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• 15 of the Best Account-based Marketing Software for 2020 - Are you in the market for your new account-based marketing software solution? If so, then you've come to the right place.
  Topics: tools, customers, software, sales, marketing, best, users, data, accounts, contact, accountbased, platform.
• 19 Lead Nurturing Email Examples You'll Want to Steal - You've done it. You provided valuable content to your readers and they've converted into leads. Now, it's time to nurture these leads into opportunities for your sales team.
  Topics: helpful, examples, marketing, products, sales, reader, nurturing, email, steal, youll, content, lead, product.
• 24% of ecommerce in Europe is cross-border - The total online cross-border market (excluding travel) in Europe represented a turnover of 108.75 billion euros in 2019. This is an increase of 14.4 percent compared to the situation one year before. The cross-border share represents 23.55 percent of total online sales in Europe, which is similar to the situation… Continue reading
  Topics: sales, europe, total, online, crossborder, ecommerce, countries, share.
• 36 Account-Based Marketing Stats to Know in 2020 - As marketers, we've become experts in our target audiences. We know their typical demographic, what they like, the platforms they spend time on, and what they value in a product.
  Topics: know, sales, target, stats, say, marketers, topo, abm, marketing, accountbased, teams.
• 4 Genius Tactics for Increasing Ecommerce Sales - Nothing about running an ecommerce business is straightforward or easy. The goal is, of course, to present a product on your ecommerce website, entice buyers to purchase through ecommerce marketing, and then process payments. This is how even the most basic ecommerce site should run. But, unfortunately, goals are often easier said than met. To meet your goals, you've got to put in work — especially if you're working to build and grow your ecommerce business. Whether you're an ecommerce veteran or are new the world of ecommerce, here are four genius tactics to entice buyers and increase sales. 4 Tactics to Increase Ecommerce Sales The world of ecommerce is always changing. These tactics are some of the most impactful for boosting sales and attracting new customers to your ecommerce website.
  Topics: increasing, ecommerce, sales, buyers, tools, genius, visitors, tactics, social, youre, media, website, site.
• 4 Pivots Companies Are Making in Light of COVID-19 [New Data] - When HubSpot surveyed a handful of business leaders within our customer base, we discovered that most expect to see "somewhat slower" or "much slower" growth in the next year as a result of the global pandemic and economic climate.
  Topics: light, companies, current, business, making, customer, pivots, marketing, events, strategies, resources, sales, customers, covid19, data.
• 7 Amazingly Effective Lead Nurturing Tactics - As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. In most cases only a relatively small percentage of your inbound leads will be ready to make an immediate purchase, leaving upwards of 90% of your inbound leads on the table.
  Topics: amazingly, effective, marketing, sales, emails, leads, nurturing, tactics, timely, content, lead.
• AR is the answer to plummeting retail sales during lockdown - The so-called retail apocalypse may seem inevitable, but in these challenging times, it is more important than ever to look at how technology can turn the tide.
  Topics: sales, retail, store, consumers, lockdown, ar, returns, reality, purchase, retailers, plummeting, techcrunch, technology, answer.
• After Recent Improvement, Deal Pipelines Shaky Last Week - For the last few months, businesses around the world have had to rapidly adapt to the impact of COVID-19. In a time where it seems like things change every day, it can be difficult to gauge whether the challenges your business is facing are widespread.
  Topics: shaky, improvement, deal, industries, saw, levels, weekoverweek, weeks, volume, sales, week, business, pipelines, recent, precovid.
• After Weeks of Decline, Sales Metrics Showing Signs of Recovery [COVID-19 Benchmark Data] - The economic impact of COVID-19 is undeniable. Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances and we're all learning how to operate in a "new normal" that's constantly changing.
  Topics: deals, teams, signs, benchmark, showing, data, email, sales, covid19, volume, averages, decline, week, metrics, increase, weeks, precovid, recovery.
• Alibaba and JD launch 6.18 mid-year shopping promotions - Alibaba and JD launched their annual 6.18 mid-year shopping festivals, which will mark China’s largest online retail promotion since the outbreak of Covid-19.
  Topics: launch, taobao, luxury, midyear, sales, campaign, jd, hours, worth, shopping, promotions, tmall, participating, alibaba.
