Found 25 Articles for E-Commerce

With constant advancement and improvement in technology, there has been a growth of not just one but many sectors of the economy, such as the e-commerce markets. This has led to consumers and producers adapting to buying and selling products on various online platforms; an example of such markets are Amazon, AliExpress, and Alibaba, to name a few.Both Amazon and Alibaba are giant e-commerce companies operating primarily without physical stores. While Amazon dominates the American shopping space, Alibaba does the same in China.We can see that Amazon sells its products directly while also serving as an intermediary for other sellers ... Read More

It is raining discounts and offers on all shopping websites. Online shopping is an activity wherein customers use Internet to order a product or a service at any moment of time and the product is delivered at their doorsteps.Online stores have made shopping easy with the usage of mobile devices, tablets, or laptops that aid most of the online shopping apps. You can enjoy all the products and services just by a click from the comfort of your drawing room or while you are on the go. Online shopping is winning the hearts of shopaholics all over India.Why would Anyone ... Read More

There was a time, when books meant, these 1000 page tomes that perhaps only an Emily Bronte could write. Agreed, the Harry Potter series, brought back the trend of voluminous books and in fact, in the words of Walter Semkiw, a world renowned past life therapist, J.K. Rowling, is but the reincarnation of Charles Dickens. That explains those huge volumes!!Yet jokes aside, just why am I discussing these tome-sized books?!! Well, the fact is now with the advent of the internet, it is the ebooks that dominate the world of Kindle and ipads. So considering Amazon is the largest virtual ... Read More

For those of you who have your own brick-and-mortar store (or are planning to open one), I have a quick and easy exercise. Let’s start with few questions:How much of your capital investment went towards rent?How about your internet service provider, Electricity and other utilities?For Staff and contractors?How much stock do you have on hand, and are you able to move them?Where do your customers reside?Keep your answers in mind. We’ll get to those shortly.Finally, do you want to make more money using less up-front capital, while spending less of your capital investment on expenses?To be sure, your answer is ... Read More

Magento is a fastest growing open source eCommerce platform that uses MySQL and Zend PHP databases. Magento is a very flexible eCommerce platform that facilitates powerful marketing, Management of multiple websites, catalogue management, and integration of Google Website Optimizer and over 50 payment gateways. It gives the flexibility for the users to control the content, look and functionality of the ecommerce.Magento was originally developed by Varien Inc., a US private company in California. Today, some of their largest users are Burger King, Nestle, Murad, BevMo, and Coca-Cola. Magento open source CMS platform provides increased control in terms of merchandising to ... Read More