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• 10 Benefits of Consistent, High-Quality Content Marketing - In this competitive B2B marketing landscape, businesses make substantial investments in building content marketing programs. Why? Content marketing has been proven to deliver resounding success.
  Topics: audience, business, brand, quality, content, marketing, customers, create, scoring, consistent, build, highquality, benefits.
• 10 Must-Learn Skills to Build a Successful E-commerce Business - If you're running an online business, these skills can help your business thrive.
  Topics: bundle, learn, marketing, ecommerce, business, email, savings, successful, mustlearn, certification, skills, build, reg, youll.
• 10 Things To Do Before Spending Money On Your Business - You can’t scale a business without money, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start a business on a small budget.The payoff will be a bit delayed. But one day, you’ll get it. Instead of pouring thousands of dollars into ads, there are a few things to do first. In this […]
  Topics: things, money, content, ad, youre, build, start, instagram, store, youll, spending, business.
• 15 of the Best Free Website Builders to Check Out in 2020 - It's almost impossible to maintain a successful business without a fully functional, responsive, SEO-compatible website -- but you don't have to shell out the big bucks to afford one.
  Topics: best, check, sites, website, free, build, wordpress, site, templates, offers, builder, builders.
• 16 Effective Ways to Build Your Online Presence - The other day I was trying to find the perfect dress pant yoga pants because I wanted comfortable, professional clothing options.
  Topics: media, online, presence, email, social, customers, brand, ways, build, content, create, effective.
• 21 Ways To Build Your Social Media Presence, Like HubSpot Marketers -  I was a lazy natural for most of my life. I had natural hair but I never took care of it in the way I should have.
  Topics: build, brand, ways, audience, brands, hubspot, youll, social, media, audiences, presence, marketers, community, content.
• 27 Free Shopify Apps to Help You Build, Manage, and Grow Your Store - With thousands of apps in the Shopify App Store, you have a lot of options when it comes to extending the functionality of your online store. But with so many options to choose from, we thought it would be useful to highlight 27 of the best free Shopify apps you can add to your store.More
  Topics: build, store, add, customers, manage, help, apps, product, products, create, grow, app, sales, shopify, free.
• 4 Tweaks to Make to Your Website to Sell More - A robust online presence will become businesses' primary medium for sales in 2021.
  Topics: tweaks, information, users, customers, having, website, media, directly, page, business, build, sell.
• 4 Ways to Build Transparency as a Leader - Trust and transparency are fundamental to business success. A recent survey by Ernst & Young found that less than half of global professionals trust their employer, boss, team or colleagues. A host of factors improve trust in the workplace -- from diversity and inclusion to individual leaders being more open and transparent with their teams.
  Topics: ways, employees, work, transparency, openly, team, need, build, trust, open, transparent, leader, leaders.
• 4 Ways to Create Deeper Connections With E-Commerce Customers - Just because consumers are online doesn't mean you can't form meaningful relationships.
  Topics: dont, create, business, products, ways, help, ecommerce, customers, community, build, deeper, connections, world, right.
• 5 Essential Steps for How to Start a Dropshipping Business - Have you ever dreamt of starting an online business but were confronted with a few small problems? Having no time,…
  Topics: business, start, youre, dropshipping, ecommerce, products, product, build, need, sure.
• 5 Ways Ecommerce Brands Create Strong Communities - Consumers have their pick of online retail sites. Make yours irresistible to even the most skeptical of the bunch by forging a tight-knit community of brand supporters.
  Topics: brands, ways, online, business, youre, create, ecommerce, company, community, brand, way, consumers, communities, build, customers, strong.
• 5 ways to build better ecommerce customer relationships - Online competition is fierce. Brands and retailers that can develop and maintain the best customer relationships are going to end up on top and ensure long-term success. Here are five ways to improve those customer relationships.
  Topics: ecommerce, businesses, build, better, media, relationships, business, brand, social, customers, customer, support, facebook, ways, need.
• 6 Email List Building Tools for Ecommerce - In this post, we lay out some best practices for using email list building apps, then we dig into 6 great tools that you can use to build your email list.
  Topics: tools, build, building, marketing, ecommerce, optin, list, form, store, email, forms.
• 6 Tips to Build a Remote Team for Your Ecommerce Business - Successfully build a remote team of workers for your ecommerce business with these 6 tips! How to find, assess & train remote workers & more.
  Topics: building, team, ecommerce, business, job, remote, build, employees, workforce, worker, work, tips, company, workers.
