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eCommerce and its Profitability Issue. Why its So Hard to Make Money

Indigo 9 Digital

When you shift activities consumers used to complete on their own to a retailer, someone has to pay for it. What’s most interesting about everyone’s quest to be the next Amazon is that Amazon isn’t just a retailer at all. In 2006, 12 years after Amazon went into business it launched Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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The Top 15 Ways to Find New Customers in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

Menswear direct to consumer brand UNTUCKit realized this when it first tried to figure out how to acquire its first set of customers. UNTUCKit found that, at the time, for approximately $350 it could reach 200,000 potential consumers using radio ads. Consumers simply have less money to spend. As long as you can measure it."