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• 12 New Ecommerce Books for Summer 2018 - Here’s a new batch of ecommerce books to add to your summer reading list. There are titles on digital marketing, customer experience, Instagram, content marketing, branding, and building a side ...
  Topics: readers, customer, media, summer, business, strategic, books, digital, small, ecommerce, paperback, marketing, entrepreneurs.
• 17 Tips For Online Small Business Owners - Chapter by chapter we’ve unlocked the keys to online small business success. You’ve created a great product. Built a stunning…
  Topics: marketing, tips, brand, customer, way, products, owners, small, website, business, customers.
• 22 Striking Examples of Minimal Design That'll Kickstart Your Creative Process - Whether you're curating an Instagram feed or designing a web page, there are plenty of advantages to minimalist design.
  Topics: logo, brand, additionally, minimal, process, white, kickstart, sense, small, thatll, text, page, simple, examples, striking, creative, design.
• 3 Low-Cost Ways to Grow Your Small Business in 2019 - You don’t need to spend tons of money to grow your small business. Learn our 3 low-cost tips for eCommerce, B2B, & local service businesses looking to expand! 
  Topics: grow, ecommerce, blog, customers, lowcost, ways, website, content, marketing, business, email, small, offer, reviews.
• 30+ Small Business Ideas That’ll Make You Money in 2020 - With so many business ideas in 2020, it can be hard to figure out which are worth pursuing. You’ll want to create a business that’s not only profitable today, but also great for the long-term. You may notice that a lot of the ideas on this list have been growing […]
  Topics: sell, create, ideas, small, thatll, help, facebook, business, money, products, idea, store, niche.
• 4 Ways Small Businesses Can Optimize Their Magento 2 Store After Launch - You’ve launched your new Magento 2 store. Now what? 
  Topics: ways, search, relevant, product, value, optimize, store, businesses, small, content, share, mw2, reviews, magento, customer, launch.
• 4 ecommerce-related businesses to start right now - I’m often approached by many would-be entrepreneurs who want to start a business as soon as possible. They are usually in their early 20s, living in the U.S., and working a job where they are unfulfilled and (possibly) underpaid. In this post, I'll offer four low-risk ways to start a side hustle that can grow into a full-time business
  Topics: sales, start, small, right, ecommercerelated, product, youll, business, amazon, products, businesses, social.
• 6 Ways Online Businesses Have Adapted During Coronavirus (With Examples) - The great thing about having an online business is the ability to adapt and change quickly. And at the moment, there’s a lot of adaptation going on. As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to alter how we live our lives, online businesses have been quick to tweak their operations to […]
  Topics: adapting, business, examples, social, free, shipping, online, customers, small, product, pair, coronavirus, businesses.
• 7 Lessons from Confucius for Ecommerce Businesses - Wisdom, personal or corporate, has not changed much in 2,500 years, or so it would seem. Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher and politician, has much to teach us about operating ...
  Topics: ecommerce, chinese, retail, quotes, leaders, businesses, small, wrote, business, likely, lessons, goals, confucius.
• 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 Decade of Growth, Strategy, and Innovation: Celebrating 10 Years of BigCommerce - After meeting in a chatroom six years prior, Eddie Machalaani and Mitch Harper founded a company in 2009 with one…
  Topics: strategy, success, solutions, saas, small, growth, celebrating, shipping, partner, bigcommerce, ecommerce, decade, innovation, platform.
• A Year In Review: Our 10 Most Popular eCommerce Articles of 2019 - From commerce trends, to eCommerce case studies, to low-cost ways to grow your small business, our readers were passionate and immersed in a number of different digital commerce topics in 2019. Read more.
  Topics: small, b2b, popular, tips, ways, review, shipping, fulfillment, articles, business, ecommerce, product, trends.
• Accounting Basics for Small Businesses - Don't be overwhelmed by accounting. Simplify bookkeeping & measure the health of your online store with these accounting basics for small businesses.
