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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

People have a fixed idea of what an ecommerce site should look like. The Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the six-most important factors in building trust with an ecommerce company are : Brand; Navigation; Fulfillment; Presentation; Up-to-date technology; Security logos. Follow conventions.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. We were hot.

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The next phase of innovation

Start Up Blog

Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. The digital era has provided inordinate consumer value through data mobility, entertainment on demand, social connection, digital connectivity, smart devices and ecommerce to name a few. But, they have become an invasive species.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Early this year Amie Fineberg, who has been my amazing assistant for over 10 years, mentioned that she and several other employees at Benchmark had fallen in love with a new ecommerce service, and that I might want to check it out. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

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$1bn sales in 17mins 58s – Alibaba

The Equity Kicker

The business was founded in 1999. Ecommerce' That compares with Amazon’s market cap of $141bn and Google’s of $375bn. At heart this is mostly a story about the size of China, but it also talks to the power of the internet as a platform for building large scale enterprises.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Naturally, the types of products a certain eCommerce site sells and the kind of audience it caters to have an enormous impact on how recommendations should be used and presented in the store, and also on the kind of logics that work best for them. Where Can You Use Recommendations? Main Page Recommendations. Popular Products.

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How to build a culture code that sticks

Austin Startup

I founded Volusion in 1999 out of my childhood bedroom, and stayed on as CEO until 2011, when I left for a few years to focus on my family. During that time, our company shifted product and focus from small/medium businesses to large enterprise ecommerce.