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Black Friday Weekend Kicks Off Early With Pre-Thanksgiving Sales Up over 19%

by | Ecommerce News & Trends |

sale2With still a few days to go, many online retailers have decided to go for a headstart on Black Friday Weekend, with massive discounts now available in stores such as Amazon, Walmart, and Target –with other outlets joining them by the minute. You know that once Amazon does it, everyone will do it!

Sales are up an impressive 19% on last year, with mobile traffic doubling from 24.4 to 48.5%! We created this post for you guys last week about mobile optimization for this very reason…we knew the boom was coming, and here is it!… Read the full article

Top Tips To Get Your eCommerce Site Ready for The Festive Season!

by | Ecommerce Business Tips |

The Snow has hit the ground (well, in the North East anyway!), Santa letters are being pushed into mailboxes by little kids standing on tippy toe…and millions people across the world are getting ready for the festive season. The question is, are you?

christmaSWith only a few days to go until the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, many retailers have been focusing their efforts solely on this whirlwind event, which is going to cost them severely in the long run when December rolls around. So with that in mind, I’ve put together a checklist for you to ensure that you’re covering all bases in your Christmas prep this year…Except for the Christmas Turkey, you’re on your own with that one!… Read the full article

Walmarts Price Matching Scam Backfires….Bigtime.

by | Ecommerce News & Trends |

Walmart and Amazon really are taking over the news lately in their ecommerce war to be Santas right hand man this Christmas. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Walmart have really begun to focus on their ecommerce offerings in a new strategy launched last year. A massive part of this plan to trump Amazon was to further broaden their ‘price matching’ service into the ecommerce sphere, by also recognizing marketplace vendors. The price matching policy itself states that “We’re committed to providing low prices every day, on everything. So if you find a current lower online price from an online retailer on an identical, in-stock product, tell us and we’ll match it.” However, within hours…this plan had severely backfired.

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Amazon Enter The World Of Online Travel

by | Ecommerce News & Trends |

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The world of online travel booking woke up to some interesting news this morning as it was revealed that Amazon is entering the world of travel e-commerce. Amazon are expected to launch their own travel service for booking hotels and resorts in major cities worldwide in the next few months. The ecommerce Titan intends to roll out Amazon Travel in early January 2015 for a select number of hotels within a few hours’ commute from New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle…. Read the full article

6 Key Steps to Identify your Target Audience

by | Ecommerce Marketing |

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Watch any entrepreneur/start up related show and all you’ll hear is ‘niche, niche, niche’. You have to have one, it’s that simple. The world is too big and you’re just too small to target every single person who ‘might’ have an interest in your business, at least to start off with. So you need to identify the people who WILL, you need to find the customers who are already looking for you. You need to be relevant, interesting and most of all…visible…. Read the full article

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