In order to participate in Amazon Prime shipping, merchants must send their goods to the marketplace’s warehouses under the Fulfillment By Amazon program. In June, the Wall Street Journal said Amazon was testing a program with about 10 merchants to Read more
Retailers of all sizes look to the end of the year for big holiday sales numbers. But the four- to five-week run from Thanksgiving to Christmas finds itself closely followed by back-to-school shopping taking place during the summer months. How Read more
Observers paying attention to Etsy’s Q2 2015 conference call may have picked up on a little tidbit in CEO Chad Dickerson’s remarks. Etsy is capitalizing on mobile commerce and crediting it to the experience offered by their mobile app – Read more
Google recently provided a number of updates to various parts of the company’s advertising business. One change will make it easier for small and medium sized sellers (SMB) to deliver their data feed details to the company. Listed with the Read more
The most recent earning conference call from eBay included a little bit of information hinting at one part of the company’s growth plans. Devin Wenig, now eBay CEO, spoke about business strategy and the future of eBay, and a new Read more
Online retail giant Amazon heavily promoted July 15th as a day of specials for its Amazon Prime members. With ecommerce aspirations of its own, Walmart saw an opportunity to make a play for the non-Amazon Prime members of the online Read more
Amazon raised rates of its payment services on July 1st, meaning higher costs for some ecommerce customers – and if chargebacks weren’t already a pet peeve, now they’ve become quite costly for merchants using Amazon Payments. Amazon is also trying Read more
Iconic credit card issuer American Express once asked the public, “What’s in your wallet?” Now that the company has launched an online payment service called Amex Express Checkout, they’re perfectly fine with people leaving those wallets at home. What American Read more
The Yelp business model connects customers to businesses with a rich feature set and a loaded phone app. But love from its users hasn’t translated into similar affection from Wall Street. Consecutive quarters of disappointing financials have business types wondering Read more
The latest Monetate Ecommerce Quarterly brought disquieting news to the ecommerce industry. Save for the booming 2014 holiday quarter, rates for conversions and adding items to carts have been in decline since the first quarter of 2014, barring Q4. This is taking Read more
