Company culture plays a huge role in the success of your organization and the development of your employees. In fact, many businesses that suffer from unengaged workers, unproductive environments, and high turnover rates often find that their culture slip-ups are to blame. The truth is that culture and employee engagement go hand in hand. Businesses […]
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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 text-to-order shopping. Got an ecommerce product release? Email [email protected]. Ecommerce Product Releases BigCommerce and Visa partner to speed up checkout. BigCommerce and Visa have announced
Now is the time to set website performance goals for 2018. To do this, know where your business stands now. Be clear on past performance before you set goals for the new year. Create a spreadsheet with the key metrics to track for 2018. Fill in those metrics from 2017. You may even want to
As the year draws to a close, we’ve compiled a list of the 25 most popular articles published during 2017, based on the number of page views. Popular subjects included social networks, SEO, design, and various ecommerce tools. Articles that we published earlier in the year are more likely to be on the list than later ones.
Leadership skills — you know they’re important, but why do they sometimes fall short? Why is it easy to lead some people, but not others? Sure, some people aren’t willing to meet you halfway, but how do you reach a great employee who seems to shut down when you interact with him or her? While
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Business-to-business marketplaces have existed for years. Some are private, for a specific supply chain. Other exchanges are public, for any business to participate. In this post, I’ll list 20 leading, public B2B exchanges, for business to buy and sell products. 20 Leading B2B Exchanges Amazon Business is the B2B side of that company. It works
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Purchases made with stolen payment cards cost the ecommerce industry billions of dollars a year worldwide. But, in at least some cases, merchants could have avoided losses had they recognized the telltale signs of fraud. Fraudulent ecommerce orders typically fall into two categories. Friendly fraud is when a customer places an order with her own payment
Here are my favorite new mobile productivity apps of 2017. There are new apps for to-do lists, financial management, email campaigns, color design, and meditation. “Best of” lists are always subjective. If your favorite new app of 2017 did not make this list, be sure to include it in the comments below. Files Go Files
The concept of social responsibility has been part of companies’ operations for a while now. But while social responsibility was once seen as being green or donating to charitable organizations, it’s taking on a broader meaning these days. Perhaps due to constant sharing on social media, consumers — especially millennials and younger — have come
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“Ecommerce Briefs” is my occasional series of news and developments from online merchants. In this installment, I’ll address the continuing omnichannel wars between Walmart and Amazon as well as some interesting moves by Target in its efforts to increase share in the ecommerce arena. Walmart In one of the more interesting partnerships, Walmart and high-end
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