• All-New Shopify POS: Rebuilt for Today's Retail Experience—and Free Until October 31, 2020 - At Shopify, we believe retail is poised to adapt to the recent crisis and rebound stronger than ever. That’s why we’re introducing the all-new Shopify POS, our fully reimagined point-of-sale solution, to help brick-and-mortar retailers reopen stores into the modern retail environment. And we're making it completely free until October 31, 2020.More
  Topics: customers, staff, customer, allnew, pos, free, products, sales, rebuilt, experienceand, online, todays, business, shopify, retail.
• Amazon Barcodes: How Do Barcodes Work on Amazon? - Don't overlook the seemingly small but critically important Amazon seller requirement: Amazon Barcodes, otherwise known as UPC codes. Learn more here.
  Topics: small, products, upc, amazon, sales, online, gtin, product, work, upcs, barcodes.
• Amazon Q1 beats on net sales of $75.5B but posts net income of $2.5B, down $1B on a year ago - Amazon has been one of the biggest names synonymous with how the consumer masses are experiencing life under lockdown: its site lets you buy anything from soup to nuts, from books to baking pans for all your sourdough; and via its streaming services, it gives you many ways to stay entertained. But it can also […]
  Topics: net, operating, employees, income, q1, quarter, beats, sales, company, 755b, posts, ago, amazon, techcrunch, versus, billion, services.
• Amazon, Flipkart and other e-commerce firms in India to resume sales of non-essential items from April 20 - Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal and other online shopping firms will resume selling “non-essential” items to customers in India starting April 20, weeks after New Delhi imposed a lockdown in the country that has cost e-commerce companies more than a billion dollars in sales. New Delhi said on Thursday that e-commerce companies can resume accepting customers orders […]
  Topics: sales, india, paytm, ecommerce, companies, mall, techcrunch, firms, products, items, resume, amazon, customers, nonessential, orders, flipkart.
• Apple limits online sales of iPhone as stocks shrink - Apple has placed restrictions on bulk purchases of its iPhones in some Asian territories after the coronavirus outbreak caused interruptions to supply.
  Topics: iphones, apple, mainland, outlets, kong, month, territories, shrink, iphone, retail, online, sales, china, outbreak, limitations, limits, stocks.
• Bankruptcies, Layoffs Deplete the Retail Industry - At the beginning of 2020 several brick-and-mortar chain retailers were struggling, trying to restructure debt or find new lenders while dealing with plummeting revenues. The Covid-19 pandemic has closed stores and effectively made those efforts pointless.
  Topics: bankruptcy, industry, retail, bankruptcies, filed, layoffs, closed, chapter, deplete, sales, administration, million, company, stores.
• Benchmark Data: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Sales and Marketing Performance [Updated Weekly] - The economic impact of COVID-19 is undeniable. In the face of closures and shifting consumer behavior, businesses across the world have had to adapt to rapidly changing economic circumstances.
  Topics: volume, benchmark, updated, data, weekly, covid19, increased, rates, impacting, marketing, business, customers, week, performance, sales, businesses.
• Boohoo sees revenue increase by 44% - Online fashion retailer Boohoo saw its revenue increase by 44 percent to over 1.4 billion euros last year. There was strong revenue growth across all regions, with international revenue now accounting for 45 percent of the group’s total sales. Last year, the international revenue made up for 43 percent, so… Continue reading
  Topics: saw, increase, end, strong, growth, million, revenue, boohoo, sales, sees, euros.
• Boost Your Promotional Strategy (+ Online Sales) With Customer Discounts and Free Shipping - Every consumer loves a good deal (myself included). So much so that 92% of consumers in the U.S. used coupons when…
  Topics: boost, discount, customer, free, customers, discounts, products, promotional, great, offer, sales, business.
• Cazoo, the used-car sales portal, raises another $116M - The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has put a freeze on many in-person sales and transactions for goods and services, so in what might be a sign of the times for funding in the startup world, today a company in the U.K. that’s been building a portal to carry out car sales in the […]
  Topics: world, ventures, vehicles, usedcar, techcrunch, raises, million, company, delivery, uk, sales, portal, car.
• Consumers swamp Luckin Coffee app in wake of controversy - Disgraced Chinese coffee giant Luckin has apologised to customers and promised business as usual following a widely publicised admission that the firm had fabricated sales figures.
  Topics: consumers, wake, luckin, starbucks, offer, app, shares, china, swamp, coffee, controversy, loan, widely, sales, usual.
