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• $44M-funded Omni pivots from storage to rentals via retailers - Omni simply couldn’t scale storing stuff in giant warehouses while dropping it and off picking it up from people on demand. Storage was designed to bootstrap Omni into peer-to-peer rentals of the goods in its care. But now it’s found a better way by partnering with retailers that will host and rent out goods for […]
  Topics: sf, omni, storage, markets, san, rentals, techcrunch, pivots, local, 44mfunded, retailers, items, users, model.
• 13 New Social Networks for 2020 - Social networks can help merchants reach prospects, establish professional contacts, and research markets. They can also be a good way to share experiences and meet people.  
  Topics: content, social, voice, seeks, users, platform, network, professional, local, networks.
• 16 Stats That Prove the Importance of Local SEO - When you’re looking for a local business that’ll fix your favorite pair of shoes, sell you the book your friend recommended, or bake a spaceship-themed cake for your kid’s birthday -- how do you find it? You pull up your favorite search engine for a little online research, of course.
  Topics: search, store, google, local, online, searches, importance, favorite, prove, stats, looking, seo, theyre.
• 17 Ways to Get Free Advertising for Your Business - When you work at a small business with a limited budget, it’s not really possible to shell out $340,000 for a 30-second TV commercial or $10,000 for an email marketing campaign.
  Topics: email, advertising, platforms, google, content, audience, social, local, business, free, search, ways.
• 21 Ecommerce Experts Give Their #1 Tip for Cross-Border Expansion in 2019 - To wrap up our guide on cross-border commerce and launching your brand internationally, I knew it was necessary to make…
  Topics: international, experts, ecommerce, brands, customer, expansion, sure, crossborder, market, marketing, local, tips, country, brand, tricks.
• 40% of Estonians order at local shops - Major international platforms like AliExpress and Amazon are the most popular online shopping channels among residents of Estonia. But still, slightly more than 40 percent of consumers in Estonia shop online at local ecommerce websites. Ecommerce in Estonia keeps on growing. The volume of online purchases that were done with… Continue reading
  Topics: estonia, share, market, shopping, ecommerce, estonians, purchases, increased, webinar, order, local, online, shops.
• 5 Ways to Land Your Company in the News - You’re likely already marketing in social media. Traditional media such as television, magazines, and news agencies may be off your radar. Getting into the media spotlight can cost nothing other than a little time, effort, and creativity. Here’s how
  Topics: ways, reporters, social, land, whats, reporter, media, online, sell, publicity, company, local, pitch.
• 6 Google Shopping Programs and How to Set Them Up - Google Shopping ads allow customers to search for, compare, and easily buy products online. But there are six main Google Shopping programs specifically made to help retailers get more out of the Google advertising platform. In this comprehensive guide, we take a look at each one, from getting set up to getting results.More
  Topics: google, programs, ratings, shopping, product, products, remarketing, set, local, merchant, center, ads, seller.
• 9 Easy Ways to Help Small Businesses While Social Distancing - Why help small businesses? Already, more than 100,000 small businesses have closed forever. Now, a whopping 7.5 million small businesses are at risk of closing permanently, and 24 percent are just two months away – or less – from closing for good. In short, the economic recession driven by COVID-19 is […]
  Topics: easy, ways, business, distancing, small, local, store, support, help, gift, online, know, social, businesses.
• A Comprehensive Guide to Local SEO in 2020 - Local search is powerful for small businesses: four out of five consumers use search to find local information, which means if your business isn't optimized for local search, you could be missing out on 80% of your potential customers. In short, local SEO is critical if you want your business to stay relevant.
  Topics: guide, comprehensive, search, local, location, links, google, content, seo, business, optimize, website.
• A Marketer's Crash Course to Hyperlocal Marketing - A couple of weeks ago, I was planning a trip to New York. I'd never been, so I was excited to start planning and figure out my itinerary.
  Topics: website, results, crash, business, hyperlocal, marketers, location, near, google, search, marketing, local, course.
• A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh - At just 26, Waiz Rahim is supposed to be involved in the family business, having returned home in 2016 with an engineering degree from the University of Southern California. Instead, the young entrepreneur is plotting to build the Amazon of Bangladesh. Deligram, Rahim’s vision of what e-commerce looks like in Bangladesh, a country of nearly […]
  Topics: startups, business, techcrunch, mudir, thats, amazon, bangladesh, building, entrepreneur, deligram, local, million, young, rahim.
• Adapting to the New Era of Search, According to Moz's SEO Scientist - The era of the high Google click-through rate is nearing its end and the age of the low-click landscape is dawning.
  Topics: adapting, seo, business, brand, scientist, google, youre, according, era, local, clients, search, mozs, traffic, snippets, featured.
• Alibaba’s Taobao to open retail store in Malaysia - Alibaba Group will launch a Taobao retail store at Mytown Shopping Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
  Topics: retail, opening, store, space, open, products, local, taobao, shoppers, brands, malaysia, alibabas.
