reasons Why Your Ecommerce Site Could be Failing. The following article is a glass half full approach to ecommerce, in which we highlight 10 reasons why your ecommerce site is a great success! [...]
5 Great Marketing Tips for Ecommerce Sites
April 12, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team There are a variety of ways in which you can market your ecommerce site so that you can increase visitors and ultimately your revenue. Some marketing strategies can be very expensive to learn like pay per click advertising, and other marketing techniques can take [...]
5 Topic Ideas for your Ecommerce Store Blog
March 29, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Reviews Content Team If you have an ecommerce store, then it is a must to have a blog as a way to communicate with your customers. However it can be tough to always come up with new topics for your ecommerce blog. We have complied a variety [...]
Sears Continues to Expand Ecommerce Efforts
March 10, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team The performance of Sears traditional brick and mortar stores have not impressed industry analysts, but their ecommerce efforts have been generating buzz and more online products are coming in 2010. Sears already has a very popular mobile enabled site and FREE iPhone app called Sears2Go, [...]
Ecommerce Success Forcing Store Closures in Japan
March 02, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team Japan has been one of the countries leading the world for years in terms of ecommerce and mcommerce adoption, but unfortunately the change in which people shop has hurt many brick and mortar stores. The country of Japan is known for being very expensive to [...]
Improved Fraud Protection Aids International Ecommerce Growth
February 25, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team The United States is known for having some of the biggest names in ecommerce in the entire world with brands like Amazon, Ebay, Overstock.com, and others popular throughout the world. However, those shoppers located outside of the U.S. who are interested in putting something in [...]
27 Amazing iPhone Apps for Ecommerce Merchants
February 16, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team Did you ever wonder what the best iPhone apps were for ecommerce merchants to use, so that you can become more efficient and effective in running your online store? There are thousands of apps to sort through and compare to figure out which ones you [...]
Domino's Pizza Online Store is a $1 Billion Dollar Success Story
February 11, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team Since 2007, Domino’s Pizza has been trying to push the envelope by letting customers order online via their mobile phone or personal computer, but the mobile customers have really skyrocketed over the past year helping Domino’s surpass $1 billion in sales. 2009 was a very [...]
Video and Ecommerce, an Interview with Mike Darnell
February 10, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team We took a moment to interview one of our guest bloggers, Mike Darnell, to bring you an expert view of the current state of online video and how it impacts ecommerce. Mike is the Social Media Manager for Treepodia and a guest author for ReelSEO. [...]
How Can Small Business America Get in the Big eCommerce Game?
February 09, 2010 Op Ed Guest Post By Steve Koss, Local-Marketplace.com We asked Steve Koss of Local-Marketplace.com to provide our readers with some inspirational words of wisdom with regards to getting into the ecommerce space. Many small businesses keep planning to enter ecommerce, but do not know what value it brings or what steps to [...]
Google Adds Designer Products to Their Ecommerce Store
February 08, 2010 By the ZippyCart Ecommerce Software Content Team Google is, without a doubt, the best search engine on the Internet, although they sometimes go a bit crazy with some of their ecommerce related ideas. For instance, it is one thing to sell t-shirts or hats with the Google logo or even the YouTube [...]
Malaysia: An Untapped Ecommerce Opportunity?
February 04, 2010 OpEd Guest Post By CK Wong, E-Commerce Consultant It was the first time in history that a Malaysian company made headlines at TechCrunch last December. Friendster, the granddaddy of social networks has been acquired by MOL Global, a Malaysian e-commerce (payment) company. How much do you know about Malaysia? Malaysia is a [...]