  Topics: basics, tax, business, cash, accounting, businesses, financial, small, transaction, software, method, basic, transactions.
• Adobe Announces Offerings to Help Small & Mid-Sized Companies - Amid the coronavirus outbreak and growing containment efforts, small and mid-sized businesses are reeling from the impact of lost traffic and revenue. We have seen a drastic shift to online channels and we want to ensure you are set up to not only survive but ultimately thrive after we emerge from this crisis. 
  Topics: magento, help, engage, adobe, offerings, marketo, small, companies, announces, access, free, commerce, midsized, months, online, businesses.
• Alternative Funding Sources for the Covid-19 Crisis - The Paycheck Protection Program has mostly not reached the intended beneficiaries. There is not enough money, and loans to date have often gone to large businesses. What follows are some options for small businesses.
  Topics: credit, support, small, business, businesses, grant, sources, crisis, alternative, funding, loans, covid19, gofundme, revenue, grants.
• Amazon Alters Small-business Strategy; Competitors Take Advantage - Amazon has told many small merchants that it would no longer accept bulk wholesale orders from them for its Vendor Central program. Several companies have seized on this change and are trying to attract smaller merchants who may be looking for alternatives.
  Topics: small, smallbusiness, amazon, advantage, alters, company, million, competitors, flexe, strategy, merchants, warehouses, fulfillment, marketplace, warehouse.
• 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 Germany customers choose their favorite sellers - At the start of the Christmas season, Amazon has honored small and medium-sized enterprises with the Amazon Verkaufspartner-Awards (Amazon Selling Partner Awards). Customers of Amazon Germany chose their favorite companies in the categories ‘Partner of the year’, ‘Innovation champion of the year’ and ‘export champion of the year’. It’s the… Continue reading
  Topics: amazon, partner, sales, germany, selling, favorite, data, enterprises, mediumsized, champion, small, choose, customers, sellers.
• Amazon Storefronts takes small businesses to the masses - Amazon US has launched Amazon Storefronts, a new place for customers to shop exclusively from some 20,000 small and medium-sized businesses.
  Topics: products, masses, storefronts, businesses, selling, mediumsized, small, featuring, customers, amazon, jobs, takes.
• Amazon launches a last-mile delivery program powered by entrepreneurs - Amazon has gotten flack in the past for some of the challenges its crowdsourced “last-mile” delivery drivers face, but now it’s offering those with entrepreneurial ambitions the option to do more. Instead of showing up for gig work, drivers can opt for a new program where Amazon helps them establish their own delivery business. The program […]
  Topics: amazon, work, retailer, powered, drivers, vans, partners, program, launches, entrepreneurs, small, delivery, lastmile, amazons.
• Amazon raises seller fees in France - After France approved a new digital tax on American tech giants, Amazon reacted by passing along the costs to French Amazon sellers. The marketplace is raising seller fees by 3 percent for thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in France. Last month, France passed a 3 percent tax to the… Continue reading
  Topics: fees, france, small, seller, tax, digital, french, raises, higher, amazon, conversions.
• Amazon sellers to hit UK high streets in year-long pop-up pilot - Internet shopping has been blamed for boarding up high streets across the UK. So it looks politically judicious for Amazon, the original ecommerce behemoth, to now be attaching its brand name to a pilot project aimed at sparking a little commercial life in denuded UK towns and cities by parachuting online SMEs into pop-up shops […]
  Topics: techcrunch, hit, popup, yearlong, sellers, pilot, uk, online, small, businesses, high, tax, amazon, streets.
• Amazon to invest $1 billion to help digitize small businesses in India - India welcomed Jeff Bezos this week with an antitrust probe. On top of that, thousands of small merchants who typically compete with one another are beginning to gather across the country to hold a protest against the alleged predatory practices by the e-commerce giant. But Amazon founder and chief executive’s love for one of the […]
  Topics: thousands, techcrunch, digitize, flipkart, ecommerce, merchants, small, help, billion, invest, amazon, bezos, india, businesses.