• Amazon China to close local marketplace and place more focus on cross-border - Amazon has finally given up the fight with Chinese online shopping giants to capture the domestic market. On Thursday, the Seattle-based e-commerce company announced it will shut down its marketplace on Amazon.cn, which connects mainland Chinese buyers and sellers, while other units of its local venture will stay intact. “We are working closely with our […]
  Topics: amazon, sellers, global, marketplace, crossborder, china, market, focus, close, goods, ecommerce, business, place, local, chinese.
• Amazon China to close mainland store as losses mount - Amazon China is about to stop selling local goods to local shoppers.
  Topics: amazon, services, losses, chinese, online, china, market, goods, store, close, local, mount, mainland.
• Amazon Loses Appeal to Deliver Non-Essential Items in France During Pandemic - An appellate court upholds a lower-court decision banning the company from making superfluous shipments.
  Topics: orders, france, loses, french, nonessential, deliver, million, unions, labor, times, local, pandemic, workers, appeal, amazon, items.
• Amazon begins selling items from neighborhood stores in India amid Facebook’s deal with Jio - The race to win the ubiquitous neighborhood stores is on in India. A day after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms to serve tens of millions of neighborhood stores in the country, the world’s largest e-commerce firm has launched “Local Shops on Amazon.” The program will help customers discover products from local shops in […]
  Topics: neighborhood, shops, items, program, facebooks, begins, retail, reliance, techcrunch, deal, amazon, stores, customers, selling, india, local, jio.
• 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.
• Amazon is reportedly merging its China import unit with NetEase - You’d be forgiven for not knowing Amazon has operated in China for more than a decade, but perhaps not for much longer. The company is reportedly in talks to merge its China-based import business with local peer Kaola, the cross-border shopping platform run by Chinese internet behemoth NetEase, Caijing reported (link in Chinese) on Tuesday. The deal, […]
  Topics: chinese, crossborder, reportedly, business, unit, merging, kaola, china, local, netease, amazon, alibaba, import, company.
• Amazon launches local online store, Amazon.sg - Amazon has launched Amazon.sg, a larger local online store in Singapore, to diversify its product offer and compete with rivals such as Lazada and Shopee.
  Topics: product, offer, amazonsg, online, singapore, local, prime, smbs, amazon, launches, mobile, store.
• Amazon launches physical kiosks in UK train stations, a local extension of its Treasure Trucks - After announcing a year-long pilot of pop-up shops in the UK earlier this week to sell items from smaller marketplace merchants, Amazon has added another development to its brick-and-mortar efforts in the country. Starting today, the company is setting up physical kiosks, initially in train stations, to sell passers-by a rotating range of items at discounted […]
  Topics: trucks, physical, wider, train, stations, way, amazon, techcrunch, kiosks, treasure, truck, launches, uk, items, efforts, local.
• Amazon may be rethinking its New York City headquarters - Amazon’s decision to open HQ2 in New York City has been a controversial decision since day one. The company has been championing the estimated 25,000 jobs the move could bring to the metropolitan area, while citizens and local government officials have balked at promised tax breaks and the added strain on housing and an aging infrastructure. […]
  Topics: local, headquarters, city, plans, jobs, york, politicians, amazon, virginia, decision, rethinking, pushback.
• Amazon reverses tax-triggered block on US shop in Australia - Amazon has reversed a decision it made six months ago to shut off its US ecommerce site to Australian shoppers. Reuters reports that the U-turn comes after a customer backlash. Since July shoppers in Australia trying to browse stuff to buy on Amazon.com have been redirected to the local site, Amazon.com.au. Shipping to Australia from Amazon.com was also […]
  Topics: amazoncom, shop, shoppers, products, block, site, amazon, australia, australian, overseas, local, taxtriggered, tax, retailers, reverses.
• Amazon, Apple Adjust Operations Amidst Nationwide Protests - The companies are scaling back, adjusting delivery routes, and re-closing stores.
  Topics: number, local, bloomberg, apple, amidst, stores, amazon, routes, told, nationwide, adjust, operations, immediately, return, protests.
• Austrian app Jingle wants to boost local shopping - Jingle, a startup from Vienna, wants to be a local alternative to major online retailers. With its marketplace app, consumers can easily browse and find products from local retailers. This month, Jingle has received a six-digit investment from Umdasch, an Austrian company that realizes stores for retail companies. Last Monday,… Continue reading
  Topics: local, austrian, app, products, wants, company, store, boost, retailers, jingle, retail, umdasch, shopping.
• BigCommerce launches multi-currency features - BigCommerce introduced a collection of multi-currency features, which enables merchants to present and process online purchases in over 100 foreign currencies. This should make it easier for online stores to sell cross-border to shoppers across Europe and beyond. For customers of ecommerce websites running on the BigCommerce software this news… Continue reading
  Topics: features, online, paypal, preferred, payment, multicurrency, local, bigcommerce, launches, pay, purchases, shoppers.
