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An ecommerce site is a business. Our Management & Finance category addresses online payments, funding needs, employee issues, merchant profiles, key metrics, multichannel and omnichannel strategies, cross-border analyses, inventory management, accounting topics, sales taxes, and much more.
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Finance
Charts: Top Publicly Traded Ecommerce Companies
June 21, 2023 • Adel Boukarroum
A financial ranking of publicly traded ecommerce companies starts with assigning companies to that classification. Retailers, marketplaces, tech platforms?
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Finance
Amazon Aggregators Face a New Reality
June 19, 2023 • Marcia Kaplan
Amazon aggregators purchase marketplace sellers and then attempt to improve revenue and profits. The boomtimes are over.
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Finance
Brandless Exec on Acquisitions, AI, More
June 16, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Brad Moss is an Amazon veteran, game developer, and now an executive with Brandless, the repurposed DTC seller and company acquirer.
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Amazon & Marketplaces
How AI Tools Improve Amazon Listings
June 15, 2023 • Phil Masiello
Artificial intelligence-driven tools can streamline and improve product listings — names, descriptions, bullet points.
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Finance
Charts: Global Fintech Funding Q1 2023
June 14, 2023 • Adel Boukarroum
Funding for financial technology companies increased in Q1 2023 from Q4 2022. We tell the story in five charts.
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Amazon & Marketplaces
A Community for Amazon Sellers
June 9, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Athena Severi co-founded Titan Network in 2019. The Amazon-seller community offers in-person events and workshops, mentoring, and collaboration.
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Business
4 Ecommerce Owners Discuss Their Why
June 2, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
On a hiking trip in Utah, three ecommerce owners joined our host for a table-side discussion. Why start a company? Is it worth the hassle?
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Business
20 Free Resources for Small Businesses
May 30, 2023 • Sig Ueland
There's no shortage of free courses, mentors, and support groups for small business owners. Here's a rundown.
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Business
Charts: U.S. Retail Ecommerce Sales Q1 2023
May 24, 2023 • Adel Boukarroum
Newly released data from the Department of Commerce shows a 3% increase in U.S. online retail sales from Q4 2022 to Q1 2023. Total retail sales — online and in-store — grew .9% in Q1.
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Business
Charts: 2023 Global Shopping Trends
May 17, 2023 • Adel Boukarroum
Global consumers have altered their shopping habits owing to inflation and economic uncertainty. But most see better times ahead.
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Amazon & Marketplaces
Amazon Anywhere Pushes Marketplace into Games, Apps
May 15, 2023 • Armando Roggio
Amazon Anywhere brings sales of physical products to apps and games. The concept isn't new, but the move by an industry leader likely has a widespread impact.
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Inventory
Mixed Success for Private Label Brands
May 15, 2023 • Marcia Kaplan
In-house retail brands are typically less expensive and experience robust sales in inflationary periods. But not every initiative is successful.
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Business
Influencers, Community Drive Batting Glove Maker
May 12, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Bruce Bolt is a family-owned business in Austin, Texas, that makes and sells baseball batting gloves — for little leaguers to MLB pros.
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Shipping & Fulfillment
Fulfill.com Is a Marketplace of 3PLs
May 5, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
In 2019 Joe Spisak's ecommerce company had gone through three fulfillment companies in 18 months. With Fulfill.com, he aims to ease the difficulty of selecting providers.
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Business
Entrepreneur Left Google to Launch Ballsy
April 28, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Adam Hendle had a dream job with Google. Then he had an idea for a men's hygiene brand.
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Shipping & Fulfillment
How to Reduce Parcel DIM Weights
April 26, 2023 • John Lindberg
Dimensional weight is a pricing method used by shipping carriers. It's a way to charge for the space your package takes up in their trucks and planes regardless of its actual weight.
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Local Business
13 Pop-up Shops from Brands, for Inspiration
April 11, 2023 • Sig Ueland
Pop-up shops offer online brands the opportunity to engage with consumers, solicit feedback, and test new products and services.
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Inventory
Rising Costs Prompt New Return Policies
April 3, 2023 • Marcia Kaplan
The era of free returns, unlimited returns, and returnless refunds has been enormously expensive to most merchants.
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Inventory
T-shirt Seller on Licensing, Drop-shipping, More
March 31, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Kevin Stecko launched 80sTees.com in 2000 selling t-shirts imprinted with pop-culture items. Fast forward to 2023, and the site has 120,000 SKUs.
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Payments
Apple Pay Later Could Upend BNPL Space
March 30, 2023 • Armando Roggio
Apple Pay Later is poised to capture serious market share in the buy now, pay later space. Merchants could benefit.
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Finance
Hubris Upended Silicon Valley Bank
March 19, 2023 • Marcia Kaplan
The demise of Silicon Valley Bank was the culmination of balance sheet mismanagement, aggressive expansion, and reliance on a relatively small number of customers.
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Amazon & Marketplaces
Amazon Consultant on Competition, Black-hat Sellers
March 10, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Amazon's marketplace in 2023 is crazy competitive. Ken Freeman, a former Amazon seller turned consultant, loves the challenge.
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Business
Concealed Gun Safe Maker Seeks New Markets
March 3, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Tony Smith acquired TimberVaults, a direct-to-consumer seller of concealed gun safes, for the expansion opportunities, such as hidden storage of jewelry and documents.
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Finance
Actually, Ecommerce Excelled in 2022
March 2, 2023 • Marcia Kaplan
Ecommerce sales in the U.S. and worldwide posted strong growth in 2022, despite headlines to the contrary. Global ecommerce retail sales grew by nearly 10% and reached a record 19.7% of total retail.
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Amazon & Marketplaces
Charts: Fastest Growing Global Marketplaces
February 28, 2023 • Adel Boukarroum
Online marketplaces sell more than consumer goods and include homes, cars, services, and more. Here's our rundown of fast-growing global marketplaces.
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Business
Profit from Paid Acquisition Key for Ecom Owner
February 24, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Zack Stuck acquires and launches ecommerce companies. His top rule? Customers acquired from paid campaigns must be immediately profitable.
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Inventory
Can Fast Fashion Ever Be Sustainable?
February 19, 2023 • Marcia Kaplan
Inexpensive polyester-based garments are quick to make and quicker to dispose. The environmental impact is devastating.
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Business
The Rolex of Nutritional Supplements
February 17, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Mike Tecku sold his successful Amazon stores, retired, and became bored. His latest venture is Momentum, a maker of nutritional shakes, which he calls "the Rolex of supplements."
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Business
Maker of Apple Watch Bands Looks to Diversify
February 3, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Braxton Manley launched Braxley Bands in 2017 from a college project. He's now selling internationally and looking to diversify his product line.
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Inventory
Disclosure Rules for Alcohol, Cannabis Sales
February 1, 2023 • Jeff Siegel
Online sellers of alcohol and marijuana face a slew of disclosure requirements, such as permissible age, allowable products, shipping restrictions, and more.