The Next Big Threat to Consumer Brands (Yes, Amazon’s Behind It)

Makers of biggest household staples have little control over where Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa sends consumers “A great but scary article on the future of retailing and Voice activated shopping.” -OAD Click to play Wall Street Journal’s Video Online voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa are threatening the decades-old high-exposure marketing model for consumer goods. WSJ’s … Read more

U.S. e-commerce sales grow 16.0% in 2017

In the fourth quarter and in 2017 as a whole, U.S. online retail grew faster than it has since 2011. E-commerce represented 13% of total retail sales in 2017 and 49% of the growth. Amazon is responsible for much of the gains. Fareeha Ali contributed reporting for Digital Commerce 360. A blockbuster fourth quarter contributed … Read more

What It Would Take for Amazon to Become UPS or FedEx

“An interesting article that puts things in proper perspective. Just because Amazon decides to enter a space does not mean they will dominate over established players but that’s how they get the headlines while adding efficiency to their system. “ The shipping titans have a large head start over the online retail giant Paul Ziobro … Read more

Thinking about expanding your product line and drop shipping with QVC?

Check out these fun facts about QVC and why you should consider growing your QVC business. QVC shipped approximately 183 million units in 2016 across its global markets. QVC has a growing global ecommerce business which accounted for $4B of annual revenue in 2016. QVC’s ecommerce results for the second quarter of 2017 was 55% … Read more