Australian Retailers Need to Brace Their Online Shop for Christmas Shopping Vehemence

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Australian retailers better be prepared with the influx of shoppers in the lead-up to the holiday season and its best that they configure their retails stores to accommodate the expected traffic surge in Q4 2012, a new report said.

Now is the time, Google Australia said, for retail players to prep up their online presence and make sure that visitors using their … Continue reading “Australian Retailers Need to Brace Their Online Shop for Christmas Shopping Vehemence”

Comparing the Top Comparison Shopping Engines

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The upcoming March issue of Website Magazine includes an article on optimization strategies for comparison shopping engines, still a largely misunderstood category and thus a market with a lot of unrealized potential by merchants. There are now hundreds of comparison sites on which retailers can list their products, and the article provides a helpful analysis of the … Continue reading “Comparing the Top Comparison Shopping Engines”

E-Commerce Task Completion & What Users Want

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Retailers should be addressing website task completion issues according to the iPerceptions Retail / E-Commerce Industry Report for Q4 2010 released today.
The iPerceptions research revealed that 40% of people visiting a site with the intention of making a purchase reported the inability to complete their task. Pretty shocking considering that Q4 represents the highest traffic … Continue reading “E-Commerce Task Completion & What Users Want”

Why You Need E-Commerce Video Now

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The biggest takeaway from the State of Video in E-Commerce that we published several months ago, citing conclusions from SundaySky’s Q4 2010 report, was that the large majority of online merchants have thus far underutilized or altogether neglected this simple yet potentially very valuable medium.
The latest release from SundaySky includes new data from the first quarter … Continue reading “Why You Need E-Commerce Video Now”

Master List of Facebook Commerce Platforms

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Utilizing Facebook’s massive audience to help grow an e-commerce business through social networking takes little more than common sense and hard work. However, to take full advantage of the world’s largest social network as an actual selling platform requires a little more know-how than elbow grease.
Facebook as an e-commerce platform makes sense for just about … Continue reading “Master List of Facebook Commerce Platforms”