Running an ecommerce business means getting creative when you can. And one way you can get creative is by looking at 2022 holidays. Why? When you look back at other marketing campaigns, one thing you may notice is brands are embracing…
The pandemic has fundamentally changed buyer behaviors. After being abruptly pushed into the spotlight, digital purchasing quickly became the new normal. Customers adapted rapidly, too, prioritizing brands that offered engaging online experiences, responsive product pricing, and on-demand shipping options. But…
Share via: If you are an artist and want to sell your own handmade products, navigating the ecommerce space can feel overwhelming – especially with all of the different platforms available. Amazon and Etsy are both massive sites with consumer…
Please Note: The gross merchandise value data presented below (“GMV”) is based on aggregate sales activity through our platform on marketplaces across our entire customer base globally. The growth percentages are based on “same store sales” (i.e., only accounts generating…
Share via: Shopify is one of the most popular ecommerce platforms and dropshipping is a common business model. It’s easy for people who want to start an ecommerce business to get into dropshipping because there’s no need to produce products,…
Share via: Thinking about expanding your product-based business to Instagram, but don’t know where to start… or how to actually make it profitable and worth the time? Instagram is now one of the more common ways to both shop online…
Bounce rates represent the percentage of your website visitors who land on one of your home and product pages and leave your website without taking any action or moving to a different page. Sites with high bounce rates struggle to…
The 2021 holiday season is already in full swing, and Thanksgiving hasn’t even arrived. There are industry predictions of solid, double-digit e-commerce growth and record sales, despite lapping the COVID-induced spike in e-commerce last year. Adobe Analytics has forecast 11%…
Share via: eBay is one of the most popular platforms for beginning online sellers. It’s one of the oldest eCommerce marketplaces, and most consumers are very familiar with the platform. However, as your eBay sales grow, you have to start…
When shopping online, customers rely heavily on product descriptions to make purchase decisions. If they understand how a product helps solve their problems and aligns with their values, they’ll buy. If they don’t, they’ll switch to another option. Because of…
Google recently released its earnings for Q3, reporting continued strong revenue growth of 41% versus the same quarter in 2020. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai used the earnings call to recognize that it has been five years since he laid out…
As we head into the end of the year and start a new one, online stores tend to see lower website traffic and lower sales. Shoppers, fresh off a binge of retail spending, are focusing their energy elsewhere. As a…
Share via: You’ve decided what kind of ecommerce business you’re going to run. You’ve done your homework and chosen Shopify as the ecommerce platform you’ll use. Now? Your head’s swimming with a ton of things to be done before your…
Share via: If you’re considering starting a dropshipping business, one of the first choices you need to make is the ecommerce platform you’ll use to host your online store. Let’s take a look at some of the best ecommerce platforms…
During ChannelAdvisor Connect 2021, the exclusive global gathering of forward-thinking e-commerce and marketing professionals held September 14-15, Senior Product Manager Michele Maginty and Senior Product Manager Alison Held presented How to Successfully Manage the Entire Consumer Journey, a session that…
According to eMarketer, U.S. social commerce sales will hit $36.62 billion in 2021. Social commerce brings tangible opportunities to drive sales and create loyal customers, and many brands are using it to their advantage to reap serious rewards. In this…
With the holiday retail peak forecast to rise by 11.3%, there is no doubt that there is a lot of revenue potential up for grabs. The obstacle, however, is the current competitive landscape for eCommerce, with many more online retailers…
Share via: Amazon has become one of the top platforms for eCommerce sellers over the past few years. The company has greatly expanded seller services in an effort to attract sellers from other platforms, and it has new special tools…
A decade. Ten eventful, remarkable years. In Digital Commerce 360’s 2022 Leading Vendors to the Top 1000 Retailers, ChannelAdvisor achieved recognition as the #1 channel management vendor in the industry — for the tenth year in a row. A lot…
COVID-19 has disrupted all areas of ecommerce, and one of them is the supply chain. According to Accenture, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies are seeing supply chain disruptions from the pandemic, and 55% of them plan to downgrade their growth…
Imagine a one-stop shop for pricing on Amazon — one location displaying solid data you can use to analyze pricing decisions across the marketplace giant. Sound too good to be true? It isn’t. The Pricing Console is a feature in…
RETHINK Retail, a go-to destination for executive-led insights into the trends and innovations transforming the global retail landscape, recently featured ChannelAdvisor in its Solution Spotlight, highlighting the qualities that make our company distinct and the impact of our innovations on…
Share via: The ecommerce industry has been growing rapidly since the pandemic in 2020, and its growth isn’t slowing down any time soon. Global retail ecommerce sales are projected to see a 385% increase in growth from 2014 to 2023.…
In 2015, Amazon launched a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace to claim a slice of the rapidly increasing need for B2B ecommerce. Providing a convenient way for businesses to order items on-demand gave the e-tail giant a glimpse at the wants and…