• 7 of the Best Website Builders for 2019 - After strolling out of my Computer Science I final during my freshman year of college, I knew I’d never code anything in my life again. My computer science class was incredibly interesting when we learned about the theory of programming languages. But when we had to put theory into practice, the only programing I was doing was texting my friend to email me the code of whatever project I was working on (sorry Professor Harms!).
  Topics: build, google, wordpress, website, builder, builders, online, rating, shopify, store, websites, best.
• 9 Ways to Boost Sales by Making Your Store More Trustworthy - Trust is everything. Without it, people won’t even consider purchasing your products. In other words, in ecommerce, to neglect trust is to ensure failure. But here’s the problem: Trust is extremely difficult to build. And to make matters worse, it’s especially difficult to build online. Without genuine, face-to-face interaction, you […]
  Topics: sure, trustworthy, website, store, product, create, social, return, youre, sales, making, boost, ways, customers, build, trust.
• Adobe ties up with Amazon to build D2C stores powered by Amazon’s commerce and fulfillment tools - E-commerce giant Amazon was built on the concept of a large marketplace that could be the home for all online shopping, whether it was for items and services it was selling itself or those sold by third parties. Now — capitalising on the new trend for direct-to-consumer (D2C) selling, it is partnering with Adobe to […]
  Topics: online, techcrunch, adobe, websites, stores, prime, sellers, powered, pay, tools, customers, fulfillment, build, amazons, amazon, ties, d2c, commerce.
• After Magento 1, build something special - Magento stopped supporting version 1 this month. Many ecommerce businesses running Magento 1 will be looking for alternatives. There is no shortage of recommendations and advice. Leading contenders include Shopify, WooCommerce, and Open Cart, among others. All have strengths and weaknesses.
  Topics: professional, platform, special, important, money, magento, ecommerce, sites, profit, platforms, build, easy.
• Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service - Alloy Automation, a startup that was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort, announced today that it has closed $5 million across two rounds, the most recent of which brought $4 million to the company in October of 2020. The new funds were raised at a $16 million pre-money, $20 million post-money valuation, Alloy […]
  Topics: company, round, service, ecommerce, automation, 4m, build, million, capital, techcrunch, startup, alloy, raises, founders, y.
• Amazon deal with India’s BookMyShow helps build ‘super app’ - Amazon’s partnership with BookMyShow in India will bring it one step closer to becoming super app, says GlobalData.
  Topics: movie, amazon, app, helps, deal, transactions, online, build, bookmyshow, amazons, indias, super, partnership, india, consumer.
• Amazon drops plans for New York HQ2 - In a surprise turn, Amazon has announced that it’s pulling out on plans to open one of two HQ2 locations in New York City. The move follows much criticism from local government and citizens, who have pushed back on the company’s proposed Long Island City location, citing tax breaks and Amazon’s longstanding anti-unionization policies. Amazon […]
  Topics: hq2, amazon, plans, york, build, city, local, location, blasio, island, long, drops.
• Brighton-based MPB snaps up $69M to build out its used camera equipment marketplace - Used-goods marketplaces, an online staple since the beginning of the internet as we know it, have really come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic: They’ve been a place for people clearing out their domestic spaces to list items that they have that are still in good shape, making some money in the process; and […]
  Topics: items, camera, partners, 69m, marketplace, techcrunch, equipment, million, platform, vitruvian, raised, brightonbased, way, used, world, mpb, build, snaps.
• Build Your Own Online Store With This All-In-One eCommerce Solution - fesh. eCommerce Shop Builder allows you to set up a pro-level eCommerce environment without having to write a single line of code.
  Topics: shop, allinone, builder, youll, single, fesh, online, store, services, products, allows, ecommerce, build, solution.
• Build a Better Instagram: HubSpot's Social Media Manager's Hot Tips on Building Brand Awareness on Instagram - Instagram officially has one billion monthly active users -- and 80% of those users follow a business. Your business isn't on Instagram? Well, chances are good that your customer is. So it might be time to start 'doing it for the 'gram'.
  Topics: hot, building, audience, media, value, feel, forget, friends, hubspots, social, brand, content, tips, managers, instagram, build, feels.
• Build an Ecommerce Store on Shopify with Help From This Bootcamp - Ecommerce is booming. Cut your slice of the pie today.
  Topics: learn, youll, bootcamp, shopify, right, start, things, products, build, selling, help, store, ecommerce.
• Build an Ecommerce Website That Keeps Up With Evolving Customer Expectations - The internet impacts every area of our lives. We use it for socializing, entertainment, working, and research. We also use…
  Topics: ecommerce, customers, build, product, customer, sure, payment, website, successful, store, products, site, online.