• Coronavirus and Ecommerce: How This Beginner Dropshipper is Succeeding Despite the Circumstances - When you experience failure, it can be hard to dust yourself off and try again. But if you want to become better at anything in life, that’s the only way it’s going to happen. However, to be truly successful, you can’t just rely on trying something again, you need to […]
  Topics: failure, job, perservered, store, ahmed, good, product, entrepreneur, despite, im, pandemic, really, supplier, products, going, loss, sales.
• Covid-19 wipes US$420 billion from China’s retail market - The Covid-19 pandemic has erased US$420 billion from China’s retail market this year - but analysts predict a rebound in the second half.
  Topics: supply, cent, market, chinas, us420, stores, sales, retail, consumer, second, restaurants, supplychain, covid19, billion, wipes.
• Deal Creation Bounces Back After Early April Lows [COVID-19 Benchmark Data, Updated Weekly] - The economic impact of COVID-19 is undeniable. Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances and we're all learning how to operate in a "new normal" that's constantly changing.
  Topics: updated, customers, precovid, rates, weekly, creation, marketing, lows, volume, bounces, early, deal, benchmark, week, email, sales, covid19, data, hubspot, open.
• Deal Performance in April Yields Cautious Optimism for May [COVID-19 Benchmark Data] - The economic impact of COVID-19 is undeniable. Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances and we're all learning how to operate in a "new normal" that's constantly changing.
  Topics: increase, email, data, benchmark, sales, cautious, closed, companies, rates, deal, performance, precovid, covid19, yields, deals, optimism, week.
• Deal Pipelines Gain Positive Momentum in Mid-May [COVID-19 Benchmark Data] - For the last few months, businesses around the world have had to rapidly adapt to the impact of COVID-19. In a time where it seems like things change every day, it can be difficult to gauge whether the challenges your business is facing are widespread.
  Topics: gain, momentum, data, created, covid19, week, rates, levels, trending, pipelines, precovid, increase, positive, midmay, sales, deals, deal, benchmark.
• Deal Pipelines Trending Upward in May’s Second Week [COVID-19 Benchmark Data] - For the last few months, businesses around the world have had to rapidly adapt to the impact of COVID-19. In a time where it seems like things change every day, it can be difficult to gauge whether the challenges your business is facing are widespread.
  Topics: upward, precovid, mays, second, deals, deal, benchmark, data, sales, covid19, volume, pipelines, levels, weekoverweek, week, increase, businesses, trending.
• Deal Volume and Sales Response Rates Drop to New Lows [COVID-19 Benchmark Data, Updated Weekly] - The economic impact of COVID-19 is undeniable. Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances. We’re all learning how to operate in a “new normal” that’s constantly changing.
  Topics: sales, lows, weekly, drop, updated, marketing, week, precovid, customers, number, email, response, data, volume, deal, rates.
• Deals Closed Rise Significantly as May Comes to an End [COVID-19 Benchmark Data] - For the last few months, businesses around the world have had to rapidly adapt to the impact of COVID-19. In a time where it seems like things change every day, it can be difficult to gauge whether the challenges your business is facing are widespread.
  Topics: email, comes, volume, sales, rise, data, week, precovid, trending, significantly, weeks, closed, end, deals, covid19, levels, benchmark.
• Ebay cooperates with Shopify - From now on, Shopify retailers in Germany can now set up and sell their products directly on eBay from their Shopify account. This way, they can benefit from the major reach the online marketplace has in Germany and abroad. eBay is the first online marketplace in Germany that cooperates with… Continue reading
  Topics: market, shopify, cooperates, ebay, sales, reach, products, retailers, customers, benefit, germany.
• Ecommerce Entrepreneurship Grows as Unemployment Rises - The looming recession has sparked a boom in digital business.
  Topics: store, ecommerce, start, sales, founder, youre, online, customers, data, products, grows, unemployment, entrepreneurship, rises.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: April 16, 2020 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-April from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on email marketing, automated product recommendations, social media toolkits, logistics, social commerce, and tracking the digital economy.
  Topics: product, sales, ecommerce, digital, users, service, online, shop, recommendations, announced, releases, delivery.
• Email Popups for Ecommerce: How to Collect Emails & Grow Your Sales - Serious about collecting emails for your store? You need email popups! In this article, we explain why & share tips to help you design your own popups.
  Topics: ecommerce, displayed, website, collect, popups, sales, popup, example, visitors, offer, email, way, grow, emails.
• Even in 2020, 360-degree Product Photos Boost Conversions - A long-time ecommerce conversion tactic — 360-degree product photography — is making an appearance on major retail marketplaces, large B2B sites, online furniture stores, and automobile marketplaces, indicating, perhaps, that it still represents an opportunity to increase sales.
