Over half of customers start researching Christmas gift ideas before December. These customers want gift guides. For those that haven't yet started, gift guides are the perfect reminder that Christmas is coming up soon, to get them thinking about everyone they need to buy for, and showcase your products as [...]

According to Yes mail Interactive, 69.8% of people starting their Christmas shopping before the 1st December. With singles day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions coming at us from every angle, it's impossible to miss that we are already into core Christmas shopping season. But even if you don't want [...]

No one is exactly sure how singles day started, but the most popular e-commerce legend is that it emerged from the dorms of Nanjing University in 1993 when four single male students got together to discuss how to make single life more fun. One suggested that because of the ones in [...]

What is Small Business Saturday? Black Friday and Cyber Monday tend to be dominated by big businesses. Small Business Saturday was introduced by American Express, in an attempt to redress the balance. Initially introduced in the US 7 years ago, an impressive 72 percent of U.S. consumers now know about [...]

An e-commerce website's appearance, usability, and features should shout trustworthiness and professionalism. How an e-commerce website looks and works indicates its safety and credibility to potential customers. Therefore, the essential rule of good e-commerce website design is understanding what makes your website enjoyable for a customer to use. The day your [...]

Some of the biggest retailers of all time owe much of their growth to cross-selling. Cross-selling can help companies nurture and maximize relationships with current customers, increasing profits and efficiency. From the sweeties at the supermarket checkout, to the plant pots in Ikea displayed with a plant sold separately ready [...]

eBay links policy   From October 2017, eBay links policy states that sellers are no longer allowed to share contact information in item descriptions, images or eBay Shops. Ebay sellers now need to remove contact information from both active and new listings. This includes information included in images such as phone number, [...]

BigCommerce SEO Basics Your BigCommerce is your own unique e-commerce area of the internet. It is your responsibility as a merchant to market your site and get customers to visit. Search engine optimization (SEO) is only one part of that marketing mix, but most online shoppers start the buying process [...]

The dream of anyone setting up their own online e-commerce business is that it will grow and grow and, to paraphrase Only Fools and Horses’ Del Boy, “One day we’ll be millionaires”. But growth has some other ‘cushdy’ advantages outside of riches – economies of scale. The idea is a [...]

During the five day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday in 2016 consumers spent a total of $12.8 billion online in the U.S, according to Adobe Digital Insights. That represents a 15% increase over 2015. Nevertheless, that figure pales compared to the $17.8 billion spent online on China’s 2016 Singles [...]