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• 10 Sites You Can Use for Free Blog Promotion - As a marketer, promoting and driving traffic to your blog isn't easy. It can feel like you're talking into a void sometimes. We've all been there. However, there are almost 4.5 billion active internet users. Getting blog readers is all about promoting your content to the right people at the right place and the right time.
  Topics: site, posts, blog, traffic, free, post, content, blogs, promote, social, sites, promotion, users.
• 12 Essential Media Planning Tools - Your customers are consuming messages in more ways than ever before -- online, in publications, on TV, the radio, and on their phones...to name a few.
  Topics: messages, media, users, essential, audience, tools, social, planning, nielsen, tool, software.
• 13 New Social Networks for 2020 - Social networks can help merchants reach prospects, establish professional contacts, and research markets. They can also be a good way to share experiences and meet people.  
  Topics: content, social, voice, seeks, users, platform, network, professional, local, networks.
• 14 Time-Saving Tools for Managing Your Twitter Following - According to Hootsuite, Twitter has 145 million monetizable daily active users, and that number is growing. This and the open nature of the ecosystem makes it a great platform to put content in front of your ideal customers. At the same time, the Twitterverse is fast-paced. In fact, Moz estimates that the average lifespan of a tweet is only 18 minutes, which means that your posts have less time to capture their attention.
  Topics: users, social, twitter, tools, content, starts, post, help, following, managing, timesaving, publishing.
• 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.
• 15 of the Best Facebook Ad Examples That Actually Work (And Why) - On average, Facebook is home to 3 billion daily active users — from CEOs to students to companies. And while the community is clearly there, connecting with them from a marketing standpoint isn't always easy. For brands, posting on Facebook alone isn't enough anymore, especially for ones just starting out. Sure, you can throw money at your efforts to drive people to your Facebook Page and send them to your website, but that only works if you're smart about it.
  Topics: work, users, facebook, actually, examples, relevant, ads, product, image, clear, video, event, ad, best.
• 20 Mobile Email Marketing Stats That'll Make You Better at Your Job - By 2022, Statista anticipates that more than 333 billion emails will be sent each data. To give you an idea of how big that number is, if each email were a star, the cluster would be 50% bigger than the Milky Way Galaxy. I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the statistic above is mind-blowing.
  Topics: econsultancy, stats, job, marketing, better, average, emails, segmentation, email, users, mobile, thatll.
• 24 LinkedIn Stats That Marketers Need to Know in 2020 - With nearly 700 million active users in 2020, LinkedIn's expanded from a networking site for professionals to one of the top social media platforms.
  Topics: platform, linkedins, yearoveryear, stats, know, users, million, research, need, marketers, pew, linkedin.
• 3 Ways Consumers Use Mobile Commerce - Ecommerce store owners make assumptions about their visitors — the settings, surroundings, and the context in which they are visiting. Roughly 85 percent of mobile-internet use occurs in one of three experiences.
  Topics: consumers, users, problem, visiting, mobile, looking, solving, capture, commerce, site, ways, visitors, work.
• 30 Reddit Stats and Facts to Know in 2020 - Since it launched in 2005, Reddit has remained a mystery to many marketers.
  Topics: content, know, reddit, video, users, foundation, posts, stats, reddits, monthly, platform, facts.
• 39 Call-to-Action Examples You Can't Help But Click - Think about all the times you've signed up for things in your life. Did you once download Evernote? Dropbox? Spotify? Maybe you've even taken a class on General Assembly. Each one of these signups is likely a result of an effective call-to-action (CTA).
  Topics: click, cta, visitors, help, ctas, sign, free, company, examples, design, calltoaction, website, users, cant.
• 43 Messaging App Stats That Marketers Should Know - On some days, it feels like I communicate with more people on messaging apps than I do in person.
  Topics: million, messenger, apps, snapchat, marketers, messaging, whatsapp, stats, know, facebook, app, billion, users.
• 45 Slack Tricks to Boost Productivity & Improve Collaboration - Slack is an undeniably popular messaging channel for businesses — it's used by over 12 million people worldwide, and 87% of its users say Slack improves communication and collaboration.
  Topics: productivity, tricks, collaboration, daily, improve, slack, using, used, create, users, worldwide, user, colleagues, boost, messages.
