Design & Development
The nuts and bolts of an ecommerce site are design and development. We address design innovation and trends — including layouts, colors, photography, logos, video, and more. We explain the basics of code — HTML, CSS, JavaScript — as well as platforms, themes, plugins, open source, and related topics.
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Platforms & Apps
Top WooCommerce Extensions to Grow a Store
October 29, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Our handpicked list of 20 tools will drive traffic, streamline operations, and grow revenue.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 24, 2024
October 24, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes tools for generative AI ads, digital marketing, local search, product returns, cross-border shipping, and holiday marketing campaigns.
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Platforms & Apps
Merchants’ Guide to Metaverse Platforms
October 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
For brands and merchants, metaverse platforms are worth following as opportunities in the new economies unfold.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 17, 2024
October 17, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New releases this week include tools for AI-powered shopping assistants, video creation, search engines, payment platforms, financing, and user-generated content.
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Schools & Resources
New Books to Grow (or Sell) a Business, Fall 2024
October 16, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Our picks of new titles for merchants address AI tactics, communicating with customers, personalization, selling the company, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New AI Apps Reinvent Ecommerce Video
October 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Generate video from text, edit short clips from a single long-form source, produce product videos from static images, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
Report: Gen AI to Transform Operations, Revenue
October 13, 2024 • Armando Roggio
A 2023 McKinsey study analyzed generative AI's potential impact on operations, productivity, revenue, profits, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 10, 2024
October 10, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for visual search, AI, payments, shipping, warehouse management, and automated marketing campaigns.
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Platforms & Apps
13 New AI Productivity Tools for SMBs
October 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New tools for email marketing, audience research, project and team management, AI assistants, voice-powered dictation, and video production.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 3, 2024
October 3, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for search ad campaigns, financing, collecting reviews, supply-chain management, and cross-border shipping.
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Schools & Resources
Book Excerpt: ‘Buyer Personas: Insights into Customer Decisions’
October 1, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Organizations that listen and respond to buyers earn more business. A new book from Wiley urges marketers to lead that effort.
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User Experience
Beardbrand’s Lawyer Recaps ADA Lawsuit
September 27, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Beardbrand recently prevailed in a lawsuit alleging violations of accessibility laws. The company's attorney shares the details.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: September 26, 2024
September 26, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: AI assistants, video ads, website builders, multichannel fulfillment, composable commerce, B2B financing, and cross-border and last-mile logistics.
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Design & Dev Tools
Free Web Design Tools from Summer 2024
September 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This installment of our quarterly rundown includes new design tools for AI video, vector collections, website builders, analytics, animation editors, converters, UI components, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
The Best Use of AI for Business
September 20, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Software engineer Jacob Posel explains how AI can streamline operational processes and enhance creativity.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: September 19, 2024
September 19, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's list includes new tools for influencer marketing, virtual try-ons, digital payments, ecommerce platforms, financing, and global and last-mile logistics.
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Platforms & Apps
15 AI WordPress Plugins for SEO, Content, Code, More
September 17, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Artificial intelligence has supercharged WordPress plugins for all forms of launching, managing, and fine-tuning a website.
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Schools & Resources
Q&A: Joe Natoli, Author of ‘UX Team of One’
September 17, 2024 • Jean Gazis
Having spent 30 years as an ecommerce user-experience practitioner, Joe Natoli has a thought or two.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: September 12, 2024
September 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on biometric security, robotics, product images, ecommerce personalization, AI-powered sales assistants, cross-border payments, and selling in the metaverse.
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Code
GenAI Is a Potent Ecommerce Coding Tool
September 8, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Can ChatGPT generate code to auto-post a Google Doc into a Shopify blog?
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: September 5, 2024
September 5, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: holiday selling, recommerce platforms, AI-powered sales assistants, payments, search optimization, and last-mile delivery management.
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Platforms & Apps
23 Recommerce Platforms and Marketplaces
September 3, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Consumers seek pre-owned goods, and solution providers are responding with platforms, integrations, marketplaces, and more.
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Schools & Resources
11 Books on Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon
September 2, 2024 • Jean Gazis
In just 30 years, Jeff Bezos's company upended entire industries. How did he do it?
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Platforms & Apps
12 Free Open-Source Content Management Systems
August 27, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Creating, managing, and modifying content online has never been easier or more affordable.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: August 26, 2024
August 26, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: digital marketing resources, product videos, search engine optimization plugins, AI-powered helpdesk assistants, WooCommerce financing, live-stream shopping, Amazon India discounts, and more.
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Design & Dev Tools
7 Image-to-Text Tools, AI-powered
August 20, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Generating text from images accelerates accessibility, SEO, social media captions, language translation, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: August 20, 2024
August 20, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for AI-powered search, shipping, fraud prevention, payments, rewards, B2B and D2C services, and group messaging.
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Design & Dev Tools
14 Custom GPTs for Design
August 19, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Customized versions of ChatGPT prompts can arrange content, design a logo, build a website, enhance images, optimize UX, and more.
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Schools & Resources
‘AI Snake Oil’ Sorts Promise from Hype
August 15, 2024 • Jean Gazis
A new book from Princeton University Press aims to separate reality from promotion and fear.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: August 12, 2024
August 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New merchant tools this week include AI writing assistant, biometric payments, social commerce, fraud protection, and cross-border payments.
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