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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve. which Yan said should enable faster shipping times on those products for North American customers.

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Interview with Jonathan Chaupin from Agency 2.0

Retail Bound

an Austin-based agency that does marketing, PR, copywriting, design, advertising, video production, retail and fulfillment for crowdfunding campaigns since 2010. However, with many shortfalls and failed deliveries, crowdfunding products tend to be much further baked out and closer to shipping to customers than before.

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The Top 10 Predictions for Holiday 2021

Retail TouchPoints

With Christmas Day on a Saturday for the first time since 2010, and stores closed that day to observe the holiday, we expect more holiday shopper traffic than usual will occur in the days leading up to Christmas and on December 26,” said Brian Field, Senior Director at Sensormatic Solutions’ Global Retail Consulting Practice in a statement.

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Alibaba’s Business Model – How the eCommerce Giant Makes Money

Indigo 9 Digital

Merchants are charged a fee to list on Tmall as well as a sales commission and advertising fees. Alibaba.com generates revenues through advertising fees as well as by charging a fee to list on the platform. Then sellers ship merchandise directly to customers via third party logistics providers. Source: Statista. AliExpress.

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6 of the Top Reasons Online Businesses Fail

Indigo 9 Digital

And when your customers demand free shipping or when return costs add up a promising business can be put into jeopardy pretty quickly. The company used to incur between $20,000 and $30,000 per day on advertising for Dirty Lemon on Facebook and Instagram alone. At one point Casper was valued at $1.1

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The Google Ads Strategy of Glossier (Case study)

Store Growers

Glossier originated a lifestyle and beauty blog that founder Emily Weiss started in 2010 while she was working at Vogue. The site grew fast (up to 10M page views/mo) and enabled Weiss to look beyond the straightforward advertising opportunities. Which can also be the case for a lot of advertising campaigns they run.

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Inside the ‘Online Mall’ Simon has Created for its Outlet Brands

Retail TouchPoints

Buy.com was acquired by Japanese marketplace juggernaut Rakuten in 2010; Grover ran that company’s North American business for several years before joining a private equity firm that bought fashion site Bluefly.com , which he helped turn into a marketplace and then operated. after Amazon and eBay. SPO isn’t Stingy with its Data.