• 5 Alternatives to Facebook, Google, and Amazon Ads - According to a recent survey from Lawless Research and Factual, marketers are spending an average of 43% of their ad budget on Google and Facebook, with Amazon not far behind. Regardless of business size, online advertising strategies are similar. In fact, 46% of marketers working for agencies and brands with an ad budget of $50 million or higher report say they spend up to 60% of it on ad programs from the three tech giants.
  Topics: alternatives, ad, google, advertising, facebook, platform, amazon, options, search, ads, users, platforms.
• 5 Brands Using Social Media To Grow Buzzworthy Online Communities - Every marketer is focused on bringing attention to their product or service by growing a strong following. But not all realize the effects building and nurturing an online community can have on your brand. Social media marketing has evolved and the need to build relationships with your followers has never been more important.
  Topics: social, community, users, customer, using, brand, buzzworthy, communities, brands, grow, online, live, customers, media.
• 5 Reasons Your Ecommerce Store Needs a Mobile App Today - The convenience fueled by widespread adoption of smart devices has resulted in a revolution.
  Topics: mobile, ecommerce, shopping, checkout, apps, reasons, users, customer, needs, interactive, user, app, different, experience, store, today.
• 7 Brands With Brilliant Facebook Marketing Strategies, and Why They Work - Despite what you might hear, Facebook marketing is not dead.
  Topics: brilliant, work, brand, page, brands, users, videos, facebook, youre, content, strategies, products, fitbit, marketing.
• 7 Incredible Examples of A/B Tests by Real Businesses - Whether you're looking to increase revenue, sign-ups, social shares, or engagement, A/B testing and optimization can help you get there.But for many marketers out there, the tough part about A/B testing is often finding the right test to drive the biggest impact -- especially when you're just getting started. So, what's the recipe for high-impact success?
  Topics: variant, examples, businesses, email, test, search, landing, tests, decided, cta, incredible, hubspot, users, ab, page, real.
• 7-month-old Simsim secures $16M for its social commerce in India - Simsim, a social commerce startup in India, said on Friday it has raised $16 million in seven months of its existence as it attempts to replicate the offline retail experience in the digital world with help from influencers. The Gurgaon-based startup said it raised $16 million across seed, Series A and Series B financing rounds […]
  Topics: items, india, social, 16m, able, secures, users, 7monthold, million, techcrunch, startup, series, influencers, simsim, commerce.
• 77 Essential Social Media Marketing Statistics for 2020 - Social media is everywhere. For many people, social media is used daily for entertainment, socialization, and even news consumption -- myself included.
  Topics: million, media, statistics, instagram, users, business, youre, social, billion, marketing, essential.
• 8 Social Media Platforms That Weren't Founded in the U.S. - In 2018, North America discovered a viral new app called TikTok. Within just a year and a half of its launch, it reportedly grew to over 800 million active users.
  Topics: founded, video, social, qzone, app, werent, media, users, facebook, platforms, platform, similar.
• A Pinterest Strategy for Growing an Ecommerce Brand - Pinterest users are primed and ready for purchasing. Getting more content in front of them will increase product visibility, referral traffic, and loyalty. It takes a careful strategy, however, which is what I'll address in this post.
  Topics: blog, growing, look, strategy, content, audience, promoted, pin, brand, ecommerce, pins, pinterest, users, product.
• African startups are making the risky but attractive bet to expand beyond the continent - The alluring promise for tech startups in Africa is the social and commercial upside that lies in providing scalable solutions and products to users on a continent that’s home to several significant problems—and market opportunities.
  Topics: mobile, service, wide, expand, upside, africa, making, bet, risky, world, startups, swvl, continent, african, market, users, attractive.
• AfterShip makes its automated shipping API, Postmen, available for free - AfterShip, the e-commerce shipment tracking platform, announced today that Postmen, its shipping API, is now available for free, with no limits on shipment volume. Co-founder Andrew Chan told TechCrunch that the company decided to make the Postmen API, previously offered as a SaaS subscription for enterprises, free in response to the massive jump in online […]
  Topics: users, available, techcrunch, chan, postmen, pandemic, makes, postal, automated, shipment, aftership, api, ecommerce, retailers, free, shipping, days.
• Amazon rolls out Alexa-powered voice shopping experience in India - Amazon today rolled out an Alexa-enabled voice-powered shopping feature in India as the e-commerce giant looks for new ways to engage with customers in one of its key overseas markets. The American giant said the feature, currently rolling out to Android users, is available “primarily in English,” though it understands proper nouns and regional words […]
  Topics: search, rolls, voice, users, shopping, techcrunch, india, amazon, indian, feature, alexa, ecommerce, experience, spokesperson, alexapowered.
