How Amazon’s Business Practices Harm American Consumers: Why Amazon Needs a

Why Amazon Needs a Competitor and Why Walmart Ain’t It

Looks vs. Results: My ugly ad got 150% more clicks than a professional desi

Making things look nice can take a long time, either due to lack of resources or abundance of opinions. This could delay launches, frustrate people, and waste precious energy. Those are high costs for startups or companies hoping to move fast. Is it worth it? Long ago I got fed

The Top Affiliate Marketing Networks

Looking to grow your affiliate marketing site but aren't sure which affiliate network is right for you? Here's everything you need to know.

5 e-commerce tips for businesses in 2021

By Rob van den Heuvel, CEO at Sendcloud. If there’s one thing 2020 has taught us, it is the art of adaptability. As we knock on the door of 2021, the next stage of transition is upon us.

16 Tools to Sell Products on Pinterest

Pinterest provides tools to help merchants promote and sell products. Here is a list of tools for creating shops, product catalogs, ad campaigns, live events, and more.

How to Start a Shopify Store in Just 5 Simple Steps

Lessons from Running a Sale that Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week

Tips on running successful Black Friday sales for creators and Indie Hackers

The 11 Best Dropshipping Tools

How can dropshipping tools give you the edge in the competitive world of e-commerce? We take a look at the 11 best dropshipping tools you should be using.

As its ecosystem grows, companies are becoming reliant on Shopify for more

Read more in the DTC Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the biggest challenges and trends facing the DTC startup world.

'Growing two times faster than the rest of the market': Inside L'Oreal's e-

If e-commerce was a market for L’Oreal, then it would be the biggest in terms of market value, worth nearly €5 billion ($5.9 billion).

A Guide to Behavioral Segmentation Marketing

What is behavioral marketing? Here's how email marketing, demographics, and upsells can be used to monitor and act on customer behavior.

Improving complementary-product recommendations

New modeling approach increases accuracy of recommendations by an average of 7%.

Managing your product feeds to thrive in a new retail landscape

To succeed in today’s e-commerce environment, companies must craft an online experience that meshes with the brick-and-mortar brand experience in their physical stores.

4 Payment Methods to Integrate for the Holidays

Convenience and security increasingly impact online selling. That's especially the case for the upcoming holiday season, as consumers will likely seek flexible, seamless payment options. Here are four payment methods to consider for this year's holiday selling.

6 methods for touch-free and remote payments

Checking out should be easier, especially now.

14 Tools to Sell on Facebook and Instagram

Shopping on Facebook and Instagram is finally here. With the recent launches of Shops on both apps and Live Shopping, Facebook is facilitating easier commerce across its platform. Here is a list of tools to help you sell on Facebook and Instagram.

The First Steps in Adding Ecommerce to a Brick-and-mortar Store

Brick-and-mortar retail businesses are turning toward ecommerce to generate revenue — online and click-and-collect. As they make this digital transformation, those merchants will likely have questions about ecommerce platforms, themes, and design. While all of these are…

Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware…

10 Best Ecommerce Platforms Compared & Rated For 2020

Our top ecommerce builders are based on objective performance data, feature set & value. Check out ecommerce platforms now.

10 Marketplaces to Buy and Sell Ecommerce Sites

A ecosystem of buyers, sellers, and brokers creates a thriving M&A market for digital businesses.

Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First

Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun using this position for its private-label items, raising antitrust concerns.

Using K-Means to detect changes in a retail store | Towards Data Science

Unsupervised techniques to identify changes in the behavior

Platforms in an Aggregator World

Facebook Shops are good for Shopify merchants, but bad for Shopify; the answer is to push more into the real world.

How ceramics brand East Fork transitioned to a pre-sale only model

2020 was the year East Fork ceramics planned to become profitable. Now, that's likely no longer on the table, but the company is using a new model to better handle its balance sheet: pre-sales. Now, new product lines will all be for sale before they're manufactured, as a way to…

Web Monetization - The Ecosystem

Greetings, everyone. This post begins a series on Web Monetization and serves to document my learning...

AliExpress - Online Shopping for Popular Electronics, Fashion, Home & Garde

AliExpress lets you unlock top brands' bestselling electronics, clothing, homewares, toys, sporting equipment, auto parts and more so you can live better for less.

‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping

In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met

Introducing the Periodic Table of Digital Commerce Marketing

Packing an astonishing amount of information into an easy-to-digest visual, it's well worth the download.

Wayfair is all in on logistics

Executives insist 2020 is the year Wayfair's logistics investments will show their worth.

An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace

Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom?

Unnamed and Unsurveilled

Craigslist feels like an island in the slipstream, evidence of an online past where improvisation and commonality superseded hierarchy and standard practices.

Why Restoration Hardware Sends Catalogs the Size of a Toddler

The surprising persistence of the mail-order business

A Guide to Payment Tokens for Ecommerce

Innovation in electronic payments has always balanced risk and convenience. Generally, a payment method that's convenient for consumers is risky for merchants. The use of "tokens" can reduce that risk by protecting credit card details.

The economics of unused gift cards

Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on gift cards. But what happens to the money when the gift cards go unused?

7 eCommerce trends to watch in 2020 and beyond

How to use returns to build customer loyalty

Returns are on the rise – here’s what you can do to make it your competitive advantage.

vumaasha/Atlas: Atlas: A Dataset and Benchmark for E-commerce Clothing Prod

Atlas: A Dataset and Benchmark for E-commerce Clothing Product Categorization - vumaasha/Atlas

The Best E-Commerce Fulfillment Services for 2019 | PCMag.com

An online shopping cart and catalog is only the first step in e-commerce retail success. Once the customer buys, you need to get them their wares quickly and efficiently. That's where fulfillment services come in and we take a close look at ten of the top players.

Study of Over 11,000 Online Stores Finds 'Dark Patterns' on 1,254 sites

A large-scale academic study that analyzed more than 53,000 product pages on more than 11,000 online stores found widespread use of user interface "dark patterns" -- practices meant to mislead customers into making purchases based on false or misleading information. from a…

Stripe CLI

The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.

The 7 psychological triggers to boost your eCommerce store’s sales

Hacks, Methods and Tools to Keyword Research for eCommerce Stores

Learn the exact way that I perform keyword research that generates profitable, scalable ROI for eCommerce stores.

7 Fantastic eCommerce Product Videos and The Lessons They Taught Us

Due to availability and ease of use, eCommerce companies have all but taken most markets by storm, becoming the preferred purchase alternative for

Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store (Published 2019)

Twenty years ago, Amazon opened its storefront to anyone who wanted to sell something. Then it began demanding more out of them.

Crossed Stitches

Beverly Pennington was a Pinterest-perfect entrepreneur whose patchwork quilts—made from people’s most treasured T-shirts—found thousands of devotees all over the country. But when the quilts stopped coming, leaving the shirts in limbo, her customers pieced together a plan to…

People Are Confused About the Usefulness of Buying Fancy Things

Why luxury goods don't impress, but repel.

23 Twitter Feeds for Ecommerce Merchants to Follow

Here is a list of Twitter feeds for online merchants to follow. Most feeds are from individuals although a few are from application platforms. The feeds are separated into ecommerce, marketing, and design categories.

Meet the man keeping America's dead malls alive

Is there hope for our once-beloved social and commercial centers?

Free Shipping — Real Life

Delivery robots will redefine the meaning of every object they transport

'Shoppable billboards': DTC retailers say physical stores are driving online sales

DTC brands credit physical stores with boosting their online sales.