Platforms & Apps
Our coverage of platforms and apps includes innovations and updates to shopping carts, content management systems, mobile shopping, digital-product selling, headless commerce, social media, and much more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New merchant tools this week include local search marketing, video generators, AI-powered shopping assistants, email marketing tools, conversational commerce, online review tools, and influencer marketing.
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New Ecommerce Tools: November 14, 2024
November 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes new tools for holiday marketing campaigns, drone deliveries, analytics, search, video generators, and AI-based platforms.
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New Ecommerce Tools: November 7, 2024
November 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for website builders, SMS marketing, AI-powered shopping assistants, reverse logistics, social commerce, and cross-border transactions.
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Top AI Search Engine Features, Compared
November 4, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Prominent and not-so prominent-providers are remaking search with advanced tools, large language models, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: October 31, 2024
October 31, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: ecommerce storefronts, buy-now pay-later, AI-powered assistants, fraud prevention, search engine optimization, logistics, and seller ratings.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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New Ecommerce Tools: August 7, 2024
August 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: AI-powered sourcing, promotional sales, error detection, loyalty programs, sponsored brand campaigns, embedded payments, and retail media platforms.
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New Ecommerce Tools: July 30, 2024
July 30, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New releases this week include tools for AI-powered content creation, automated deliveries, shoppable video, website speed, logistics, and sustainable packaging.
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New Ecommerce Tools: July 25, 2024
July 25, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: AI-powered customer service agents, post-purchase platforms, logistics, research resources, payments, and financing for ecommerce businesses.
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15 Custom GPTs for Productivity
July 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Get more done with Custom GPTs for coding, presentations, Excel spreadsheets, research, much more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: AI-powered shopping assistants, crowdfunding, social commerce, big data, livestream shopping, subscriptions, app development, and cross-border payments.
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