• Ant Financial Services targets 40 million service providers - Ant Financial Services subsidiary Alipay says it will spend the next three years opening up its online payments platform to support the digital transformation of 40 million service providers across China.
  Topics: financial, ant, digital, transformation, million, targets, providers, service, outbreak, users, alipay, mini, services, platform.
• Asian E-Tailing Summit drew 1500 - The third Asian E-tailing Summit, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), event drew close to 1500 e-tailers and business professionals from related sectors.
  Topics: drew, facebook, kong, toys, asian, business, sessions, market, hong, etailing, asia, summit, users.
• Assessing Google’s ‘Core Web Vitals’ on Shopify Themes - Google recently announced "Core Web Vitals," which are new performance metrics that will become a search ranking signal next year. Google displays the new metrics in Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and the Chrome User Experience Report. “Page Speed Scores of Every Shopify Theme,” my article in April, included a table of those speeds at that time.
  Topics: lab, users, metrics, googles, assessing, site, experience, shopify, core, page, themes, speed, vitals, web, data.
• BlinQ to offer Yoox catalogue in Southeast Asia - Online luxury fashion marketplace BlinQ is to partner with Yoox Net-a-Porter Group to make more of its products available in Southeast Asia.
  Topics: catalogue, products, luxury, asian, asia, highend, users, brands, offer, southeast, partnership, yoox, blinq.
• Brave, a Privacy-focused Web Browser, Attracts Techies - Brave is a niche web browser popular with tech enthusiasts for its privacy, ad blocking, and unique crypto-currency-based advertising and rewards system.
  Topics: million, techies, ads, search, web, brave, browser, active, attracts, publishers, privacyfocused, rewards, users.
• Do You Really Need Sound in Your Instagram Stories? [New Research] - Since the dawn of Stories features across social media platforms, many brands have asked, "Should we make Stories with or without sound?"
  Topics: need, users, platforms, really, social, content, example, instagram, research, silent, viewers, watch, sound.
• DuckDuckGo Attracts Privacy-conscious Shoppers - DuckDuckGo is a general-purpose search engine that shows results from its own index and about 400 trusted sources. It does not collect or share users' personal information. This single fact could make it popular with tech-savvy, privacy-conscious consumers.
  Topics: privacyconscious, engine, shoppers, results, information, way, techsavvy, advertising, attracts, shivar, duckduckgo, users, search.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: December 2, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late November from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping, customer support, website builders, artificial intelligence, and shoppable videos.
  Topics: shipping, shopping, merchants, gorgias, releases, ecommerce, offers, product, users, customer, brands, million, help.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: January 31, 2020 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-January from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping, visual search, augmented reality in shopping, order management, and headless ecommerce applications.
  Topics: products, ecommerce, search, releases, users, features, platform, dataset, product, try, ups.
• Ecommerce in France will reach 115.2 billion euros in 2020 - The turnover of business-to-consumer ecommerce in France is expected to be worth 115.2 billion euros at the end of this year. This would mean an increase of 11.4 percent compared to the situation last year, when ecommerce in France was worth 103.4 billion euros. The expected percentage change is slowly… Continue reading
  Topics: online, users, france, popular, percentage, ecommerce, share, french, internet, euros, billion, reach.
• Europe still dominates global ecommerce ranking - European countries hold eight of the top ten spots on the B2C E-commerce Index of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This list ranks countries on their reading to engage in ecommerce. Europe remains, by far, the most prepared region for ecommerce. It’s the Netherlands again, just like… Continue reading
  Topics: users, shows, countries, australia, europe, ranking, internet, index, dominates, ecommerce, global, data, sweden.
• Evolution Of Cloud Tooling – From Black Box To User-Friendly, Extendable Solution - The latest release of ECE-Tools, Magento's powerful cloud deployment and configuration tooling, now offers extensive configuration and customization capabilities, while also keeping all Magento deployment best practices in mind, to help users avoid issues and downtime. Read more.
  Topics: cloud, hotfixes, extendable, tooling, solution, black, deployment, magento, ecetools, userfriendly, users, community, evolution, box, experience.
• Facebook and eBay pledge to fight fake reviews - Facebook and eBay have agreed to do better in fighting fake and misleading reviews on their websites. They have made the pledge after the Competition and Markets Authority in the United Kingdom told them to address this problem. Online consumers often rely on the reviews they read in online stores… Continue reading
  Topics: websites, pledge, shoppers, ebay, fake, right, misleading, fight, facebook, online, users, reviews.
