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10 Money-Saving Inventory Management Techniques for eCommerce Businesses - Avoid these costly inventory mistakes with 10 techniques to get your inventory management under control, save money, and keep your eCommerce customers happy and coming back for more.
Topics: business, stock, management, ecommerce, customers, moneysaving, products, dont, youre, inventory, techniques, items.
12 Sites for Free Stock Video - Adding video to your website design, particularly your home page, can engage visitors. But producing original videos can be difficult and expensive. Here is a list of websites to find free stock videos for commercial use.
Topics: free, stock, clips, personal, collection, license, videos, sites, content, video, commercial.
12 Ways to Lower Inventory Costs - U.S. retailers are reportedly sitting on about $1.43 in inventory for every $1 of sales. Decreasing inventory costs should therefore be a priority for all merchants. In my experience, there are many options for reducing inventory costs. In this post, I'll review 12 of them.
Topics: product, unique, shipping, lower, costs, stock, manufacturers, warehouse, sell, quantities, ways, inventory, products.
24 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites to Use in 2020 - Best Stock Photo Sites Negative Space Death to Stock HubSpot Picjumbo Stokpic CreateHER Stock Kaboompics Startup Stock Photos Freerange LibreShot nappy Fancy Crave Unsplash StockSnap.io The Jopwell Collection SplitShire Life of Pix Pexels Gratisography Jay Mantri ISO Republic PICNOI New Old Stock Pixabay
Topics: website, photos, stock, highquality, site, images, sites, creative, view, license, best, free.
5 Companies to Invest in After the Health Crisis - The ecommerce, healthcare and cyber security companies that are poised to rebound the fastest.
Topics: solutions, renewable, companies, economic, health, company, invest, investments, working, nyse, crisis, growth, stock.
9 Clever Ways to Use FOMO Marketing to Boost Your Ecommerce Sales - Find out how you can take FOMO feelings and turn them into a marketing strategy! Use FOMO Marketing to increase the sales of your ecommerce store.
Topics: marketing, boost, customers, products, items, product, tip, ecommerce, sales, popular, fomo, ways, clever, stock.
Africa e-tailer Jumia issues post-IPO results amid short-sell assault - For Pan-African e-commerce startup Jumia, going public has been an up and down affair. The company filed SEC IPO docs in March and saw its share rise 70% after listing on the NYSE in April at $14.50. Then last week, Jumia’s stock tumbled when it came under assault from a short-seller accusing the company of […]
Topics: jumias, techcrunch, postipo, issues, results, analyst, assault, stock, claims, startup, citron, etailer, amid, africa, earnings, jumia, howell, shortsell.
Africa e-tailer Jumia’s shares fall 4% day after IPO lockup expiration - Shares of Africa-focused e-commerce company Jumia dropped 4% the day after the lockup period expired for its April IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The lockup provision prevents major shareholders — namely those who purchased equity pre-public listing — from selling their shares for a specified number of days following the IPO. Jumia’s stock […]
Topics: ipo, company, etailer, day, sec, fall, africa, revenue, losses, million, price, period, expiration, shares, stock, jumia, techcrunch, jumias, lockup.
As stock rises on a slim earnings beat, eBay tells analysts to focus on payments and ads - Despite increasing competition from traditional retailers like Walmart and Target, which have invested heavily in e-commerce, and the whupping it’s routinely taking from Amazon among pure e-commerce companies, eBay, the 20-year-old lumbering Pez dispenser of an e-tailer, keeps plugging along. Now, as it manages to eke out another earnings win by matching analysts’ expectations, the […]
Topics: billion, earnings, yearago, stock, rises, focus, million, advertising, payments, analysts, tells, beat, company, buyers, marketplace, ebay, slim.