• Amify raises its first venture round on a promise: to boost revenue for third-party sellers on Amazon - Small businesses have a complicated relationship with Amazon . While they fear the company because they have no control over it, Amazon’s platform is also a great way to reach shoppers, particularly small businesses that rise to the top of its results pages. Amify, a nine-year-old, Alexandria, Va.-based company, says it can get them there, […]
  Topics: companies, mcafee, boost, promise, revenue, amify, customers, small, sales, sell, venture, doesnt, amazon, sellers, pay, thirdparty, raises, round.
• April 2018 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts - What follows are our 10 most popular articles for April 2018, recognizing that articles we published earlier in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones. 13 ...
  Topics: tags, product, popular, search, small, marketing, engine, set, posts, read, ecommerce.
• Basics of Small Business Accounting: 10 Steps to Get Your Company on Track - If you’ve just launched or are about to launch your online store, congratulations! To keep the good times rolling, you'll need to learn the basic accounting tasks that come along with owning a store, and quickly. Today, we'll cover 10 essential accounting steps so you know you’ve covered your bases.More
  Topics: company, expenses, steps, basics, youll, tax, small, need, store, bookkeeping, business, account, youre, bank, accounting, track.
• 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.
• 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.
• Crowd Cow, offering ranch to table meats, picks up $8 million from Madrona, Ashton Kutcher - Most high-end restaurants don’t get their beef from the local grocery store. Well-regarded chefs and restauranteurs build relationships with small farms and family ranchers to procure what’s known in the industry as craft beef. Just like coffee or chocolate or wine, the smallest differences (type of grass, breed of cow, lifestyle, etc.) can make a […]
  Topics: ventures, crowd, beef, revenue, users, meats, cow, ranch, madrona, company, small, offering, million, table, picks, kutcher, venture.
• Customers Big & Small Can ‘Expand The Experience’ With Adobe + Magento - Highlights from General Session 1 at Adobe’s Imagine 2019 event in Las Vegas
  Topics: experiences, platform, adobe, customer, small, cloud, customers, expand, experience, gary, magento, big, commerce.
• Don’t Bet Against Amazon in India - Since entering India in 2013, Amazon has faced entrenched competition and restrictive government policies. In this post, I'll provide an overview of the ecommerce industry in India, including recent regulations, local competitors, and Amazon's performance to date.
  Topics: reliance, million, retail, india, platform, amazon, bet, indias, small, dont, companies, ecommerce.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: March 3, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late February from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on small business grants, eliminating counterfeit products, curated marketplaces, video distribution, and a Pinterest IPO.
  Topics: platform, business, small, ecommerce, product, marketing, amazon, video, releases, day, products, launches, target.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: November 16, 2018 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-November from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping rates, search analytics, payment options, augmented reality, artificial-intelligence for social media, and holiday sales
  Topics: search, releases, merchants, ecommerce, holiday, payment, ebay, product, businesses, social, media, small, content.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: October 31, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-October from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on voice-commerce, expense management, payments, small business loans, shipping, and returns.
  Topics: search, card, small, releases, product, platform, businesses, announced, ecommerce, business, payment, customers, payments.
• Ecwid raises $42M from Morgan Stanley and PeakSpan - In the same week that Facebook announced a redoubled effort to make a bigger mark in e-commerce, one of its long-time partners has closed a large round of funding. Ecwid, the startup that sells e-commerce tools directly and via third parties like Square and Wix, letting businesses build e-commerce experiences on their own websites and […]
  Topics: capital, smbs, peakspan, fazylev, stanley, shopping, morgan, raises, techcrunch, 42m, ecommerce, raised, ecwid, facebook, small.
• Elavon to acquire Sage Pay, a gateway that competes with Stripe, PayPal and Adyen, for $300M - E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more consolidation. Today, Elavon, the payments company that is a subsidiary of US Bancorp, announced that it will acquire Sage Pay, one of the bigger payment processors in the UK […]
  Topics: stripe, gateway, acquire, transactions, small, adyen, million, payments, sage, market, pay, competes, deal, paypal, taking, elavon, techcrunch, online.
