Category: Industry Insight

Selling on Multiple Marketplaces: What are you waiting for?!

Industry Insight

Today, making it in the E-commerce industry is all about out-marketing and outselling the competition. Many businesses share similar shopping cart solutions including Magento, Shopify, Prestashop, Volusion, ZenCart, and osCommerce. While some of these shopping carts offer the latest technology and marketing tools, the fact that your competitors can have the same solution often prevents […]

What do Online Shoppers Want?

Industry Insight

Today, nearly 1/3 of all internet surfers shop online. The growing number of internet shoppers represents the single greatest economic revelation in our lifetimes. That huge body of consumers is out there, but how do you attract them? What do consumers want? Here is a great infographic from Conscore.com for an inside look at the […]

Four Overlooked Web Analytics Tools and Metrics for E-Commerce

Industry Insight

Most of the discussion about web analytics world concerns orders and conversions, which drive revenue. Lead generation websites generate metrics similar to ecommerce (conversion rates etc). There is a perception, when analyzing web stats, to over-value “uniques”, that is, new visitors to the site (there is some controversy as to how “uniques” are calculated and […]

Google Shopping: Will it Become the Ultimate Comparison Shopping Engine?

Industry Insight

This week we are highlighting an article written by Thad Rueter that  thoroughly describes how Google Shopping will make Google Inc. an even larger player in E-Commerce. Google will soon become a more attractive place to start a shopping trip, transforming itself into not only a search engine but an image-rich sales engine. Google’s new paid model […]