Comscore raises $20M with an option to bump it to $50M, in a bid to rebuild its digital measurement business - Comscore’s name is usually in the news because of its widely-cited research and stats around media traffic and other analysis charting digital consumer behavior. More recently, it’s been coming up for another reason: ongoing corporate upheaval and its tumbling stock price. Today comes the latest development in that story: the company announced that it has […]
Topics: bid, business, month, stock, price, measurement, option, raises, million, rebuild, today, ceo, share, media, digital, bump, techcrunch, company, comscore.
Despite PR storm, Pinduoduo stock and downloads stay robust - Pinduoduo, a rapidly growing Chinese e-commerce company, is weathering its PR storm after the death of an employee sparked criticism against the firm’s grueling working hours. The employee, 21 years old, collapsed on her way home from work on a late night before New Year. The cause of her death has not been disclosed but […]
Topics: pinduoduo, stay, techcrunch, despite, storm, work, downloads, chinas, stock, hours, employee, employees, week, pr, working, users, robust.
Direct Public Offerings: Unconventional but Gaining Traction - The initial public offering has a challenger. Known as a direct public offering or direct listing, this technique avoids involvement from investment bank underwriters that buy shares at a set price in an IPO and then sell them to their clients. In a DPO, a private company lists itself on a stock exchange but does not raise money.
Topics: direct, public, price, unconventional, sell, offerings, company, dpo, raise, shares, stock, traction, investors, ipo, gaining.
Does Dual-class Stock Hurt Independent Investors? - If you think buying stock in a public company guarantees you some input into how the company operates and who is elected to the board, you may be mistaken. Thanks ...
Topics: hurt, company, founders, companies, investors, shares, voting, structure, independent, public, does, dualclass, stock.
EQT acquires freemium graphics and stock photo marketplace, Freepik - Freepik, a Malaga-Spain based website which offers a curated freemium marketplace of vector graphics and stock photos fed by a community of contributing designers and photographers, is being acquired by investment and private equity firm EQT. The EQT Mid Market Europe fund has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake of Freepik from […]
Topics: freemium, global, freepik, graphics, marketplace, digital, content, stock, users, partner, techcrunch, network, acquires, freepiks, eqt, management.
Everything You Need to Know About Retail Arbitrage: 2020 Edition - Check out this post for the pros & cons of Retail Arbitrage, how to build a profitable business, the best products to sell & where to source inventory from.
Topics: know, clearance, brand, need, edition, products, retail, amazon, sell, product, business, arbitrage, stock.
Farfetch IPO plan confirmed – but not the date - A Farfetch IPO in New York seeks to raise $100 million, although the date of the listing has yet to be confirmed.
Topics: confirmed, stock, late, online, likely, farfetch, plan, neves, million, platform, luxury, york, ipo.
For 2020, use pre-orders to avoid dead stock - It is time to plan for the new year. Consider offering pre-orders. It's a topic by itself — researching suitable products, marketing to potential customers, and then communicating with those prospects about their requirements.
Topics: auction, buy, retailers, money, card, dead, avoid, preorders, customers, smaller, stock, sales.
Fulfilment solution Bigblue raises €3 million - Bigblue, a logistics provider from France, has raised 3.6 million dollars (3 million euros) in a seed round. The startup wants to build an end-to-end fulfilment solution in Europe. Bigblue isn’t a fulfilment company itself, but it works with several ones to handle post-order processes for online stores. The company… Continue reading
Topics: stock, bigblue, wants, round, retailers, store, million, fulfilment, logistics, online, solution, raises.
Germany makes destroying products more difficult - The Cabinet of Germany has launched a draft law that is aimed to improve waste avoidance and to increase recycling. For online retailers this means the destruction of products will be more difficult, so they need to find a better way to deal with returns. The updated Recycling Act covers… Continue reading
Topics: difficult, online, webinar, returns, law, germany, makes, goods, destroying, retailers, products, recycling, stock, zalando.
How to Buy Bitcoin Stock - Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies behave like the stock market. The more people who buy shares of Bitcoin, the higher the currency's price. The fewer people who buy Bitcoin, the lower its price.
Topics: youll, stock, wallet, register, exchanges, exchange, buy, sell, bitcoin, bitcoins.
