
Look Out, Amazon: Facebook Testing Dedicated Shopping Area & “Canvas” Ads For Retailers
Facebook continues to push the Facebook shopping cart forward. Today, the social network introduced tests of two new e-commerce features,...

Online Sales Expected To Increase 6 To 8 Percent This Holiday Season, NRF Says
As retailers are gearing up for a holiday sales surge, the National Retail Federation announced Thursday that it expects sales...

Stealing Your Competitor’s Customer: A Step-By-Step Guide
Turning your competitor’s customer into your own is a game of love, war and strategy. To do it effectively, you need to capture their...

Amazon Is the Starting Point For 44 Percent Of Consumers Searching For Products. Is Google Losing, T
In a survey of 2,000 US consumers, 44 percent of respondents said they go directly to Amazon to start their product searches. That...

Jet.com Pulls Annual Membership Fee, Says Smart Carts Strategy Is Catching On
Jet.com, the massively funded Amazon challenger, has opted to drop its annual membership fee just as many users’ three-month paid trials...

Why The Perfect Attribution Model Doesn’t Exist
As the marketing director at an e-commerce agency, I’ve met more than a few e-commerce analysts who are caught in an endless pursuit for...

Site-Optimizing Moovweb Launches Suite Of Shopping Cart-Optimization Tools
Shopping cart checkouts are the Heartbreak Hill of marketing. It’s where potential buyers hit a wall of indecision and leave their chosen...

Pinterest Extends Buyable Pins To More E-Commerce Platforms & Merchants
Pinterest is giving Buyable Pins to more businesses. The company announced today that is it partnering with three more e-commerce...

Amazon Announces End Of Text Ads Program Two Months After Its Launch
Less than two months after rolling out its Text Ads Program as an alternative to Product Ads, Amazon is already alerting advertisers that...

YouTube Shopping Ads To Expand Beyond Merchants’ Own Videos
Google is expanding shopping ads on YouTube beyond merchants’ own videos. Taking shopping ads on YouTube a step further, Google has...

Look Back To Look Ahead: Tips For A Lucrative Holiday Shopping Season
The holiday shopping season has begun. If you’re an e-commerce marketer like me, this is likely the quarter you’ve been planning for all...

The Problem With Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking
Many companies don’t understand why visitor data and e-commerce sales are underreported in Google Analytics, and this tends to cause...

Twitter Rolling Out Buy Now Buttons Widely With Shopify, Demandware & Bigcommerce Partnerships
It’s a buyer’s market for Twitter Buy Now buttons. Twitter announced a big rollout of its e-commerce effort today, partnering with...

Leveraging Content For In-Store Sales
It’s a little-known but impressive fact: Despite the rise and seeming ubiquity of e-commerce, a stunning 90 percent of consumer purchases...

Pinterest & Retailers Agree: Buyable Pins Are Driving New Customer Acquisition
Nearly three months after launching Buyable Pins, Pinterest is still keeping quiet about the product, but early returns from a number of...

4 Lessons Retail Marketers Can Take From High-Growth Fashion Brands
E-commerce is a rapidly expanding piece of the retail pie, so it’s no surprise that online growth is top of mind for fashion brands....

Consumers Want Personalization, But Retailers Just Can’t Seem To Deliver
Personalization is a buzzword that means different things to different audiences. Generally it’s presented as a solution to a host of...

Amazon Points Retailers To Shopify As It Nears The End Of Its E-Commerce Platform
An announcement posted on Shopify’s blog today says Amazon Webstore owners can now “seamlessly migrate” their Amazon store to the Shopify...

Shopify Opens Door For More Shopping On Facebook
Facebook is making it easier for retailers to set up shop on the social network. And Shopify is helping clear the way. This week the...