A third of online shoppers start their holiday shopping on Amazon, followed by Google, according to a survey by Episerver – and a majority of those shoppers turn to Amazon to compare its offerings with what they find on a Read more
UPS is offering shipping discounts to online who use Shippo to manage their multichannel ecommerce orders. The over 35,000 small- and medium-sized businesses that use Shippo now have access to UPS marketplace shipping rates with a discount of up to Read more
Amazon Fresh, which was previously $14.99/month, is now a free benefit for Prime members, Amazon announced on Tuesday. Note that Amazon Fresh is not available to everyone – it’s available in over 2,000 cities and towns. “We’ll continue to expand Read more
Facebook holds training sessions around the country to help small businesses, and earlier this month it held Boost with Facebook Holiday Bootcamp events at 17 of its largest offices and hubs around the world. “We know the holidays are one Read more
How would you feel about the Postal Service delivering your ecommerce packages by drone? (And how would you feel about receiving packages by drone?) The Official Mail Guide (OMG) said the USPS has been exploring drone use and is now Read more
Etsy made some changes to how it deals with reports of technical glitches on its site. First, it’s removing “bugs” – not literally, of course. Rather, it’s changing the name of its “Bugs and Technical Issues” forum to simply “Technical Read more
Canadian sellers have new shipping options through ShipStation thanks to its new partnership with Canpar Express. Canpar Express is one of Canada’s leading parcel delivery companies with over 60 terminals coast to coast, according to ShipStation’s announcement. “Canpar Express offers Read more
eBay noted the impending retirement of Postmaster General Brennan along with changes to the USPS Board of Governors, and it said it would continue to fight on behalf of its small business customers. The eBay Main Street grassroots advocacy program Read more
It’s ironic that the top channel for shopping for tech products is brick-and-mortar stores, but that’s the finding from a new report from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The CTA’s 26th Annual Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study says technology Read more
Kabbage launched a payment solution for small businesses designed to help them get paid faster. “Two-thirds of Kabbage’s more than 200,000 customers rely on invoicing to receive payments today and wait as long as 90 days to be paid,” it Read more
