In “The Growing Adoption of Voice Commerce,” my previous post, I addressed how Amazon’s Alexa is the leading voice-based assistant. I mentioned in the post that Amazon now offers Alexa Voice Service, an API, and the related Alexa Skills Kit, a collection of third-party APIs and tools that make it easier to create voice-driven capabilities for […]
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In the United States, ecommerce is mature and sophisticated. That is not the case in Saudi Arabia, where it’s new and challenging. Hamza el Bayed is co-founder of a Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ecommerce company called Ora La Moda, which sells fashion apparel. I recently spoke with him about the hurdles — and the opportunities —
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Remote employees can supercharge a company. Remote workers are often happier, more loyal, and more productive than their office-bound counterparts. But a business needs to manage remote employees differently and think about things like location and time in a new way. Much has been said and written about the benefits of hiring remote employees. In
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Goals are good. We should all have someplace we are heading. In small business, sharing our goals is critical to their success. We need everyone around us to know and understand what we are trying to achieve. We also need to be careful what goal we telegraph to others. Once again, the US Federal Government
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Perhaps as many as 4,000 brick-and-mortar stores have closed in the United States since last year, creating what some are calling a “retail apocalypse.” This would-be industry-wide meltdown can teach other, still operating, retailers at least three lessons about growth and investment. It could be argued that many of the floundering retail chains failed to
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Here is a list of marketplaces to buy and sell websites. There are full-service brokers to oversee the entire process, vetting the parties, determining market value, and ensuring secure transactions. There are also free and low-cost boards for buyers and sellers to find each other, perform due diligence, and complete the transaction on their own.
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Amazon stated that its Prime Day on July 11 was the biggest sales day in the company’s history. Amazon held its third annual Prime Day on July 11. The event actually began the evening of July 10 and offered 30 hours of deals instead of the 24 offered in the two prior years. Started in
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Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-July from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping services, coding, ecommerce personalization, challenging Amazon, and buying and selling websites. Got an ecommerce product release? Email releases@practicalecommerce.com. Ecommerce Product Releases Amazon launches third annual Prime Day. On July 11, Amazon
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The Amazon marketplace contains nearly 500 million products, from about 2 million sellers. That’s a lot of competition for businesses that sell items there. In fact, being competitive on Amazon is exactly what I’m going to discuss in this interview. It’s with Casey Gauss, co-founder and C.E.O. of Viral Launch, a software and services platform helping brands
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While domestic online sales in the United States and the European Union will continue to increase — taking sales away from brick-and-mortar stores — growth rates will flatten out over the next 10 years. The most explosive growth will be in worldwide cross-border ecommerce, with the Asia Pacific region leading the way. Research firm Forrester foresees
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