• Building a Commerce Platform for Everyone - Our mission to make commerce better for everyone is the foundation for everything we do at Shopify. Part of delivering on that promise means continually improving the shopping experience for your customers, wherever they are in the world, and ensuring you have a similarly exceptional experience when you use Shopify. Today, we’re making two significant strides with our first ever multilingual beta for Shopify, and a forthcoming release of Local Payment Methods for Shopify Payments. Your business, in your language We’ve just released an early beta for Shopify in six languages: French, German, Japanese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.   The beta covers core features across Shopify to help you get started with your store and complete everyday tasks in your own language. We’re still polishing the experience, so while using Shopify in your language you may notice a few areas are in English, including the mobile app. This is temporary, and we’re working hard to bring you more of Shopify in your preferred language. As part of the first group of stores using Shopify in your language, your feedback will help us make the experience better for everyone. While using the beta you’ll have a dedicated feedback form within Shopify; our team would love to hear what you think! Join the beta today To use Shopify in one of the six available languages, activate the beta and select your preferred language by clicking the button above. If you want to toggle back to English, you can easily change the language settings in your account. New languages bring new opportunities for developer partners to experiment with localizing their applications. Some partners have started translating already, so keep an eye out for these in the App Store collections for your country. Provide familiar ways to pay No matter where your buyers are, we want to help you reach them with a seamless selling experience. That’s why starting this fall, stores using Shopify Payments will be able to offer local payment options to their customers, and will receive access to new payment methods as they become available. With Local Payment Methods enabled, buyers will see the payment options they know and trust based on currency and regional popularity. Meeting local needs and expectations is crucial because purchasing patterns can vary greatly by region. If you’re selling in North America, providing all the major credit cards as payment options gives customers a wide variety of ways to complete their purchase. However, credit cards aren’t everyone’s preferred method of paying online. In Germany, for example, only 22% of online purchases are made with a credit card, while payments directly from a bank account comprise over 40% of purchases. Offering payment methods people expect, and are familiar with, improves the shopping experience and creates new opportunities to increase your conversion rate and drive more sales in other countries. Making commerce better, everywhere As the world grows more connected, entrepreneurs of increasingly diverse backgrounds are afforded new opportunities to sell and market to customers across borders. At Shopify, we’re supporting this march toward the future by building a more personalized platform for everyone. Wherever you are, whether you’re buying or selling, we want to make commerce better for you.
  Topics: using, language, platform, payment, methods, commerce, experience, beta, building, local, better, customers, shopify.
• Cash-on-delivery service launched by DHL eCommerce - DHL eCommerce has launched a cross-border cash-on-delivery service for Southeast Asian customers.
  Topics: delivery, ecommerce, sendo, sellers, cent, cashondelivery, vietnam, local, launched, international, dhl, small, service.
• City of Lüneburg launches online marketplace - Another city in Europe has decided to launch its own online marketplace. This time it’s the city of Lüneberg, a town in the German state of Lower Saxony, that started the ecommerce initiative. Customers can browse through the offer of local retailers and get the goods delivered to their homes Continue reading
  Topics: shop, lüneburg, website, started, project, local, stores, online, city, launches, service, marketplace, retailers.
• Contactless Order Fulfillment: Customer and USPS Pickup Options for WooCommerce - Get your physical products or food safely into the hands of customers with contactless store pickup and USPS shipping options. Here’s how to set it up fast!
  Topics: customer, choose, order, woocommerce, fulfillment, shipping, online, products, customers, options, local, pickup, usps, way, contactless.
• Covid-19 Grants, Loans Could Help Ecommerce Companies - Grants and loans from the U.S. government, state and local governments, Facebook, and Google could help small businesses during the Covid-19-induced economic slowdown.
  Topics: marketing, companies, small, loans, help, local, ecommerce, payroll, grants, covid19, search, business, businesses, million.
• Covid-19 Is an Opportunity for Some Local Merchants - The coronavirus pandemic is bad news. It has shut down a significant portion of the world's economy and killed far too many people. If, however, you're willing to hunt for a silver lining, the shutdowns and social distancing could be an opportunity for some brick-and-mortar companies to finally get online.
  Topics: retail, business, customers, local, merchants, ecommerce, potter, online, way, opportunity, store, covid19, products.
• Daegu citizens use social media to support restaurants hit by coronavirus - Citizens of South Korean city Daegu are working together on social media to prop up local businesses hit hard by the rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak.
  Topics: restaurants, coronavirus, information, facebook, hit, help, citizens, page, various, restaurant, food, media, social, local, posted, support, daegu.