How to Design a Character for Your Brand - Have you ever searched stock image websites and thought, None of these truly represent my brand?
Topics: marketing, henrietta, brand, design, character, youre, image, business, enchanting, whats, stock, audience, writer.
How to Grow and Improve Operations with eCommerce Inventory Management - Are you looking to improve your eCommerce inventory management? According to a 2017 report, 43 percent of small business owners still count inventory by hand, rely on pen and paper, and manually key in data. That’s staggering, given how fast-paced and competitive today’s market is. It’s these kinds of manual systems that lead to supply […]
Topics: inventory, right, order, operations, need, hand, business, management, ecommerce, stock, youre, manual, improve.
How to Manage Inventory as You Build, Launch & Grow Your Business - Advanced inventory management strategies to help you prep, plan, and execute your inventory management operations successfully.
Topics: launch, business, products, manage, sales, grow, demand, inventory, build, costs, management, order, stock, product.
How to Scale Your Online Store with WooCommerce - How do you scale WooCommerce? We debunk the myth that WooCommerce can't scale and share the five things you need to know to scale successfully.
Topics: load, scale, stock, site, hosting, server, speed, store, woocommerce, online, website.
How to Sell Photos Online: For Both Amateur and Pro Photographers - It can seem hard to make it when anyone with the newest iPhone can call themselves a “photographer," but it's more than possible to make a small or considerable income from your photos. This guide will explore some of the things you should know about selling photos online with resources to help you make your photography-based business a reality.More
Topics: photography, earn, photographers, images, photos, websites, selling, stock, sell, online, work.
In the Face of a Falling Stock Price, Twitter Announces Two Studies of Its Network Health - Twitter announced today the selection of two proposals to study the health of its network.
Topics: public, price, studies, twitter, discourse, twitters, jack, falling, health, announces, researchers, study, stock, users, network, face, proposals.
Inventory Management 101: The Short Guide for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs - In this post, you'll learn about all the most popular inventory management systems and how to implement them in your ecommerce business, big or small.
Topics: order, sales, businesses, management, store, stock, inventory, demand, using, products, system, ecommerce.
Is Jumia Stock Extremely Undervalued? - There's a rising consensus that Jumia stock is extremely undervalued. For example, popular short-seller Citron Research recently flipped its rating on Jumia.
Topics: jumia, rating, stock, share, rising, ive, extremely, undervalued, investors, popular.
JDesigner Boutique offers designer brands - JD is ramping up its experiential retail services with the introduction of a direct-to-consumer online fashion store, JDesigner Boutique.
Topics: wang, introduction, designer, online, jdesigner, market, brands, boutique, stock, offers, store, fashion, designers, gao.
Jumia, Revolve, Chewy among Q2 Ecommerce IPOs - Some prominent ecommerce initial public stock offerings occurred in the second quarter of 2019. In this post, I'll address three of them.
Topics: ipos, chewy, jumia, revolve, million, company, stock, class, public, pet, share, ecommerce, q2, shares.
Lessons Learned: Hollywood Mirrors Has a Good Problem - With less than two years online, U.K.-based Hollywood Mirrors has a good problem: keeping up with demand. “I should have ordered more stock, instead of being cautious.” Adam Watson, founder of Hollywood ...
Topics: hollywood, lessons, stock, store, adam, problem, learned, mirrors, good, lot, months, sales, taking.
Luckin leaves bitter aftertaste, now trading below IPO price - In the first few days following Luckin Coffee’s initial public offering, the stock chart for LK looked like a roller coaster. Now it’s looking more like a free fall. The Chinese Coffee chain successfully completed its highly anticipated offering roughly a week ago, raising more than $550 million after pricing at $17 per share, the […]
Topics: share, trading, leaves, investors, typical, techcrunch, bitter, offering, price, roughly, ipo, luckin, public, aftertaste, stock, bit, valuation.
