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7 Quick Tips to Drive 2020 Holiday Sales
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Consumers will rely on online merchants more than ever during this year’s holiday season. Here are seven tips for retaining shoppers and closing more sales.
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Topics: drive, payment, timer, quick, staff, shoppers, online, pay, paypal, trust, sales, tips, merchants, holiday, likely. -
9 Holiday Selling Tips to Pandemic-driven Consumers
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The holiday 2020 shopping season will be unique. Pandemic-driven concerns of safety and economic uncertainty will prompt shoppers to look for both functional and entertaining gifts at competitive prices. Here are some tips for ecommerce merchants to gear up now.
Topics: selling, items, pandemicdriven, holiday, virtual, gift, tips, stores, unique, shopping, staff, shoppers, consumers. -
Agoda axes 1500 staff as Covid-19 crisis decimates bookings
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Asian online travel agency and metasearch engine Agoda has shed 1500 staff in a major downsizing brought on by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Topics: covid19, resort, ceo, decimates, travel, cuts, staff, agoda, brown, industry, axes, impact, week, decision, bookings, crisis. -
All-New Shopify POS: Rebuilt for Today's Retail Experience—and Free Until October 31, 2020
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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 says it will offer full-time jobs to 125,000 temporary workers
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In a blog post today, Amazon announced plans to offer permanent jobs to around 70% of the 175,000 temporary workers it brought on to meet demand amid a COVID-19-fueled surge. Initially filled as seasonal positions, the company will be transferring 125,000 people to full-time roles next month, as the pandemic-fueled push theoretically dies down. Those […]
Topics: workers, roles, fulltime, policies, covid19, unemployment, month, temporary, staff, jobs, techcrunch, company, amazon, offer. -
China’s e-commerce giant JD.com starts paying some staff in digital yuan
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China’s plan to introduce its digital currency is getting a lot of help from its tech conglomerates. JD.com, a major Chinese online retailer that competes with Alibaba, said Monday that it has started paying some staff in digital yuan (since January), the virtual version of the country’s physical currency. China has been busy experimenting with […]
Topics: money, major, help, online, tech, electronic, jdcom, chinas, banks, digital, techcrunch, yuan, starts, paying, staff, giant, ecommerce. -
Court: ‘Amazon France should only sell essential items’
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Amazon must restrict its orders in France in the coming weeks, due to measures associated with Covid-19. That’s what a court decided earlier this week. Amazon can only accept orders of groceries, hygiene and health-related products. Amazon had 24 hours to comply or it would have to pay a fine of… Continue reading
Topics: court, staff, essential, million, work, workers, france, items, sell, amazon, protect, measures, orders. -
Food delivery startup Plum lays off all staff
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Food delivery startup Plum has laid off its entire staff.
Topics: hong, including, startup, ago, food, delivery, structure, staff, company, workers, plum, kong, lays, cheung. -
Getting B2B Sales Teams to Embrace Ecommerce
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A sales team can determine success or failure for a B2B ecommerce program. Sales personnel have the influence and trust among customers to drive ecommerce adoption. In this post, I will share a 10-step approach for getting a B2B sales team to embrace ecommerce.
Topics: embrace, sales, fears, getting, success, b2b, feedback, teams, staff, expectations, team, know, ecommerce, customers. -
Honestbee freezes operations as funds dry up
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Honestbee is freezing operations in Hong Kong and Thailand and laying off staff as it urgently seeks investment to stave off collapse.
Topics: hong, operations, techcrunch, philippines, business, funds, dry, company, staff, honestbee, thailand, freezes, million, kong. -
Honestbee has shut down in five countries
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Honestbee has shut down or suspended operations in five countries as it seeks funding to continue to trade in its core markets, including home base Singapore.
Topics: business, spin, singapore, suspended, thailand, honestbee, countries, operations, shut, startup, company, staff, markets. -
Honestbee lays off most of its staff as it struggles to secure funding
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Singaporean delivery firm Honestbee has laid off around 80 per cent of its staff as it searches for funding to remain trading.
