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Ecommerce Product Releases: February 19, 2018
February 19, 2018 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for February from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on content creation, delivery, mobile messaging, and multiple updates from Amazon. Snap launches Snap Store. Snap has launched Snap Store in the Snapchat Discover section.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: February 1, 2018
February 1, 2018 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-January from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on voice shopping, managed hosting, customer service solutions, personalized emails, and zero-fraud payments.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: January 16, 2018
January 16, 2018 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of ecommerce-related product releases and updates for January. There are updates on mobile commerce, price forecasting, payment networks, and home delivery. BigCommerce and Handshake, a mobile-first B2B commerce platform, have announced a strategic partnership to bring a suite of enhanced B2B capabilities to BigCommerce customers worldwide.
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13 Innovative Mobile Shopping Apps
January 15, 2018 • Sig Ueland
By observing mobile shopping apps, merchants can discover new shopping features that resonate with consumers. Here is a list of innovative mobile shopping apps. There are marketplaces, curated product collections, shopping communities, discount and coupon apps, augmented reality tools, and product information apps.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: January 1, 2018
January 1, 2018 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late December from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping, one-click purchasing, analytics programs, and ...
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Pros and Cons of Hosted Ecommerce Platforms
December 19, 2017 • Eric Davis
I’ve addressed different options to host the code for your ecommerce site. In “Don’t Self-host an Ecommerce Store,” I addressed the risk and expense of owning and managing web servers.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: December 15, 2017
December 15, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of recent product releases and updates for December, from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on email marketing, same-day delivery, one-click purchasing,
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Ecommerce Product Releases: December 3, 2017
December 3, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late November from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on augmented reality, chat apps, WordPress themes,
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Ecommerce Product Releases: November 15, 2017
November 15, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-November from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on holiday shipping, augmented reality, mobile analytics, customer ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: November 1, 2017
November 1, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late October from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on augmented reality tools, image-recognition for search,
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Ecommerce Product Releases: October 16, 2017
October 16, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for October from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping, mobile returns, voice-activated commerce, payments, and ...
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Don’t Self-host an Ecommerce Store
October 11, 2017 • Eric Davis
Every ecommerce store needs to be hosted somewhere. But there’s little reason, in 2017, to self-host. In this post I’ll explain why. Self-hosting is where a company acquires physical servers and ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: October 2, 2017
October 2, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates from late September from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on advertising, visual search, artificial intelligence, multimedia ...
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From Shopping Cart to Ecommerce Platform and Back Again?
September 21, 2017 • Armando Roggio
Ten or 15 years ago many of the companies selling goods and services online would have described their ecommerce software as a “shopping cart.” Now, changes in software development could ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: September 17, 2017
September 17, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-September from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on advertising, productivity apps, payment solutions, and live ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: August 30, 2017
August 30, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late August, from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on daily deals, instant pickup, voice-based shopping,
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Ecommerce Product Releases: August 16, 2017
August 16, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-August from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on customer reviews, same-day delivery, fraud protection, digital ...
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21 Apps for BigCommerce, to Extend and Enhance
August 14, 2017 • Sig Ueland
In 2012, BigCommerce launched an integration fund, which lead to hundreds of third-party apps for its platform. Recently BigCommerce launched an expanded partner program with new certification tiers —certified, premier,
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Omnichannel Commerce Needs a New Kind of CMS
August 11, 2017 • Armando Roggio
Businesses striving to provide shoppers with omnichannel experiences need to find new ways to manage, store, and present product information. Commerce is changing. For retailers, shoppers now have many ways to ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: August 1, 2017
August 1, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late July from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shoppable images and video, ecommerce personalization,
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Which Comes First, the Ecommerce Platform or the Developer?
July 31, 2017 • Armando Roggio
Your ecommerce business needs a new platform and a developer — but in what order? An ecommerce platform is the software your business will use to conduct online transactions and a developer ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: July 17, 2017
July 17, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-July from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping services, coding, ecommerce personalization, challenging Amazon,
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20 Free Shopify Apps, to Extend and Enhance
July 10, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Launched a decade ago, Shopify was born out of an effort by its founders to sell snowboards online. After building their shop, they realized other stores were in need of ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: July 3, 2017
July 3, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of ecommerce-related product releases and updates for late June. There are updates on shipping solutions, influencer marketing, payment processors, text analytics, marketing research, and Amazon’s newest ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: June 15, 2017
June 15, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-June from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping solutions, artificial intelligence, email campaigns, product ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: June 1, 2017
June 1, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-May from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping solutions, electronic payments, security, voice-activated shopping,
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10 Free Themes for Magento
May 22, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Magento is one of the most popular ecommerce platforms, with more than 250,000 merchants and 150,000 developers, providing a vast assortment themes and extensions. The Community and Enterprise editions of ...
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Ecommerce Product Releases: May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for May from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on automated marketing, shipping, Instagram promotions, mobile shopping,
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Ecommerce Product Releases: May 1, 2017
May 1, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late April from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on a subscription marketplace, artificial-intelligence-based marketing and ...
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13 Extensions to Enhance a Magento Store
April 23, 2017 • Sig Ueland
Magento is a powerful ecommerce platform, used by more than 250,000 merchants worldwide. With hundreds of extensions on the Magento Connect marketplace, Magento is a flexible and appealing solution for ...