• Etsy error resulted in large amounts being withdrawn from some sellers’ bank accounts and credit cards - An Etsy bill payment error resulted in large amounts of money being withdrawn from several sellers’ bank accounts and credit cards on Friday morning. While the company says the issue has been resolved and was not the result of fraud, the headache isn’t over for affected sellers because Monday is a federal holiday in the United […]
  Topics: error, large, bank, amounts, payment, small, charged, etsy, withdrawn, issue, cards, affected, sellers, resulted, incorrectly, credit.
• Facebook opens its first small biz pop-up stores inside Macy’s - Facebook is bursting out of the ones and zeros into the physical realm with nine brick-and-mortar pop-up stores that will show off goods from 100 small business and online brands. Facebook organized the merchants to be part of The Market @ Macy’s, which first launched earlier this year to create temporary spaces for businesses. The […]
  Topics: merchants, ad, popup, macys, inside, revenue, facebooks, stores, small, biz, opens, facebook, businesses, q3.
• 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.
• Free Programs from Ecommerce Service Providers to Combat Covid-19 - With the massive disruption caused by Covid-19, ecommerce service providers are finding ways to help. Here is a list of free programs from service providers to help fight the pandemic. The programs include grants for small businesses, information technology, fulfillment services, storage, start-up financing, assistance for local businesses, and free meditations to relieve anxiety.
  Topics: service, combat, small, support, delivery, programs, services, ecommerce, covid19, organizations, offering, businesses, free, providers.
• Fung family takes US$35 million stake in ShopX - The Fung family has invested US$35 million in Indian technology platform ShopX.
  Topics: shopx, million, platform, family, technology, us35, small, fung, retail, investment, model, ecommerce, stake, takes.
• Google’s Smart Campaigns May Help Small Brick-and-click Retailers - Google’s new “Smart campaigns” is the first advertising product under the new Google Ads brand. Smart campaigns use machine-learning algorithms to help small businesses become more successful online advertisers. The tool ...
  Topics: retailers, google, smart, help, search, campaigns, business, advertising, brickandclick, ads, ad, googles, store, small.
• Handelsverband wants to double number of Austrian webshops - The Austrian trade association Handelsverband has an ambitious goal: in the next two years, it wants to double the share of Austrian retailers that operate an online store. In order to achieve this, the association has put together a toolkit, which enables small and medium-sized businesses to start with ecommerce… Continue reading
  Topics: retail, double, ecommerce, number, retailer, retailers, handelsverband, online, toolkit, small, wants, austrian, webshops.
• Help! My Brand Went Viral: 16 Small Brands That Made It Big - When you think of viral marketing, your mind probably wanders to that Oreos "You can still dunk in the dark" tweet, which garnered an enviable 40,000 retweets and Facebook likes during 2013's Super Bowl power outage. Or perhaps you think of the Dove "Real Beauty Sketches," a video with more than 67 million views to date. When these global brands go viral, it's not a huge surprise.
  Topics: launch, help, brands, marketing, video, went, brand, million, company, practice, best, media, campaign, small, big, viral.
• How Can I Find Time For My Business With A Full-Time Job? - When you’re running a store on top of a full-time job, it can be hard to find time to dedicate to your business—much less make the most of that time when you have it. We spoke with eight entrepreneurs who are currently rocking full-time jobs here at Shopify about how they run their stores, manage a full-time job, and make the most of the time they have available.More
  Topics: small, things, fulltime, store, work, youre, help, business, way, job.
• 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 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 Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of the Australian Stimulus Package - In light of the evolving situation around the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Government has released a number of economic responses to support individuals, households and businesses and improve stability in this particularly volatile environment.
  Topics: stimulus, advantage, payment, support, apply, coronavirus, package, need, business, reduced, payments, businesses, small, australian.
