How fast a company sells its stock is typically a potent indicator of efficiency, cash flow, and regular well-being. Imagine two online retailers selling products for home gardeners. Both companies hold about $1 million in stock generally. However one company turns its inventory 10 times...
Bankruptcies, Layoffs Deplete the Retail Industry
At the beginning of 2020 several brick-and-mortar chain retailers were struggling, trying to restructure debt or find fresh creditors while dealing with plummeting earnings. The Covid-19 pandemic has closed stores and economically made those efforts . A rash of bankruptcies has ensued. It is a...
Planning my Business for a new world
Journalists in the U.K. keep pressing the government about completing the Covid-19 lockdown. Governmental leaders prefer not to say, concentrating on the here and now. I guess the real”exit strategy” — completing the stay-at-home order — is to observe the actions of Spain, Italy, and...
Effect of Covid-19 on 2020 Startup Investments, IPOs
Initial public offerings underperformed in the last half of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. That set the stage for an undesirable IPO climate. Then came Covid-19. The start of the pandemic in China in late December resulted in a private investment crisis in...
Credit Card Processing FAQs, Part 3: Reducing the Cost
Credit cards are the principal method of payment for ecommerce clients. However, for merchants, the backend infrastructure of processing and collecting the funds is often bewildering. This is the third and final post where I reply frequent payment-processing questions. The first installment,”Part 1: Learning the...
Japan Is an Enticing Marketplace for Cross-border Ecommerce
Japan is the world’s third-largest ecommerce market after China and the USA. However, it is often overlooked by foreign online merchants because of an unusually low cross-border purchase rate and a somewhat neater approach to online shopping. Only 10 percent of Japanese consumers buy goods...
Don’t Advertise to Existing Customers, Says Serial Ecommerce Entrepreneur
Taylor Holiday runs three successful ecommerce businesses, a booming ecommerce-focused advertising agency, and an educational membership community for advertising matters. He’s developed definitive views on acquiring customers and advertising functionality, among other insights: “Lifetime value is subjective. I prefer the term’money multiplier.’” “Attribution is not...
20 Best Internet Service Providers
Internet service providers offer online access with several distinct technologies, prices, and prices. That means loads of choices for consumers. Here’s a list of large ISPs in the U.S.. These providers offer internet service through DSL, copper, fixed wireless, cable internet, and fiber. Prices and...
Ecommerce in Q2 Requires a (Much) Bigger Share of Total Retail Market
The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that ecommerce for a proportion of retail sales jumped from 11.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 to 16.1 percent in the second quarter, representing a 31.8 percent increase to $211.5 billion. The data also shows a 44.5-percent...
Developed by Google Ads, SpyGuy.com Ponders Alternative Channels
Ecommerce entrepreneurs understand the need for multiple sales channels. Relying solely on, say, Facebook or Amazon or Google can lead to disruptions. And that’s what happened to Allen Walton’s company, which is set by Google Ads for most its visitors and earnings. “My firm, SpyGuy,...