• Did New York lose anything with Amazon’s rejection? It’s complicated. - Now that Amazon has said that it’s taking its ball and going home rather than deal with mean, pushy New Yorkers, outside observers are giving off the sense that the city (and its local politicians) are losing out for their recalcitrance. They’re wrong. New York City is running at about a 4.3 percent unemployment rate […]
  Topics: amazon, york, complicated, city, lose, local, cities, companies, technology, rejection, queens, amazons, tech, jobs.
• Driving Traffic to Your Online Store - I hate to be the one to break it to you, but driving traffic to your online store is not…
  Topics: online, media, organic, marketing, local, social, driving, store, content, email, traffic, business, customers.
• EKM launches free online shop solution Obodo - EKM, a large hosted ecommerce provider from the UK, has introduced a new product for helping small business reach their local customers. The solution is called Obodo and offers a free online shop for local brick and mortar businesses. These are hard times for physical retailers, as the coronavirus Covid-19… Continue reading
  Topics: ekm, customers, local, businesses, reach, free, shop, launches, obodo, online, solution.
• Eatigo Hong Kong aims to double its reach within the next year - Restaurant table-filler app Eatigo is set to double the user numbers and outlets it represents over the next year.
  Topics: kong, eatigo, restaurant, hong, reach, double, aims, plans, local, users, trying, represents, restaurants.
• Ecommerce in Switzerland: 9.77 billion euros in 2019 - Ecommerce in Switzerland was worth 9.77 billion euros last year, which means it passed the 10 billion Swiss francs mark for the first time. The Swiss online retail industry increased by 8.4 compared to the situation one year before. Ecommerce in Switzerland is relying less on sales of foreign online… Continue reading
  Topics: foreign, swiss, ecommerce, purchases, billion, came, generated, local, switzerland, euros, online.
• Everything We Know About Instagram Local Business Profiles [Up-to-Date Guide] - Undoubtedly, your online local presence can have a big impact on your company's bottom line -- in fact, 78% of local-mobile searches result in offline purchases.
  Topics: uptodate, businesss, guide, local, instagram, instagrams, information, facebook, profile, content, business, profiles, know.
• Everything You Need to Know to Dominate Local Search - The internet lets you reach billions of people around the globe, but if you're like many small or local businesses, world domination isn't really on your radar (not yet, anyway). What makes your business tick is your local community, whether on the town, city, county, or state level. So with all the choices consumers have nowadays for where to get their products and services, how do you ensure they find your local business first?
  Topics: local, page, youre, dominate, need, content, keyword, business, businesses, google, search, know, online.
• Expand Your Commerce Cross-Border in 2020: BigCommerce Multi-Currency Supports Your Global Growth - The world is getting smaller. Globalization means products that were once available to a select few can now zip across…
  Topics: payment, currency, merchants, local, global, grow, multicurrency, internationally, business, customers, offering, bigcommerce, shipping.
• Ezbuy Pakistan response ‘overwhelming’ since launch - Ezbuy Pakistan is already the nation’s largest e-commerce site, offering 3 million products.
  Topics: local, value, singapore, overwhelming, shipped, suppliers, response, launch, site, products, pakistani, ezbuy, pakistan.
• Facebook redesigns biz Pages for utility as feed reach declines - An unescapable fact of Facebook’s ubiquity is that as more Pages and people compete for limited News Feed attention, the percentage of a business’ followers who see their posts declines. Reach dropped 52 percent in just the first half of 2016, for example. Some admins consider it a conspiracy to get Pages to pay for […]
  Topics: feed, facebook, businesses, platform, related, declines, business, facebooks, biz, utility, small, pages, local, reach, redesigns.
• Fast-Tracking the Future of Commerce: A Recap of Shopify Reunite - If you couldn't catch the live event or want to get more details on what we announced, here are all the highlights from Reunite 2020.More
  Topics: available, fasttracking, shopify, soon, reunite, online, merchants, recap, products, future, commerce, customers, local, business, store.
• Fintonic users offered 0% interest on Amazon.es purchases - Personal finance management app maker Fintonic has teamed up with ecommerce behemoth Amazon to offer users in Spain interest free purchases on the local Amazon .es marketplace. The 0% finance offer is being timed to coincide with the annual Black Friday shopping fest that kicks off later this month. Qualifying Fintonic users can apply for Amazon Gift […]
  Topics: amazones, free, local, amazon, financial, fintonic, purchases, interest, offered, offer, spain, app, users.
• France wants tax on ecommerce to protect city centers - The Senate in France wants to introduce a tax on ecommerce. More specific, on deliveries from ecommerce companies to online consumers. The upper house of the French parliament wants to do this to protect city centers and smaller businesses across the country. The initial idea was for the tax to Continue reading
  Topics: deliveries, ecommerce, protect, retailers, local, proposed, centers, france, city, wants, companies, tax.