• Building B2B Marketing Chops - Lindsay Hagerman discusses how she was able to build a thriving B2B business at RainCaper.com through tradeshows, geographical reps who work on commission and more. You’ll learn: How to build a thriving B2B business The best way to present yourself at a tradeshow How Lindsay uses reps for different geographical locations Advice for maintaining friendships […]
  Topics: work, build, building, geographical, hagerman, reps, youderian, thriving, marketing, chops, raincapercom, b2b, lindsay.
• Bye-Bye, Mansion. Hello, Tiny House - After Gabriella and Andrew Morrison sold their massive house and 90 percent of their belongings, they found happiness in a 150-square-foot pop-up trailer—in Baja, Mexico. Since then, the couple has dedicated their lives to the tiny house movement, empowering people to build their own sustainable homes and live happily with less. In this Q&A, Gabriella explains how the couple started their businesses with one cheap Costco video camera and zero experience in ecommerce, propelled by their vision for a future where tiny houses solve the world’s big housing problems.More
  Topics: went, movement, andrew, really, started, experience, inspiration, build, tiny, house, byebye, hello, gabriella, mansion.
• Cloud Integration Explained, and 6 of the Best Cloud Integration Platforms - As marketers, smashing our department’s silos is crucial for truly understanding our customers and catering to their needs. If we understand each team’s challenges and initiatives, we can align our entire department to send the most relevant content to our audience and achieve a common goal.
  Topics: build, cloud, business, explained, platform, apis, platforms, applications, connect, rating, data, best, integration.
• Crafting a Compelling Ecommerce Content Marketing Strategy in 2020 - In 1885, Mark Twain published the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as president of the United States.…
  Topics: strategy, need, customers, marketing, content, brand, build, product, information, youre, examples, dominate.
• Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy - Dee Goens and Jacob Horne have both the exact and precisely opposite background that you’d expect to see from two people building a way for creators to build a sustainable economy for their followers to participate in. Coinbase, crypto-hack projects at university, KPMG, Merrill Lynch. But where’s the art? “Believe it or not, I used […]
  Topics: marketplace, raises, cryptodriven, value, creators, zora, price, community, market, token, economy, artists, build, sustainable, creator, way, 2m, rac, techcrunch.
• Dear Entrepreneurs: We Build For You - Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone—you’ve likely heard us say it a million times. But what does that really mean? Shopify President Harley Finkelstein shares why Shopify exists.More
  Topics: harley, mission, succeed, build, entrepreneurs, million, business, purpose, dear, shopifys, shopify, world.
• Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics - Amazon and others have raised awareness of how the in-store shopping experience can be sped up (and into the future) using computer vision to let a person pay for and take away items without ever interacting with a cashier, human or otherwise. Today, a startup is announcing funding for its own take on how to […]
  Topics: uses, analytics, using, cctv, build, retailers, startup, techcrunch, raises, north, deep, retail, ai, instore, data, insights, cameras.
• Ecommerce Business Blueprint: How to Build, Launch, and Grow a Profitable Online Store - Starting an ecommerce business is as exciting as it is challenging. To help, we've put together a list of essential advice, compiled from Shopify's most popular guides and videos, on all the steps involved in getting a new online business off the ground.More
  Topics: online, free, business, profitable, grow, search, launch, marketing, product, ecommerce, blueprint, build, products, store, help, traffic.
• Ecommerce: 4 Actionable Ways to Build a Brand - If you don't build your brand, you won't survive.
  Topics: ecommerce, photos, create, actionable, build, influencers, brand, customers, products, ways, need, creating.
• Eric Hippeau discusses D2C growth, brand value and advice for early-stage founders - Eric Hippeau is the founding partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, whose portfolio companies include the likes of Axios, BuzzFeed, Casper, Warby Parker, Allbirds, DocSend, Fundera, Everlane, Giphy, Genius and the recently acquired fitness company Mirror. It would not be an overstatement to say that Hippeau is well-positioned to discuss startups across a wide spectrum of […]
  Topics: startups, founders, way, eric, earlystage, build, brand, youre, growth, hippeau, techcrunch, value, discusses, resources, terms, perfect, timing, d2c.
• Fashion Merchants Can Build a Business around Social Media - Most lifestyle and fashion merchants use social media. But many don’t realize how critical it is to their business. For large retailers, social media is typically responsible for 3-7 percent of ...
  Topics: traffic, build, media, content, search, work, merchants, influencers, videos, descriptions, smaller, business, fashion, social.