Luxury Ecommerce Merchant Farfetch Goes Public - In one of the largest consumer-facing IPOs of the year, Farfetch, an online luxury-fashion marketplace, listed on the New York Stock Exchange on September 21. Initially priced at $20 per share, the stock — FTCH — opened at $27 per share, rose to $30 and closed at $28.20, 41 percent above the target opening price
Topics: ecommerce, public, shares, stock, farfetch, luxury, million, company, goes, financial, merchant, losses, share.
Magento 2.3.4: Building More Engaging Customer Experiences - To kick off the new decade, Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source 2.3.4 arrive today to help merchants build more engaging customer experiences that exceed expectations, keep customers returning, and drive sustained growth. Read more.
Topics: building, merchants, magento, customer, pwa, builder, studio, stock, adobe, experiences, engaging, release, customers, page.
MagentoLive Europe 2019: Adobe Announces New Commerce Capabilities for SMBs and Mid-market Merchants - We’re kicking off MagentoLive Europe 2019 by unveiling new capabilities to our industry-leading commerce platform as part of our commitment to bringing Adobe’s enterprise-grade commerce capabilities to our SMB and mid-market customers.
Topics: smbs, europe, stock, feature, azure, commerce, program, magentolive, capabilities, amazon, adobe, midmarket, announces, access, merchants, magento.
My plan for surviving a trade war - For most businesses, daily operations do not change based on who is in political power. Companies are primarily affected by their own decisions, not by the government. However, occasionally there are exceptions. Trade policies are an example.
Topics: war, critical, stock, border, uk, threat, plan, surviving, risk, supplier, trade, rely, products.
News Cart for May 8th - Hey there! Who else is in disbelief that it’s already May? It’s really feeling like we’re in a bizarre, unfit-for-TV episode of The Twilight Zone these days. On to the news: There’s a lot to cover in today’s ECF News Cart. From Amazon under fire for allegedly misleading Congress to major layoffs at Airbnb, there [...]
Topics: strong, cart, right, million, stock, week, revenue, major, stores, job, 8th, amazon.
Online shopping guide SMZDM surges 44% on China stock market debut - When Chinese internet companies seek initial public offerings, they tend to look to the United States, where rules for profitability are less strict. SMZDM, an online shopping guide that few people outside China have heard of, has joined a small rank of internet startups that are trading on public markets in mainland China. SMZDM, short […]
Topics: wu, public, content, online, debut, china, million, yuan, techcrunch, guide, ecommerce, surges, users, stock, smzdm, community, market, chinese, shopping.
Planning my business for a new world - Journalists in the U.K. keep pressing the government about ending the Covid-19 lockdown. Governmental leaders prefer not to say, concentrating on the here and now. A business, however, should plan now for the end of the lockdown. How will your company operate?
Topics: products, business, site, system, strategy, change, lockdown, planning, stock, customers, sooner, world.
PricingHub raises 2 million euros - PricingHub, a French pricing solution provider, has raised 2 million euros. With the money, it wants to further develop its price optimization platform. PricingHub already raised 1.8 million euros from French venture capital firm Elaia, business accelerator Lafayette Plug and Play and business angels last February. A recent refundable advance… Continue reading
Topics: pricing, pricinghub, retailers, sensitivity, million, euros, price, raises, french, worsened, solution, stock.
Retail Auto-Replenishment: the Pros and Cons - With a lot of retailers still undecided on auto-replenishment, there are arguments for both sides, but what is clear is that retailers need to put their customers at the heart of what they are doing and implement technology that their consumers will embrace.
Topics: experience, technology, consumers, retailers, customer, stock, automation, cons, pros, retail, brands, autoreplenishment.
Robinhood cuts trading fees, grows profits with in-house clearing - As zero-commission stock trading app Robinhood starts preparing to IPO, an engineering investment two years in the making could accelerate its quest for profitability. Most stock broker services have to pay an external clearing house to reconcile trades between buyers and sellers. Now with 6 million accounts up from 4 million just 5 months ago, that […]
Topics: user, clearing, stock, inhouse, million, trading, fees, accounts, business, grows, robinhood, profits, trades, cuts.