• HKTV Mall sets records as Hongkongers move online during coronavirus crisis - HKTV Mall has achieved its highest monthly turnover of its six years of operations in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
  Topics: shopping, records, wong, hong, retailers, hongkongers, sets, crisis, million, local, online, pickup, coronavirus, hktv, mall.
• Hong Kong Post to open 80 more iPostal stations for online shoppers - Hong Kong Post will roll out more than one new iPostal station every week this year, to boost services to online shoppers.
  Topics: post, online, hong, network, delivery, kong, station, local, set, stations, ipostal, shoppers, open.
• How One Marketing Agency Earns Radio, Local, and National Television Coverage - Most of us grow up with dreams of making it on TV or the local radio with headlines like "Local Man Does Good" or "Neighborhood Woman Breaks World Record".
  Topics: coverage, tv, national, earns, television, traditional, agency, today, outreach, radio, local, study, outlets, content, marketing.
• How Shoppers Can Support Small Businesses (And Why We Should) - As we’re still in the midst of social distancing, shut-downs, and shelter-in-place or stay home orders across the country and…
  Topics: unique, support, ways, business, businesses, stores, small, help, way, online, local, economic.
• How To Leverage The Rise of "Near Me" Searches - Nowadays, voice-enabled devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home are becoming increasingly commonplace. Additionally, mobile searches for local services continue to rise, and by 2021, mobile devices are expected to influence $1.4 trillion in local sales.
  Topics: results, rise, business, site, need, local, near, google, users, search, searches, leverage.
• How to Market Your Local Business' Grand Opening - During the last month or so, my husband and I have driven by this grand opening sign on our way to his parent's house about a dozen times. After a couple of weeks, we decided to look up what it was for. We found out a new restaurant was opening, and we were pretty excited to have a new place to try (sometimes it gets boring going to the same places!).
  Topics: local, opening, market, social, business, grand, event, marketing, way, create, media.
• How to Promote Your Local Business - Last year, I decided that I wanted to invest in personal training. As a lifelong sedentary person, I realized that I didn't know how to start, so I went to the almighty Google machine. I typed in "personal trainers Orange County," looked at the top results, and examined the reviews. Before scheduling any consultations, I narrowed down the options based on their fitness philosophy (seen on their website) and the most highly rated. When searching for a local business, this approach and process isn't unique.
  Topics: email, create, local, promote, online, help, marketing, business, search, locally, audience.
• In big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentive - The cancellation of Amazon’s planned expansion in New York exposes the truth about its HQ2 promises.
  Topics: tech, york, good, future, need, local, toronto, techs, public, corporate, hq2, companies, big, amazon, incentive, plans, expansion.
• Increase Sales With These Market-Expansion Strategies - Expanding into new markets brings great opportunities and sometimes unexpected challenges. Here are some areas to research before deciding the next steps for your business. Though the world has become more interconnected thanks to the internet, air travel, and other technological advancements, there are still many local cultural, economic, and geographic differences. And while tapping […]
  Topics: payments, important, markets, increase, market, ad, rules, countries, fraud, business, sales, strategies, expansion, local, country.
• India’s Myntra hires tailors as delivery agents to reduce returns - Myntra, a Flipkart-owned Indian fashion platform, has roped in local tailors to pick up packages from warehouses and deliver to customers to mend the sales gap caused by the return of ill-fitting clothes.
  Topics: sales, returns, return, million, indias, market, reduce, hires, online, agents, local, globaldata, billion, myntra, delivery, tailors.
• India’s Swiggy goes beyond food to offer product delivery from local stores - Swiggy, the Indian food delivery service, has made its much anticipated moved into general deliveries today after it announced its new ‘stores’ product. The move has been speculated since as early as 2017, but recent developments have taken the company closer towards the expansion. Last September, Swiggy picked up delivery service SuprDaily in an acquisition […]
  Topics: deliveries, swiggys, delivery, service, local, indias, swiggy, goes, offer, food, product, billion, company, stores, thats, went.
• Instagram founder launches gift card site for quarantined restaurants - Coronavirus quarantines are hurting local businesses, but Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger wants to help them keep revenue rolling in. Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn this week launched SaveOurFaves, a directory of Bay Area restaurants selling gift certificates to offset lost income amidst “shelter in place” orders across the region. Users can search for restaurants or […]
  Topics: gift, local, help, sf, launches, site, founder, kriegers, restaurant, restaurants, mike, techcrunch, quarantined, card, instagram, businesses.
• Instagram partners with LA’s ChowNow to make food pics and stories shoppable - Instagram is partnering with the Los Angeles-based restaurant ordering platform ChowNow to make pictures and stories from local restaurants shoppable by adding “Order Food” buttons and stickers to their images and videos. The buttons and stickers will link directly to ChowNow to complete order flow, the companies said. Followers can also re-share stickers on their […]
  Topics: pics, las, local, partners, stickers, shoppable, order, food, chownow, restaurants, webb, restaurant, delivery, instagram, techcrunch.