• Fiverr.de launched in Germany - Fiverr now offers a German online marketplace. For the platform, which connects businesses with freelancers offering digital services, Germany is the first market outside of the United States. The localized website Fiverr.de wants to give German SMEs, startups and solo entrepreneurs better access to experts from all over the world.… Continue reading
  Topics: launched, marketplace, germany, steadily, german, fiverrde, demand, platform, fiverr, services, market, users.
• Foodpanda in the Philippines expands into groceries - Food-delivery service Foodpanda in the Philippines has expanded into grocery deliveries.
  Topics: grocery, users, groceries, function, customers, shops, foodpanda, essentials, works, expands, philippines, everyday, service.
• Forms Testing: What It Is & How to Do It - The other day I decided that I wanted to buy some comfortable outfits to wear around the house. As I was online shopping, I started to fill out my shipping information in the online form. However, the form had a requirement that the "City" field could only be 20 characters long. Now, the city I live in is three words, and 22 characters typed out.
  Topics: form, users, online, requirements, elements, user, test, forms, important, set, testing, copy.
• Free Advertising Ideas: 10 Marketing & Advertising Ideas that Won’t Cost You a Dime - In this post, we will show you 10 marketing and advertising ideas for your website that won't cost you a dime. Let’s check them out!
  Topics: ideas, social, free, business, content, dime, marketing, companies, users, cost, website, wont, posts, advertising.
• Fresh insights on how Singaporean men shop online - The majority of Singaporean men spend at least 30 minutes shopping online every day, according to a survey by Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Shopee.
  Topics: shopping, male, revealed, shopees, fresh, singaporean, survey, cent, online, shop, insights, men, users.
• Google Discover: What It Is and What Marketers Need to Know - Since 2018, online publishers have been seeing sudden noticeable spikes of mobile traffic to their websites.
  Topics: google, mobile, topics, evergreen, know, seo, need, discover, search, online, users, marketers, content.
• Google ditched tipping feature for donating money to sites - Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites to help support news publishers, bloggers and musicians. But Google scrapped the idea and chose not to build out the product, despite these kinds of businesses and creators often struggling to earn revenue. Last […]
  Topics: contributor, users, donating, help, feature, tipping, support, site, publishers, sites, techcrunch, ditched, money, google.
• Google to Show Shopping Ads in Gmail - I received an email a few days ago from Google, stating that Shopping ads would appear in Gmail starting the week of March 4. What will this look like? What action(s) should merchants take? I'll dig deeper in this post.
  Topics: discover, google, ads, gmail, users, email, campaigns, advertisers, shopping, likely.
• How 6 Social Media Networks Have Changed in the Last Decade - At the beginning of 2020, millions of social media users took part in a #TenYearChallenge which encouraged them to post one photo of themselves from ten years ago up against a photo of themselves today.
  Topics: instagram, launched, content, social, platform, changed, users, networks, facebook, search, decade, feed, media.
• 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 to Actually Generate Leads on TikTok [Infographic] - As a marketer, you've likely heard the buzz around popular social platform TikTok, which now has 500 million monthly active users and is the third-most downloaded app globally.
  Topics: younger, social, users, infographic, marketers, generate, steps, leads, tiktok, mobile, way, actually, platform.
• How to Create Squeeze Pages That Generate Tons of Leads - "You've got mail." At least, that's what you're hoping as a digital marketer — to show up in your audience's inbox. That's because capturing emails is an important tactic marketers use to gather leads. To do so, you've probably created a lead magnet or content offer. It's a tale as old as time for those in online marketing. And that's because it works.
  Topics: generate, squeeze, content, form, tons, users, landing, offer, email, page, pages, leads, create.
• How to Increase Mobile Conversion Rates for Online Stores - 7 keys to increase mobile conversion rates on your store. Don’t miss out on sales - quick changes, edits, & practical tips to optimize mobile conversions.
  Topics: add, rates, theme, stores, menu, conversion, page, cart, mobile, devices, users, online, product, increase, site.
• How to Launch a Mobile App in 2020 [Complete Guide] - The other day, I signed up for a friend's solidcore Pilates class.
  Topics: page, launch, apps, guide, mobile, complete, youre, app, social, media, users, store.
• How to Make Money on Instagram for Your Online Business: 12 Ways to Sell on Instagram - In this article, we're covering how to make money on Instagram with 12 ways you can use Instagram features to boost your product sales.