  Topics: photos, conversions, photography, sales, ecommerce, boost, sellers, 360degree, online, views, marketplaces, product, image.
• FC Barcelona launches online Barça Store - FC Barcelona has launched its own ecommerce channel for the sale of products from the Barça Store at Camp Nou. In the online store, fans will find club merchandising and retail items. There are also items that can only be bought at point of sales managed directly by the club.… Continue reading
  Topics: spain, items, launches, barça, sales, barcelona, nou, fc, store, online, merchandising, retail.
• Follow These 6 Steps to Bulletproof Your Digital Business Strategy - If this time has taught us anything, it's the importance of taking your business online.
  Topics: bulletproof, sales, ecommerce, digital, steps, online, follow, customers, strategy, need, items, business, way, businesses, shipping.
• H&M expands brands to 9 new markets in Europe - H&M Group has announced the online expansion of five of its brands. This month, COS, Weekday, Monki, & Other Stories and Arket will have their collections available online in nine new markets across Europe. The ecommerce operations for these five H&M brands will be rolled out to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,… Continue reading
  Topics: decrease, sales, operations, markets, ongoing, hm, world, europe, online, expands, brands.
• Hong Kong malls join Deliveroo programme to rescue plunging F&B sales - Twenty Hong Kong shopping malls have joined a program launched by Deliveroo to help food & beverage tenants survive the coronavirus by expanding their delivery business.
  Topics: deliveroo, hong, mall, malls, restaurant, sales, join, tenants, rescue, programme, partner, kong, plaza, plunging, fb.
• Hot Dog Sales Are Red-Hot. These Weiner Businesses are Giving Back. - This Memorial Day, two Brooklyn companies are hoping that backyard BBQs can help heal.
  Topics: going, dogs, online, giving, hot, theyre, business, businesses, fragogiannis, dog, joe, sales, redhot, feltmans, weiner.
• How Chinese department store Intime survived Covid-19 crisis - It’s Labour Day weekend in China and customers in masks have been trickling into the Intime Hangzhou West Lake store incessantly since 10am. Shoppers floated from counter to counter, determined to snatch the best deals the long holiday has to offer. Since the widespread outbreak of Covid-19 across the country at the start of the […]
  Topics: online, store, intimes, crisis, sales, day, intime, streaming, covid19, survived, live, department, stores, chinese, shao.
• How Chinese jeweller Ideal transformed staff into live-streaming KOLs - Shenzhen’s multi-brand jeweller Ideal has transformed its 18-year-old traditional business model to a New Retail business virtually overnight in light of the coronavirus crisis.
  Topics: transformed, stores, live, associates, staff, jeweller, chinese, retail, ideal, kols, business, livestreaming, online, jewellery, sales, brand.
• How Covid-19 affects U.K. businesses - Unsurprisingly, many ecommerce businesses in the U.K. have reported an increase in sales during the pandemic. Sales of fashion, clothing, and luxury items, however, have dropped. The U.K. government has put in place measures that should help my business and many others.
  Topics: small, receive, businesses, property, sales, uk, affects, tax, business, covid19, pay, companies.
• How Ecommerce Companies Can Continue Engaging New Customers - Even amid a global economic downturn, there are still opportunities to woo new buyers.
  Topics: products, companies, ecommerce, sales, site, continue, customers, stay, online, seen, engaging, better, brands.
• How HubSpot Built a World-Class Conversational Marketing Program - Over the last few years, HubSpot's audience has gotten chatty. Chatbots and live chat became some of the most popular ways to reach HubSpot and the humans here. For years, prospects have wanted to ask questions and get direction while navigating the website.
  Topics: coaches, chat, program, sales, worldclass, built, users, prospects, marketing, chatbots, questions, conversational, hubspot, customer.
• How Sellers Overcome FBA’s Covid-19 Shipping Restrictions - Less than two weeks ago, Fulfillment by Amazon announced a freeze until April 5 on receiving "non-essential" inventory. Moreover, many sellers with non-essential FBA inventory have seen customer deliveries pushed up to a month. Having no access to the FBA program, some sellers could lose an entire month of revenue.
  Topics: shipping, nonessential, sales, covid19, restrictions, sellers, amazon, fba, inventory, overcome, fulfillment, business, fbas.
