The landscape of e-commerce is changing almost as quickly as the weather. Staying on top of emerging trends, your competition, and government regulations is as important as tracking new products for your store. Yet, distilling what’s relevant and what’s not can be challenging.
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Predictions for the 2012 Online Holiday Shopping Season Forrester, a global research and advisory firm, expects online sales to grow 15% over 2011. And predicts $68.4 billion for sales produced in November and December. The National Retail Federation, through it’s Shop.org division, predicts a 12% increase for an estimated $96 billion in sales. Records Set comScore reports that from [...]
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Packt Publishing, the company responsible for bringing my book, “Mastering Magento,” to the market, has announced that they are celebrating the publication of their 1,000th title. This is a pretty remarkable feat considering the company started publishing books only 8 years ago. Anyone who’s worked with open source software, such as Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, JQuery [...]
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First Quarter E-Commerce Sales The US Census Bureau reports that for the first quarter of 2012, e-commerce sales increased 3.1 percent over the fourth quarter of 2011. The total sales reported was $53.2 billion. As the chart above illustrates, e-commerce sales have been steadily increasing from 2003 to 2012. You can view the entire report [...]
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The US Census Bureau E-commerce report for fourth quarter 2011 shows total retail sales of $1.07 trillion, an increase of 1.8 percent from third quarter 2011. The e-commerce sales figures for fourth quarter 2011 increased an estimated 15.5% from fourth quarter 2010. E-commerce sales accounted for 4.8 percent of the total sales in the fourth [...]
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The US Census Bureau released advance estimates of retail sales for November. Total sales were up 0.2 percent from the previous month and 6.7 percent above November 2010. The report indicated that online retail sales were up 0.3 percent from October 2011 and 6.8 percent above 2010. However, non-retail sales were up 13.9 percent over November [...]
Almost $20 billion was spent during the period of November 1 through December 4, 2011 and Gian Fulgoni, comScore chairman, predicts that we will see several more billion dollar online spending days as we approach the middle of December. How Can You Capture Holiday Sales? Michael Koploy, an ERP Analyst at Software Advice recently posted [...]
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comScore released the e-commerce spending totals for the period of November 1 through December 2, 2011. During the reported period, $18.7 billion had been spent online. This marks a 15 percent increase over 2010. Three days recorded over $1 billion in spending: Cyber Monday ($1.25 billion), Tuesday, November 29 ($1.12 billion) and Wednesday, November 30 ($1.03 [...]
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A record $1.25 billion was spent on Cyber Monday alone, this represents a 22 percent increase from the previous year. comScore reports that from November 1st through the 28th, $15 billion was spent at online retail shops. The increase in sales can be attributed to the number of buyers and the average spending per buyer. Both [...]
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As we approach Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday rush, we want to thank our extraordinary clients. We feel honored to be their web development partner. Our e-commerce clients are small business owners who focus on specific product niches, have expertise in the industries they represent, and answer the phone when customers have questions. They truly [...]
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The news on the economy continues to be a drag on holiday spirits. Everyone from presidential candidates to the local barber make the current state of our country’s financial malaise the most important topic of conversation. The outlook for the coming weeks and months overshadows other topics which, in other times, would be argued and [...]
