by asplichal | Aug 2, 2016 | eCommerce
Many e-commerce stores have discovered that advertising on Amazon as a lucrative way to obtain substantial sales. The drawback with Amazon, besides the obvious commission (currently at 15%) is that merchants do not own the customer information. This means that retailers cannot directly market to customers who purchase their products either through email marketing, retargeting […]
by asplichal | Jul 13, 2016 | Advanced Techniques, eCommerce, Google Shopping
Last month, I traveled to Chicago to attend the 2016 Internet Retailer Conference and present on a marketing panel at the Yahoo Small Business Roadshow that preceded the conference. The IRCE event is filled with over 10,000 visitors and hundreds of exhibitors retailing various solutions for small businesses. The Roadshow is a smaller group of […]
by asplichal | Apr 12, 2016 | eCommerce, Google Shopping, Professional Services
In February of this year, Google made a dramatic change to how it displays ads for search results. They removed all right side text ads from desktop searches with the exception of PLA/Google Shopping ads. This change reduces the number of maximum text ads on any desktop search from 11 to 7. What does this […]