• JD fosters local stalls and small stores in China - Chinese e-commerce giant JD is moving to stimulate small and medium enterprises nationally by providing supply chain and service support for the employment of more than 5 million people.
  Topics: small, supply, support, stores, local, china, stall, stalls, employment, jd, economy, firm, fosters, provide.
• JD’s business model moving from retailer to tech company - For the first 12 years of its existence, JD’s business model has largely been based on retailing.
  Topics: jd, tech, cheng, different, market, data, help, moving, retailer, company, model, business, online, offline, local, jds.
• Lalamove teams with Klook in Hong Kong for food-delivery service - Hong Kong on-demand delivery startup Lalamove and travel-activities booking-platform Klook have collaborated in a new express food-delivery service.
  Topics: teams, food, service, local, activities, kong, lalamove, experiences, delivery, fooddelivery, consumers, klook, hong.
• Lime will open brick-and-mortar scooter ‘lifestyle stores’ - How can Lime differentiate its scooters and bikes from the piles of Birds and Spins filling Los Angeles sidewalks? Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. According to a job listing from Lime seeking a “Retail Store Manager,” the startup plans to open a “lifestyle brand […]
  Topics: store, limes, fifth, monica, scooter, lifestyle, lime, stores, brickandmortar, local, open, wall, santa, scooters.
• Local Email Marketing: A Crash Course - You've read the stats: email marketing is an undeniably powerful marketing strategy. In fact, on average, email generates $38 for every dollar spent, which is a 3,800% return on investment. And did I mention that there are almost four billion email users worldwide? Crazy, right?
  Topics: customers, email, incentive, event, emails, help, marketing, way, software, course, crash, local.
• Local marketplace OfferUp takes on eBay with launch of nationwide shipping - OfferUp, the mobile marketplace for buying and selling locally, is expanding its sights beyond your neighborhood. Today, the company is announcing an expansion of its service that will now allow sellers to ship their items nationwide to interested buyers, potentially netting them a larger audience than if trying to sell only within their local community. […]
  Topics: sellers, items, users, shipping, company, offerup, marketplace, ebay, transactions, app, nationwide, buyers, takes, local, launch.
• Omnichannel startup CitiXsys launches Asian foray - Fresh from a US$20 million funding injection, omnichannel-solutions startup CitiXsys plans to open six offices across Asia.
  Topics: citixsys, foray, local, business, offices, startup, worlds, asian, today, launches, omnichannel, region, partner, important, asia.
• Over 100 Goodwill stores are bringing their inventory to OfferUp - Goodwill and mobile marketplace app OfferUp have announced a new partnership focused on bringing Goodwill’s secondhand inventory to the millions of OfferUp shoppers, for both local pickup and delivery. The deal sees more than 100 Goodwill stores listing their inventory in OfferUp in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, South […]
  Topics: stores, traffic, offerup, south, inventory, goodwill, mobile, items, store, bringing, local, techcrunch.
• Pan-European VC fund Target Global is opening an office in Barcelona - Hola Barcelona. Target Global, a pan-European VC firm with €700 million under management and a broad investment canvas spanning SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, insurtech and mobility, is opening an office in the Catalan capital. Investor director, Lina Chong, will lead the expansion into Spain, having relocated to Barcelona from the fund’s Berlin headquarters. They’re setting up […]
  Topics: paneuropean, barcelona, fund, startup, global, target, opening, tech, techcrunch, vc, startups, mobile, saas, local, growth, office.
• PayPal’s Smart Payment Buttons roll out in Europe - Paypal introduced PayPal Checkout with Smart Payment Buttons in the US three months ago, to give consumers more choice in how they can pay. Now, the international payments company has launched these payment buttons in Europe. With PayPal Checkout with Smart Payment Buttons, consumers can choose which payment method they Continue reading
  Topics: customers, paypals, roll, smart, relevant, europe, paypal, checkout, local, buttons, payment, methods.
• Pivoting During COVID-19: How One Entrepreneur Is Supporting Fellow Business Owners - Now is a time for resilience and ingenuity. Many of us must adapt, pivot, and find new ways to grow. In today's interview, we chat with Kelly Bergeron, a resident of Cornwall, Ontario, who, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, sprung into action to help small businesses in her area.More
  Topics: pivoting, fellow, local, really, owners, covid19, gift, community, supporting, need, entrepreneurs, dont, lot, businesses, entrepreneur, business, think.
• Regional marketplace Lozuka is booming - Online marketplaces are becoming more popular. This is also the case for regional platforms that bring local retailers and specialty stores together. One such example is Lozuka, which started in the German city Siegen, but is now, as a reaction to Covid-19, available to more regions. Over 25 local retailers… Continue reading
  Topics: webinar, sales, retailers, regional, shopping, platform, siegen, marketplace, lozuka, booming, local, covid19, customers.
