
Night Owls: One-Third Of Google Product Searches Happen In The Wee Hours
With devices at our fingertips round-the-clock, perhaps it shouldn’t shock anyone that product searches are occurring at all hours of the...

Holiday E-Commerce Sales Expected To Rise 8 – 11 Percent This Year
E-commerce sales are expected to rise between eight and 11 percent this holiday shopping season. That’s the word from Shop.org, which...

Study: Holiday Ad Campaigns On Facebook Should Start Earlier Than You Think
This article is part of Marketing Land’s Holiday Retailer series. Here we are on the cusp of the holiday retail frenzy in which every...

Optimizing Your Paid Search Bids Around The Holiday Rush
However, this surge in sales mean retailers are often pulled in several different directions, strapped for time, and more likely to fall...

Show Me The Money! 6 Steps To Optimizing Your Payment Process
You’ve worked hard to convince visitors to shop from you — and even harder to get them to the checkout page. So why on earth would you...

Facebook’s Buy Button Test Is Powered By Stripe’s Technology
Started in July, Facebook’s “Buy” button, which gives users the ability to purchase directly from posts and ads in their News Feed, is...

Report: Holiday Retail Sales To Climb 5% & E-Commerce Sales Predicted To Jump 16.6%
This article is part of Marketing Land’s Holiday Retailer series. After 2013’s record-breaking Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales...

Amazon’s Twitter E-Commerce Integration Now Adds To Your Wish List With An #AmazonWishList Twe
Amazon expanded its Twitter e-commerce integration today, giving users the ability to add to Amazon wish lists using the hashtag...

How To Design A Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Campaign
Your online store is a huge success. You’ve meticulously planned out your merchandising and mastered SEO, ad placement and PR to generate...

The Hottest New Channel Working For Online Marketers – Offline!
There’s a big difference between what is “hot” in marketing and what actually “works.” For example, “everyone” knows that mobile...

86 Percent Of Online Retailers Expect Holiday Sales Growth In 2014
Coming off an estimated 12 percent growth during the 2013 holidays, online retailers are expecting even fuller stockings this holiday...

FTC Enforces New Refund Policies On Internet Retailers
D.C. news site TheHill.com reported this week that the FTC is coming down on Internet retailers, forcing them to ship merchandise within...

What Do NFC And The New iPhone 6 Mean For Marketers?
Unless you live under a rock, you are likely aware that Apple announced its new line of products on September 9. While there weren’t any...

The New Shopper Marketing Paradigm, Part 4: Maximizing Online Product Conversion Rate
My last column discussed the primacy of product detail page views as the core metric for digital marketers working at product...

Macy’s Takes iBeacon Technology Nationwide, Installing More Than 4,000 Devices
Macy’s will soon be giving extra shopping love to consumers nationwide via its shopBeacon program. After a beta run during last year’s...

Retailers Shifted Spend From Desktop Search Ads In 2013
Retailer ad spend allocated to desktop text ads on Google AdWords has shrunk as budgets shift to product listing ads and mobile. On the...

E-Commerce Practices That Are Costing Conversions
With the proliferation of conversion-centric tools, technology and consultants these days, there’s no shortage of advice and best...

Amazon Displaying Segmented User Ratings
Pioneering online retailer Amazon is tweaking its product pages to display user ratings by segment for some users, apparently hoping to...

Google Expands Product Ads Footprint With AdSense For Shopping
Google has announced its latest play in the product search arena: AdSense for Shopping. The new product brings Google’s image-based...
























