Companies that don’t take mobile shoppers into account are ignoring a significant segment of the population, according to a new report.  Sterling Commerce and Demandware determined that around 15 percent of consumers use mobile devices to make purchases online.

A good product, a good price, and decent customer service can go a long way towards making a company successful.  Anymore, though, it’s also almost necessary to have a strong presence in online search results.  So this week, we’re bringing you the names of some organizations that have been labeled “The Best Top 10 eCommerce [...]

Ready or not, geolocation features – which will allow people to automatically communicate their position in the real world – appear to be coming to Facebook.  And although that may sound like bad news for ecommerce, this could be very beneficial to online operations, too.

Purchases made via mobile phones will come to represent a significant part of the ecommerce market, according to new statistics from ABI Research.  Indeed, ABI Research believes that people will use their phones to spend about $119 billion in 2015, which will equal about eight percent of the total. Does this signal that mobile shopping [...]

Online retailers who haven’t made room in their business plan for PayPal may want to rethink things.  PayPal’s introduced new APIs, a new developer portal, and introductory services pricing designed to make it much more appealing to some very important people and companies.

Fresh statistics concerning the performance of ecommerce merchants have been released, and there’s good news and bad news.  The good: business is booming for a great many organizations.  The bad: a large number of firms have also experienced significant sales drop-offs.

Odds are good that your average customer is feeling the effects of the recession, and odds are good that you’ve made some sort of response in terms of advertising or price adjustments.  But if you want have a better idea of what’s happened (and thus what kind of reaction is appropriate), new data from Mint [...]

Following the holiday bonanza, January can be a dead month for many retailers. Recent numbers from Nielsen revealed the ten companies that best survived (in terms of online conversion rates) the quiet time. Other businesses should be able to learn something from the retailers’ success, although, to be fair, there are definitely some seasonal patterns [...]