crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

Flash Tips and Best Practices for Designers: Animation – [link]. Flash Tips and Best Practices for Designers: Animation – [link]. 25 Ecommerce Websites for Your Design Inspiration – [link]. Pricing Tables – Professional and Effective Examples – [link]. 83 3D Typography Design Inspirations – [link].

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

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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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Twitter has teamed up with a number of eCommerce partners to make it all possible (and seamless). You can run Twitter-only sales, host flash sales, product releases, etc. But eCommerce? Is social commerce about to dwarf traditional eCommerce? Is it encouraging social interaction during the traditional eCommerce flow?

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Using SEO best practices is like putting a bright, flashing neon sign on your storefront. trillion in 2014.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

There are many new and constantly developing eCommerce tools on TikTok for advertisers and brands alike, which can be incredibly beneficial for finding your niche on this fast-growing platform. Building a community is of paramount importance if you want to succeed on Tik Tok – and you ’ ll need to flash the cash in order to do it.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

That little bit of extra intent, when compared to other visitor segments, is the reason that conversion numbers (on ecommerce or non-ecommerce sites) for clean direct traffic usually look like these. There is an extra motivation connected to their visit which causes them to type your url of find the bookmark they made.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Third-party cookies are the new Flash. Other websites with which you’ve established yourself: You might have shopping history with an ecommerce site, checkins on a location platform, or account history at a bank. Safari and Firefox have already started to wean advertisers from them. Now, reluctantly, Google is, too.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2014

I knew that Zulily , which Crunchbase describes as ‘A daily deal site for mums, babies and kids’ is an amazing ecommerce success story which IPO’d last year with a valuation in the billions. Ecommerce'

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. Blog eCommerce Resources Lead Generation SaaS Resources' The post Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both? appeared first on ConversionXL.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Boy, there has been a lot of innovation in the eCommerce space in the past few years with GroupOn, HauteLook, Gilt Groupe and others. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

He’s created a blog called #LongLA that is a great combination of the weekly zeitgeist of LA tech plus deep dives into areas like eCommerce that he knows well like this brilliant piece on Zulily and Flash Sales (he was CMO at HauteLook before joining). You can follow Greg on Twitter here.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

In this part, well discuss the frontiers of mobile commerce: trends were seeing in user tests that may fundamentally change eCommerce. A simple example of this is flash sales, which take advantage of the immediacy and personal nature of a smartphone. If you havent already done so, test flash sales.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

Customers actually responded more favorably to “last-minute deals”, flash sale concept than they did to “everyday low prices”. Here’s a brief guide to organizing and running a successful ecommerce flash sale. Ecommerce Flash Sales: The Basics. What is a flash sale, exactly? Source: Pixabay.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Website Tips: Jonathan: Peter, what we’re going to do each week is a new guest will come on and give us a quick tip about anyone of their areas of expertise, so today we have John who’s our eCommerce guy at Palo Alto and he’s going to give us some tips. Peter: Do flash animations still work? John: Thanks Jonathan.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 4, 2020

An ecommerce business or perhaps a rising retail brand must be ready for an increase in sales at any moment. They have a 24-hour emergency service so if you’re hit by a strong wind or flash flood in the night, you can quickly have your defenses repaired. Tracking and Marking.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

Ecommerce has gone through a similar evolution – starting with the simple idea of selling stuff of on the web, with books as the first category, to filling out all the other, more difficult categories (clothes, jewellery, etc.).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

For an eCommerce company, increasing the order size is done by Up-selling (Think extended warrantees, enhanced service, or newer models) or Cross-selling (You got the TV, how about the DVD Player?). For eCommerce sites, increasing the amount of repeat purchases is most often done through savvy email campaigns. image source.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Invodo , a full-service eCommerce video partner for online retailers, today announced a series of enhancements to the Invodo video player. The new player automatically adapts to device platform standards, including HTML5, and provides functionality for sharing eCommerce video via social media and email channels.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

But the last few years, ecommerce has been all the rage. Ecommerce: Monetizeable, overall momentum of online shopping. Flash Sales, subscriptions, and celebrity endorsements seemed to promise some different rules of engagement for this sector. Other areas don’t have those same headaches, but they have others.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

