M Ryan is an ecommerce consultant with twenty years experience working with retailers, consumer brand manufacturers and other consumer-facing businesses helping them to develop their ecommerce strategy, implement ecommerce technology and improve their ecommerce operations. He works extensively throughout US and Europe, with clients including global brands, large retailers and household names in consumer goods.
Every ecommerce business needs to consider carefully whether or not they will sell their products on a marketplace. A marketplace is a website with high traffic, operated by a third party, which allows you to list your products for sale on that website, offer them…
Continue reading...C2B2C, an acronym for Consumer to Business to Consumer, is a business model in which a business purchases products from consumers and resells them to other consumers. An example of this is electronics recycling or resale, where the C2B2C business buys used cellphones from consumers,…
Continue reading...September 1st, 2020. Sitecore has appointed Steve Tzikakis as its new CEO, following the departure of Mark Frost into an advisory role. Tzikakis was previously SAP President EMEA South and prior to that a VP with ERP vendor Infor. He will be based in the…
Continue reading...Dropshipping is a retail business model in which a retailer buys stock as customers place confirmed orders, avoiding the expense of buying stock upfront and removing the risk of unsold stock. The retailer sends each individual customer order to a supplier who then ships the…
Continue reading...The advantages of starting a business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce business are minimal barriers to entry, large potential market giving long-term potential to grow, simplicity of operating the business, ability to diversify into other areas to grow revenue and margins. Disadvantages include the intense competition, the cost…
Continue reading...B2C is an acronym for "business to consumer" and B2B an acronym for "business to business". These terms are used to describe the seller and purchaser in an ecommerce sales transaction. B2C denotes a business selling goods or services to a consumer (that is an…
Continue reading...August 25th, 2020. BigCommerce, the popular ecommerce platform, announced they have released a Facebook Commerce Manager integration which enables merchants to enable ecommerce sales directly on Instagram. This feature is now available to all merchants from the BigCommerce administration portal.
Continue reading...August 19th, 2020. Elastic Path, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has appointed Jamus Driscoll, CEO of its January 2020 acquisition, Moltin, since 2018, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Harry Chemko, the founder and former Elastic Path CEO since 2000 will now adopt…
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