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12 Analytics Plugins for WordPress
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With the right analytics plugin, a WordPress ecommerce merchant can access extensive data to track visitors and discover what they like and what they don’t, to convert more visitors.
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17 Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting Tools
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Whether you're conducting a blog traffic audit or analyzing the success of your most recent campaign, it's undeniable that data is integral to all marketing tasks and roles.
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19 Free Tutorials for Google Analytics
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Google Analytics may be the most important application to understand the behavior of your visitors. And whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, there are many free resources to help. Here is a list of free tutorials for Google Analytics.
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9 Custom Reporting Tools For Your Marketing Team
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When it comes to creating reports for your data, sometimes a pre-built dashboard, table, or template will do the trick. But what happens when your current tool doesn’t have a pre-built report that meets your needs or includes the metrics and dimensions you want to use?
Topics: tools, reporting, business, google, marketing, team, custom, data, unique, analytics, hubspot, reports. -
Africa’s e-commerce space is closing in on its first billion-dollar IPO
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The murmurs of a possible exit by Rocket Internet from Jumia, its African conglomerate of internet companies, are getting louder.
Topics: rocket, exit, york, possible, space, ecommerce, set, jumia, internet, ipo, billiondollar, africas, closing, reports. -
Alibaba reportedly near finalizing a deal to acquire NetEase’s cross-border e-commerce unit
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After weeks of media reports, Alibaba may finally be nearing an agreement to acquire NetEase’s cross-border e-commerce unit, Kaola. Chinese tech news website 36kr reports that a deal may be announced as early as this week and is expected to be worth $2 billion in cash and shares. Kaola will continue to run independently, but […]
Topics: kaola, global, reports, tmall, expected, neteases, near, market, alibaba, techcrunch, crossborder, unit, reportedly, ecommerce, deal, finalizing. -
Amazon tops 1 million Prime subscribers in India; reports record seller participation in Prime Day
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Amazon has amassed at least 1 million subscribers for its Prime loyalty program in India, the e-commerce giant revealed today in a long rundown of how its platform fared during last week’s Prime Day in the world’s second largest internet market. More than a million Prime subscribers in India shopped from small businesses in the […]
Topics: day, weeks, seller, country, reports, techcrunch, tops, amazon, businesses, subscribers, prime, sellers, record, participation, india, million, company, small. -
Baby product retailer FirstCry in funding talks
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Indian online baby product retailer FirstCry is in funding talks with Alibaba and SoftBank Group.
Topics: retailer, online, business, talks, reports, product, deal, million, funding, seeking, us100150, baby, firstcry, yearfirstcry. -
Breaking Up With Your Commerce Monolith: Part 1 (Fighting the Status Quo)
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When you’re looking for a commerce platform, what’s better? Endless arrays of features available natively, or composability?
Looking at the typical analyst market survey, you might think that more features are better. Otherwise, why would they ask more than 300 feature-specific questions in the vendor evaluation? Their logic: Monoliths, by definition, have more features. Ergo, monoliths are good.
However, if you’re currently stuck with a monolith, you know better than that. Monoliths are slow, hard to update, and tough to use. They hinder you from adopting the latest, best-in-class technologies, don’t support the ability to move quickly in response to market changes, and squash any ambitions of experimenting with new channels. That just won’t work if you’re trying to adapt to the latest consumer trends.
Embracing a true omnichannel, digital-first strategy like McKinsey suggests requires a fundamental change in approach. Let’s look at why market pundits view more as better, and a more modern way to assemble your digital commerce experience.
Why Digital Commerce Analyst Reports Fall Short
Even though analyst reports have been considered the de facto standard for technology vendor evaluation for the past few decades, they’re increasingly out of step with what buyers expect today. The reports themselves were structured to reward monoliths and legacy technologies from big firms. By definition, these technologies check all the boxes when it comes to features. On composability, monoliths don’t fare as well. From microservices, to integrations, to APIs – if it were up to analyst reports, you couldn’t have both a full-featured platform and one that supports modern approaches to composability and “best for me” architectures.
Don’t be distracted by this red herring. The “more is better” logic is ultimately flawed, and suggests that you’re making some sort of sacrifice if you choose the composable path. The truth is, you don’t necessarily need every feature available to you natively if you can select the best features for you.
