A New “Web” Readiness Report
The beauty of research is finding yourself on a completely unrelated topic mere minutes from opening your…
TikTok marketing: A guide for WooCommerce stores
Social media is an extremely powerful way to engage with your audience, promote your brand, increase sales,…
Retail, E-Commerce Merchants Lose $4 for Every $1 in Fraud: Report
Merchants lose billions to fraud every year, but theft estimates are often underestimated. That’s because, as a…
SMIL on?
I was chatting with Andy Clarke the other day about a new article he wants to write…
Honeymoon Is Ending for Email Marketing
Email has long been among the most profitable ecommerce marketing channels, with a relatively high return on…
How to start a subscription business
Consumers spent over $31 billion globally on subscription box services in 2023 and that market is expected…
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright
Comparing visual artifacts can be a powerful, if fickle, approach to automated testing. Playwright makes this seem…
MALK Plant Milk Masters In-Store Retail
Ryan Rouse has a formula for scaling physical retail sales. First penetrate niche markets, he says, then…
52% German online retailers are dissatisfied
A majority of German ecommerce businesses are not happy with how the industry is performing. Only 6…
AI Will Help Advertisers and Shoppers
In what seems like no time at all, artificial intelligence has become a mainstream business tool. One…
The seven best enterprise ecommerce platforms
If you’re in charge of running a high-volume store, you’re familiar with the constant pressure to optimize…
Ecommerce in the Netherlands increased 5% in 2024
Last year, Dutch consumers spent 36 billion euros online. This was an increase of 5 percent, compared…
The Problem with Optimizing for GenAI
Optimizing for visibility in generative AI platforms seems easy enough. Enter a sitemap URL into Bing Webmaster…
Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component
I came across this awesome article navigator by Jhey Tompkins: It solved a UX problem I was…
Behind the Cart: Inside Universal Yums’ $40M subscription box business with CTO Devin Price
Welcome to Behind the Cart, a series where we sit down with the people behind the brands…
AI Translates Retail Jargon Into Shopper-Friendly Content
Consumer research reveals that a lack of product details is a big selling problem for online marketers….
Revisiting CSS border-image
In my last article on “Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout”, I mentioned that almost twenty years have flown…
Double-digit online growth in Romania continues
Online spending in Romania reached 11.7 billion euros last year with 7.7 billion euros spent on products….
New Ecommerce Tools: March 20, 2025
This week’s rundown of new products for ecommerce merchants includes AI-powered agents, mobile app builders, buy-now-pay-later services,…
How Deepfakes Are Undermining Mobile Commerce Security
Deepfake fraud is rapidly emerging as one of the most dangerous cyberthreats, eroding consumer trust in biometric…
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We’re making it easier to keep up with the evolution of WooCommerce. We’ll be keeping up with…
Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js
Static sites are wonderful. I’m a big fan. They also have their issues. Namely, static sites either…
Consumer Spending on Mobile AI Apps Soaring Despite Trust Issues
AI-powered mobile apps are rapidly shaping the digital economy, driving consumer engagement and spending. However, as this…
New Ecommerce Tools: March 6, 2025
We publish a rundown each week of new products from companies offering services to ecommerce merchants. This…