• Germany’s Xentral nabs $20M led by Sequoia to help online-facing SMBs run back offices better - Small enterprises remain one of the most underserved segments of the business market, but the growth of cloud-based services — easier to buy, easier to provision — has helped that change in recent years. Today, one of the more promising startups out of Europe building software to help SMEs run online businesses is announcing some […]
  Topics: led, businesses, business, techcrunch, offices, online, help, xentral, run, sequoia, nabs, erp, europe, software, build, onlinefacing, services, tools, smbs.
• Google acquires Pointy, a startup to help brick-and-mortar retailers list products online, for $163M - Google has been on a long-term mission to build inroads into the world of e-commerce by working more closely with brick-and-mortar retailers, and now it looks like it plans to extend that work a little further. The search giant is acquiring Pointy, a startup out of Dublin, Ireland, which has built hardware and software technology […]
  Topics: products, help, brickandmortar, googles, startup, pointy, search, working, google, build, list, retailers, techcrunch, online.
• HDS, from the Borders and Webvan founder, raises $3M as it gears up to launch its robot-run grocery and general merchandise play - The online grocery market is poised to get a little more crowded in the next several months, with the launch of a startup led by a veteran founder who has taken big hits from Amazon in the past, but now hopes to come back swinging with the help of an army of robots. Home Delivery […]
  Topics: techcrunch, borders, grocery, system, million, robotrun, hds, online, technology, idea, raises, amazon, build, launch, general, webvan, merchandise, play.
• How Coca-Cola Invented The Father of Christmas (Or did they?) - Photo: Coca-Cola History has offered many representations of Father Christmas, who has appeared in a range of clothing and colors…
  Topics: empire, image, santas, suit, santa, used, coca, cocacola, red, father, christmas, build, cola, campaign, brand.
• How HubSpot Uses Long-Form Video to Build a Brand - Nowadays, video is an undoubtedly powerful marketing tool — in fact, 85% of businesses use video for their marketing efforts, and 88% of video marketers report that video gives them a positive ROI.
  Topics: hubspot, marketing, videos, youtube, uses, audience, content, longform, video, brand, help, build, value.
• How Primary Colors Help HubSpot Build a CRM That Customers Love - At HubSpot, customer experience comes first. Always.
  Topics: customers, experience, product, hub, marketing, different, hubspot, customer, crm, love, primary, colors, build, team, help.
• How to Build A Business Plan That Stands Out [Free Template] - Nowadays, it seems like a new company is starting every hour.
  Topics: build, marketing, analysis, stands, business, sales, market, provide, company, free, youll, plan, template.
• How to Build Backlinks: 10 Ways to Get Backlinks to Your Store - Backlinks are an essential part of a well put together SEO strategy and learning how to build backlinks can help boost your website’s traffic.
  Topics: value, ways, websites, store, build, links, search, backlinks, link, content, post, website, backlink.
• How to Build Community-Centric Virtual Events, According to Moz's CMO - As you're probably well-familiar at this point, 2020 has brought with it plenty of disruption and change.
  Topics: build, virtual, events, community, experience, sessions, cmo, attendees, event, according, mozs, support, communitycentric, speakers, different.
• How to Build a Brand Through Live Streaming [+ Examples] - Nowadays, it's critical you invest in a video marketing strategy to build brand awareness and expand your reach, particularly since so many people prefer watching video over other types of content.
  Topics: build, brand, viewers, audience, marketing, brands, video, platform, product, streaming, live, examples.
• How to Build a Customer-Centric Strategy for Your Business - Your business lives and dies by the customer experience. Its culture, assets, structure, marketing, and sales all need to work together to deliver satisfactory outcomes. While focusing on the product and trying to sell as much of it as possible is natural, no longer can you afford to ignore the […]
  Topics: experience, companies, customer, business, strategy, need, products, customercentric, company, customers, product, build.
• How to Build a Landing Page: 15 Things to Double-Check - Whether you're setting up a landing page for the first time or the billionth time, it's easy to forget something. It's just one type of page on your website, but there are lots of moving parts you need to juggle. Some of those moving parts are more important than others -- if they get lost in the building process, you can lose out on valuable conversions.
  Topics: headline, youre, doublecheck, landing, need, offer, build, page, content, copy, form, things, sure.
• How to Build a Market Development Strategy [Free Planning Templates] - Your business is getting by just fine – but still, the questions remain: Could you be selling more? Is there an opportunity to increase market penetration? Is there any way you could engage in further product diversification?
  Topics: templates, development, free, existing, youre, product, goals, market, strategy, revenue, growth, plan, planning, build.