• Retailers Bonn want to continue with AllyouneedCity - Retailers in the German city of Bonn want to continue with the online platform AllyouneedCity, which started last year but is set to quit. The local subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL’s online marketplace Allyouneed was a success among Bonn retailers and they are now looking for a partner that wants Continue reading
  Topics: continue, platform, marketplace, bonn, dhl, retailers, local, online, allyouneedcity, operator.
• Samsung and Facebook help Indian SMEs go live online - Samsung and Facebook have partnered up in India to train retailers to expand into e-commerce via social media platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp.
  Topics: training, online, instagram, indian, retailers, live, samsung, help, smes, facebook, retail, galaxy, local, india, partners.
• Selling to China: The World’s Largest Economy with Extraordinary Purchasing Power - China is one of the world’s largest economies with an extraordinary purchasing power and a growing population. Even though starting…
  Topics: worlds, economy, social, western, consumers, brands, sellers, shopping, local, online, chinese, china, selling, largest.
• Shimamura going on line in Taiwan - Japanese clothing retailer Shimamura will soon expand into online sales in Taiwan.
  Topics: ecommerce, sales, tmallwith, territory, taiwans, going, local, sites, japan, unit, taiwan, line, online, shimamura.
• Signpost nabs $52M to help SMBs collect reviews and marketing collateral like bigger rivals - Creating products aimed at smaller business users is a promising but challenging category in the area of enterprise software — they make up the vast majority of businesses today, but collectively are a fragmented customer base that is price sensitive and individually represents small ARPU. Today, a company that has found a way to tap […]
  Topics: collect, marketing, smbs, nabs, techcrunch, collateral, customer, small, technology, company, help, growth, signpost, business, rivals, businesses, reviews, local.
• South Koreans move from malls to markets in Covid-19’s wake - Offline retailers in South Korea are seeing a chance to make a comeback as the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the country eases.
  Topics: retailers, sales, local, supermarkets, malls, covid19s, stores, korea, outbreak, south, coronavirus, wake, koreans, markets.
• South Korea’s Cafe24 launches in Japan - South Korean e-commerce platform Cafe24 has launched in Japan.
  Topics: platform, online, launches, payment, ecommerce, stores, south, service, japan, cafe24, japans, local, japanese, koreas, market.
• The 10 Toughest States for Sales Tax - Managing sales tax is a thankless task for any business. You won’t get props for collecting the correct sales tax from a customer, or for filing returns and remitting tax properly and on time, but you’ll sure catch hell and be penalized for getting it wrong. While sales tax requirements are never considered easy, they’re […]
  Topics: business, local, state, tax, businesses, states, rule, holiday, exempt, toughest, sales.
• The 2019 Ecommerce Holiday Readiness Checklist: Technical and Marketing Preparedness — from Local to Global - Some might say that the holidays are a goldmine opportunity for businesses that sell online. After all, it isn’t rare…
  Topics: products, global, shipping, customers, packaging, readiness, holiday, shoppers, checklist, ecommerce, shopping, sales, search, preparedness, retailers, marketing, technical, local.
• The Plain-English Guide to Local PPC - For the last few weeks, my husband and I have been ordering more takeout than ever. As we were trying to find a restaurant to order from, we came across an online ad for one of our favorite local restaurants that just started offering delivery. We were so excited and immediately placed an order. That's why local pay-per-click (PPC) can be a great option for local businesses.
  Topics: ad, online, plainenglish, extensions, ads, run, youre, specific, ppc, search, local, guide.
• The Ultimate Guide to SEO in 2019 - What is the first thing you do when you need new marketing ideas? What about when you decide it’s time to change the way you keep the books finally? Or even notice a flat tire in the car?
  Topics: google, engines, search, guide, ultimate, links, seo, content, local, information, pages, page.
• The Ultimate List: 57 Online Local Business Directories - What is a business directory? A business directory is an online list of businesses within a particular niche, location, or category. One way local businesses can get found by online searchers is through inclusion in business directories.
  Topics: listing, company, directories, local, business, sites, information, directory, sure, online, ultimate, businesses, list.
• The average shipping costs in Europe - Shipping costs are one of the most important factors for ecommerce businesses. If you’re an online retailer, it’s important to know how much sending a package will cost you. But the average cost of shipping is different in every country. The 2018 Shipping Price Index shows you what the most… Continue reading
  Topics: local, country, costs, average, shipping, netherlands, express, expensive, europe, price, package.
• ToursByLocals snaps up its first funding, C$33M, to link sightseers with guides globally - The tours and experiences market is projected to be worth $183 billion this year, and today a startup that has made inroads into the space through bootstrapping is announcing its first outside investment. ToursByLocals — which sources local guides in some 162 countries, then helps tourists search and book them for either individual or small […]
  Topics: experiences, snaps, startup, tours, funding, globally, private, tritium, toursbylocals, local, sightseers, guides, tour, link, techcrunch, business, c33m.