  Topics: instagram, audience, money, link, online, business, product, users, gift, youre, brands, products, shopping.
• How to Nail Pinterest Marketing & Pinterest Ads - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – they’re the go-to social media platforms for entrepreneurs looking to promote their brand. But, are you missing a trick by ignoring the often overlooked Pinterest? Definitely – and we’re here to equip you with everything you need to know about it –  including why you should […]
  Topics: website, pins, marketing, pin, boards, ads, users, product, brand, pinterest.
• How to Use IGTV to Fuel Your Growth on Instagram - Instagram has always been a powerful growth tool for brands, but with IGTV providing a new avenue for creativity, the ability for a brand to position itself as an originator of the tool is wide open. With the platform growing and brands experimenting with new forms of content, the ways in which IGTV will alter Instagram marketing are becoming more clear.More
  Topics: content, app, growth, videos, video, users, fuel, vertical, instagram, audience, igtv, profile.
• Indian startups diversify their businesses to offset COVID-19 induced losses - E-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to launch a hyperlocal service that would enable customers to buy items from local stores and have those delivered to them in an hour and a half or less. Yatra, an online travel and hotel ticketing service, is exploring a new business line altogether: supplying office accessories. Flipkart and Yatra […]
  Topics: grocery, startups, stores, losses, told, online, induced, users, covid19, firms, services, indian, offset, techcrunch, startup, diversify, businesses.
• Instagram Ads for Ecommerce: A Guide to Getting Started - So you’re running a plethora of ad campaigns across Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more, and you’re wondering: Should I…
  Topics: traffic, does, facebook, brands, increase, work, shopping, product, businesses, source, users, products, instagram.
• Instagram Hashtags: How to Find the Most Popular Hashtags and Connect with New Followers - Using the right Instagram hashtags can help you extend your reach, engage your audience, and even boost your brand. Today, we're sharing how to create an effective hashtag strategy for your business.More
  Topics: instagram, tools, popular, post, hashtags, followers, content, research, users, posts, using, hashtag, connect.
• Instagram swaps out its ‘Activity’ tab for ‘Shop’ in new global test - Instagram today is starting a small global test of the Instagram Shop tab, first announced this May, which allows Instagram users to shop from top brands and creators via a new tab in the app’s navigation bar with just one tap. Here, users will be able to filter products by categories, as they can today […]
  Topics: tab, swaps, small, icon, shop, global, brands, instagram, test, users, experience, techcrunch, activity.
• Is Snapchat Discover Right for Your Brand? - When you think of Snapchat, what do you think of?
  Topics: snapchat, submit, users, content, snapchats, featured, page, publishing, app, brand, right, discover.
• Japanese online watch rental concept Karitoke opens third store and launches AR app - Japanese watch rental service Kairtoke is launching in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Marui building next Friday, and launching an app with VR allowing consumers to test the look before they hire.
  Topics: japanese, concept, marui, size, rentals, karitoke, store, watches, launches, users, brands, rental, ar, online, shinjuku, watch, opens.
• Klarna launches in Spain - Swedish fintech company Klarna has entered Spain today with the launch of its ‘buy now, pay later’ service. This service allows shoppers to pay in three interest-free installments at some online retailers across the Southern European country. Klarna is now officially active in Spain. The payments company, with an office… Continue reading
  Topics: spanish, shopping, launch, shoppers, service, purchase, users, launches, spain, pay, klarna, today.
• Klarna launches rewards program - Fintech startup Klarna is launching a rewards program called Vibe this summer. If you use Klarna as your payment method, you’ll start earning points for every $1 you spend. You can then redeem your points for gift cards at Starbucks, Sephora, Foot Locker and Uber. Klarna is best known for its buy now and pay […]
  Topics: program, launches, youll, app, techcrunch, rewards, cards, klarna, pay, payment, points, users.
• Mall group, bank and delivery service launch virtual Get Foodhall - The Mall Group Thailand has teamed up with food-delivery service Get and Siam Commercial Bank to launch Get Foodhall.
  Topics: single, virtual, group, bank, outlets, delivery, foodhall, stores, nittayakasetwat, launch, mall, users, service, order, malls.