• How to Build a Marketing Technology Stack That'll Grow With You - Dear Marketing ops professionals, what will your marketing team look like six months from now? Or a year from now? How many people will you add? What new tools, systems, and data will you need?
  Topics: marketing, need, thatll, systems, team, technology, tech, build, tools, data, software, grow, stack.
• How to Build a Product Ecosystem Buyers Will Want to Be In - When I hear the word ecosystem, I think of my science class as a kid. Specifically, I remember having to choose an environmental ecosystem to do a project on. I chose the tundra ecosystem and talked about how the living and nonliving things in this climate worked together to survive the harsh, frozen, and typically snow-covered environment — none of them would make it without the value each element and organism provided.
  Topics: services, ecosystem, connect, improve, products, needs, way, valuable, customers, product, buyers, build.
• How to Build a T-Shirt Drop Shipping Business With Printful - Learn more about Printful, what services they offer & why you should use the Printful drop shipping service to help you run a better t-shirt business.
  Topics: tshirt, products, printing, tshirts, drop, build, shipping, customers, printful, youll, business.
• How to Build a Website: A Step-by-Step Guide - Studies show that between 70-80% of consumers research a business online before visiting in person or making a purchase. That means having a website is as necessary for companies today as having a phone number.
  Topics: guide, youll, build, site, domain, need, platform, website, youre, page, theme, hosting, stepbystep.
• How to Build an Online Community of Like-Minded Entrepreneurs - Four easy ways to amplify your impact.
  Topics: members, entrepreneurs, facebook, group, online, share, build, value, likeminded, marketing, community, tips.
• How to Build and Analyze Marketing Reports [Examples & Templates] - As marketers, we’re making important decisions on behalf of our company every day.
  Topics: templates, help, youre, leads, analyze, audience, run, marketing, report, examples, reporting, build, reports, data.
• How to Give a Killer Presentation, According to a Former Diplomat - Let's say you're gearing up to make your pitch at a potential client's office, a trade show, or even on Shark Tank.
  Topics: according, diplomat, speaking, pitch, public, killer, feel, confidence, practice, build, breathing, physical, say, presentation.
• How to Manage Inventory as You Build, Launch & Grow Your Business - Advanced inventory management strategies to help you prep, plan, and execute your inventory management operations successfully.
  Topics: launch, business, products, manage, sales, grow, demand, inventory, build, costs, management, order, stock, product.
• How to Use Account Mapping to Build an Effective ABM Campaign - Account-based marketing (ABM) is transforming the B2B marketing and sales world because of its effectiveness in reaching high-value target accounts — but it's a difficult strategy to manage.
  Topics: marketing, account, campaign, mapping, sales, accounts, research, abm, using, tools, effective, build, process.
• How to Use Instagram Stories Like a Pro to Build Your Audience - Instagram used to be simple. But the days dominated by square images are long gone. Now, you can share images, videos, time-lapses, boomerangs, stop-motion sequences, and live-streams. The biggest change came in 2016, with the introduction of Instagram Stories. This form of social sharing altered the way people interact online, […]
  Topics: type, create, add, audience, instagram, screen, icon, tap, build, followers, pro, content, video.
• How to Use Pre-Orders to Validate, Pre-Sell, and Build Hype for a Product - Pre-orders can be a versatile addition to your toolkit at whatever stage you are with your business. You can use pre-orders to validate a product idea, build hype for an upcoming launch, and improve cash flow throughout your new product development process. From the different types of pre-orders you can offer to how to effectively promote a pre-order, here's what you need to know to start selling before your stock is ready to ship.More
  Topics: build, preorders, great, product, pay, later, products, hype, preorder, app, customers, presell, crowdfunding, validate.
• How to choose an ecommerce chatbot (14 solutions reviewed) - Gartner predicts chatbots will power 85% of customer service interactions by next year, and 31% of marketers believe that virtual personal assistants will have more impact than any other AI technology. Thinking of adding a chatbot to your ecommerce site? We've reviewed 14 options from chatbot builders to developer frameworks. Read on to learn which is right for you.
  Topics: language, chatbots, ecommerce, messenger, chatbot, solutions, data, user, choose, reviewed, build, facebook, chat, dialog.
• How to use Amazon and advertising to build a D2C startup - Entrepreneurship in consumer packaged goods is being democratized. This article focuses on customer acquisition, particularly Amazon and online advertising, for the direct-to-consumer CPG venture...
  Topics: productmarket, startup, d2c, product, start, fit, amazon, pottery, group, marketing, second, build, techcrunch, advertising.
