Ecommerce Club Blog

26th November 2021

Discover the Top 5 trends that were discussed by 12 industry experts, including Greenlight Commerce, BigCommerce and Attraqt on the future of eCommerce. Are you getting your D2C business future-ready? Read more at Greenlight Commerce

26th November 2021

Picture this – you’ve nailed driving customers to your site. Your traffic graphs are trending upwards from all the right territories (90% of your traffic is not coming from one IP address in China or India), your ad campaigns are getting a good CTR (click-through-rate), but your conversion rate is stubbornly refusing to follow suit.… Read more »

26th November 2021

Social commerce combines the persuasive power of social media and e-commerce to deliver immersive shopping experiences. Recent research predicts that, by 2028, the global market size for social commerce will have grown by 28.4% to US$3,370 billion, with China being the current forerunner. Interactive shoppable videos, an important component of social commerce, are those that viewers can click… Read more »

26th November 2021

We’re all guilty of it, adding countless items to our online shopping basket, getting to checkout and swiftly changing our mind. As a customer, shopping cart abandonment rates aren’t something we probably think about while online shopping, but as a business owner, it’s a lost sale which is incredibly frustrating. The average online cart abandonment… Read more »

26th November 2021

You’ve seen those articles “5 top plugins to optimise your checkout” but they are never based on merchants’ real experiences. Let’s fix that. We’re bringing together real businesses like you to share knowledge of tackling cart abandonment and optimising the checkout journey and learn form experiences of others. We’ll be publishing the findings in early 2022 with an… Read more »

8th November 2021

Research and insight from over 4,500 global consumers and 150 ecommerce decision-makers about the innovations shaping the future of the checkout. Optimising the checkout experience is one of the most crucial parts of the job as a retailer, but with ever-changing customer demands and rising expectations, it can be hard to see which way the… Read more »

8th November 2021

Consumer confidence is returning in the run up to  Christmas, which could prompt people to start shopping sooner and spend more this festive season. According to new research. A quarter of Brits that celebrate Christmas say they will have started thinking about Christmas shopping before the end of August. That’s according to a new report… Read more »

8th November 2021

Social commerce combines the persuasive power of social media and e-commerce to deliver immersive shopping experiences. Recent research predicts that, by 2028, the global market size for social commerce will have grown by 28.4% to US$3,370 billion, with China being the current forerunner. Interactive shoppable videos, an important component of social commerce, are those that viewers can click… Read more »

29th October 2021

A British firm which sells people’s location data has admitted that some of its information was gained without seeking permission from users. Huq uses location data from apps on people’s phones, and sells it on to clients, which include dozens of English and Scottish city councils, in two cases, its app partners had not asked… Read more »

19th October 2021

Tesco have opened their first checkout-free store in High Holborn in central London. The store will enable customers to shop and pay without scanning a product or using a checkout, using technology from retail tech firm, Trigo. The rollout of the GetGo technology to Tesco Express High Holborn follows a successful trial at Tesco’s colleague… Read more »

7th October 2021

Research from over 4,500 global consumers and 150 eCommerce decision-makers to bring you the latest insight into innovations and trends shaping the future of the digital checkout. Optimising the checkout experience is one of the most crucial parts of the job as a retailer, but with ever-changing customer demands and rising expectations, it can be… Read more »

5th October 2021

Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the “disruption” which was caused after its social media services went down for almost six hours which  impacted more than 3.5bn users worldwide. After an internal technical issue took Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram offline at about 16:00 GMT on Monday, The scramble to bring it back online… Read more »