#BetterDigitalCommerce
eCommerce around the world. News, tools, tips and everything you should know to make Digital Commerce Better for your customers and yourself.
Collection by Andres Saldarriaga
WIRED
Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach
13+ min · · The ecommerce company is also a cloud computing provider, TV producer, fashion designer, wind-farm backer, and organizer of crowdsourced micro-labor tasks. · Shared by 181, including Andres Saldarriaga, Mark Kaigwa, Charles Baldwin, Andreas Von Gunten, hiten.eth, Vikram Dutt, Jochen Burkhard, Armin Wolf, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Hugo Amsellem, Luca M. Sergio, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Sachin Rekhi, Nico Luchsinger, Backchannel, Luca Like
Vox
The year shopping changed forever
7 min · · Online shopping stopped being the future of retail and catapulted firmly into the present. · Shared by 87, including Aaron Orendorff, Andres Saldarriaga, Dave Kellogg, Scott Galloway, Johannes Dornisch, Marsha Collier
Benedict Evans
Finding a new level for ecommerce — Benedict Evans
2 min · · This year’s lockdowns triggered a huge spike in online sales of every kind, but where would that stabilise? Once things started to calm down, where would the new level be set? We’re now starting to… · Shared by 40, including Johannes Dornisch, Stig Ørskov, Andres Saldarriaga, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Ahrefs
A Simple (But Complete) Guide To Ecommerce SEO
18+ min · · Follow our step-by-step, noob friendly guide to Ecommerce SEO to increase your store's Google traffic. Includes 3 'real world' case studies. · Shared by 43, including Bill Widmer, Lluís Codina, Kris Fannin, Helmi, Andres Saldarriaga
eMarketer
Pandemic Pushes UK Retail Ecommerce Past 30% of Total Retail Sales in 2020
2 min · · From midnight on March 23, the UK government enforced the closure of nonessential retail stores in the UK as part of strict lockdown measures. This shuttering was only lifted on June 15. During those… · Shared by 10, including C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Andres Saldarriaga
The Guardian
How Amazon became a pandemic giant – and why that could be a threat to us all
17+ min · · Online retail grew massively in lockdown, and Amazon reaped huge profits. But where is the company’s relentless innovation and automation heading – and is it time to clip its wings? · Shared by 51, including Keerthi G, Katja Evertz, Andres Saldarriaga, Gerd Leonhard
Econsultancy
Why you need to get to "next-level" digital commerce
2 min · · Erika Goldwater, Director Global Communications at inRiver, explains the concept of "next-level" commerce in B2C and B2B, setting out what ecommerce experiences need to deliver today. · Shared by 8, including Andres Saldarriaga
BBC News (World)
How artificial intelligence may be making you buy things
5 min · · Retailers are increasingly using AI to try to predict and encourage what customers purchase. · Shared by 232, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Terence Mills, Andres Saldarriaga, IronBrigade - Gaming/Vlogs, Nicolas Babin, Andreas Staub, Iain Brown, PhD, John Nosta, Harold Sinnott
Stratechery
Playing on Hard Mode
11+ min · · Airbnb and DoorDash both created new markets where ones did not previously exist; they are startups played on “hard” mode. · Shared by 130, including Scott Monty, Tom Connor, Andres Saldarriaga, Doug Sundheim, Andrew Ermogenous, Kevin Roberts, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Nir Eyal, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Isak
eMarketer
US Ecommerce Growth Jumps to More than 30%, Accelerating Online Shopping Shift by Nearly 2 Years
1 min · · The pandemic has accelerated ecommerce growth in the US this year, with online sales reaching a level not previously expected until 2022. In our Q3 US retail forecast, the top 10 retailers by… · Shared by 16, including Andres Saldarriaga, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Joost de Valk, Ross Dawson
SearchEngineJournal®
Ecommerce Product Page SEO: 20 Dos & Don'ts
8 min · · Ecommerce websites need to get product page SEO right. Here's a guide for what you should (and shouldn't) do when creating and optimizing product pages. · Shared by 47, including Danny Goodwin, Andres Saldarriaga, AJ Ghergich
Benedict Evans
Resetting online commerce — Benedict Evans
5 min · · What’s going to happen in ecommerce and retail? TV? TV ads? Retail? Brands? Online advertising? There are half a dozen different hundred billion dollar industries where all of the cards are being… · Shared by 38, including Chris DeVore, Andres Saldarriaga, Ⓓarío Macchi, Horace Dediu, Mark Kaigwa
Jeff Bullas
5 eCommerce Tools to Increase Site Traffic and Earnings
6 min · · Discover five excellent eCommerce tools that will help your site increase traffic and sales, while also outranking the competition. · Shared by 16, including Andres Saldarriaga, Nicolas Babin, Zac Johnson
Entrepreneur
What Comes Next for Ecommerce and Digital Retail?
3 min · · How can you prepare for the future of online retail? · Shared by 10, including Real Marsha Wright®, Andres Saldarriaga
Benedict Evans
The ecommerce surge — Benedict Evans
1 min · · Both the UK and (today) the USA have given official statistics on how ecommerce and retail have changed during lockdown. The headline numbers are pretty dramatic. The UK went from 20% ecommerce… · Shared by 88, including Birgit Schefer, Florian Graillot, Aaron Orendorff, Andres Saldarriaga, Nick Finck, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Michael Fauscette
unleashedsoftware.com
5 Tips to Improve Omnichannel Inventory Management
9 min · · We'll cover five tips to help you make the most of omnichannel inventory management, spanning cross-channel integration, data visibility and more · Shared by 7, including Gail Gardner, Andres Saldarriaga