Deliver better results than you promise. December 16, 2019 2 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Surpassing customer expectations is a powerful strategy to build loyalty and secure future sales. It helped Adrian Morrison scale his ecommerce business.At ClickFunnels’ annual Funnel Hacking Live conference, Emily Richett chats with Morrison, who teaches…
A warehouse in an industrial park about an hour’s drive north of downtown Beijing offers a paradoxical picture of China’s much-hyped, and increasingly controversial, artificial intelligence boom.Inside the building, a handful of squat cylindrical robots scuttle about, following an intricate and invisible pattern. Occasionally, one zips beneath a stack of shelves, raises it gently off…
Holiday season may be full of cheer, but it’s also a time of intense pressure for retailers, especially in electronics. More than 20 percent of annual sales for things such as televisions, phones, cameras, and games occur between Thanksgiving and Christmas. One likely beneficiary is a company that most assumed would be long gone by…
GONE PHISHIN’ — Skimmers host fraudulent third-party processor that looks just like the real thing. Dan Goodin – Nov 22, 2019 2:00 pm UTC Thieves have devised a new way to steal payment-card data from online shoppers—or at least it’s new to the researcher who found it. Rather than infecting a merchant’s checkout page with…
In Do Consumers Make Less Accurate Decisions When They Use Mobiles?, a study by researchers at Ben Gurion University accepted for presentation at next month’s International Conference on Information Systems in Munich, the researchers seek to discover why consumers spend more money on ecommerce sites when using mobile devices than when they use laptops and…
Expert insights on taking personalization to the next level. November 25, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Presented by Michael Bower helps companies provide cool experiences to their customers on the web. As CEO of Sellry, an ecommerce solutions company, he combines creativity with the latest technology to propel…
Photo: Getty ImagesJust a few short years ago, buying up cryptocurrency was all the rage. In theory, you could spend a little on Bitcoin or one of the other popular cryptocurrencies, and cash out with an astonishing rate of return. But as you might have noticed, Bitcoin and some of its contemporaries are now in…
By Matt Binder2019-12-01 15:51:58 UTC If you noticed shorter lines outside of Walmart and Best Buy this Black Friday, it wasn’t because people weren’t shopping. They were just doing it from their smartphones. According to a holiday shopping report by Adobe, Black Friday 2019 saw a total of $7.4 billion in online sales. A whopping…
American shoppers increased their spending by 16% over the five-day shopping period between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, according to new data, signaling U.S. consumer confidence hasn’t wavered in the face of global political and economic uncertainty. Nearly 190 million shoppers made purchases during the period, a 14% increase over the previous year, and more…
PayPal has struck gold. In a mostly cash move announced last week, the company will spend about $4 billion to buy Honey Science Corporation, the deal-finding browser extension and app, which currently has 17 million monthly users and more than 30,000 merchant websites. Analytically speaking, it’s a magical move. In fact, it’s probably one of…
Why and how the culture has migrated from waiting in line to buying online. Image credit: Hero Images | Getty Images Yoav Vilner Guest Writer Entrepreneur, thought leader and startup mentor November 14, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When we think of Black Friday, we often picture people lining up outside…
Are you listening, Amazon? Image: AFP via Getty Images By Karissa Bell2019-11-10 21:56:35 UTC Move over Prime Day, Alibaba’s shopping holiday just set new spending records. Singles Day, the Chinese ecommerce giant’s annual “global shopping festival,” has just begun and it’s already set new records. Shoppers spent more than $13 billion (or 91.2 billion Chinese…
Evil WeekEvil WeekWelcome to Evil Week, our annual chance to delve into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to successfully be unsavory.Everyone loves to use a coupon…
Apprised makes it easy to add ecommerce tools to your sites. November 9, 2019 2 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. Your…
If you don’t build your brand, you won’t survive. Image credit: PeopleImages | Getty Images November 8, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In ecommerce, your brand is your lifeblood. The reputation you have, the experiences you create, the ways you differentiate — everything rolls up to brand.Can you…
Content Partner Where brands share their insights. What’s This? What’s right for the client is best for everyone, he says. Image credit: Jay Wright November 7, 2019 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In this series called Member Showcase, we publish interviews with members of The Oracles. This interview is…
Guy Marion is CEO/co-founder of Brightback, the first automated customer retention software for subscription businesses. More posts by this contributor We’ve seen our fair share of shocking headlines recently: tenuous IPOs, the “retailpocalypse” and a fickle market have reset the way we size up subscription businesses. Recurring revenue models have their pitfalls, and 2019 has…
Shopify continues to expand beyond its core e-commerce platform with a new product called Shopify Email. Shopify’s chief product officer Craig Miller and director of product for marketing technology Michael Perry gave me a quick demo of the product yesterday; Miller argued that they’ve created “the first email product designed for e-commerce.” That means it’s…
