Hear that jingle? It’s not a holiday song. In fact, it’s more like “cha-ching” -- the sound of record Cyber Week sales achieved in 2017. Online sales totaled $19.6 billion over the five-day period between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday.…
You can’t start preparing for the holidays or peak season sales too soon – but you can begin, too late. Now is the prime time to start prepping for that roller-coaster experience of holiday sales. This year, experts predict eCommerce…
As more stores close their doors, eCommerce sales in the U.S., continue to rise. In fact, according to eMarketer, online retail sales are set to double between 2015 and 2020 when they will exceed the $692 billion mark. What are…
What do headless commerce and cloud computing have in common? They are among recent eCommerce trends that are changing the face of online selling today. Some are recent eCommerce trends – predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. Others like chatbots and…
Blockchain. It’s being called the next generation of the Internet – a technology that will have far-reaching effects across societies, world economies, and throughout business and industry. Recently, Retail Info Systems News called blockchain technology “the omnichannel-of-old buzzword of 2017”…
This has been a whirlwind year packed with events and digital shifts felt worldwide by everyone, especially retailers. New technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence have stormed on the retail scene while political stirs created a climate of…
This year’s holiday shopping season is one for the record books with Cyber Monday consumer spending hitting $3.45 billion – blowing past last year’s Cyber Monday numbers by more than 12%. A record-shattering 154 million consumers shopped online and in…
The word is out: The 2016 holiday season is setting up for growth in online sales and seasonal jobs. As pent up demand is released post-election, consumers are looking to shop and spend more. The National Retail Federation predicts that…
It’s not too late to get in on fright night’s record popularity and drive eCommerce Halloween sales. Halloween is all about disguise – from super heroes to slashers, and princesses to politicians, just some of this year’s top-selling costumes. But…