Category: Ecommerce News

From Black Friday blowouts to attention-generating big press exposures, online stores need to be able to handle massive online traffic and convert that traffic into sales. If an online store isn’t supported by a reliable ecommerce platform, business owners could quickly find themselves drowning in the tsunami of visitors that flood a website during a flash sale or Black Friday event. And if their webstore crashes, they can lose hundreds of sales in a single hour! So how do business avoid this kind of disaster? They choose platforms like Shopify as their ecommerce solution.

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According to multiple rumors, Amazon has begun telling online merchants that the company has plans to shut down the Amazon Webstore, which is a platform where small and midsize retailers create and run their own online shop.

Continue reading “How Shopify and BigCommerce Killed Amazon Webstore”

When you are considering the largest ecommerce sites in the world by their monthly visitors, you would be quick to think that Amazon or eBay would top the chart, however as you can see in the chart below, the biggest ecommerce company in the world isn't located in the U.S. but is Taobao in China with more than 600 million monthly visitors.

Continue reading “10 Largest Ecommerce Sites Globally are Located Mainly in China and U.S.”

Throughout the past few years internet retail sales have seen a steady growth, and in the U.S. alone it is expected to increase 10% during 2015. As more and more people start using their smartphones and tablets to complete their shopping, brick-and-mortar stores will soon see a decline in their sales. Check out our first infographic to to see a detailed view of the state of ecommerce in 2015.

Continue reading “The State of Online Shopping [Exclusive Infographic]”

Shopify (platform reviewed here) launched a brand new free fully responsive theme aimed at stores with large inventories. Features include prominent navigation, multiple homepage collections, sidebar filtering, and easy integration with the Product Reviews app (which is free as well). So I decided to write this quick Shopify Supply theme review:

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This is one interesting and productive competition created by Shopify. How does it work? During eight months, more than 21,000 entrepreneurs create new businesses. Together, this year, they managed to sell more than $120 million in products. There have been twice as many participants compared to last year’s competition, while the revenue generated tripled. So, these guys mean business. The winners get  $50,000 each, VIP trips, meetings with industry experts and a set of other perks.

But let me take a closer look at the 10 winners:

Continue reading “Shopify's 4th “Build-A-Business Competition”: The Winners”