Shopify revenue and merchant statistics
Interesting Shopify stores stats. Includes data on merchants, sales, revenue and more.
Topic: Point of sale
The power of connected customer history
Why transaction data alone isn't enough for performance marketing, and how persistent customer profiles change the equation.
Shopify outage disrupts stores, checkouts and admin access
A Shopify outage disrupted storefronts, checkouts, admin access and Retail POS, potentially affecting merchants' ability to manage stores / process sales.
Shopify hit by login outage on major sales day
Shopify is experiencing major login outage on one of the year’s biggest shopping days, leaving merchants locked out of their stores.
5 ways to transform the customer experience with AI
AI offers powerful tools for crafting amazing customer experiences — especially if you run them on a connected ecosystem
12 SEO metrics to add to your digital PR measurement program
Uncover insights to better understand your audience, optimize content and quantify PR impact by adopting these essential SEO metrics.
Best of the SearchBot: Create 10 promotional campaigns to drive in-store purchases
A human asks Search Engine Land's ChatBot to create 10 campaigns to encourage shoppers to visit a garden center. Here's the answer.
Walmart is launching targeted in-store ads at its checkouts
The retailer is expanding its in-store ad offerings, with brands able to run campaigns across multiple formats simultaneously.
This day in search marketing history: February 27
Google Panda Update 3.3 and Venice, plus: GSC domain properties, Google Scraper Report, XML sitemaps change and more.
Google Business Profile guidelines updated to include products
Product listings on Google Business Profile give advertisers and retailers a new way to promote in-store items.
Pinterest introduces hosted checkout for merchants
The new feature attempts to make the checkout process easier for merchants to convert shoppers by removing several steps.
Google’s local ads tips for the back-to-school shopping season
More than 50% of North American back-to-school shoppers say they’ll check for in-store inventory online before heading to a store, according to Google.
Yelp’s Waitlist, analytics and POS updates aim to address shifting consumer preferences
Waitlist now supports takeout orders, and enhanced analytics may help managers evaluate how their restaurants are performing
Technology saving retail businesses from going under
Retailers need to up their game to thrive in today's environment. Here's how to apply technology to better serve customers' needs.
Cooler Screens is trying to solve digital advertising’s ‘last-mile’ problem
The company offers unique in-store digital merchandising at the point of sale.
Shopify launches post-COVID POS, Yelp rolls out omnichannel tools for SMBs
The companies are part of a shift toward deeper integration between online and offline operations.
Google buys Pointy to bring SMB store inventory online
The company offers an elegant solution to the challenge of getting local merchant inventory into search results and ads.
Why machine learning means proactive loyalty fraud prevention
Loyalty programs are big business for companies and a key target for fraudsters. Don't just wait for a hacker's attack before acting.
Startup helps small retailers get local inventory data online at POS
Pointy offers a way to gain more SEO visibility and compete with Amazon.
Shopify meets call tracking
As we enter the 2020s, e-commerce is set to generate more than $480 billion in the US and nearly $2 trillion globally. And while Amazon takes a lot of credit for online everything, they’re hardly the only game in town. A significant chunk of online retail is generated by smaller players, thanks in part to […]
Paid & Organic Approaches To Dig Deeper With An SEO Keyword That’s Working
You know that a certain keyword is performing really well for you, but you're only getting so much traffic. Columnist Tom Demers shares tips for wringing more visitors out of a profitable keyword.
Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet
Yesterday Google Checkout users were notified that it was being merged into and replaced by Google Wallet. This makes sense on every level. From a ‘brand” and visibility standpoint Wallet is a more successful product already. Checkout was introduced in June, 2006 (it was rumored to be called “GBuy” ahead of launch). It was directed […]
Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”
Yesterday Euclid Elements, a relatively new firm founded by some of the people behind the product that became Google Analytics, announced a $5.8 million first round of funding. The company is seeking to enable retailers and business owners with physical locations to measure things like foot traffic by time of day, average customer time in […]
Google To Test Mobile Payments In NY And SF
While Apple has reportedly decided to forgo NFC-related hardware/software in iPhone 5 because of a lack of standards, Google is to begin testing NFC-based mobile payments at selected stores in New York and San Francisco according to an article in Bloomberg: The company will pay for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from VeriFone […]
Paid Search: Moving Beyond The Keyword
With more products, features and prices available in comparison to physical stores, the sheer time and transportation savings are making the Web an increasingly preferred shopping venue. In fact, according to the latest Forrester research, online shopping is growing five times faster than brick and mortar stores, with a projected growth of 14 percent by […]
Android Paid Apps Launch: “It’s Business Time”
People have been expecting the paid Android apps market for months and it’s finally, officially here. What this means is that developers can start charging for their apps and consumers will start gaining access to and paying for selected apps on Android phones (which now is only the G1). The Apple iPhone paid apps market […]
Google’s Gradual Embrace Of Conventional Marketing
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) covers Google’s slow, ambivalent move toward traditional marketing. During its first 10 years, the company grew almost entirely on user word of mouth and PR-driven news coverage. That has helped create a culture that is somewhat biased against traditional advertising. Yet we’ve seen more traditional ad buys from Google in […]
Comparing Annual Ad Spending From Google, Yahoo, And Microsoft
This Associated Press article chronicles how Google has been able to build a multi-billion dollar consumer brand largely without advertising. That’s the part everybody knows. But the article also compares the annual ad spending of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and eBay. It points out that when Google does buy any advertising, it’s typically to recruit employees.