• How Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of the U.S. Stimulus Package - To aid small businesses and individuals impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States government recently passed three landmark acts, including the largest economic stimulus package in history.
  Topics: business, funding, loan, loans, cares, employees, advantage, package, stimulus, small, act, businesses.
• How small retailers can compete with the giants of retail - The giants of retail - like Walmart, Target, Amazon, Asos, Tesco, Alibaba and JD - might be trailblazers, but they are still fair game for the little guys.
  Topics: small, retailers, giants, shopping, technology, compete, retail, experience, system, online, processes, data, needs.
• How to Save Sales and Solve Customer Problems with Live Chat - Are you nervous about adding live chat to your online store? It’s completely understandable. Live chat changes the game. It moves conversations into almost-real-time, and while that can be scary—but it also creates new opportunities for delivering exceptional customer service.More
  Topics: need, customers, teams, live, conversation, chat, small, conversations, service, questions, customer, sales, support.
• How to Use Google's Website Builder to Create a Free Site for Your Small Business - Even though the majority of consumers research, discover, and purchase products on the Internet, 60% of small businesses didn't have a website last year. A lot of small business owners just don't have the time or resources to develop their own websites.
  Topics: business, photos, google, googles, builder, free, small, create, websites, summary, tool, website, site.
• How to Work From Home With Small Children (& Not Go Crazy!) - Are you having a difficult time working from home with small children? If so, here’s a comprehensive list of tips I’d suggest to keep yourself sane and productive.
  Topics: children, kids, small, set, able, business, crazy, tips, baby, tip, work, day, dsl.
• If we let the US Postal Service die, we’ll be killing small businesses with it - If we continue to view the USPS as simply a balance sheet and optimize for profitability in a vacuum, we ultimately stand to lose far more than we gain.
  Topics: shippo, die, states, postal, techcrunch, usps, let, amazon, carriers, service, united, shipping, businesses, small, ecommerce, killing.
• India orders investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart - India ordered a large-scale investigation into Flipkart and Amazon India on Monday after a retail trade group alleged that the e-commerce giants were indulging in anti-competitive practices to gain a foothold in the country. Competition Commission of India (CCI), the local antitrust body, highlighted a wide gamut of issues, including the arrangements between smartphone vendors […]
  Topics: traders, ecommerce, small, spokesperson, orders, cci, walmarts, alleged, investigation, practices, ordered, techcrunch, flipkart, anticompetitive, india, amazon.
• India’s Udaan raises $585M to expand its B2B e-commerce platform - Udaan, a three-year-old business-to-business e-commerce platform in India, has raised more than half a billion dollars in a new financing round as it looks to bring more kirana stores (neighborhood stores), chemists and other small businesses online through its marketplace. The startup said today it has raised $585 million in a Series D round from […]
  Topics: 585m, platform, techcrunch, startup, indias, expand, b2b, stores, merchants, businesses, ecommerce, raises, nation, india, business, udaan, small.
• Instamojo acquires Times Internet’s GetMeAShop to serve more small businesses in India - Instamojo, a Bangalore-based startup that helps merchants and small businesses accept digital payments and sell on the web, has acquired Gurgaon-based startup GetMeAShop. The deal is worth $5 million and includes conglomerate Times Internet making an investment in Instamojo, Sampad Swain, co-founder and chief executive of the Bangalore-based startup, told TechCrunch in an interview. Hundreds […]
  Topics: serve, instamojo, acquires, merchants, million, acquisition, businesses, internets, india, store, small, startup, platform, getmeashop, techcrunch, times, online.
• Jack Ma talks about the key to Alibaba’s success - Forbes Media has presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Alibaba Group founder and partner Jack Ma, hailing the impact of Alibaba since its launch.
  Topics: small, talks, businesses, million, forbes, key, success, consumers, alibabas, china, entrepreneurs, alibaba, jack, ma, financial.
• Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small businesses - Kabbage, the AI-based small business loans platform backed by SoftBank and others, is adding more firepower to its lending machine: the Atlanta-based startup has secured an additional $200 million in the form of a revolving credit facility from an unnamed subsidiary of a large life insurance company, managed and administered by 20 Gates Management, and […]
  Topics: business, billion, 200m, capital, secures, million, small, platform, loans, businesses, fuel, techcrunch, kabbage, equity, aibased, company, companys.
• Lidya: How one company is hoping to help small businesses thrive in Africa (Video) - "Our aim is to be the biggest alternative financier to small businesses in the world," says Lidya Co-Founder, Tunde Kehinde.
  Topics: small, video, woman, young, african, videos, hoping, africa, help, lidya, businesses, kehinde, tunde, company, thrive, world.
• Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing platform, says it will make $700M in 2019 - Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Ga., is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage their customer-facing email activities — a profitable business that its CEO told TechCrunch has now grown to around 11 million active customers with a total audience of 4 billion (yes, 4 billion), and is on track […]
  Topics: business, platform, companies, 700m, marketing, customers, small, services, mailchimp, techcrunch, email, chestnut, million, expands.
• Mailchimp’s Ben Chestnut on bootstrapping a startup to $700M in revenue - The well-known tech startup routine of coming up with an idea, raising money from venture capitalists and other outside investors in increasing rounds as valuations continue to rise, and then eventually going public — or getting acquired — has been around for as long as the myth of Silicon Valley itself. But the evolution of […]
  Topics: business, tech, platform, 700m, bootstrapping, outside, mailchimps, ben, startup, small, services, revenue, techcrunch, chestnut, notable, mailchimp, product.
• News Cart for March 13th - Hey there, What. A.  Week. Lots of headlines about (you guessed it) coronavirus as well as an update on conference cancellations and reschedules. Plus thoughts in the podcast version on the virus’ broader impact to eCommerce merchants and thoughts on the financial markets. – Andrew Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher In the News Coronavirus Concerns Prompt [...]
  Topics: thoughts, job, 13th, oldsmar, podcast, small, group, million, help, marketing, rivals, cart.
• Next Steps After The Sale: Your Guide to Small Business Shipping - How you manage small business shipping, fulfillment, and returns can make or break your business. In the Amazon Prime age,…
  Topics: offer, cost, rates, tips, sale, free, shipping, fulfillment, steps, small, rate, business, customers, costs.
• Nuet Aquavit first Norwegian company to sell spirits online - Nuet Aquavit says it is the first Norwegian company ever to sell spirits online. The startup offers its products from their own website with global delivery. The drinks are not for sale in Norway itself. That’s because sales of alcoholic beverages have to go through state-owned channels. The Oslo-based company… Continue reading
  Topics: spirits, wellkept, bottle, youre, nuet, online, sell, norwegian, aquavit, company, small, scandinavian.
• Office Depot partners with Alibaba to focus on small to medium-sized businesses’ needs - Office Depot, one of the many big box stores feeling the impact from Amazon’s e-commerce dominance, announced on Monday a significant partnership with Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com, which will see the companies working together to better serve the needs of U.S. small to medium-sized businesses. The deal includes a co-branded e-commerce site on Alibaba.com, and […]
  Topics: office, customers, alibaba, depots, business, mediumsized, focus, small, depot, global, network, collaboration, partners, needs, businesses, alibabas.
• Overdraft: How One Founder Built A Braiding Business—from her Living Room - Melony Armstrong painstakingly built Naturally Speaking—her hair studio dedicated to the art of traditional African hair braiding—from nothing. For years, she worked out of her small living room, sometimes for no money, gaining experience and saving every penny. Two decades have passed since Melony opened her salon’s doors. Here, she shares how perseverance, the kindness of strangers, and a pinch of luck helped her realize her dream.More
  Topics: braiding, didnt, founder, work, money, room, living, small, hair, husband, day, businessfrom, really, im, able, built, overdraft.
• Prime Day Recap: Lessons Learned in Keeping Customers for Life - How to make the most of peak days and keep the new customers they bring
  Topics: customers, prime, business, sales, small, amazon, learned, shoppers, recap, thirdparty, revenue, retailers, lessons, life, keeping, day.