• If You Build It They Will Come—But It Might Not Be Who You Expected - When Matt and Morgan Meredith discovered a gap in the home-sewing industry, they decided to build a career around it, elevating the standard of menswear patterns with their brand, Thread Theory. Alongside the product, they were selling an idea: sewing was for anyone. Could they reach and inspire a community of home-sewing men? More
  Topics: menswear, patterns, customers, matt, pattern, homesewing, morgan, thread, comebut, theory, expected, build, sewing.
• Improve Member Retention: Nine Ways to Build Engagement and Loyalty - Improve member retention by engaging with customers and developing deeper brand loyalty. Discover these nine fantastic ways to boost your retention rate.
  Topics: membership, content, send, retention, build, videos, benefits, ways, customers, offer, engagement, provide, members, improve, memberships, loyalty, member.
• Influencer Marketing – How to Build Trust with New Audiences - Ready for super-charged word-of-mouth advertising? Influencers are the new go-to for marketers, but it can be tricky. What you need to know to get started.
  Topics: build, social, influencer, trust, influencers, media, business, youre, campaign, audiences, marketing, post, engagement.
• Launch an Online Business in 2020 with These Web Courses - Learn how to build a site and optimize it for eCommerce.
  Topics: web, create, courses, build, think, business, ultimate, launch, optimize, bundle, youll, online, site.
• Learn How to Successfully Launch a Shopify Store and Build Your Ecommerce Business - Get on board the ecommerce boom today.
  Topics: shopify, successfully, launch, build, businesses, thats, store, business, bundle, learn, sell, online, products, ecommerce, youll.
• Leveraging Influencer Marketing to Build a 7-Figure Jewelry Brand - Nominal is the jewelry brand that blends culture and fashion to create meaningful accessories. Founded by life and business partners Lena Sarsour and Akram Abdallah, Nominal grew from an idea of expression into a 7-figure business. On this episode of Shopify Masters, Akram shares with us how the company found ideal manufacturing partners and how to use influencer marketing to scale the business.More
  Topics: brand, thats, try, build, started, business, marketing, theyre, 7figure, really, different, influencer, dont, jewelry, lot, product, leveraging.
• Marketing Without a Budget? Use These Tactics for Success - As a habitual spender bee, the day before payday is, sadly, one of scant spending. Some of the marketing teams I've been on have had similar budget issues (although those weren't brought on by online shopping like mine).
  Topics: online, success, budget, build, free, audience, way, tactics, marketing, media, brand, content, improve.
• Microservices and payments: what you need to know - With their smaller, independent code bases and robust APIs, microservices allow you flexibility to extend commerce to new touchpoints and satisfy unique requirements. But should Payments be built as microservices?
  Topics: platform, touchpoints, microservices, need, code, payment, build, commerce, payments, api, service, know.
• News Cart for May 23rd - Hello, entrepreneurs! You know Mailchimp for its email services but now they’re mixing things up. Adobe’s Magento hopes to remove friction for D2C stores selling on Amazon. And Walmart—chasing Mr. Prime—hopped aboard the one-day delivery train. Also, is Bezos ditching his empire for an excavator? It’s all in the ECF News Cart for May 23, [...]
  Topics: toronto, 23rd, track, delivery, selling, oneday, ecf, cart, pack, build, amazon, stores.
• Origin launches protocol for building cheaper decentralized Ubers & Airbnbs - The sharing economy ends up sharing a ton of labor’s earnings with middlemen like Uber and Airbnb, and $38 million-funded Origin wants the next great two-sided marketplace to be decentralized on the blockchain so drivers and riders or hosts and guests can connect directly and avoid paying steep fees that can range up to 20 percent […]
  Topics: blockchain, build, marketplaces, cheaper, origin, launches, ubers, decentralized, building, airbnbs, marketplace, users, smart, protocol, system.
• Overcoming Seasonality: How to Build a Successful Agritourism Business - Terre Bleu owners Ian and Isabelle Baird left behind their city life to fulfill their dreams of living on a farm. After five years of operations, the couples share their journey of building a following on social media, expanding sales beyond the bloom season, and creating reasons for repeat visits.More
  Topics: seasonality, ian, bairds, bleu, studies, terre, agritourism, visitors, successful, case, business, farm, lavender, build, media, products, social, overcoming.
• Recent Grad? Here’s How to Tackle Your First Month of Job Searching - Making the transition from academia to professional life is a milestone that our four-year undergraduate degrees often don't prepare us for! If you're getting ready to make the jump from backpack to briefcase, here is a week-by-week plan to help prepare you for your first month of job searching.
