According to sales figures released by the U.S Department of Commerce U.S E-commerce sales has reached $56.99 billion in the third quarter up 17.3% from $48.59 billion for the same period a year ago. Owing to the rise of mobile commerce, e-businesses are experiencing a major breakthrough in sales, l...
According to a new report by Forrester Research the US Online Retail Sales will reach $370 billion by 2017. Online retail will drive employment for over 400,000 individuals of which more than half are salaried employees, with long-term career growth. Similarly, in Europe online retail sales will rea...
Forrester report states that consumer shopping in the US alone will increase by 45% by 2016. Building an e-commerce site is easy. However to build a highly functional, user specific e-commerce platform for driving revenues is a challenge. With the inclusion of innovative features an e-commerce site ...
It is a proven reality that users will abandon your e-commerce website if they can’t find the products and services they are searching for. Search engine for ‘search’ in e-commerce is not a new concept however the way it is revolutionizing user behavior is a hot topic of discussion...
A majority of eCommerce websites suffer from huge losses every year because potential customers abandon the shopping cart at the last moment i.e. they do not complete the checkout process. This is a big problem and leads to a number of other problems such as a decrease in the ROI and conversion rati...
The online-retail industry is growing by leaps and bounds. Both, men and women, are spending hours browsing through various eCommerce websites to buy products which include but are not limited to - books, equipment, grocery, apparel, cosmetics and digital content. This is due to the convenience pro...
Does an ecommerce website need to be visually appealing? You might think this is an innocuous sounding question, which should only be answered in the affirmative. But, the answer to this question is a matter of great debate. Everyone has his/her own view point on the importance of visual appeal for ...
If you want your ecommerce website to achieve a degree of success you will need to optimize it for Google Search. This is a challenge in itself, because an ecommerce website offers SEO experts limited avenues through which it can be optimized. But this doesn’t mean, for a moment, that the opti...
Checkout is the final stage of the shopping cycle on an ecommerce website. All online shoppers expect this stage to be completed seamlessly and in an effortless manner. Typically, to complete the checkout process a client has to provide a lot of information like personal information, shipping addres...
It’s not business, it’s personal! Yes, we are talking about ecommerce and the fact that online businesses are trying to take the whole concept of personalization to another level altogether. To put it simply, it’s all about you, the shopper. The often repeated ‘clich&ea...