• Printify raises $3M to expand its marketplace for custom printing - Bling Capital, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and several others have participated in the round.
  Topics: cofounder, sell, techcrunch, marketplace, merchants, printing, custom, raises, 3m, printify, expand, berdigans, business, end, small, startup.
• 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.
• 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.
• Small Business Recordkeeping 101: A Guide for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs - When it comes to small business recordkeeping, there's a lot of paperwork to keep track of. This guide covers all the items you need to keep for your ecommerce business.
  Topics: small, receipts, return, period, guide, business, records, need, youre, entrepreneurs, recordkeeping, ecommerce, irs, tax.
• Small Business SEO: How to Implement SEO for Small Businesses - Small business SEO can take your website to a whole new level. The most important thing is that you create & implement a strategy that works.
  Topics: youll, businesses, implement, image, business, seo, small, search, page, sure, content, website, google.
• Small Business Saturday Builds on Holiday Sales Momentum - More opportunities for growing brands to optimize their holiday operations
  Topics: builds, online, momentum, large, retailers, site, sales, yoy, season, business, revenue, mobile, small, holiday.
• Small, But Mighty: Resources For Navigating Online Commerce In a World of Uncertainty - It’s crazy how fast life can change. In a flash. In a second. With the snap of a finger. Not…
  Topics: help, support, contiguous, business, covid19, small, tax, offering, ecommerce, counties, resources, businesses.
• Swiss Post tests order button with Migros, Domino’s and Qualipet - Swiss Post is testing a new device that makes shopping online a lot easier. Around 1,000 households in Switzerland can order products and services by using the Post Home Button, which is nothing more than a small device with a button. Migros Aare, Qualipet and Domino’s Pizza have also joined Continue reading
  Topics: swiss, post, order, tests, button, using, small, qualipet, migros, test, testing, device, dominos.
• The #1 Quality Entrepreneurs Need to Succeed & Other Advice from Jules Pieri - Have you ever heard a cool product idea from a friend, a coworker, an aunt, and thought -- Why isn't that on the market already?
  Topics: need, quality, advice, product, market, retail, products, best, business, sell, amazon, pieri, small, successful, jules, entrepreneurs, succeed.
• The Advantages of Embracing the Small in Small Business - "Fake it 'til you make it." That's what they sometimes say about succeeding in business. But there's an argument to be made for embracing the small in your small business. It comes across as genuine, your customers connect more with you, and your passion for your product becomes your brand. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who redesigned the entire biblical library for a modern reading experience about how he found success as a small operation.More
  Topics: lot, sort, thats, product, kickstarter, advantages, really, think, video, business, embracing, dont, small, kind.
• The Best 18 Online Marketing Tools for Small Businesses - Implementing a successful content marketing strategy for your business is a critical component for sustained growth -- and yet, 32% of B2B businesses rate their content creation workflow as fair or poor.
  Topics: free, content, businesses, small, tool, tools, pricing, sourceprice, simple, tiered, best, marketing, help, online.
• The Case for Partnering with Influencers While They're Still Small - Liza and Lana Mushamel started Twinkled T to sell a range of unique nail products designed to bring the nail salon directly to your home. In today's episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn how these two sisters work with micro influencers to boost their brand.More
  Topics: know, nail, dont, yeah, really, customers, partnering, instagram, theyre, small, influencers, think, thats, case, products.
• The Entrepreneur's Guide to Small Business Finance - In today's guide, we’ll look at essential small-business finance skills for successful entrepreneurs, including building a budget, tracking spending, and creating financial statements that are easy to understand.More
  Topics: bookkeeping, entrepreneurs, youll, financial, guide, expenses, cost, finance, youre, need, business, tax, small, finances.
• The Many Sides of (and Reactions to) Amazon Storefronts - It was quite a day for Recode -- a digital tech news site owned by Vox -- to kick off its annual Code Commerce event.