• Trading app Mercari raises US$1.2 billion for global expansion - Japanese used-goods trading app Mercari is seeking to raise up to US$1.2 billion via an IPO to fund overseas expansion.
  Topics: global, billion, app, mercari, expansion, local, raises, goods, company, yearwe, trade, trading, us12, success, million.
• Use Events and Wacky Holidays to Attract New and Returning Customers - One of the best marketing strategies is simply having ‘news’ to share. A new and timely message leads people to turn their heads and give you their attention, even if just for a few moments. But how do you come up with relevant news that will increase your sales?
  Topics: special, events, online, marketing, ecommerce, attract, local, holidays, business, returning, wacky, event, product, customers.
• Vietnam cross-border e-commerce platform Fado eyes expansion - Fado, the first Vietnam cross-border e-commerce platform, plans to help local SMEs go global.
  Topics: products, local, ecommerce, pham, platform, fado, partnered, eyes, smes, global, expansion, vietnam, crossborder.
• Watchdogs ask Googlers to stop it favoring its own search results - A new coalition of activist groups led by Yelp and TripAdvisor are renewing the fight to get Google to give a fair opportunity to all sites instead of putting its Knowledge Cards atop the results for subjective search queries. The alliance that includes Fight For The Future and Consumer Watchdog.org has assembled tens of thousands […]
  Topics: yelp, search, google, local, favoring, content, employees, stop, tripadvisor, results, campaign, googles, ask, googlers, watchdogs.
• What I learned from Flipkart - Two weeks ago, Walmart concluded its investments to acquire a majority stake in Flipkart. This is one of the largest transactions in e-commerce and in the internet space globally, with Walmart deploying US$16 billion to obtain an approximate 77% shareholding at closing. As part of this transaction, my company, Naspers, exited fully, selling our 11.18% stake for $2.2 billion.
  Topics: indian, market, learned, ecommerce, success, leading, billion, scale, global, flipkart, local.
• What Is Local PR and How Does It Work? [Examples] - Let's face it — building brand awareness isn't the easiest task for a marketer. Trying to be a big voice in a field of so many is nothing short of difficult.
  Topics: national, public, work, examples, does, relations, brand, pr, community, podcast, positive, local, press.
• What Wuhan looks like today: pandemic-hit city returns to business - Chinese e-commerce platform JD has provided a touching testament to the progressive recovery of Wuhan, the first city to be hit by the coronavirus outbreak.
  Topics: images, released, pandemichit, couriers, city, returns, today, recovery, looks, local, pandemic, taken, jds, work, wuhan, business.
• What is Local Advertising and How Does it Work? [+ Examples] - A couple of years ago, I ran to every grocery store and convenience store in my area, looking for one specific thing.
  Topics: local, location, brand, company, examples, campaign, advertising, market, ad, work, research, marketing, does, certain.
• WhatsApp eyes lending feature in India as Amazon rolls out Pay Later to tens of thousands of customers - WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]
  Topics: india, local, credit, rolls, lending, payments, thousands, users, tens, service, later, whatsapp, feature, techcrunch, amazon, pay.
• Why You Should Care About National Manufacturing Day - I grew up in Beaumont, Texas – a small town near Houston on I-10. The location had nothing to do…
  Topics: local, united, manufacturers, growing, event, day, family, nearly, matters, million, details, manufacturing, states, mfg.
• Wish has warehouse in the Netherlands - Wish has a second distribution center in Europe. The online marketplace has one in Amsterdam. This dc is already in use since the end of last year, but it’s only now that the ecommerce company has revealed it’s running a distribution center in the Netherlands. The Dutch distribution center is… Continue reading
  Topics: wish, distribution, local, serves, center, tallinn, customers, netherlands, warehouse, items, amsterdam.
• Yelp lays off 1,000 employees and furloughs 1,100 more - Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced in an internal email that the company is going through difficult times. Yelp has to cut expenses, which means a large round of layoffs and some additional measures — 1,000 employees have been laid off. According to an SEC filing, Yelp had 5,950 employees as of December 31, […]
  Topics: employees, costs, businesses, company, furloughs, pay, measures, local, stoppelman, lays, techcrunch, layoffs, yelp.
• Your Small Business Saturday Guide: Tips, Tools, and Statistics for Local Companies - It’s safe to say that 100+-year-old Lammes Candies is already a household name in Austin, Texas.  After opening in 1885,…
  Topics: shop, small, customers, sure, holiday, shoppers, tips, local, community, statistics, business, businesses.
• Zomato takes over Uber Eats in India - Local food-delivery app Zomato has purchased Uber Eats in India, which is now directing restaurants, delivery partners, and users of the apps to the Zomato platform.
  Topics: eats, takes, uber, local, fooddelivery, ceo, zomatos, zomatoindia, business, india, zomato.