US reps: Storenvy, Goodsie, Magento.go, as well as larger companies like Yahoo eCommerce. Flash Sales. US companies in the space: Instagram, Piictu, Pinterest , Sincerely , Pictour.us. Israeli rep: JPEGmini (sort of). Social Commerce -. Israeli rep: Giftsproject. Israeli rep: Fiverr. Mobile payments. In Europe: Zin.gl, Badoo.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2014

Placed in front of a computer screen, each student watched as 80 words (1/4 of them food related) were flashed for no more than 1/300th of a second each in a font size just large enough to be consciously perceived. Blog eCommerce Resources Lead Generation SaaS Resources Competitive Analysis Copywriting' appeared first on ConversionXL.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

When I went to their website it was a 100% flash website with a constrained small size where it took too much looking to click on anything and then too much scrolling to read anything and unclear calls to actions (if any). It is that important (especially if you are a non-ecommerce b2b government peaceful protest photo sharing website).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Adding features like Demographics & Interests, and Ecommerce can help you see more about who your visitors are, the products you’re successfully selling, and how much revenue you’re earning. If your site isn’t driven by eCommerce, you should be using Goals to measure successful interactions. Yes, even when using Ecommerce.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. eCommerce is hot again! Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. LivingSocial.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, nextNY had a great round table discussion about the explosion of new models and companies in eCommerce—from group buying to flash sales to local discounts.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2016

National Allergy is an eCommerce site that sells a variety of allergy products. It’s already hard to tell what 500 Friends does (you can’t see it from the picture, but their headline flashes a bunch of buzzwords before landing on “loyalty realized”). National Allergy. 500 Friends. Not helping.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The top of the page is set up to deliberately guide the visitor to the flashing blue dot on the left side. This landing page from ecommerce furniture retailer Burrow is an excellent example of using high-quality imagery and video to tell the story. Image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Even though some folks want to see their videos circle the Web in a flash, quality engagement is more important than putting up big numbers. As vice president of sales and marketing for Treepodia , Dr. King, provides clients with ecommerce solution expertise to harness the power of rich media in the form of engaging video content.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

I Got No Ecommerce. Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs). Tip #14: Measuring Value of Ecommerce Sales Tools. Rethink Web Analytics: Introducing Web Analytics 2.0. Data Mining And Predictive Analytics On Web Data Works? Offsite and Onsite Resourcing, Behavioral Targeting Variables.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Or maybe you are HP and are obsessed and 100% focused on solving for Customer Satisfaction on your eCommerce site and your closest competitor Dell is obsessed 100% on getting more and more conversions. Do fully featured trials or Flash demos work better on the website? What is the incremental impact of our display ad campaigns?

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Analytics Web Metrics eCommerce 119

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

In a flash and a bang I can see that my first head segment (one or two words typed) accounts for 13% of the site traffic (yowza!) If you are using Google Analytics for analysis of an ecommerce website you can easily add Keyword as an option for the drill down. Sub optimal.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Now, 75% of the traffic to the Bullymax online store comes from mobile devices, which is definitely more than the average eCommerce site. As User Testing suggests , “Test flash sales and instant ordering. I do a lot of squats, but I’ve got nothin’ on the progress these dogs make with Bullymax.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Blog eCommerce Resources SaaS Resources User Experience & Persuasive Design continous optimization radical redesign website redesign' You want to keep what’s working, and re-think what’s not – but in order to do so you need to know what’s going on. Featured image credit.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Flash) or one whose design is clearly dated. People should be able to visit relevant sections of your site without unnecessary barriers, and they should be able to backtrack in the middle of any given process, like an ecommerce checkout. Hitting the local maxima can help justify a “radical redesign.” ( Image source ).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Distraction isn’t always Cosmic Sans and flashing banners. For example, product pictures and Q&A on an eCommerce product page are positive elements because they serve the most wanted action. What they found? 12 points of distraction on just one page… Note how minor some of these distractions seem. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

R2Net – Graphic visualisations for Jewellery eCommerce (Raised $25M). Forter – Fraud prevention in eCommerce (Raised $57M). Yotpo – Clever product reviews in eCommerce websites (Raised $29M). Kaminario – Enterprise-class Flash Storage Arrays (Raised $133M).

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