By Kirby Prickett
5 Ways to Differentiate Your eCommerce Store
You know you want to open a store on WooCommerce. But what makes your eCommerce business special?
How do you differentiate yourself from the many competitors that are out there—your local shopping mall, Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, not to mention the millions of other small and medium-sized eCommerce sellers?
Actually, there are many ways you can differentiate yourself in the eCommerce world. It’s a big, global, market out there, and you only need 1,000 True Fans to build a successful business.
Here are just five of the ways you can differentiate your eCommerce store.
Healthy Business With WooCommerce
If you are running—or thinking about running—a healthy eCommerce business, we’ve found a great study for you to check out.
We’ve also matched the study’s key findings up with a small selection of health-conscious WooCommerce businesses that are putting the research findings into practice.
Stellar: The Choice of a New Generation
Last week we “nerded out” over Stellar, a new financial protocol that we think has the potential to change the fabric of the global financial system.
Hence, the Prospress SF team (i.e. Brent and I) were excited to be able to attend the first ever Stellar Developer Meetup, at the Stripe offices in San Francisco.
If you’ll permit us some further nerding out, keep on reading.
Creating America’s Local Comic Store with WooCommerce
Can you take the familiarity, friendliness and authenticity of your local bricks-and-mortar comic store and turn that into an online business?
That’s what Lucas Sorbo and Dan Behrens of Comic Cartel are doing.
Who is Shopping Online and on Mobile in the US? The Answers Might Surprise You.
Running a successful store means understanding your customers. Are they millennials, baby boomers, or people of all ages? Are you mostly selling to women? Do your customers buy things on their smartphones? How much money do they make?
BI Intelligence has released a handy report recently, reporting on the demographics of who shops online and on mobile.
Will Stellar Finally Fix International Payments?
Whenever you do an international currency transfer—be it an international purchase on your credit card, a purchase of foreign currency, or a transfer of money back to your family in your home country—you can pretty much assume that you’ll lose a fair chunk of cash.
WooCommerce Pre-Orders: Creative, Manufacturing and Other Tasty Applications
Today we’re going to take a look at three types of businesses you could start using WooCommerce Pre-Orders.
Pre-Orders is an extension to offer items to customers that will not be delivered until a specified release date sometime in the future.
What is The Last Mile for ECommerce?
If you keep up with tech news, especially stories relating to Amazon, you’ve probably seen reference to the term “the last mile.” But what does it mean?
The last mile is a metaphor used to describe the movement of goods from a fulfillment centre to their final destination. In other words, the last mile is the last leg of your product’s trip before it arrives on your customer’s doorstep.
The Future of Global Payments and ECommerce
Payments are the lifeblood of eCommerce. It’s no surprise then that there are a hundreds of startups, investors and innovators looking to disrupt payments.
With so many new and existing companies, it can be overwhelming to keep up. That’s why we were excited to find a fantastic slide deck from BI Intelligence on The Future of Payments.
Social Commerce for the Socially-Awkward Store Owner
You know you should be doing “social commerce,” because everyone keeps telling you how good it is for your eCommerce store.
But are you so overwhelmed by the array of social media platforms out there that you feel a little “socially awkward?”
Never fear. Here’s the WooCommerce Social Cheat Sheet: just install the extensions, add your accounts and you will be a social (commerce) butterfly in no time.