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.
Dropshipping is a retail business model in which a retailer does not buy and hold stock of the products it sells, rather it pays a supplier to ship a product directly to a customer in response to an order that a customer places. Dropshipping has…
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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