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Three Simple Steps to Rank Higher in Search Results: ‘Ramen’ Startup Example

Search drives modern eCommerce. It is not your marketing campaign, social channel or any other means you use to drive potential buyers to your web page but the good old search bar which is the primary tool of any user to find something relevant. So, while thinking about increasing sales in your online store with the paid ads or connecting shoppable links to your website’s official Instagram channel, consider attracting visitors through a more natural way – organic search.

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Vendors for Your Marketplace: Chinese Car Brands Seeking to Succeed in Europe

The automotive industry is an evergreen topic and a business area that is continuously evolving and expanding. It is a stable niche where eCommerce concept can be naturally implemented. An automotive marketplace can adopt multiple forms: it can be a tuning company offering its services to the global market, it can be a local dealer selling cars to a narrow niche or even a car repair shop. Whatever segment you fill, knowing trends in the automotive industry is the key to success. In this article, we are sharing the car industry exclusive insights taken from a Russian top blogger. The article deals with the Chinese brands that are going to make their presence in Europe. Keeping an eye on them, a marketplace owner can find vendors or dealers for his or her selling website.

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How to Make Money from Sharing Economy? Airbnb Case

Digital retail is transforming rapidly to fit the needs of modern society. To succeed in eCommerce, you now should be more social: practicing zero waste, living a sustainable or eco-friendly life, co-living. How to apply these concepts to business? In fact, all of them can be covered by one discipline – the sharing economy.

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Is AI Really Helpful for eCommerce Website?

AI automates services and replaces manual toile helping avoid human errors. For eCommerce, AI application is clear and evident: chatbots, virtual assistants help with personalization on a website; voice searches and visual recognition systems create a better user experience for an online buyer, content-writing systems help with SEO to rank higher at search and boost conversion. These and other AI-type systems have already been used for some time. In this post, we examine some world-known best cases of AI eCommerce applications, advantages, and disadvantages of AI, and what’s the use of AI for an average online retailer.

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Travel Booking Vendors for Your Marketplace

The world is becoming more and more global. Frontiers are getting vanished and people won’t stop looking for beautiful places they’ve never seen before. How to help people in making their dreams come true and get paid for that with minimum effort? Haven’t you ever thought about an online tour marketplace?

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How Google Analytics Enhanced eCommerce Can Impact Your Sales?

Google Analytics Enhanced eCommerce is a tool helping you answer the question WHY not only WHO. Alongside with the default functionality of Google Analytics, now you can form more specific reports on shopping behavior. By doing this you will make a huge step towards understanding your customers much better.

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3DS-2: How Does 3D Secure 2.0 Impact Your CS-Cart Business?

Technology is rapidly evolving year by year. And the payment is not an exclusive case. The updated 3D Secure 2.0 protocol is already taking online security to a whole new level. The protocol provides an opportunity to establish a secure real-time data exchange channel. Adopting this technology allows a more accurate authentication of the online shopper and increased payment speed (since not all transactions will pass authentication with a password). Let’s see how the 3DS 2.0 transition is affecting businesses.

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Gen Z and Great Expectations: Interview with New Fashion Brand

As an eCommerce brand owner, you know the importance of staying ahead of shifts in the fast-paced world of eCommerce. And while Millennials have been your primary target audience in recent years, the landscape is again changing with Gen Z now central to retail strategies. Today we will be discussing Generation Z, generation of consumers born between 1995 and 2005: how they want to shop, and what they find irresistible.

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Unlocking Shopping Cart Abandonment: 8 Key Reasons

Today, let’s consider some basic advice to improve the usability of the shopping cart and the checkout page in an online store. Hopefully, you have already implemented this advice on your website. If not, now is a good time to improve your checkout process so you can increase conversion of sales for your store.

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Bestselling eCommerce Plugins as of 2019

What plugin to install? What add-on is useful and what’s not? How to choose?
These questions are absolutely natural for online store owners. After all, this is quite logical: to make money, it would be nice to learn how to spend it correctly. So, how to finally choose that very right service provider for your business? Which apps are needed and are worth attention, and which ones are secondary?
Let’s see what we’ve got there for you.

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How We Create Add-ons: Interview with Developer

This is the second part of the article: How We Create Add-ons. And today we are talking to our veteran programmer Valery Malyshev (he has been with SimtechDev for 7 years) in order to shed even more light on the add-on development process in the company.

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How We Create Add-ons: Interview with Product Manager

Every month our subscribers receive a newsletter notifying us about the release of a new add-on but have you ever wondered how we make add-ons? I’m Kate, a new content marketer in the company and today I will take you behind the scene and guide you through the process of creating an add-on.

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Affiliate Add-on: How to Build Traffic on Your CS-Cart Website

Affiliate marketing is a strategy when external websites or individuals lead traffic to your website and get a commission from sales of their referrals. You can motivate them by paying sales commissions or giving bonus points for the next purchases. According to Business Insider, affiliate marketing accounts for 15% of all digital media revenue and for over 16% of all eCommerce orders in the USA and Canada.

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Reach the TOP with SEO-friendly CS-Cart!

This post deals with the features availabe in CS-Cart specifically for search engine optimization. The post will guide you through the platform capabilities and give some tips to improve your website SEO using the standard tools and add-ons.

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Surprise Your Customers with Loyalty

Today we’re going to talk about customer loyalty and how to improve it.A close and strong relationship with customers is a fundamental part of your business. Today, the marketplace is incredibly competitive and store owners use various loyalty programs and promotional credits to keep customers coming back. Improving customer loyalty should be a priority for everyone who wants to gain trust and increase sales.

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Affiliate Program For eCommerce Explained
Affiliate Program For eCommerce Explained

Affiliate marketing is a cost-effective and scalable way to generate more revenue for your eCommerce business. You’ll be able to leverage the expertise and web traffic of other websites and only pay affiliates after the sale has occurred. First, develop an eCommerce affiliate program strategy based on your business goals. Then reach out to other websites and build real relationships. You’ll take part in a mutually beneficial marketing tactic and increase your eCommerce revenue in a predictable and scalable way.

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