M Ryan

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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.

News - Sitecore appoints Steve Tzikakis as CEO

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…

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What is dropshipping and what's the catch?

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…

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The advantages and disadvantages of B2C eCommerce

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…

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Key differences between B2C and B2B ecommerce

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…

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News - Instagram Checkout for BigCommerce

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.

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