• How These Two Teens Helped Bust Lockdown Boredom – and Made Bank - The last few months have been a testing time for the entire world. While 2020 started with a bang, the new decade rapidly changed direction when COVID-19 became a pandemic. With people confined to their homes, our priorities and daily routines quickly changed. Forget going on holiday, wandering around a […]
  Topics: taylor, going, lachlan, teens, ads, stores, 70k, coronavirus, facebook, sales, pair, store, business, success, opened.
• How To Handle Shopify Taxes For Drop Shipping - Make sense of Shopify taxes with this simple tax guide for your drop shipping business.
  Topics: taxes, shipping, handle, sales, nexus, based, states, tax, york, required, shopify, drop, pay, state.
• How a fast digital pivot saved Williams-Sonoma’s top line when Covid-19 hit - Take a look at US kitchen and homewares retailer Williams-Sonoma’s latest sales figures and you would hardly know there has been a pandemic.
  Topics: williamssonomas, cent, stores, sales, strong, line, saved, digital, online, customers, quarter, group, fast, covid19, williamssonoma, hit, pivot.
• How to Align with Your Sales Team, According to HubSpot Marketers - Throughout the history of business, marketing and sales teams have repeatedly run into the same problem: misalignment.
  Topics: sales, according, marketers, align, help, ye, marketing, salespeople, objections, team, hubspot, learn, teams, company.
• How to Calculate ROI in Marketing [Free Excel Templates] - It's a brand new month, everyone! It's a time for new beginnings. New campaigns, new landing pages, new blog posts, new emails, and new social media posts are all on the horizon. But wait ... aren't we forgetting something? With last month's activities all done, we need to pause for a second to examine what worked and what didn't. And you can't do that just by saying last month's activities were "great" ... "great" doesn't pay the bills.
  Topics: youre, powerpoint, roi, calculate, excel, template, sales, growth, metrics, marketing, templates, free, youll.
• How to Calculate and Interpret Inventory Turnover - How quickly a business sells its inventory is typically a strong indicator of efficiency, cash flow, and general well being. Thus inventory turnover — and the related inventory turnover ratio — is a powerful key performance indicator.
  Topics: turns, ratio, sales, method, turnover, inventory, billion, depot, companys, calculate, average, interpret.
• How to Drive External Traffic to Your Amazon Listing - Get a stream of traffic coming to your Amazon listing that's ready to purchase your product! Plus, learn how to own that traffic long-term.
  Topics: product, funnel, shovel, video, customer, amazon, drive, sales, dream, traffic, listing, able, external.
• How to Make Instagram Your Not-So-Secret Sales Weapon - Year after year, the social media platform continues to prove one of the strongest, most reliable marketing channels for product-driven brands.
  Topics: weapon, feature, creative, consumers, shop, product, ads, video, notsosecret, products, sales, instagram, brands.
• How to Open an Online Business - I can't count how many times I've come up with an idea and immediately said to my friends, "I should start a business!" I never do, but if I did, I know it would be online. Why? Well, in 2018, online businesses generated over $2 billion in revenue. If shopping online wasn't as popular a couple of years ago, it definitely is now.
  Topics: youll, tax, website, business, open, plan, online, youre, need, sales, sure.
• How to Turn Your Content Marketing Into A Sales Machine - As a dog owner and entrepreneur, Trevor Crotts launched BuddyRest to create quality mattresses that offered support and comfort for dogs. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Trevor Crotts of BuddyRest, shares how he found a product-market fit, created compelling content, and his thoughts on the future of ecommerce.More
  Topics: able, sales, turn, product, going, need, thats, think, customer, machine, really, lot, marketing, content, dog.
• JD Super boosts tea sales through live streaming - Chinese online supermarket JD Super used live streaming to achieve a 100-per-cent increase in tea sales during a recent tea festival.
  Topics: used, live, tea, chinese, boosts, viewers, streaming, jd, experts, video, sales, us42300jd, super.
• JD sells 27,000 tons of fresh products in a week - Chinese e-commerce giant JD has registered sales of 27,000 tonnes of fresh products during its Foodie’s Carnival online shopping event, including 4531 tonnes of imported fresh food.
  Topics: online, fresh, sells, week, tonnes, promotion, million, imported, sold, sales, tons, jd, products.
• JD takes top spot in China’s online appliances market - E-commerce giant JD has taken the lead in China’s online appliances market, according to the China Electronic and Information Industry Development Research Institute.
  Topics: market, jd, spot, takes, return, sales, chinas, household, billion, industry, lead, online, appliances.