• Money-transfer startup Remitly launches Passbook, a neobank aimed at immigrants - Last summer, the Seattle-based startup Remitly closed a $135 million round to go beyond money-transfer services into a wider range of financial products catering to its primarily-immigrant customer base. Today, it’s taking the wraps off a new product that puts paid to that plan: it’s launching Passbook, a new bank aimed at immigrants that lets […]
  Topics: countries, financial, services, money, bank, neobank, accounts, passbook, immigrants, techcrunch, aimed, send, moneytransfer, launches, users, remitly, startup.
• Nacelle raises $4.8M for its headless e-commerce platform - As e-commerce companies aim to capitalize on the online spending boom connected to shelter-in-place and keep the party going as physical retailers open back up, more are turning their attention to how they can juice the functionality of their online storefronts and improve experiences for shoppers. Enter Nacelle, an LA-based startup in the burgeoning “headless” […]
  Topics: sites, platforms, online, users, headless, 48m, platform, techcrunch, startup, ecommerce, raises, storefronts, nacelle.
• No budget in 2020? No problem with PWAs - For organizations and startups with budget restraints, progressive web apps (PWAs) are inexpensive, quicker and easier to develop than native apps. This article highlights the key features and benefits of PWAs.
  Topics: problem, website, features, pwa, native, help, web, users, budget, pwas, app, mobile.
• Omni storage & rentals fails, shutters, sells engineers to Coinbase - $35 million-funded Omni is packing up and shutting down after struggling to make the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage work out. It’s another victim of a venture capital-subsidized business offering a convenient service at an unsustainable price. The startup fought for a second wind after selling off its physical storage operations to […]
  Topics: engineers, rentals, fails, operations, members, team, prices, users, shutters, service, business, techcrunch, storage, coinbase, omni, sells.
• Pinterest adds new ‘Shop’ tabs connected to in-stock inventory, style guides and more - Given the rise in online shopping attributed to the coronavirus outbreak that has forced consumers to stay home from stores, Pinterest today is launching a new way to shop on its platform. Now, Pinterest users will be able to browse in-stock inventory from newly added “Shop” tabs on Search and on Pinterest boards. The company […]
  Topics: pins, pinterest, shop, product, connected, inventory, tabs, users, search, style, shoppable, adds, techcrunch, retailers, products, smaller, instock, guides.
• Pinterest launches virtual makeup ‘Try on’ feature, starting with lipstick - A new Pinterest feature will allow users to virtually try on products, starting with lipstick, before they shop from retailers like Estée Lauder, Sephora, bareMinerals, Neutrogena, NYX Professional Makeup, YSL Beauté, Lancôme and Urban Decay from L’Oréal. To use the new feature, Pinners will first open Pinterest’s smart camera, “Lens,” while in Search, then click […]
  Topics: beauty, pinterests, users, starting, techcrunch, pinterest, youtube, lipstick, makeup, virtual, launches, try, feature.
• Reliance and Facebook pilot JioMart grocery shopping on WhatsApp - JioMart, an e-commerce venture run by India’s most valued firm, is testing an “ordering system” on WhatsApp, teasing the first peek at the collaboration between Facebook and Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio Platforms. Users in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan, three sub-urban areas of Mumbai, can now use JioMart’s WhatsApp business account for grocery shopping. […]
  Topics: facebook, pay, pilot, india, jio, reliance, shopping, store, service, whatsapp, grocery, jiomart, retail, users, techcrunch.
• Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades - It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that “the cause of the outage was stress on our infrastructure — which struggled with unprecedented load. That in turn led to a ‘thundering herd’ effect […]
  Topics: customers, techcrunch, robinhoods, pacific, trades, outage, blames, infrastructure, record, users, outages, offers, robinhood, discount, stocks.
• SearchNode publishes report on ecommerce trends 2020 - What can we expect from the ecommerce industry in 2020? Ecommerce News Europe spoke with Antanas Bakšys, CEO and co-founder of Lithuanian tech company SearchNode, about the latest ecommerce trends. Antanas Bakšys co-founded SearchNode in June 2013. Nordic Business Report called him one of the most promising entrepreneurs under the… Continue reading
  Topics: products, companies, ecommerce, platform, trends, magento, searchnode, great, report, users, publishes, sitesearch, search.
• Shopping via smart speakers is not taking off, report suggests - U.S. consumers aren’t adopting voice-based shopping as quickly as expected, according to a new report today from eMarketer. While consumers have been happy to bring smart speakers into their home, they continue to use them more often for simple commands — like playing music or getting information, for example — not for making purchases. However, […]
  Topics: voice, users, forecast, consumers, speaker, buy, suggests, speakers, purchases, number, report, smart, taking, techcrunch, shopping.