  Topics: searching, grad, youve, recent, heres, career, jobs, month, network, start, youre, build, tackle, job, know, help.
• Reduce Risk and Build Buzz: A Guide to Pre-Orders - Pre-orders are a store owner's best friend! Gauge product interest, improve cash flow, & boost new product excitement! It’s all possible with a single tool.
  Topics: reduce, product, learn, money, information, woocommerce, sure, risk, purchase, buzz, customers, guide, build, marketing, preorder, preorders.
• Rethinking Your Premium Content: How to Build a Guided Learning Course - Are you seeing a lower return of effort for traditional premium content like whitepapers, webinars, ebooks and more?
  Topics: management, guided, build, premium, marketing, content, rethinking, users, courses, prospects, learning, course, lms.
• Samara Capital and Amazon buy More India - Samara Capital, a private equity company, has teamed with Amazon to buy Indian grocery retailer More from Aditya Birla Retail.
  Topics: amazon, indian, deal, samara, build, capital, india, retailing, food, grocery, buy, business.
• Self-Made Millionaire Matt Clark Shares How to Build Your Own Ecommerce Company - Pay attention to expenses and double down on what works.
  Topics: build, business, pay, ecommerce, clark, matt, selfmade, company, millionaire, shares, realized, selling, product, didnt, events.
• Stay Sexy, Don't Get Murdered, Build an Empire - We’re not laughing about murder,” podcast hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are careful to remind listeners. But they are. Just not like that. My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast that debuted in January 2016, and quickly landed at No. 1 on the iTunes comedy charts. The rich community of die-hard fans—called Murderinos—has not only ignited friendships and provided a safe space to obsess over every detail of Ted Bundy’s crimes or debate theories involving the infamous staircase murder. It has also inspired fan art. And even new businesses. Learn how a podcast about death gave life to a community of makers.More
  Topics: stay, crime, build, sexy, steph, hosts, inspiration, empire, georgia, murderinos, store, podcast, karen, murder, fan, dont, murdered.
• Sunday raises $24 million seed round to build a fast restaurant checkout flow - Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started just a few months ago but that’s because Sunday wants to move quickly. Sunday is getting noticed because […]
  Topics: round, going, big, million, seed, qr, mamma, checkout, theyre, raises, fast, codes, restaurants, pay, company, restaurant, france, build, flow, techcrunch.
• Sweden’s Hedvig raises $10.4M led by Obvious Ventures to build ‘nice insurance’ - Hedvig, a Swedish startup, is following in the footsteps of Lemonade, building a new generation of insurance platforms that use AI to help evaluate customers and operate on a policy of using surplus for social good. Today the company announced the next stage of its growth. The startup has closed a SEK100 million ($10.4 million) […]
  Topics: uses, nice, company, million, claims, insurance, led, money, raises, ventures, carlsen, techcrunch, build, help, swedens, hedvig, obvious.
• The Build Vs. Buy Vs. Lease Paradigm - Disclaimer: I am a religious believer in the software-as-a-service model and have been since 2004 when I first implemented Salesforce.com…
  Topics: leasing, platform, building, build, vs, buying, ecommerce, product, software, saas, core, startup, custom, technology.
• The Content Strategy to Triple Ecommerce Traffic (And Exactly How to Do It) - Let’s talk about ecommerce content marketing and it’s importance. Too many online store owners and marketers ignore the power of…
  Topics: roi, help, website, post, drive, strategy, marketing, ppc, strategies, traffic, ecommerce, content, build, audience.
• The FAQ Page: Why You Need It, How to Build One, and 10 Great Examples - There’s one tool that can cut back on customer support tickets, convert more users, and increase the SEO value of your site: your FAQ page.More
  Topics: faq, inspire, page, questions, examples, brand, answers, customer, answer, templates, build, product, pages, customers.
• The PWA Game Plan - In recent months, Experius PWA tech lead Jordan Eisenburger learned a lot about both Magento PWA Studio and himself as a developer. He shares his key technical and personal insights. Read more.
  Topics: studio, problems, experius, plan, magento, start, build, project, sure, game, team, pwa.
• The Plain English Guide to Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) - This year, more than 700 companies have raised over $18 billion, without giving a single percentage of equity stake to their investors. The catch? There really isn’t one.
  Topics: cryptocurrency, digital, icos, guide, offerings, crypto, raise, initial, coin, english, investors, plain, ico, money, companies, build.