  Topics: storefronts, reach, retailers, business, reactions, sides, amazon, stores, businesses, store, smbs, small, commerce.
• The Ultimate Affiliatly Reviews – Everything You Need to Know - The beauty of ecommerce, you’ve got to admit, lies partly in digital prospecting and lead generation processes. Yes, that’s right. I know the competition might be intimidating at the beginning. Even the mere thought of standing up against established brands… Continue reading The Ultimate Affiliatly Reviews – Everything You Need to Know
  Topics: reviews, small, features, visitors, month, affiliates, affiliate, thats, affiliatly, businesses, ultimate, marketing.
• This $19 Course Demystifies Affiliate Marketing in Two Hours Flat - Supercharge your success online with strategies for e-commerce, SEO, and more.
  Topics: services, demystifies, seo, small, marketing, hours, brand, affiliate, strategies, course, youll, flat, thats.
• Time To Grow: The 5 Things To Consider When Scaling Your Online Business - As your business takes flight, you’ll begin growing quarter over quarter, year over year. That is — until the day…
  Topics: online, ecommerce, resources, media, marketing, key, tactics, social, successfully, youve, growth, small, business, scale.
• To Sell More, Make It Easier and Safer for People to Purchase From You - Less than half of small businesses operate an ecommerce website, and few of those offer the purchase and payment features shoppers have come to expect.
  Topics: customers, small, online, safer, easier, purchase, payment, businesses, sell, payments, business, shopping, consumers, expect.
• Top 4 Customer Service Tactics for Small Businesses - Great customer service is where small businesses can really shine
  Topics: tactics, customers, questions, small, businesses, agents, help, product, customer, respond, business, service, products.
• What COVID-19 Means for Ecommerce Startups - A firsthand account of how supply chain disruptions are just the beginning.
  Topics: production, consumer, shut, supply, products, ecommerce, situation, covid19, startups, work, small, italy, means, businesses.
• What the Walmart-Flipkart Deal Means for India - The Indian ecommerce market is growing quickly thanks to smartphone penetration and fast internet. Overall ecommerce revenue in India is projected to reach $64 billion by 2020 from $38.5 billion ...
  Topics: ecommerce, walmartflipkart, means, india, indian, deal, walmart, small, consumers, flipkart, traders, farmers.
• Where to Find Public and Private Small Business Funding in 2020 - With the recent passing of a $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package, small business owners impacted by COVID-19 have been given options for low-interest loans, financial assistance, and other aid that can help them in this uncertain economic time.
  Topics: business, funding, interest, owners, loan, loans, sba, private, credit, small, public, businesses.
• 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.
• iZettle expands from mobile payments into e-commerce and online sales for SMBs - iZettle, the startup out of Sweden that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, is today making a move that underscores its bigger strategy to build on its traction with small businesses in mobile payments, to expand into an ever-wider range of financial services to fill out its $950 million valuation. The company […]
  Topics: small, businesses, payments, izettle, expands, ecommerce, mobile, service, izettles, degeer, sales, customers, online, smbs.
• iZettle launches ecommerce platform - Fintech company iZettle has launched its own ecommerce software solution. iZettle E-commerce is meant for current iZettle customers that want to sell their products online and for new customers to the Swedish company. iZettle E-commerce is available in the UK and Sweden since this week, and will be launching in Continue reading
  Topics: businesses, swedish, launches, social, store, izettle, ecommerce, launch, customers, online, platform, small.
• iZettle, the ‘Square of Europe’, plans IPO to raise around $227M, valuing it at $1.1B - The strong climate for tech IPOs at the moment is leading yet more mature startups to set up their own plans to list, and the latest development on that front is coming out Sweden. iZettle, the payments and small business financial services startup that is often referred to as the “Square of Europe,” with some […]
  Topics: million, europe, izettle, business, raise, company, growth, revenue, ipo, 11b, square, ebitda, businesses, valuing, list, plans, 227m, small.