• Japan Is an Enticing Market for Cross-border Ecommerce - Japan is the world’s third-largest ecommerce market following China and the United States. However, it is often overlooked by foreign online merchants because of an unusually low cross-border purchase rate and a somewhat insular approach to online shopping.
  Topics: ecommerce, japan, rakuten, products, enticing, consumers, shopping, japanese, crossborder, sales, online, market, foreign.
• Leveraging Magento Commerce New Features In Times Of Limited Resources And Social Distancing - We continue to bring to market features that, now more than ever, will prove invaluable by allowing merchants to react swiftly to rapid changing conditions around the world. Read more.
  Topics: magento, features, merchants, social, page, leveraging, content, limited, latest, stores, sales, commerce, distancing, resources, templates, release, times.
• Live streaming helps Lazada sellers boost sales during lockdowns - Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada says total gross merchandise volume (GMV) generated through its LazLive livestreaming service increased by 45 per cent month-on-month during April.
  Topics: viewers, consumers, boost, cent, lockdowns, lazada, total, lazlive, service, brands, streaming, southeast, helps, live, sellers, sales.
• Livestreaming in China booms during coronavirus crisis - Taobao Live, Alibaba Group’s livestreaming platform, saw a sharp rise in brand activity this past month as merchants slowly resumed their operations and looked for ways to reach consumers in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
  Topics: china, million, live, online, booms, taobao, sales, consumers, coronavirus, stores, cent, brand, livestreaming, crisis.
• Marketing in the Pandemic Creates Opportunities Afterward - The coronavirus pandemic has changed everything. Retail shopping habits have been upended. Businesses that attract new customers and retain existing ones — right now — could recover or grow quickly when the economy reopens and moves forward.
  Topics: review, advertising, pandemic, growth, sales, creates, recession, marketing, companies, afterward, opportunities, increased, tellis, economy, firms.
• Maternia now sells prescription glasses online - Maternia has launched the online sales of prescription eyeglasses. This was originally planned for the second half of 2020, but due to the current situation caused by the coronavirus the eye care specialist accelerated these expansion plans. Maternia is one of the largest providers of eye care and eyewear in… Continue reading
  Topics: prescription, eye, maternia, online, sales, countries, record, sells, situation, glasses, shop.
• Momox sees sales grow 25% to €250 million - Momox, a major recommerce player from Germany, has recorded a significant increase of its sales. Last year, the company’s annual turnover was worth 250 million euros. This is 25 percent more than in the previous year. Momox is an online marketplace, where consumers can sell their books, films, CDs, games… Continue reading
  Topics: sees, online, turnover, sales, grow, second, million, webinar, momox, shops, generated.
• Most Hong Kong e-commerce businesses are eyeing offshore markets - More than half of Hong Kong e-commerce businesses want to develop new offshore markets, according to a whitepaper released by e-commerce platform creator Shopline.
  Topics: stores, report, products, businesses, taiwan, popular, markets, hong, kong, cent, ecommerce, eyeing, sales, offshore.
• Need Sales in the Pandemic? Boost Customer Service - As the coronavirus keeps millions of people at home, traffic to online stores continues to increase. According to Statista, even non-essential purchases are shifting online. The keys for businesses are two-fold: encourage sales during the shutdown and retain as many new customers afterward.
  Topics: customers, need, business, live, online, pandemic, service, times, boost, virtual, social, sales, customer, chat, shipping.
• NuOrder launches virtual showroom as Asia sales surge - B2B e-commerce platform Nuorder is launching a virtual showroom service for brands to showcase products via an immersive online experience.
  Topics: virtual, products, photography, brands, showroom, retailers, retail, platform, using, launches, surge, asia, nuorder, sales, service.
• Online retail the ‘silver lining’ in Singapore retail space - The Singapore retail real estate market has weakened amidst the coronavirus pandemic, according to a quarterly market report released by Edmund Tie.
  Topics: online, space, singapore, retailers, real, lining, pandemic, omnichannel, cent, sales, edmund, silver, retail.
• Otto sees sales grow 9 percent to 3.5 billion euros - Otto continued to grow last year. The mail order company reported an increase in sales of 9 percent to 3.5 billion euros. It’s the tenth year in a row that revenues of the Otto Group subsidiary increased.According to Otto, the successful past financial year was also thanks to the now… Continue reading
  Topics: sees, sales, euros, increase, billion, online, otto, mobile, group, retailer, subsidiary, grow, tablet.
