More people will sell secondhand items online this year because of the ease of mobile apps, according to Suzanne Wouk, founder of SnapPost. 2016 will be the year of mobile ecommerce, eventually eclipsing web commerce, according to GoDaddy executive Steven Read more
Higher shipping costs is one of the biggest challenges facing online sellers in 2016, according to Xudong Yan. “With the new USPS pricing, we see increasing pressure on seller’s cost structure,” he said. Yan is CEO of Teapplix, which provide shipping, Read more
Can retailers and online merchants afford to sell on Amazon? Can they afford not to? Online sellers confront that paradox every day. What changes lie ahead for the ecommerce juggernaut and how will these trends impact marketplace sellers? We checked Read more
The earliest SEO recommendations for making it to the top of Google search result pages called for quality, authoritative content. Over the years as people gamed Google to get better listings, Google gamed right back against the more odious attempts Read more
Internet Retailer magazine is accepting nominations for its annual Excellence Awards that will be presented during the IRCE conference in Chicago in June. The Internet Retailer Excellence Awards, now in their second year, recognize the achievements and innovations of e-retailers, Read more
UPS has designated January 6, 2016, National Returns Day when it expects customers to ship more than a million packages back to retailers on that day alone. Not exactly a holiday for merchants to celebrate. By the end of the Read more
Amazon Prime helped the marketplace set records for its 21st holiday shopping season. More than three million members worldwide joined Prime during the third week of December alone, and over 200 million more items shipped for free with Prime this Read more
The reach of the Star Wars brand and the scope of the marketing power of its new owner Disney proved as inescapable as a Death Star tractor beam. Variety reported a $528 million global opening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the biggest Read more
Pinterest rolled out a new shopping feature on Thursday. Users of the social networking site who save a “buyable pin” on one of their Pinterest “bulletin boards” will be notified if the item featured in that pin drops in price. Read more
Online shoppers made history this year by spending a billion dollars a day from desktop computers for nine consecutive days beginning on Thanksgiving Day, the longest streak of billion-dollar days ever, according to comScore. This past Monday was Green Monday, one Read more
