Innovation Origins regularly brings you tips and tools from around the world of tech. Today, we focus on the importance of implementing an e-commerce website for your business, especially in times of Corona. And although much of what we describe may be performed by the business owner, there is reason to leave this work to the specialists.
The benefits of an e-commerce site to a retailer are clear, but it can often seem challenging to develop and implement a successful e-commerce site on your website. Using a professional for website design will allow you to develop a site that's user friendly, engaging, and with multiple opportunities to track customer data. Professional web designers will develop a stand-out, easy to navigate e-commerce site that has customer experience at its core.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: September 1, 2020 | Practical Ecommerce
Facebook Shop launches . Facebook has launched Facebook Shop , a place for consumers to discover businesses and shop for products in the Facebook app. Shops enable businesses to set up a single online store that consumers can access on both Facebook and Instagram. In the coming weeks, Facebook is making it available to any eligible business and adding customization features, messaging, and new insights to help sellers measure results.
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Ware2Go announces integration with Google Shopping . Ware2Go, an on-demand warehousing and fulfillment company (owned by UPS), has announced a new ecommerce partnership and integration with Google Shopping. The integration will display free, fast delivery promises within merchants’ Google advertisements, based on real-time inventory availability across Ware2Go’s fulfillment network .
Packaging manufacturers see boosts in sales to ecommerce clients
As online merchants have gained sharp increases in sales during the pandemic, manufacturers that supply them with packaging materials and envelopes are also reaping benefits amid their own market pressures caused by the coronavirus.
Packaging supplies manufacturer Interstate Polymer Group Inc., based in Montreal and Sarasota, Florida, yesterday reported a 9.4% drop in revenue to $267.8 million for the second quarter ended June 30. It attributed the drop to a decline in overall order volume and lower prices, "primarily due to the next impact of COVID-19 on demand."
Retail Ecommerce Ventures Calculates Next Moves | PYMNTS.com
Instead, a dialogue with Lopez, head of Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), spans multitudes of topics, from neuroscience to movies to books to chess and, yes, retail. Because in his expansive vision, they all touch each other. Take this quote, for example, from one of Lopez's favorite books, Geoffrey Moore's "Crossing The Chasm":
"The number-one corporate objective, when crossing the chasm, is to secure a distribution channel into the mainstream market, one with which the pragmatist customer will be comfortable," Moore writes. "This objective comes before revenues, before profits, before press, even before customer satisfaction. All these other factors can be fixed later – but only if the channel is established."
Not to change the topic here:
Dickey's Barbecue Pit Introduces Expansive New Ecommerce Selection | RestaurantNews.com
Barbecue expert expands retail product line with new direct-to-consumer butchered meats, pre-cooked sides and desserts
Dallas, TX ( RestaurantNews.com ) The leader in Texas-style barbecue Dickey's Barbecue Pit is giving fans unfettered access to restaurant-quality cuts of meat, premium pre-cooked sides and desserts with the launch of their newest line of retail products.
This week, the barbecue joint with nearly 80 years of restaurant experience unveiled an entire new line-up of retail products on their At Home site including ready-to-heat sides and dips such as queso blanco, buffalo chicken dip, scalloped potatoes and broccoli casserole.
Most consumers abandon a slow-loading ecommerce site
When stores closed en-masse due to the coronavirus pandemic, more shoppers went online, testing the resiliency of retailers' and brands’ ecommerce sites.
90% of shoppers will abandon a site if it doesn't load in a reasonable time, according to a survey of 1,100 U.S.-based consumers conducted by Retail System Research (RSR) from April-May in a report released by ecommerce cloud platform Yottaa Inc.
5 hidden trends in North American ecommerce
What could be more 20 th century than retailing via printed catalogs and physical stores? And yet, one-fifth of the way through the 21 st century, many retailers that built their businesses around catalogs and bricks-and-mortar stores are doing very nicely online, thank you very much.
Those were two of the findings that took me a bit by surprise as I wrote the 2020 Digital Commerce 360 Top 1000 Report , which analyzes the performance of the 1,000 leading North American companies by online retail sales. And there were other noteworthy insights that emerged from the Top 1000 data. Here are five not-so-obvious trends that come out of this report.
Ecommerce Made Up 16.1% of US Total Retail Sales in Q2 - eMarketer Trends, Forecasts &
That's $211.51 billion in Q2 2020, up from $160.41 billion in Q1 2020. This strong ecommerce growth wasn't enough to offset losses from brick-and-mortar store closures, however, as total retail sales dropped 3.9% from the prior quarter.
Still, ecommerce picked up nearly 5 percentage points in the total retail market over just one quarter, according to the DOC, accounting for 16.1% of all retail sales in Q2. We estimate that ecommerce will make up 14.5% of US retail sales this year, up from 11.0% in 2019—the largest year-over-year increase since we began measuring the channel in 2008.
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