While that might seem intuitive, it’s a fundamental pivot in the way many people in the commerce world think. Analyst reports tend to be lagging indicators. If you’re using them to make a commerce decision, you’re doing it wrong.
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Key Questions to Ask About Composable Commerce
If you’re not using analyst reports, how should you navigate a commerce technology decision? There are a couple of important questions to ask the vendors you’re evaluating.
Instead of: “Do you have it native?” Try: “Is this a best in class feature?”
As I’ve covered in the past, API-first beats native in the new world of digital commerce. Here’s why: APIs are lightweight and can be designed to be easily extended to serve a variety of specific use cases. For complex use cases, it’s possible for developers to design these APIs to communicate with one another and streamline requests that pull related data in.
If you select an API-first commerce platform, you can expect to get the best-in-class features you need, while avoiding the typical bloat and slowdowns associated with monoliths. In addition, it allows your developers to work with the technologies they trust most.
Instead of: “Aren’t composable architectures too complicated?” Try: “How can you make composability simpler for me?”
Look for tools that shorten implementation timelines and reduce some of the complexity that’s traditionally associated with composable architectures. That might include the following features:
Starter kits: Give your developers a point from which to start with reference implementations of APIs and front-end components to kickstart your composable commerce application development. Check out the D2C Starter Kit we just launched.
Pre-built integrations: Instead of having to choose from nearly endless options of possible API-first commerce components, look for a platform that has pre-built integrations (e.g. a marketplace) to help you quickly find, install and configure best-of-breed software.
Pre-configured payment gateways: Payments are perhaps one of the more complex parts of digital commerce, but it doesn’t have to be. Pre-configured payment gateways can get you set up to accept payments right away.
Pre-Composed Solutions: Benefit from the use case-specific expertise and best practices of systems integrators to launch faster and customize on-demand.
Hedging Your Bets with Composable Commerce
While analysts and other industry pundits might proclaim that monoliths have a higher ability to execute, hedging your bets with a best-of-breed approach is actually far less risky. There’s no single point of failure. Components in a composable architecture can be easily changed if they’re not working, or as your requirements evolve – which allows for a cycle of continuous improvement.
Today’s commerce leaders are expected to innovate, which doesn’t necessarily mean going with yesterday’s “sure bet.” Those that want to embrace flexible, digital-first commerce know that composability is the way to go. Next up in this series, I’ll explore how to break up a monolith by covering the two typical patterns companies follow to make it happen.
Topics: features, better, commerce, breaking, youre, reports, questions, analyst, monoliths, composable, technologies, monolith. -
Drowning in Data? Consider a Business Intelligence Tool
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Ecommerce businesses use multiple tools and services. Most have their own dashboards, which measure different aspects of the business. So how does a merchant pull all the data together to see the big picture? Many companies use business intelligence tools, which combine data from multiple sources and display it in a meaningful way
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Facebook plans June 18th cryptocurrency debut. Here’s what we know
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Facebook is finally ready to reveal details about its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra. It’s currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining its cryptocurrency’s basics, according to a source who says multiple investors briefed on the project by Facebook were told that date. Meanwhile, the company’s Head of Financial Services & Payment […]
Topics: facebook, plans, reports, techcrunch, heres, 18th, information, debut, facebooks, project, blockchain, libra, cryptocurrency, told, price, know. -
Facebook’s Q1 Earnings Call Reports Strong Numbers, High Hopes Despite Data Privacy Backlash
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Facebook's data privacy scandal has dominated the news these past few months. Today, the company is reporting something it's likely more excited about.
Topics: reports, earnings, numbers, facebook, data, company, hopes, privacy, despite, users, advertisers, strong, facebooks, zuckerberg, high, q1, billion. -
FreshBooks Review (Dec 2021): Easy Business Accounting?
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In this FreshBooks review, we’ll be looking at one of the most popular tools for small business accounting on the market and exploring whether it’s as valuable as it seems. When it first started, FreshBooks was a simple but effective…
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Google Analytics: Introduction to Cross-device Reporting
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There has been a seismic shift in website traffic in the past several years, from desktop to mobile. Google Analytics has rolled out the beta version of cross-device reporting to inform merchants of how their shoppers are interacting via multiple devices.
