The retail industry is a super competitive and continues to expand at an unprecedented pace with little signs of slowing. With success in the industry gravitating around capturing customers with growing expectations and a shrinking tolerance. It’s ultimately the companies that apprehend every opportunity with careful planning and lean manufacturing that will rise to the […]
How to market your online store to get more Mother’s Day sales. Mother’s Day is one of the most active retail times of the year behind the Christmas season. According to a recent prediction by market research firm IBISWorld, overall retail spend on Mother’s Day will increase by 3.9 percent to $1.36 billion. Overall retail […]
The one thing ecommerce does well is consistently improves the quality and speed of service that customers buy products. It’s in every seller’s interest to have the quickest and safest checkout possible. Helping you keep buyers on the line and your takings safe from credit card fraud should be pretty high on every sellers priority […]
Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group.IMAGE: NI YANQIANG/IMAGINECHINA Need proof on how important ecommerce is to retail sales? Chinese ecommerce giant “Alibaba” sold $462 billion US worth of products in 2015 alone. That’s billion, with a capital B. For those that don’t know what Alibaba offers: Alibaba provides both consumer-to-consumer and […]
The benefits of selling globally are boundless and a quintessential factor in leveraging economies of scale. If done right, your product could be the next Coca Cola. Amazing right? Some online store owners think they are selling their product to a global market just because they are based on the internet. But, are they really? Selling […]
The time where the weeks following Easter were about eating through the backlog of chocolate given to you by friends and family, is long gone. “Retailers are beginning one of their busiest times of the year and are more than ready as consumers shop for essentials,” says the President and CEO of the US National […]