Rocket Internet wants to exit stock market - Rocket Internet might have plans to exit the stock market after five years. Anonymous sources say that CEO and co-founder Oliver Samwer wants the European investor and incubator to act undisturbed as an opportunistic investor again. Rocket Internet got listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in October 2014, but the… Continue reading
Topics: internet, exit, stock, shares, investor, sources, market, wants, rocket, samwer.
SMZDM.com lists on Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s GEM board - Chinese shopping guide platform SMZDM.com has been listed on the Gem board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Topics: shenzhen, platform, stock, million, exchanges, wu, huachuang, lists, board, us1455, truly, companies, gem, listed, successfully, smzdmcom, ashare.
Scared to trade stocks? Titan algorithmically invests for you - Titan could put an end to stock market FOMO. The app chooses the best 20 stocks by scraping top hedge fund data, adds some shorts based on your personal risk profile and puts your money to work. No worrying about market fluctuations or constantly rebalancing your portfolio. You don’t have to do anything, but can […]
Topics: portfolio, youre, hedge, stock, percoco, funds, scared, market, invests, algorithmically, trade, titan, investment, stocks.
Shopify stock is up in pre-market trading as earnings blow past estimates - Shopify stock jumped nearly 3% in pre-market trading today after announcing earnings that handily beat the estimates set by Wall Street. The Ottawa-based provider of e-commerce services for retailers reported earnings of $133.2 million, or $1.13 per-share, for the third quarter after posting a loss of $33.6 million, or 29 cents per-share, in the same […]
Topics: million, yearago, estimates, revenue, billion, techcrunch, shopifys, trading, shopify, past, stock, retail, premarket, operating, pershare, earnings, period, blow.
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.
Unpacking why Wayfair’s stock popped 23.7% today - In the midst of the day’s news chaos both political and business-oriented, you might have missed Wayfair’s big moment: In regular trading today, shares of the online home goods retailer shot 23% higher. It was an eye-catching gain during a period when the domestic economy is troubled, unemployment is rising and consumer spending is slowing. Why […]
Topics: companys, wayfairs, rose, period, q1, techcrunch, operating, today, gross, unpacking, popped, million, wayfair, shares, stock.
Using Amazon to wind down a retail business - There are many blogs on how to improve sales on Amazon. In this post, I’ll address the opposite: how to wind down and stop selling on Amazon entirely. It is becoming ...
Topics: liquidation, amazon, inventory, sale, selling, price, stock, order, wind, using, business, retail, sell.
Want to improve customer loyalty? Start with inventory visibility - The buyer/seller relationship is built on trust -- whether it is individual consumers buying a single item or businesses purchasing large volumes of supplies. If your customers trust you, they’ll buy from you. Not just once, but often. Check out the four areas you should focus a lot of attention on to grow that loyalty.
Topics: really, customers, item, visibility, accurate, start, loyalty, customer, order, b2b, stock, improve, inventory, b2c.
What I Learned From Counting Every Marketing Agency in America [4 Takeways] - It's a defining human impulse — the desire to quantify the world around us. And given the pending 2020 U.S. Census, it seems a fitting time to contribute.
Topics: big, agency, stock, whats, counting, marketing, agencies, america, women, world, takeways, leaders, learned.
Why Everybody Is Talking About Jumia Stock (Infographic) - The bulls think it might be the next Sea Limited or MercadoLibre. The bears see horrible profit margins and revenues going backwards.
Topics: stock, infographic, internet, africa, thatthe, jumia, talking, everybody, technologies, trading, citron.
Your Essential Guide to Effective Inventory Management + 18 Techniques You Need to Know - Picture a successful retail business in your head. Maybe you’re picturing a small local shop, or a huge corporate business.…
Topics: technique, know, warehouse, order, stock, inventory, demand, essential, management, items, business, need, effective, software, techniques, guide.