Topics: google, devices, mobile, introduction, report, overlap, analytics, reports, crossdevice, users, device, sales, reporting. -
Honestbee Taiwan suspends services
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Singaporean grocery-delivery service Honestbee is “temporarily closing” its Taiwan operations as it focuses on its core Southeast Asian markets
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How To Design An Annual Report [+ Template & Examples]
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An annual report offers a comprehensive overview of your business’s yearly operations. As the content in these reports is heavy-hitting, it’s essential to present it in a way that helps your audience understand and visualize your successes.
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How to Automate Your Business's Reporting Workflows
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In business, we all love to have insightful reporting dashboards at our fingertips. When done well, they show us where the business is thriving, which areas are struggling, and if we're on track to reach our goals.
Topics: workflows, businesss, automate, simple, analytics, reporting, google, sheets, automated, dashboards, reports, business, data. -
How to Create a Funnel Report [Quick Guide]
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You’ve probably heard that it’s crucial to keep a full, flowing funnel for a business. But what does this mean, and how do you know when you’re on the right track?
Topics: leads, create, guide, marketing, report, stage, quick, funnel, reports, customer, conversion, customers, sales. -
Jumia reports 30% growth in value of goods sold on its platform during Black Friday season this year
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E-commerce in Africa is growing fast and its potential remains enormous as more people get connected to the internet. Across sub-Saharan Africa 303 million people, about 28% of the population, are connected to the mobile internet, according to the 2021 GSMA mobile economy report, and this number is expected to rise to 40% in three […]
Topics: goods, sold, reports, percentage, online, black, season, ecommerce, points, million, jumia, africa, number, growth, value, platform, techcrunch. -
Jumia reports record orders and revenue but investors remain unconvinced
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Share sell-offs continued today in the wake of public companies’ earnings reports, proving especially significant amongst firms that benefited from the pandemic. While new and established public companies in market categories like software, fintech, gaming and social media witnessed significant declines in recent weeks amidst rising interest rates, growth-oriented e-commerce companies like Jumia are not […]
Topics: investors, significant, jumia, sales, revenue, techcrunch, yearoveryear, earnings, record, reports, quarter, remain, million, unconvinced, loss, orders, jumias. -
Korean grocery startup Kurly raises $150M
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Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, has secured $150 million in a new financing round months after reports claimed that the firm might be acquired soon. Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital and DST Global invested in the Korean startup’s Series E financing round, which according to news outlet Korean Investors, valued […]
Topics: financing, series, korean, million, kurly, raises, techcrunch, grocery, raised, korea, startup, round, 150m, reports, valued. -
Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congress, According to Reports
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Update on March 28, 2018, 9:08 AM EST: Reports from Politico indicate that Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, "according to a person familiar with the matter." The appearance is predicted to take place on April 12, though Committee spokeswoman Elena Hernandez has said that the hearing date is not yet confirmed.
According to a report from cable news network CNN earlier today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to testify before U.S. Congress amid growing concerns over user privacy.
Topics: reports, according, congress, energy, testify, facebook, willingness, appear, house, mark, committee, zuckerberg, commerce, data. -
Marketing Reporting Examples: How to Build and Analyze Marketing Reports
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As a marketer, I make crucial daily decisions that can impact the company I work for. Using my best judgment, I track important metrics like traffic, leads, and customers — and I provide a marketing report to back up my decisions.
Topics: leads, youre, data, channels, examples, reporting, help, audience, build, report, reports, analyze, marketing. -
Online fashion retailer Mogu reports sales up 18.7 per cent
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Chinese online fashion and lifestyle retailer Mogu has reported an 18.7 per cent increase in gross merchandise value (GMV) for the year to March 31, to RMB17.408 billion (US$2.594 billion). The company’s revenue for the year reached RMB1.074 billion (US$160.1 million), an increase of 10.4 per cent year on year. However the number of active […]
Topics: supply, increasing, content, online, increase, sales, retailer, cent, user, quarter, gmv, livevideo, mogu, reports, fashion. -
Pipedrive CRM Review (2023): Is This The Right CRM Tool for You?
