Now that we’ve entered into Q2, it’s a good time to stop and briefly think about the specific actions you’ve taken to drive ecommerce sales so far this year, and what you’re going to do differently in the months ahead. With only a little over

Gone are the days when you needed a dedicated specialist or agency to handle all of your e-commerce stores’ marketing. With the rapid advancement of social media and email marketing platforms, anyone with an e-commerce store can get ads running and emails sending within a

Are catalogs still relevant? Should ecommerce brands be setting aside portions of their quarterly budgets to print and send physical catalogs as a way to drive repeat sales and awareness? What should they look like? How should they be formatted? These are questions I’ve been

Ecommerce can be a brutal space. Depending on your niche, you might be competing against monsters like Amazon, Target, New Egg, or other well-established players. You might be competing against all of them. It can seem like it’s impossible to win. Even if you have

Picture this. It’s 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning and you’re fast asleep. *Beep* your mobile phone vibrates. You drag yourself to pick the phone thinking that it could be an important text or call. Instead, there’s yet another promotional message from one of the

Events are an important part of marketing your product. This is especially true for the B2B niche, where events bring  tons of potential clients and partners together. There are dozens of major ecommerce conferences, like eTail or the Imagine Conference. You also have hundreds of local

In ecommerce, you don’t just tell stories to entertain your customers, or to make them feel good—you tell stories to sell more products. The reason? The world thrives on stories. Here’s a hard truth you need to understand when it comes to selling to people

In ecommerce, loyal customers are valuable not just for their ability and willingness to provide you with good praise and support—but also for their ability to significantly impact sales. Attracting and converting new customers is an essential part of growing your ecommerce business, but if

I’ve heard business compared to a flywheel. When first starting, you must push as hard as you can to get only a little bit of motion. You’re pushing and pushing and pushing, but your business is only moving marginally faster. Over time, though, as you

As 2016 comes to an end, it’s important as business owners that we spend time reflecting on the lessons we learned over the past 12 months, and thinking about what we can do next year to connect with more people, sell more products, and scale