Starting your eCommerce business from scratch is never a walk in the park. For starters, you will need to know the ground rules to ensure that your business doesn’t crash and burn during your first months.

An article in the Wall Street Journal in January 2019 called email marketing the “only guaranteed delivery option the Internet has left.” And it’s true—as much as your customers may live on social media, there’s no guarantee the marketing messages you post will pass in front of them. With email, your messages will end up in their inboxes. That alone makes email an important, if not the most important, marketing channel for eCommerce today.

In 2018 Walmart came second in the list of the most popular online retailers in the US, outdone only by the retail behemoth Amazon. Walmart is one of the most recognized brands in the world and it is hugely popular among buyers and seller alike.

Starting any business involves a great deal of planning. Analyzing and calculating all ins and outs and building up a budget.

Amazon is considered a fair trading platform where all sellers where all sellers have equal rights and chances to find customers. Although some traders have found a way to dodge in some tricky ways. These actions can be done either intentionally or unintentionally. In any case, after collecting some of these actions, risks for the account may appear. These are warning, restriction, or suspension.

With the recent Amazon’s announcement about making free one-day shipping a golden standard for delivery to its Prime members, it is easy to imagine that the stakes have become higher for online retailers all over the world. The competition tightens even for the largest online marketplaces like eBay and Walmart.

Discover the latest advancements in Shopify's online store experience unveiled at the annual partners' conference in Toronto. Explore core updates, such as website-based sections for customizable content on any page, time-saving master pages, and pre-configured starting points for faster store setup. Dive into the convenience of portable content and the ability to draft online store experiences before publishing. Benefit from an improved user interface for intuitive navigation during store creation.

Many merchants are asking themselves whether selling on Amazon would be beneficial for their business. It is a logical question as Amazon is the most popular marketplace one the USA market that takes up 49% of the whole local ecommerce scene. Everyone wants to take a part of this lucrative pie.

Analytics is a full-proof way to learn what your customers really need instead of guessing what they might need. Google Analytics has become a goldmine of e-commerce data for online sellers all over the world.

Over the last decade, we have witnessed a huge rise in the number of customers who choose online stores and marketplaces as one of their primary shopping sources.