Ecommerce Club Blog

26th March 2020

Recently our Amazon Director, Dan Simmonds, spoke with WARC about how brands can maximise sales on Amazon’s Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day is the annual shopping holiday that’s exclusive to Prime subscribers. Unlike Black Friday or Cyber Monday, deals last up to 36 hours. As an established selling event, it accounted for an estimated $7.16B in sales in 2019… Read more »

26th March 2020

Things are a bit chaotic everywhere right now—and magic wands are proving hard to find. However, We Make Websites want to help where we can. So we’ve put together some quick-win suggestions to help your Shopify store’s conversion and AOV during the COVID-19 crunch. Read more at We Make Websites 

26th March 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCOA) comes in from 2020, raising the bar for US privacy protection. But what does this mean, and how might it affect your shopify operations? Read more at We Make Websites

26th March 2020

Visualsoft Partners incorporates three separate partner types. Technology Partners build features that enhance the VS Commerce platform for merchants. Solution Partners work for merchants, developing ecommerce websites built using the VS Commerce platform. Finally, Community Partners grow our community of like-minded individuals and businesses which share Visualsoft solutions and merchants with one other. Verified partners… Read more »

19th March 2020

Disney’s new streaming service Disney+ has seen a rise in interest in the lead up to its launch on March 24th, according to new research.  The study of 2,175 internet users in the UK by GlobalWebIndex, reveals that 14% of UK already purchased a one-year subscription or will be subscribing on a monthly basis. Read… Read more »

18th March 2020

Amazon is temporarily blocking certain items in its warehouses, to cope with demand for household essentials due to the coronavirus pandemic. It means third-party sellers of non-essential items could find it difficult to ship orders to customers. The move will last until 5th April and cover warehouses in the US and Europe. Read more at… Read more »

16th March 2020

Popular shoe brand Crocs have launched the Crocs Jibbitz Charmes, you can virtually customise a pair of Crocs with Jibbitz shoe charms. The new digital tool was created in partnership with LiveArea, a global customer experience and commerce agency. The tool, which has been built using Salesforce Commerce Cloud, has already triggered an 18 per… Read more »

12th March 2020

In a saturated retail landscape, acquiring new customers is essential, but retaining them is the holy grail of success. While it is alluring to win new customers, maintaining a customer not only costs about 5-25X times less but also leads to a higher ROI. But what are the most effective ways of enhancing customer retention… Read more »

12th March 2020

Gemma Spence is CEO at OMG Transact, Omnicom Media Group’s ecommerce specialist practice. The UK is the world’s third largest ecommerce market behind China and the US, accounting for $101bn in 2019 alone.  But Amazon holds almost 40% of the European market and more credit card details than any other company on earth which makes… Read more »

12th March 2020

Holding an increasing amount of global e-commerce platform marketshare, Shopify and Shopify Plus are attracting many e-commerce big-hitters. More and more brands are migrating to the platform to sell more online. Without further ado, here are the Shopify superstars. Read more at We Make Websites 

12th March 2020

Your guide to customer service monetisation and sales optimisation. Read more at Heyday AI

12th March 2020

How AI and FAQ automation frees up time for agents and helps merchants monetise customer inquiries. Mobile commerce is becoming more and more popular, and who can blame consumers when they can now browse and shop from the comfort of their couch or compare options while they’re shopping in-store? Customers are now defaulting to their… Read more »