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CRM software is all the rage right now, as many businesses look to optimize their sales pipeline and improve functionality. Pipedrive, a unicorn startup, with a value that soars above $1 billion, is a popular choice for businesses looking for…
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Topics: tool, crm, lets, reports, support, pipedrive, easily, email, right, deal, review, different, sales. -
Q&A: Bringing Data Innovation to Merchants with Google BigQuery
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Effective decision making starts with data. However, before you can start making decisions, you need the right technology solutions in…
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Ramping Up Google Analytics 4
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I first addressed Google Analytics 4 last fall. It is becoming the go-to platform in Google's analytics ecosystem. The older version, Universal Analytics, will eventually sunset. For now, continue using Universal Analytics while ramping up GA4.
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Removing Personal Data from Google Analytics
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Google Analytics prohibits the collection of personally identifiable information. Users of Google Analytics should detect and then delete the PII if necessary. I'll explain how to do that in this post.
Topics: reports, personal, google, report, status, removing, request, pii, settings, remove, deletion, analytics, data. -
SEO Tools from Google and Bing
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Many independent tools emulate the behavior of search engine crawlers. But the best tools come from the search engines themselves: Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
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SEO: 6 Critical Search Console Reports
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Google Search Console provides essential tools to improve traffic from organic search. The data comes from the source: Google itself. Here are six reports to monitor frequently.
Topics: shows, report, seo, reports, search, google, site, text, pages, links, link, performance, console, critical. -
Shopify Google Analytics: A Complete Setup Guide
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The need to interact with data on my Shopify store is indisputably an intelligent way to get hold of my profitable audiences. Shopify Google Analytics is a quick-witted game plan to boost my store's performance. As a store owner, I…
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Topics: number, google, store, setup, complete, need, online, analytics, reports, guide, shopify, customers, data. -
Social Media Analytics: The Ultimate Guide
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With over 4.5 billion social media users across the globe, it's no wonder businesses need to be active on social media to connect with their audience.
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Sprout Social Review (Nov 2022): A Guide to Sprout Social
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Meta: In today’s Sprout Social review, we’re looking at one of the more powerful social media management tools on the market for business leaders. Here’s what you need to know. In today’s Sprout Social review, we’re taking a closer look…
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Square reports Q1 sales of $489M, up 59%, but net loss widens to $38M
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After Square issued weak guidance in Q4, all eyes were on the payments company to see what kind of growth it really had in Q1. Results reported today underscored some of the challenges the company is facing. Square’s adjusted revenues were $489 million, up 59% year-on-year, with adjusted earnings per share of $0.11. Both figures beat analysts’ estimates. […]
Topics: q1, million, quarter, payments, company, widens, revenues, techcrunch, reports, adjusted, growth, sales, net, earnings, loss, 489m, square. -
Target reports mixed fourth quarter, but notes same-day services grew more than 90% in 2019
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Target today reported mixed fourth-quarter results, but promising growth on the e-commerce side of its business. The retailer’s earnings per share came in at $1.69, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.66, but revenue fell short at $23.40 billion versus the $23.50 billion expected, as the company saw weaker holiday sales in key categories like […]
Topics: toy, company, drive, notes, grew, services, mixed, stores, ecommerce, target, quarter, fourth, techcrunch, sales, sameday, including, reports. -
The 12 Best Social Media Analytics Tools for Marketers in 2023
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These days, businesses across every industry are investing in social media marketing. But no matter how great your social media content is or how many people follow your accounts, you won't be able to grow your audience, reach, and presence if you don't understand the data behind it all.
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The Conclusive Nobly POS Review for 2019
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At the heart of most businesses in the contemporary world, is a powerful POS taking center stage. The Nobly POS is undeniably gaining momentum at the present day and age in the hospitality industry. But how credible is the system?…
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Tired of Waiting for IT to Generate Your Reports? Try Ad Hoc Analysis
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In midsize to large companies, it's standard to have business intelligence (BI) analysts generate reports on behalf of employees.
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Using Data Studio to Convert Multi-currency Reports
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Google's Analytics’ conversion of currencies is straightforward. However, setting the conversion date to equal the date of the transaction may not be an option, forcing merchants to convert currencies manually. Google Data Studio can solve this manual conversion hurdle.
