Tomorrow the Supreme Court starts looking at South Dakota v. Wayfair, a critical case for online businesses (not to mention their shoppers). If you’re a small ecommerce merchant, be well advised that if this court case goes the wrong way, you would be required to collect sales taxes for all 50 states on all your sales, …
If you’re going to go with an online advertising partner, you probably want to make double-sure you’re going a best-of-breed ethical player before handing over your hard-earned dollars. Apparently Progressive (the insurance company which keeps bombarding us with those annoying Flo commercials) failed to do so – they feature prominently as a sucker in this …
Ever wondered what all the fuss about dropshipping was about? Wonder no more. The latest issue of FeedFront magazine has an introduction to the subject by Alex Bugeja. It’s not in print yet, but the digital edition is now out online. You can read it here (turn to page 10 for the good stuff): http://feedfront.com/archives/article0010416 …
From an article on Bloomberg today: In its race to catch Amazon.com Inc. in online retailing, Walmart Inc. issued misleading e-commerce results and fired an executive who complained the company was breaking the law, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit. Walmart shares fell as much as 2 percent. Tri Huynh, a former director of business development at Walmart, claims he was …
The Performance Marketing Association has long been anticipating a federal solution of some kind to the state nexus law problems that have greatly impacted affiliate marketing. We may now finally be meaningfully closer to that point. From a statement by Tricia Meyer, Executive Director of the PMA, today: The possibility of that solution may be one …
There are many out there who would have you believe that ecommerce in the USA is all about Amazon these days. For sure Bezos’ giant has a big piece of the pie, but there’s still lots of life in the niches outside the Amazon mainstream if you know where to look. Evidently Shopify’s customers are …
Fascinating post in the Reddit ecommerce section today from an ex-Amazon seller. OK, so it’s actually a phrase not a word, but other than that you get the idea. Sell on Amazon at your (brand’s) peril: As an ex-Amazon seller, Amazon Basics is an ugly word. It boils down to Amazon analyzing 3rd party seller …
In the wake of Zuckerberg’s recent announcement, many publishers are wondering what’s next for their business if they were dependent on Facebook traffic for driving revenue. An interesting discussion on Facebook traffic just started on Reddit yesterday: Seriously, how much of Facebook ads traffic is fake? from startups In particular, this comment from a (claimed) …
“An estimated $16 billion will be lost to ad fraud this year, and a significant portion of that will go to criminals who use bots and other nefarious means to siphon money out of the digital ad ecosystem.” Read the full article here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/these-publishers-bought-millions-of-website-visits-they Interesting discussion about it on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16018962 Remember children, …
Most of us know that Facebook and Google are the two big daddies when it comes to share of advertising dollars, but how big exactly are we talking? Some facts and figures here: The Digital Advertising Duopoly