When online outlets discuss e-Commerce marketplaces, they’re usually using this as shorthand for a single vendor marketplace. However, there’s another type of platform that some e-Commerce organizations fall into, and that’s a multi-vendor marketplace. While the...
By 2024, B2B online marketplaces are predicted to account for 30% of all digital B2B sales. In the last decade, much of this market growth has been driven by significant, horizontal marketplaces that seek to offer something for every possible audience. Amazon, eBay,...
The global pandemic has led to significant market changes for the manufacturing sector -- from spending cuts, to supply chain disruptions, to the shuttering of many traditional retail establishments. In February and March 2020 the National Association of Manufacturers...
From misusing data, to launching copycat products, to holding “monopoly power” over sellers -- recent reports about Amazon are detailing the increasingly fraught relationship sellers are experiencing with the marketplace giant. Labeled “the gatekeeper of e-commerce,”...
2021 has been a turning point year for many wholesale distributors, as customer demand for streamlined digital commerce reaches new heights amidst the landscape changes driven by Covid-19 business and supply chain disruptions. As...
From the impacts of digital transformation, to increasing competition, to a more demanding B2B customer, any wholesale distributor can tell you: the landscape is changing. Today, distributors face having to adjust some of their time-honored strategies to keep their...
Touted as the most influential tech event in the world, for the last 50 years CES has been a showcase for breakthrough technologies and global innovation in every part of the tech sector. This January, in the face of a still-raging global pandemic, CES went fully...
When it comes to retail, 2020 was all about the seismic shift to e-commerce. The impact of Covid-19 closures and restrictions forced consumers to turn to online shopping to an unprecedented degree (essentially achieving the equivalent of 5 years of growth in 6...
ECommerce has been chipping away at the traditional brick-and-mortar holiday shopping season for years, but as Covid-19 cases surge in many cities across the US, 2020 is promising a more dramatic shift to online shopping than ever before. Rather than the customary...
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