• 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.
• Shopify Review: Pros & Cons of Using Shopify for Ecommerce Stores - For most ecommerce entrepreneurs, Shopify will always be the best choice. Check out this Shopify review to learn about why they're so good at what they do.
  Topics: store, shopify, cons, business, amazon, app, customers, platform, review, youre, ecommerce, stores, sales, pros.
• Small Business Accounting & Bookkeeping: A Guide For Ecommerce Entrepreneurs - This guide will help you better understand small business accounting for your ecommerce business so you can make better financial decisions.
  Topics: tax, small, corporation, guide, entrepreneurs, bookkeeping, accounting, sales, business, youll, ecommerce, file, youre, need.
• South Korean online sales surged during Covid-19 - South Korean online sales surged 38.9 per cent in March while sales at brick-and-mortar stores fell 19 per cent during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  Topics: products, stores, korean, offline, online, sales, south, cent, covid19, surged.
• South Korean retail sales surge as people stay home - South Korean retail sales surged 9.1 per cent in February, despite the advent of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Topics: retail, rose, south, surge, stores, cent, overall, online, korean, increase, sales, stay.
• 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.
• Target reports mixed fourth quarter, but notes same-day services grew more than 90% in 2019 - 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.
• TaxJar CEO on Managing a Remote, 160-employee Team - The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many companies to adjust to a home-based workforce. TaxJar, a sales-tax compliance platform, has been entirely remote since its founding seven years ago. All 160 employees work remotely, mainly from their homes. Mark Faggiano is founder and CEO of TaxJar. I recently spoke with him about managing a large, distant workforce.
  Topics: 160employee, tax, sales, sure, onboarding, going, taxjar, ceo, team, employees, work, managing, remote, yes.
• Tencent costs surge as competition Bytes - Soaring costs saw Tencent Holdings report a net income of US$13 billion for last year, after a slow fourth quarter.
  Topics: surge, revenue, tencent, billion, workplaces, wechat, cent, competition, costs, sales, coronavirus, bytes, income, quarter, company.
• Thai grocery wholesaler Loxley pivots to delivery - Thai grocery wholesaler Loxley is pivoting to delivery services as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
  Topics: pivots, items, loxley, stores, delivery, mobile, wholesaler, trade, grocery, sales, trucks, thai, wholesale.
• The 5-Step Process HubSpot Uses to Optimize Facebook Advertising Costs - When Mark Zuckerberg shocked the digital marketing world with his announcement that Facebook would overhaul its algorithm to let users engage with their friends and family more and less with brands, the social media giant’s CPM skyrocketed 122% -- the highest spike in Facebook ad prices over the previous 14 months.
  Topics: hubspot, process, spend, hubspots, sales, users, optimize, facebook, ads, costs, ad, uses, audience, goals, 5step, cost, advertising.
• The Coronavirus Could Drive Car Dealers to Ecommerce - Managing the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has led to temporary store closures, social distancing, and economic concerns. People and industries are affected, including car dealers.
  Topics: car, industry, drive, used, coronavirus, carvana, dealers, states, ecommerce, sales, online.
• Tips for Managing a Sudden Surge of Sales - How do you handle a surge of eCommerce sales without stressing out? Learn how to streamline order fulfillment to keep your customers and employees happy.
  Topics: surge, tips, sales, orders, order, generate, sudden, woocommerce, inventory, staff, status, customers, automatically, managing, stock.
• US e-commerce sales jump 49% in April, led by online grocery - Online retailers are seeing Black Friday-like sales due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business. According to new data from Adobe’s Digital Economy Index, U.S. e-commerce jumped 49% in April, compared to the baseline period in early March before shelter-in-place restrictions went into effect. Online grocery helped drive the increase in sales, […]
  Topics: covid19, consumers, increase, sales, saw, prices, report, growth, ecommerce, online, led, jump, techcrunch, electronics, grocery.
• Understanding the COVID-19 Effect on Online Shopping Behavior - I don’t think it’s too soon to say that the COVID-19 global pandemic will likely be one of the defining…
  Topics: buying, behavior, covid19, effect, shopping, items, behaviors, understanding, seeing, pandemic, stores, sales, online.
• Use dynamic CTAs to close more B2B leads - B2B leads typically require multiple touches before they become customers. You can help leads move quicker through your funnel by dynamically adjusting the landing page content they see.