• Snackpass snags $21M to let you earn friends free takeout - “We were in the back washing blenders so they could keep taking Snackpass orders,” recalls co-founder and CEO Kevin Tan. The team from order-ahead food startup Snackpass was willing to get their hands dirty to keep up with demand at one of their first restaurant partners, Tropical Smoothie Cafe on the Yale University campus. Why […]
  Topics: restaurant, snags, takeout, snackpass, tan, food, restaurants, let, friends, app, delivery, 21m, earn, users, order, free, techcrunch, social.
• Snapchat vs. TikTok: What Marketers Need to Know - Remember Vine? Despite its huge initial growth, the six-second looping video app was discontinued by Twitter in 2016 -- only four years after its launch.
  Topics: need, platform, snapchat, tiktok, app, apps, marketers, brands, know, ads, content, users, discover, vs.
• Social Media Demographics for Marketers in 2020 - We get it, fellow marketers —sometimes, you just need the numbers. 
  Topics: marketers, demographics, twitter, videos, watch, socialthe, users, million, youtube, social, media, rainmaker.
• SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India’s Lenskart - Lenskart, an omni-channel retailer in India that sells eyewear products, said on Friday that it has raised $275 million in a new financing round from SoftBank Vision Fund as it looks to expand its business in the nation. As part of the new financing round — dubbed Series G — some of the nine-year-old startup’s […]
  Topics: softbank, lenskart, startup, round, vision, invests, million, users, stores, indias, fund, 275m, india, technology, techcrunch.
• Success in Mobile Commerce Requires a Mobile-specific Strategy - Ecommerce sites typically have goals for overall revenue and growth. However, it is essential to create mobile-specific goals, too. Roughly half of ecommerce traffic now comes from mobile devices, according to Google. Thus specific metrics for mobile — i.e., conversions, bounce rates — are critical.
  Topics: qualitative, quantitative, sites, requires, commerce, mobile, opportunities, success, data, ecommerce, mobilespecific, rates, example, strategy, users.
• SwipBox sees increasing volume of parcels in Denmark - Recently, SwipBox has seen a significant increase in the utilization of its parcel lockers in Denmark. This is, of course, due to the Covid-19 lockdown. An extra useful feature of the parcel locker is that there’s no screen installed, so users don’t need to touch anything but their own phone.… Continue reading
  Topics: sees, touch, swipbox, lockers, users, increasing, volume, weeks, utilization, parcel, covid19, parcels, denmark.
• 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 Beginner’s Guide to Working With Coupon Affiliate Sites - Ready to build an affiliate marketing program? Working with coupon affiliate sites will get you started. Learn more about how coupon sites work!
  Topics: guide, brand, customers, coupon, site, coupons, sites, brands, affiliate, promo, users, working, beginners.
• The Facebook Ad Types: How to Choose the Best Ad Type for Your Goals - Did you know that people in the U.S. spend 20% of their mobile time on Facebook or Instagram? And there are over 1.8 billion people using Facebook every month?
  Topics: ads, type, ad, campaign, post, types, users, goals, choose, best, different, lead, facebook.
• The Major SEO Trends of 2020, According to HubSpot's Director of Acquisition - In SEO, everything is anchored in user experience. And that experience hinges on providing the information that a person searches for, in a way that search engines can identify. That’s how search engines provide relevant information to users.
  Topics: user, acquisition, search, site, hubspot, seo, google, director, users, content, trends, major, hubspots, according, intent, results.
• The Marketer's Guide to Content Aggregators in 2020 - I love to travel. My husband and I try to spend our vacations becoming immersed in a culture. It's one of our favorite things to do together. As a content creator, I'm predictably an avid content consumer as well.
  Topics: aggregator, blog, travel, users, sites, site, guide, aggregators, example, marketers, content, blogs, aggregation.
• The Ultimate Guide to Mastering the Basics of Effective Social Media Advertising - It's hard to imagine any company today could be successful and experience substantial growth without advertising their product or service and brand on social media. Advertising is how businesses promote themselves and whatever it is they sell to their audience members — and with billions of people on social media, it's clear why businesses choose to advertise and promote themselves through this medium.
  Topics: ad, ads, social, media, users, advertising, target, audience, ultimate, guide, mastering, platform, effective, basics, facebook.