Topics: honestbee, habitat, firm, salaries, funding, struggles, including, lays, secure, reduce, staff, currently, million. -
How Chinese jeweller Ideal transformed staff into live-streaming KOLs
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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. -
India’s online grocers will thrive post-Covid-19, says analyst
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India’s online grocers face a bright future following the Covid-19 lockdown, according to analysis by industry research firm GlobalData.
Topics: postcovid19, thrive, staff, analyst, million, rapid, online, delivery, indias, grocers, lockdown, retailers, saw, territory, operational. -
JD and Dada Group to hire 35,000 staff to support SMEs
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Chinese online giant JD and its on-demand delivery platform Dada Group, will provide 35,000 jobs during the coronavirus epidemic to minimise its impact on employment.
Topics: jd, online, group, support, hire, dada, partner, temporary, positions, jobs, smes, impact, staff. -
JD to add 15,000 staff this year
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Chinese e-commerce giant JD has announced it plans to recruit up to 15,000 staff this year.
Topics: jd, week, add, billion, hired, young, user, us129, training, territoriessome, positions, staff. -
Live Chat Is Critical for B2B Ecommerce
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Live chat is arguably more important for B2B sites than for B2C. The B2B purchasing process is typically complex. Buyers frequently have questions. Increasingly, they expect a live-chat function for real-time conversations. In this article, I will review the basics of building a successful live chat program.
Topics: average, training, ecommerce, b2b, critical, chat, staff, team, live, chats, customer, conversions. -
NORAD Tracks Santa’s Journey Around the World
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Photo: Wikipedia Legend has it that in December 1955, a young girl misdialed a telephone number only to be put…
Topics: shoup, norad, world, claus, tracking, tracks, public, santas, journey, santa, staff, telephone, progress, campaign. -
NetEase is the latest Chinese tech giant to lay off a big chunk of its staff
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NetEase, China’s second-biggest online games publisher with a growing ecommerce segment, is laying off a significant number of its employees, adding to a list of Chinese tech giants that have shed staff following the Lunar New Year. A NetEase employee who was recently let go confirmed with TechCrunch that the company had fired a large […]
Topics: staff, lay, big, games, netease, tech, streaming, growth, education, neteases, ecommerce, latest, chinese, focus, giant, chunk, company. -
SaSa teams with Boutir to develop personal online stores for sales staff
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In partnership with Boutir, SaSa has set up personal online stores for its beauty consultants to provide a new sales channel for customer-facing staff.
Topics: develop, teams, hong, stores, sales, personal, boutir, customer, sasa, staff, customers, platform, online, partnership. -
Showfields raises $9M for a more flexible approach to brick-and-mortar retail
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Showfields, which helps online brands move into offline, brick-and-mortar retail, is announcing that it has raised $9 million in seed funding. “Our thesis was simple: Make the process of becoming physical as easy as becoming digital,” co-founder and CEO Tal Zvi Nathanel told me. I’ve written about other companies, like Bulletin, promising a more flexible […]
Topics: brands, flexible, space, nathanel, store, raises, brickandmortar, approach, company, showfields, retail, 9m, brand, ventures, staff. -
Swiggy lays off 1100 staff
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Indian food-delivery company Swiggy is laying off 1100 staff after Covid-19 severely hit its sales - the equivalent to 14 per cent of its workforce.
Topics: covid19, workforce, india, prepare, impacted, staff, lays, swiggy, fooddelivery, laying, severely. -
The 9 Best Marketing Articles of All Time, According to HubSpot's Marketing Team
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One of the best ways to tell if a show or movie is worthwhile is if people never get tired of re-watching it. Whether it's the hit television show Friends or the classic movie Forrest Gump, most people never turn down an opportunity to watch Ross pivot his couch or witness Forrest develop into a ping pong celebrity -- even if they've already watched it 27 times.
