Many recent reports have shown that consumers are more interested than ever before in making purchases via their tablets or smartphones.
Merchant servicesare fulfilling their customers demands - and the mobile side of e-commerce is seeing astronomical sales increases as a result, according to figures reported in IMRG Capgemini's e-Retail Sales Index.
Topics: Growing Your Business, Retail, Mobile
Retailers who offer ecommerce options - and those who don't - better listen up: your customers aren't happy with the services they've been offered. And many of them, once scorned, turn to alternative retail outlets, permanently. For those who aren't yet offering top-level online credit card processing services, the message is clear: shape up, or your consumers will ship out.
According to a survey from Skava, 71 percent of Americans use their smartphones to shop at online retailers - but 88 percent of that sample has had at least one negative experience among such retailers. It's a shockingly high failure rate for an industry that's experiencing massive, unprecedented growth.
Topics: Growing Your Business, Ecommerce
Experts say an improving job market is one of the factors that helped drive a 5.7 percent year-over-year increase in retail and food services sales between June 2012 and June of this year. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that retail and food services sales rose from $399.9 billion in June of last year to $422.8 billion last month.
Topics: Growing Your Business, Ecommerce
Many small businesses may be benefiting from a number of positive market conditions in recent months, and this could be manifested in office sector growth this year.
Overall office space demand rose during the second quarter, as there was more than 15 million square feet of space absorbed, according to a report from Cassidy Turley. This was markedly improved from the first quarter's level, which reached 5 million square feet.
Topics: Growing Your Business
More small and medium-sized businesses are feeling better about business prospects, research has found, and the sentiment is much improved from a year ago.
Close to two-thirds of small businesses have leaders that are confident in the progress their company made in the past year, a report from SunTrust Banks. This was significantly higher than one year ago, when less than 40 percent of executives at these companies felt their business was doing well. A similar measurement showed that 62 percent of those business leaders polled noted that the company's financial wellness was improved from one year earlier.
Topics: Growing Your Business
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