• The Simple Business Model Used to Build a $2.4 Million Business - Colin Macintosh turned the end of a tech startup career into a new beginning for building his own brand. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn from Colin Macintosh of Sheets&Giggles on how he builds a successful crowdfunding campaign and found his niche with eucalyptus lyocell sheets to build a multimillion dollar business. More
  Topics: build, going, million, business, used, model, youre, dont, simple, im, product, thats, really, think, lot.
• The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing - The first marketing email was sent in 1978, resulted in $13 million in sales, and kicked off what has become one of the most highly used marketing channels even to this day. Given its early beginnings, email isn’t as shiny as some newer channels like messaging and social, but it is an effective way to build an owned audience that gets results.
  Topics: ultimate, emails, offer, list, send, marketing, lead, relevant, guide, email, subscribers, build.
• TryNow raises $12M to bring try-before-you-buy, Prime Wardrobe as a service to online retailers - Amazon’s Prime Wardrobe has been a key way for the e-commerce giant to expand its reach selling clothing and other apparel: giving shoppers an easy way to try on several items, return what they don’t want and pay for what they keep has helped it cross the virtual chasm by bringing the online experience a […]
  Topics: retailers, technology, try, trybeforeyoubuy, trynow, wardrobe, payment, raises, shopify, service, build, prime, bring, online, ecommerce, techcrunch.
• Unbounce Review – Build and Test Custom Landing Pages - This Unbounce review explores its primary features, the corresponding functionalities, overall pricing plans, plus the type of users the platform is built for. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably tried out landing pages before. And so have many marketers and… Continue reading Unbounce Review – Build and Test Custom Landing Pages
  Topics: set, month, build, test, pages, unbounce, landing, page, custom, sticky, conversion, popups, elements.
• Understanding Ecommerce Platforms Through Housing: Do You Rent, Own, or Get That Vacation Home in the Hamptons? - Have you seen the movie The Moneypit? It’s such a great movie. I love the scene where the bathtub falls…
  Topics: maintenance, software, ownership, expertise, rent, platforms, vacation, custom, hamptons, housing, ecommerce, platform, understanding, build, cost, house.
• Upsie nabs $5M to build a direct-to-consumer warranty service - Warranties for purchased products is a $40 billion annual market. But in their current form, they are considered by some to be one of the bigger scams in the world of retail because they cost so much and often return too little. Now there is an alternative emerging. A startup out of Minneapolis, Minn. called […]
  Topics: retailers, consumers, valley, directtoconsumer, 5m, companies, warranty, upsie, cost, outside, warranties, big, build, service, techcrunch, nabs.
• Use Facebook Groups to Promote Your Ecommerce Business - Ecommerce businesses can use Facebook groups to help potential customers, build strong reciprocal relationships, and encourage sales. Maintaining or contributing to a Facebook group is a form of both social media ...
  Topics: ecommerce, group, marketing, groups, going, content, facebook, build, community, questions, promote, business, need.
• We’re Committed to Helping You Realize the Power of Commerce — Without Limits - Highlights from General Session 2 at Adobe's IMAGINE 2019 event in Las Vegas.
  Topics: experiences, committed, commerce, adobe, mobile, helping, limits, experience, build, magento, steve, amazon, power, end, realize.
• What Is a CMS and Why Should You Care? - There are a lot of acronyms in the business world to keep straight. SEO, CRM, SERP, CDN, and CMS are just a few important ones.
  Topics: website, web, content, cms, build, care, wordpress, site, users, create, code.
• What is Gatsby JS, and How Are Ecommerce Developers Using it to Make Blazing-Fast Stores? - Scott Fitzgerald wrote a letter to his editor in 1922 announcing his intention to begin writing a new novel he…
  Topics: source, business, sites, ecommerce, using, site, build, content, gatsby, try, page, react, static.
• YFood gulps down $16M to build out its meal-in-a-bottle and snack bar business - As people move into months of sheltering in place, many are doubling down on cooking at home. But not everyone is always happy about it. Today, a company that makes products that can help them bypass at least some of that effort but still eat nutritiously is announcing a fundraising to continue growing its business. […]
  Topics: build, million, business, eating, products, investing, gulps, working, bar, techcrunch, mealinabottle, 16m, yfood, machines, nutrition, startups, snack, startup.
• ‘I Am Capable of Doing This’: How One Entrepreneur Built a Brand, Community, and Her Confidence - When it comes to starting her online store, entrepreneur Courtney White admits she probably started things the wrong way round, until she learned about the importance of building a brand around your business. As well as working a full-time job and being a parent (to both children and dogs), Courtney […]
  Topics: things, customer, brand, store, really, build, community, confidence, courtneys, built, entrepreneur, dandy, customers, finer, courtney.