Topics: hubspots, marketers, articles, marketing, loves, analytics, according, staff, writer, hubspot, industry, team, best, content, article. -
The Overlooked Benefit of B2B Ecommerce
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An oft-overlooked benefit of B2B ecommerce tools is the value to internal sales and customer service teams. Both gain efficiencies from digital tools, resulting in happier customers that spend more money. Ecommerce gives users — internal and external — the ability to help themselves.
Topics: users, staff, customers, b2b, internal, overlooked, ecommerce, software, service, benefit, sales, platform. -
The Ultimate Guide to Management
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Whether you’re selling online products or a packaged service, efficient businesses have one thing in common: great managers.
Topics: management, guide, managers, staff, work, manager, goals, theyre, team, tasks, ultimate, leadership, project. -
Tier Mobility lays off 180 people amid poor funding climate
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Tier Mobility, the German micromobility giant that recently acquired Spin from Ford, is laying off 16% of staff, or 180 people, according to a LinkedIn post by CEO Lawrence Leuschner and an open letter from the executive that has been viewed by TechCrunch. “Ultimately, we have to respond to the current economic and funding climate, […]
Topics: tier, lays, funding, staff, economic, laid, amid, ford, techcrunch, mobility, climate, leuschner, current, poor, letter, layoffs, employees. -
Tips for Managing a Sudden Surge of Sales
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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. -
TouchBistro POS Review: Is This The Right POS For You?
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If you've ever worked in a restaurant, you'll know that serving diners can be much more hectic than other forms of retail. Your staff has to handle multiple meals, tables, and customers, while working alongside online orders and deliveries, keep…
Continue reading TouchBistro POS Review: Is This The Right POS For You?
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Walmart and Target embrace in-store mobile checkout for the holidays
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Two of the U.S.’s largest brick-and-mortar retailers, Walmart and Target, are launching new mobile checkout systems in their stores to accommodate the influx of shoppers expected during the 2018 holiday season. Walmart says it’s expanding its “Check Out With Me” service to every Supercenter by Black Friday, while Target’s recently launched “Skip the Line” mobile […]
Topics: holidays, target, areas, staff, walmart, stores, shopping, embrace, customers, mobile, checkout, store, instore. -
Watsons China launches WeChat Work and Cloud stores
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Health-and-beauty retailer Watsons has partnered with Tencent’s WeChat Work platform to establish an online presence and launch cloud-based WeChat stores this quarter.
Topics: wechat, china, cloud, staff, friends, customers, watsons, work, personalised, launch, launches, stores, store. -
Webflow vs Shopify: It Depends on Your Experience
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Sometimes it's tough to decide between two ecommerce platforms, even when they're so different. In our Webflow vs Shopify comparison, you'll find that your decision will depend completely on your experience and desire for certain features. Keep reading to learn…
Continue reading Webflow vs Shopify: It Depends on Your Experience
Topics: staff, store, ecommerce, accounts, transaction, depends, vs, pricing, experience, month, webflow, shopify, support. -
What the Future of Ecommerce Looks Like
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Recent events have shown that new developments are necessary to keep the sector as vibrant and profitable as before.
Topics: ecommerce, companies, future, business, shift, human, past, solutions, products, staff, services, able, looks. -
Zalando to cut hundreds of jobs
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Zalando is planning to cut up to 5 percent of its employees. The online fashion giant said in a note to staff it would eliminate hundreds of jobs. This makes Zalando part of a growing list of ecommerce companies laying off staff due to the current economic situation. Only around…
Topics: note, zircle, launch, staff, united, hundreds, jobs, states, zalando, need, company, cut, write. -
Zilingo trims staff, refocuses on Asia
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Online fashion platform Zilingo has axed about 45 staff, including 30 in its Singapore head office, as it refocuses on Asia in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Topics: million, partners, asia, markets, raised, staff, platform, fashion, trims, refocuses, global, zilingo, spokesperson, company.