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How JackThreads Beat Online Fraudsters at Their Own Game

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One of the potential downsides to meteoric success is that you become a target for all kinds of opportunistic and abusive behavior. Just ask JackThreads, the men’s style destination that was named an Internet Retailer Top 500 company in 2012 when its web sales grew by 359% in a single year. Launched in 2008 as … Continue reading

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Bigcommerce Announces ShipperHQ Partnership: Real-time Rates from the Developers Behind the Industry’s Best Shipping Extension

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Today, Bigcommerce is excited to announce our partnership with ShipperHQ to solve for the complexity of providing real-time shipping rates for online businesses in order to reduce cart abandonment. According to a 2014 survey of online shoppers, 28% of respondents said they will abandon shopping carts if presented with unexpected shipping costs, making it critical … Continue reading

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Introducing Pinterest Buyable Pins for Bigcommerce Retailers

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Bigcommerce is excited to reveal our partnership with Pinterest to enable Buyable Pins for Bigcommerce merchants. The Pinterest platform has more than 100 million monthly active users currently cataloging ideas and curating products they would like to purchase. Before Buyable Pins, users were forced to click through a Pin to a merchant’s site in order … Continue reading

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Bigcommerce and Square Launch Inventory Sync; Reduce Manual Tasks, Error and Overselling for Omnichannel Merchants

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In February of 2015, Bigcommerce and Square announced an integration giving omnichannel merchants selling both online and offline the power to process payments through one POS system –– reducing accounting inefficiencies across channels. Since then, the number one request from the community using this integration has been real-time inventory syncing across physical and digital channels … Continue reading

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The Holy Grail of Free Shipping and How to Apply it to Your Business

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There is no doubt about it, free shipping is the holy grail of online commerce. You only need to look at Amazon Prime to see this. Amazon net shipping costs were more than $1 billion per quarter in 2014. They chose to subsidize shipping heavily as part of their growth strategy –– very heavily in my … Continue reading

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2015 Holiday Shipping Deadlines You Need to Know

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The holidays are quickly approaching and analysis of last year’s data shows that, while shoppers are likely to finalize more than half of their purchases before the last minute, many consumers will continuing purchasing holiday gifts right up until final shipment and delivery dates will allow. Customer experience is a core aspect of the success … Continue reading

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How Fortress of Inca Balanced Brand Purpose with Product to Increase Conversions and Time on Site

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Your site aesthetic is an important part of your overall brand experience. It is how customers first perceive your business and it serves as a visual communication tool, helping customers to identify with or form strong loyalty to your brand, all without an actual in-person touchpoint. And in an omnichannel shopping environment, this is an … Continue reading

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Bigcommerce Introduces Twitter Buy Now for Online Retailers

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Bigcommerce is excited to announce our partnership with Twitter to enable Twitter Buy Now for Bigcommerce stores. Here’s how it works: Merchants can choose to include Buy Now CTAs on regular and Promoted Tweets, which allow followers to purchase a single product directly from the Twitter timeline. When a customer purchases via Twitter for the … Continue reading

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