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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: April 23, 2024
April 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's updates address product images, live streaming, B2B, logistics, cross-border payments, and more.
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Shipping & Fulfillment
Can Retailer Co-ops Cut Ecommerce Shipping Costs?
April 23, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Retailers have used purchasing cooperatives for years to obtain volume pricing.
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Platforms & Apps
15 Apps for Live Streaming Video
April 22, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This all-new update to our popular resource features apps from social networks and live-streaming platforms to produce and broadcast solo or multi-source video.
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Marketing & Advertising
Web Marketing Checklist: 42 Tactics for Traffic and Sales
April 21, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Our all-new 2024 update includes modern content marketing, SEO, email, podcasts, social media, and more.
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Product Pages
Fermàt CMO on Customized Customer Journeys
April 19, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Founded in 2021, Fermàt has raised $30 million from VCs to rethink ecommerce conversion funnels.
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SEO Tools
Pinpoint Traffic Drops with Search Console, GA4
April 18, 2024 • Ann Smarty
The first step in diagnosing declines in organic search traffic is identifying which pages and queries account for the loss.
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On-page SEO
ChatGPT vs. Gemini for SEO Tasks
April 16, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini can suggest keywords, content, topics, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on shoppable video, AI-powered search, composable commerce, payments, subscription plans, and more.
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Content Marketing
How to Track ROI from Content Marketing
April 15, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Content drives visitors which drive email subscriptions which drive sales. All are measurable.
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Payments
BNPL Competition Drives Wins for Merchants
April 14, 2024 • Dale Laszig
The lines have blurred between buy-now pay-later providers and credit card issuers. The winners are merchants and consumers.
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Business
Amid Downturn, Ecommerce Investor Perseveres
April 12, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Roman Khan's ecommerce holding company seeks aquisitions, albeit cautiously.
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Technical SEO
SEO Takeaways from SGE’s Partial Rollout
April 11, 2024 • Ann Smarty
How will Google's Search Generative Experience impact organic listings?
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Google Ads
Google Ad Updates Reflect New SERPs
April 9, 2024 • Matthew Umbro
An ad's postion on the search results page is less important than its prominence, per Google.
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Social Media
AI Apps for Social Media Images, Videos, Infographics
April 8, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Visuals in social media posts drive engagment. New AI tools produce those visuals instantly from text prompts.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: April 8, 2024
April 8, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on fulfillment, design services, financing, digital marketing, payments, customer support, shoppable videos, and more.
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Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for May 2024
April 7, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Since 2014 we've published a monthly rundown of content ideas. This May 2024 installment addresses families, the military, Eurovision, holidays, and how-to videos.
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Business
Early Hair Loss Spurs DTC Founder
April 5, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Losing his hair was the first step in Faraz Khan's entrepreneurial journey. Fully Vital, his DTC hair-wellness company, is the result.
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SEO Tools
How to Discover Shoppers’ Questions
April 4, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Responding to questions of customers and prospects can generate traffic and sales.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: April 2, 2024
April 2, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New merchant tools this week address customer engagement, B2B payments, product discovery, digital marketing, fraud prevention, post-purchase solutions, and more.
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Design & Dev Tools
AI Tools for Meeting Notes, Recaps, To-dos
April 1, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Reviewing meeting recordings for takeaways and action items used to take hours. No more.
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Schools & Resources
10 New Ecommerce Books for Spring 2024
April 1, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This installment of our quarterly rundown includes titles on digital marketing, team development, content marketing, AI, launching a startup, and more.
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Email & Text Marketing
A Better Ecommerce Newsletter
March 31, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Email marketing works best when combined with meaningful editorial.
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SEO
BGR Media Founder on AI Upheaval
March 29, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
The consumer tech site has long relied on traffic from organic search. Then came AI-generated content.
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Link Building
AI-powered Internal Linking Tools
March 28, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Internal links are critical for organic search rankings and, also, time-consuming to implement. AI can help.
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Google Ads
Top Ecommerce Ad Segments
March 26, 2024 • Samir Balwani
First-party data remains an underutilized marketing asset of ecommerce companies.
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Platforms & Apps
AI Platforms for Competitor Research
March 25, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Competitor research was once limited to enterprise brands with big budgets. No more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for livestream commerce, cross-border transactions, logistics, omnichannel sales, customer experience, fraud prevention, and more.
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Inventory
4-5-4 Calendar Aids Retail Planning
March 24, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Dividing the year into months of four weeks, five weeks, and four weeks facilitates comparisons and decision-making.
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Business
Commerce Drives Culture, Says Media CEO
March 22, 2024 • Eric Bandholz
Future Commerce founder Phillip Jackson sees the good in commerce as a societal stabilizer.
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Technical SEO
Traffic Recovery from Domain Changes
March 21, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Changing domain names can seriously reduce organic search traffic. Here's how to recover.