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Start 2026 Strong: Why Payment Experience Impacts Conversion

Start 2026 Strong: Why Payment Experience Impacts Conversion

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Conversions, Conversion Rate, and Optimization for Ecommerce

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How to Leverage 2023 Ecommerce Trends in 2024

Ecommerce Trends in 2025: Process Automation

Ecommerce Trends in 2025: Process Automation

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Feedback and Review Emails for Ecommerce: How to Craft Effective Messaging

Feedback and Review Emails for Ecommerce: How to Craft Effective Messaging

The 15 Most Popular Types of Sales Promotions

The 15 Most Popular Types of Sales Promotions

How to Curate Content for Your Ecommerce Customers

How to Curate Content for Your Ecommerce Customers

Planning Effective Content That Serves Your Business

Planning Effective Content That Serves Your Business

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Start 2026 Strong: Why Payment Experience Impacts Conversion

Start 2026 Strong: Why Payment Experience Impacts Conversion

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The 7 Most Popular Types of Business Structures

How Entrepreneurs Can Deal with Failure (Large or Small)

How Entrepreneurs Can Deal with Failure (Large or Small)

How to Leverage 2023 Ecommerce Trends in 2024

How to Leverage 2023 Ecommerce Trends in 2024

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Why We Love to Hate Stock Photos (And When it's Okay to Use Them)
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Why We Love to Hate Stock Photos (And When it's Okay to Use Them)

You know what people have a lot of opinions about? Stock photos. It seems like every day another article pops up explaining why stock photos…

Meg Nanson
Art and Science: The Evolution of Effective Marketing
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Art and Science: The Evolution of Effective Marketing

Is marketing art? Science? Both? In the halcyon days of marketing’s youth — stylized and idealized thanks to media efforts like Mad Men, a…

Doug Bonderud
Using Mobile Marketing to Enhance Social Media Campaigns
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Using Mobile Marketing to Enhance Social Media Campaigns

Gone are the days when you mainly checked social media after reaching your computer. It’s the mobile era; nearly every consumer is accessing…

Alexa Lemzy
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Marketing & Promotion

The Rise of Emojis in Marketing and How to Use Them :)

Whether you like them or not, the growing presence of emoji usage in marketing and business is something to take note of, and hopefully take…

Sean O'Connor
Effective B2B Marketing Strategies for Online Businesses
Marketing & Promotion

Effective B2B Marketing Strategies for Online Businesses

The business-to-business segment of ecommerce is huge; in 2014 alone it banked $1 trillion in sales, and it shows no signs of slowing. To…

Volusion
7 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Online Store
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7 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Online Store

“Build it and they will come,” goes the line, but with so many options for online shoppers, how do you get them to come? Selling online mean…

Josh Pruett
Targeting Your Content for Different Generations
Marketing & Promotion

Targeting Your Content for Different Generations

Finish this sentence: “Back in my day…..” Now imagine that sentence posted on your site, or your Facebook account somewhere. That statemen…

Josh Pruett
Turning Character into Content Creation
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Turning Character into Content Creation

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5 Ways an Explainer Video Will Help Sell More Products
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5 Ways an Explainer Video Will Help Sell More Products

Looking for a new way to talk about your products. Explainify's Eric Hinson shares his tips for using storytelling, in the form of expla…

Eric Hinson
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