When you can identify the buying patterns of your most loyal segment, you can craft marketing for them and guide other customers into longer term engagements. That’s the advice of Rob McGrorty, Director of Product and Operations Webgility, a leader Read more
Two ecommerce powerhouses are making some noteworthy moves – one is contracting in Asia while the other takes a stake in a US daily deals site. Rakuten Retrenches Ecommerce giant Rakuten which got its start in Japan has announced plans Read more
Amazon sees opportunity in agricultural goods, and last week, it attended the 2016 World Ag Expo, to talk to farmers face to face, according to the Visalia Times-Delta newspaper. Amazon’s lawn and garden category manager John Reiser attended the event Read more
Etsy is on a mission to grow its business. The marketplace’s CEO Chad Dickerson gave a presentation to Wall Street analysts last week to fill them in; based on his talk, here are 5 things you may not know about Read more
Is it cheaper to buy goods online? A recent report found that 75% of the items its authors reviewed were for sale at the same price online and offline. Anthem Marketing Solutions regularly compares online and in-store pricing of consumer Read more
Linn’s Stamp News dug into President Obama’s budget to find out what he proposed for the US Postal Service. And it did take some digging – “His ideas began on page 1330 of the appendix to the almost $4 trillion Read more
When Adidas instituted a global policy banning dealers from listing products on eBay and Amazon.com effective January 2013, the revelation made headlines. The company told EcommerceBytes at the time that the guidelines would ensure that Adidas and Reebok would be Read more
Sellers now give Etsy more money than they did 4 years ago but without the marketplace raising transaction fees. That’s because Etsy has created a new revenue stream through a line item called Seller Services that didn’t exist 4 years Read more
Online sellers know if things are going well or not with their business and generally know the reasons why. But as you grow your business, it can become more difficult to know what’s behind a rise in sales, a drop Read more
Online sellers who rely on the USPS to deliver their ecommerce orders had some changes to contend with when the Postal service rolled out a rate change on January 17, 2016. EcommerceBytes has been covering the changes closely. We asked Read more
