China Market Guide 2020: New Year, New Version

Thomas Price

To kick off the New Year with a bang, we’re launching the new version of our China eCommerce Market Localization Guide! The Guide was a big hit with enterprises last year, but we knew we could do better – the guide has been revamped from the ground-up to offer a more seamless reading experience, and to provide …

Headless eCommerce: Can It Help Your Business?

Thomas Price

As reported by Gartner, ‘headless eCommerce’ became one of the most popular new technologies used by international brands in 2018. Nearly 79% of brands were found to be considering, planning, or already using headless or API-based eCommerce architectures. In this article, we go over the following: What is Headless eCommerce? Headless vs Traditional eCommerce: Pros …

Baidu Mini-Program: eCommerce Applet Breakdown

Thomas Price

WeChat has lost its monopoly on Mini-Programs. In the second half of 2018, Baidu, Alipay, ByteDance and TikTok launched their own Mini-Programs to rival WeChat’s dominance. According to Baidu’s data published in May 2019, “since the official launch in July last year, there have been over 200 million active Baidu Mini-Program users each month, over …

Southeast Asia Cross-border eCommerce – A Successful Market Entry

TMO Group

Southeast Asia cross-border eCommerce. Exciting words for industry insiders who eagerly look to the region’s developments. The SEA region’s economic development, poverty alleviation and rising consumption power all point towards a bright future for eCommerce. A higher quality of life brings more frequent online consumption and diversifies product categories. Nanfu Battery is one of the world’s …

Using Progressive Web Apps and React to Build Your Mobile eCommerce

TMO Group

The web environment is changing rapidly, where users expect constant upgrades and content needs to be accessible at any time, particularly on mobile devices. It comes without notice that building an engaging, fun, and intuitive browsing experience is now more important than ever! However, limited mobile device memory and an unstable network environment of users …

An Alternative to Tmall: How to Sell on JD.com

TMO Group

When you are thinking about eCommerce in China, most likely the first name that will come to mind is Alibaba, founded by its iconic entrepreneur Jack Ma. However, another retail giant is at least as worthy mentioning. Jingdong’s JD.com is making steady progress in challenging the hegemony of Alibaba since it went public on the Nasdaq in 2014. …

Grand Launch of the ShopNow Cloud Official Website

TMO Group

Now, every brand has access to further explore the features of ShopNow Cloud via the official website. Check how ShopNow Cloud helps you stand out in the China eCommerce with scalable cloud hosting, multi-channel and mobile-centric adaptation, advanced analytics with data discovery, rich UI visualizations and guidance and resource of sales, service, and marketing. TMO …

The Secrets of Italian eCommerce in 2018

TMO Group

Although the Asia-Pacific region is estimated to remain the largest eCommerce market globally due to an ever expanding middle class as well as an increase in mobile sales, Europe presents another important combined market which accounts for 509.1 billion EUR. Most notably, Italy is the eCommerce market to watch as the rate of Italian eCommerce …

The Fourth (and last one) Digidutch eCommerce Masterclasses

TMO Group

THE INS AND OUTS OF “NEW RETAIL”: DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MEANING AND PURPOSE Date: 28 March, 2018 (Wednesday) Time: 16-18pm (registration starts at 15:45pm) Venue: Vistra Shanghai office, 33/F Westgate Tower, No. 1038 Nanjing West Road, Jing’an District Speakers: Mr Dominiek Pouwer, Director TMO Group, Miss Emma Shen, Senior Associate Bonnard Lawson International Law …

ShopNow Analytics growth hacking your eCommerce business

TMO Group

Growth Hacking and analytics is no longer a new concept in this digital and eCommerce era. Yet, people might still think that it is a job to find a great idea to bring huge success overnight. There isn’t any fast track. Tactics are of course important but no growth happens overnight. What a growth hacker …