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10 Ways to Help Your Employees Reduce Personal Stress and Increase Work Productivity

Does your small business promote the kind of culture that increases productivity? Overloaded, stressed out employees aren’t helping your bottom line. What’s worse, their stress often starts before they clock in. How to Help Employees Reduce Stress Small Business Trends spoke with Stacey Engle, EVP of Fierce Conversations. She supplied 10 ways to help employees […]

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Ecommerce Product Releases: December 3, 2017

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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, digital coupons, payment solutions, and shipping tools. Got an ecommerce product release? Email releases@practicalecommerce.com. Ecommerce Product Releases Amazon Web Services announces Amazon Sumerian. Amazon Web

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Sales Report: 2017 Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday

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Robust growth marked holiday ecommerce revenue on 2017 Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, bringing some much-needed cheer to nervous merchants. With sellers starting discounts earlier and extending them through December, retailers and analysts alike feared that these major holiday shopping days might lose their luster. Overall Results Adobe Analytics reported that American consumers

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November 2017 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts

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What follows are our 10 most popular articles for November 2017, recognizing that articles we published earlier in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones. 5 Content Marketing Ideas for December 2017 From curated wish lists to telling your company’s story, December 2017 offers content marketers many opportunities to connect

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5 Ways to Improve the Parcel Delivery Experience

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“The last mile” is now the Holy Grail of ecommerce shipping. A merchant can do an amazing job of selling and provide an outstanding shopping experience, yet if the package is late or damaged, a customer may complain on social media, even if the carrier is to blame. You can’t directly control the last mile

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How to Manage “Disabilities” in Your Small Business — With Peter Shankman

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The word “disability” tends to have a negative connotation. But in the business world, things that some people would consider to be a disability can actually offer great benefits. The most recent episode of “Hot Seat,” a series hosted by Ramon Ray, focused on the topic of “disabilities” and how different ways of thinking can

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10 Ways to Step Up Your Small Business Growth Efforts

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Once you’ve established a small business and gotten that first wave of customers, it can be easy to become complacent instead of seeking more opportunities for growth. But if you want to take that next step to keep your small business on the right track, members of the online small business community have some helpful

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B2B: How Manufacturers with Distributors Use Ecommerce

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I often speak with manufacturers that want to sell their products online, directly to retailers or even end users. But they have an established distribution channel that they don’t want to upset. Thus they avoid selling on an ecommerce site. The situation usually is something like this. A manufacturer wants to sell its products as

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Sales on China’s 2017 Singles’ Day Dwarf U.S. Black Friday, Cyber Monday

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China’s Singles’ Day dates to the early 1990s, when college students celebrated “Bachelors’ Day.” The named evolved to “Singles’ Day” in the Internet era. The celebration is held November 11 — 11-11 — each year. Alibaba again claimed the highest grossing ecommerce sales day ever on Singles’ Day, eclipsing last year’s record-breaking 24-hour period by

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Ecommerce Product Releases: November 15, 2017

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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 chat apps, influencers, payment wearables, and Singles’ Day. Got an ecommerce product release? Email releases@practicalecommerce.com. Ecommerce Product Releases ShipStation releases its annual holiday shipping deadlines

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