eCommerce
Amazon Sales Growth By Retail Category [CHART]
Food is one of the most underpenetrated digital sales categories in the US: eMarketer expects only 2.8% of food and beverage sales will occur online this year.
Read MoreElements Of A Great Online Shopping Experience [CHART]
Online shoppers enjoy using mobile devices for their e-commerce activities, but a great online shopping experience depends on more than just ease-of-use on mobile devices. That’s according to a report from Namogoo, which surveyed almost 1,400 online shoppers in the US on the factors that make and break the e-commerce experience.
Read MoreInstagram Influence [INFOGRAPHIC]
This infographic from X-Cart illustrates the many ways in which Instagram is exerting its influence as a social media channel.
Read MoreAmazon Marketplace Sales, 2016-2019 [CHART]
Amazon’s marketplace sales not only have leapfrogged its direct sales business, but marketplace growth is significantly outstripping that of direct operations, which means the gap between marketplace and direct will grow larger in coming years.
Read MoreInvoluntary Churn Rates For Subscription Businesses
Keeping subscribers satisfied with products and services is one thing – but what about involuntary churn, such as through failed payments and credit card declines? Recurly dives into its data to provide some benchmarks.
Read MoreChallenges To Mobile Commerce
The percentage of e-commerce sales made using a mobile phone decreased last year. That’s according to a report from Forrester Research, which says that mobile phones accounted for 36% of online retail sales last year, down from 43% in 2016.
Read MoreAutomated Marketing Emails
Just 1 in 5 marketers say they use most or all marketing automation features available to them, and even fewer (18%) consider themselves to be Advanced or an Expert.
Read MoreeCommerce Sales Growth By Category [CHART]
Despite persistent gloom and doom surrounding the retail industry, the first half of the year has been positive for most product categories. According to the newly released monthly retail sales report from the US Census Bureau, for H1 2018, retail sales (excluding auto parts and gasoline) totaled $2.06 billion, up 4.9% year over year.
Read MoreeCommerce Market Share [CHART]
When it comes to the US ecommerce market, Amazon is leaving the competition in the dust. This year, the online shopping juggernaut will capture 49.1% of the market.
Read MoreEmail Personalization Tactics [CHART]
More than three-quarters (77%) of marketers are personalizing their email marketing, which, joined by websites (52%), are the only channels in which a majority use personalization. That’s according to the 2018 Trends in Personalization report [PDF] from Evergage and Researchscape International, which surveyed 300 marketers on their personalization efforts.
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