Topics: studio, currency, convert, multicurrency, spend, currencies, dollars, sources, data, euros, conversion, using, google, reports. -
Using Filters in Google Analytics
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Accurate data is essential for decision-making. Google Analytics can provide that data, but it may need a bit of sanitizing. Filters in Google Analytics can remove data impurities. In this post, I'll introduce Google Analytics filters.
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Using Google Analytics to Optimize Google Ads
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The Google Ads reporting suite in Google Analytics is essential for advertisers looking to drive profitable sales. I'll explain the setup and analysis process in this post. Before you can view Google Ads reports in Google Analytics, complete a couple of steps.
Topics: sessions, using, report, data, google, clicks, ads, optimize, mobile, reports, analytics, search. -
Using Site Search Reports in Google Analytics to Improve Product Selection
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Internal site search is the equivalent of someone walking into a physical store and asking for a product. The storekeeper would develop an understanding of what shoppers want based on these requests. In the digital world, Google Analytics can store all of these questions. In this post, I'll address how to configure site search in Google Analytics to improve your ecommerce product selection.
Topics: using, search, improve, selection, report, site, terms, analytics, visitors, phrases, reports, data, revenue, product, google. -
Walmart closes in on $15bn Flipkart deal, reports
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Retail giant may be about to secure a victory over Amazon.
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Walmart reports lower-than-expected Q4 earnings, despite e-commerce sales growth of 35%
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Walmart’s holiday quarter didn’t perform as expected. That’s the big news today from the retailer’s weak Q4 2019 earnings, which saw revenue of $141.67 billion versus the $142.55 expected and adjusted earnings per share of $1.38 versus the $1.44 expected. The company cited a number of factors, including “softer” than anticipated holiday sales in U.S. […]
Topics: reports, techcrunch, online, growth, ecommerce, walmart, expected, grocery, earnings, q4, despite, walmarts, holiday, stores, sales, lowerthanexpected, business. -
What Is Marketing Attribution & How Do You Report on It?
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Marketers engage with customers on more channels than ever before. Whether you're working with influencers or posting short-form videos, it makes marketing attribution essential for continued results.
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WhatsApp confirms some users have access to its new group discussions feature, WhatsApp Communities
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WhatsApp Communities, the messaging app’s anticipated expansion aimed at supporting larger discussion groups, has now rolled out to additional users as it nears a public launch. The company declined to share specific details as to how many users or which countries were seeing the new feature as testing expands, but confirmed that more users have […]
Topics: users, group, whatsapp, feature, confirms, communities, larger, discussions, access, share, techcrunch, apps, groups, reports. -
WooCommerce 4.0: Better, More Efficient Store Management
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WooCommerce 4.0 is here! Read all about the new, streamlined dashboard, time-saving store management tools, and enhanced reporting and analytics.
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World’s leading B2B ecommerce authority disrupts the market with new report
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The Paradigm B2B Combines are now available! They offer detailed analysis of B2B ecommerce solutions across 10 distinct categories (e.g, promotions, TCO, customer service).
Topics: perform, report, authority, disrupts, solutions, combine, partners, ecommerce, reports, vendors, worlds, leading, research, market, b2b, paradigm. -
eBay Q1 reports sales of $2.374B, active buyers up to 174M in wake of COVID-19
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After a quarter in which eBay, tussling with an activist investor, completed the sell-off of its ticketing business StubHub for $4 billion and saw appointed a new CEO after its previous one departed, while also weathering waves of surging demand and dodgy supply resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, today the e-commerce company reported its Q1 […]
Topics: range, 2374b, company, covid19, business, sales, earnings, diluted, buyers, share, ebay, q1, continuing, wake, active, billion, operations, techcrunch, reports. -
‘Amazon Go comes to the UK’
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Amazon Go, the checkout-free stores from Amazon, will roll out in the United Kingdom. The ecommerce giant hasn’t officially announced this, but there are several reports Amazon is looking for locations across the country to roll out the innovative grocery stores. According to The Sunday Times, Amazon wants to acquire Continue reading
Topics: amazon, uk, grocery, comes, reports, roll, united, stores, significant, physical, kingdom.