• The Ultimate Guide to Using WhatsApp for Business in 2020 - Does your business offer international services, but you've found it hard to connect with global customers in a personalized, cost-effective way? Do you, as a marketer, struggle with offering one-on-one experiences with customers when you're not online?
  Topics: app, business, guide, profile, customer, users, using, marketing, customers, messaging, ultimate, whatsapp.
• The top 5 shopping apps in March 2020 - The world’s top 5 shopping apps globally hit 26.9 million downloads in March, according to data gathered by LearnBonds - Wish was number 1.
  Topics: users, data, million, market, globally, downloads, ranked, app, unique, shopping, apps.
• Tinder founder funds sex tips app Lover - Want to spice up the bedroom without paying for pills or awkward visits to a sex therapist? A new app called Lover lets you take a sexual personality quiz, explore carnal knowledge tutorials and discretely figure out which turn-ons you share with your partner. Built by board-certified sexual medicine clinical psychologist Dr. Britney Blair, Lover […]
  Topics: content, subscription, app, blair, partner, users, founder, sex, funds, lover, sexual, dr, tinder, techcrunch, tips.
• Twitter's Testing a Fleets Feature: What Marketers Need to Know - Following the success and buzz around Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, Snapchat, and now LinkedIn Stories, Twitter is experimenting with its own ephemeral content feature.
  Topics: twitters, know, testing, media, tweets, social, content, feature, users, ephemeral, twitter, instagram, brands, fleets, marketers, need.
• Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram? Which Platform(s) You Should Be On - When you begin implementing a social media strategy for your business, one of the first questions you'll ask yourself is this one -- Should my business be on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram?
  Topics: vs, instagram, facebook, users, platforms, business, share, audience, platform, followers, twitter.
• Venmo prototypes a debit card for teenagers - Allowance is going digital. Venmo has been spotted prototyping a new feature that would allow adult users to create for their teenage children a debit card connected to their account. That could potentially let parents set spending notifications and limits while giving kids more flexibility in urgent situations than a few dollars stuffed in a […]
  Topics: card, prototypes, debit, startups, banking, venmos, techcrunch, teenagers, teen, thats, venmo, users, launch.
• Vinted, the second-hand clothes marketplace, raises $141M at a $1B+ valuation - The market for second-hand clothes — the “circular economy” as it’s sometimes called — has been on the rise in the last several years, fuelled by economic crunches, a desire to make more responsible and less wasteful fashion choices, and a wave of digital platforms that are bringing the selling and buying of used clothes […]
  Topics: vinted, techcrunch, 1b, 141m, million, users, europe, valuation, fashion, platform, company, raises, clothes, market, marketplace, secondhand.
• Walmart’s Flipkart makes local languages push to win small Indian cities and towns - Flipkart on Wednesday added support for three more local languages as the Indian e-commerce giant looks to widen its foothold in smaller cities and towns across the country where fewer people speak English and Hindi. The Walmart -owned firm said its online marketplace now has interfaces in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, three languages that are […]
  Topics: users, techcrunch, walmarts, small, india, cities, makes, push, local, towns, indian, languages, support, flipkart, million, win, language, hindi.
• Walmart’s Flipkart rolls out voice assistant to make shopping easier - Flipkart is rolling out a voice assistant feature to its platform to make it easier for consumers to shop as the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation. The AI-powered voice assistant currently supports the grocery category, called Supermart, but a company spokesperson told TechCrunch that Flipkart will soon be extending […]
  Topics: walmarts, support, voice, india, flipkart, easier, assistant, feature, techcrunch, shopping, company, rolls, online, users, supports.
• What a Social Media Target Audience Is and How to Find It - For my master's program at Syracuse University, we were required to attend two immersion weekends. These weekends were filled with networking events, guest speakers, and industry leader presentations. The goal was to interact with classmates, faculty, and industry thought leaders to discuss the future of digital communication.
  Topics: voice, help, audience, important, youre, target, users, social, facebook, media.
• WhatsApp eyes lending feature in India as Amazon rolls out Pay Later to tens of thousands of customers - WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]
  Topics: india, local, credit, rolls, lending, payments, thousands, users, tens, service, later, whatsapp, feature, techcrunch, amazon, pay.
• Why Google’s acquisition of Irish startup Pointy is big news for retailers - Google has acquired Irish start-up Pointy, a firm that allows physical stores to make their products discoverable online.
  Topics: retailers, acquisition, big, pointy, users, physical, stores, firm, irish, googles, google, significant, startup, step, potential, technology.