  Topics: tactics, sales, ctas, community, techcrunch, marketing, growth, dynamic, leads, close, thats, b2b, worlds, offline, retailers, process.
• Using FAQs to Close More Sales - There is a page on your ecommerce site that likely needs attention. Perhaps you don't have it, but a frequently-asked-questions page is essential to any online store. Done right, FAQs can close sales.
  Topics: shoppers, help, questions, site, orders, products, sell, faqs, page, close, using, faq, sales.
• Using Google Analytics to Respond to Covid-19 - Google Analytics can identify pandemic-related problems and opportunities for your ecommerce business. I'll explain in this post.
  Topics: respond, using, revenue, ads, paid, data, sales, compare, search, analytics, select, product, google, covid19.
• Wasn't ABM Supposed to Fix B2B Buying? - Before my kids woke up this morning, I had ordered groceries for the week, subscribed to a digital news channel I've been meaning to read more, and signed up for an online workout class (that I'm likely to skip). All from my phone, and all with just a few clicks.
  Topics: sales, fix, salespeople, companies, tools, b2b, supposed, abm, experience, marketers, buying, wasnt, marketing.
• When ‘Business Unusual’ Is The New Business As Usual -  Four ways eCommerce can ensure business continuity to get you through turbulent times. Read more.
  Topics: sales, business, research, unusual, products, customers, online, commerce, usual, help, product, continuity.
• Why CRM and Marketing Automation Need Each Other - When I was younger and I listened to Hannah Montana sing "The Best of Both Worlds," I didn't fully understand what she meant. Now, as a marketer, I get it. Having the best of both worlds is the feeling you have when your company's marketing automation software and CRM work in tandem.
  Topics: sales, lead, work, need, team, automation, software, qualified, marketing, crm, reps.
• Why You Should Bet On the Future of Ecommerce - In a world of economic uncertainty, the long-term outlook for buying and selling online is bright.
  Topics: total, online, shopping, bet, retail, habits, entrepreneurs, market, sales, digital, ecommerce, future.
• Wine shop Neleman expands across Europe - Neleman, the online store of Dutch winemaker and merchant Derrick Neleman, is expanding further across Europe. The omnichannel company will soon open online shops in Belgium, Germany and Spain. Neleman previously operated online with the domain Neleman.org, but it is now expanding its portfolio with local ecommerce websites. Organic and… Continue reading
  Topics: europe, online, producesneleman, neleman, shop, sales, expands, sells, wine, tree, organic, company, vegan.
• Work-from-home trend fuels boom in home-furnishing sales - Sales of home-furnishing products in Singapore have more than doubled in the two months spanning February 1 to March 31.
  Topics: sales, workfromhome, fuels, rising, trend, boom, spending, products, online, shows, significant, transactions, homefurnishing, cent, rose.
• Xiaomi launches Mi Commerce in India to boost sales amid lockdown - Xiaomi today launched a new e-commerce service in India that allows people in the nation to easily browse and order its handsets and other products from nearby physical retail stores as the Chinese giant rushes to kickstart its sales in its biggest overseas market. Dubbed Mi Commerce, the service allows people to locate nearby stores […]
  Topics: amid, sales, lockdown, india, stores, techcrunch, smartphone, market, store, boost, xiaomi, launches, retail, service, ecommerce, commerce, mi.
• You Can Now Sell on Google Shopping for Free – Here’s How to Take Advantage of It - There’s good news this week for those who have always wanted to get involved in Google shopping. On April 21, Google announced that it would soon be free to sell in the Shopping tab. The changes will roll out in the U.S. by the end of April and should be […]
  Topics: need, products, visibility, boost, ads, product, center, shopping, sell, merchant, sales, google, free.
• Zalando sells textile masks - Today, Zalando has started the online sales of textile masks in Europe. The disposable masks are sold at an affordable price in all 17 markets and the profit will go to international efforts against the coronavirus.Zalando isn’t the only fashion player that has started selling textile masks online. Earlier this… Continue reading
  Topics: sells, price, today, protect, sales, textile, sold, zalando, started, designs, masks.
• eBay Q1 reports sales of $2.374B, active buyers up to 174M in wake of COVID-19 - 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.
• ‘Revenge spending’ fuels luxury goods rebound - Revenge spending has been credited with a significant upturn in sales of high-priced retail goods in South Korea, which has emerged from lockdown.
  Topics: online, goods, rebound, brands, luxury, spending, cent, fuels, korea, revenge, south, sales, saw, industry, brand.