A Deloitte study showed that 36% of customers are more willing to purchase products when it has been part of personalised content, with 31# saying they wished more content was personalised. As ecommerce grows in both the amount of stores online and in usage by consumers, brands need to look for new ways to engage…
Mobile usage per day has been recorded at 4 hours and 10 minutes, with similar data from GWI showing that the average person spends longer each day using the internet on their phone (3 hours, 39 minutes) then watching television (3 hours, 24 minutes). As more people use their mobile devices for news, entertainment and…
A recent survey by Angus Reid, commissioned by EMERGE Commerce, shows that online shopping habits picked up due to the effects of the pandemic will last far longer then the health crisis. 51% of those surveyed in Ontario said they would return to shopping in person once the pandemic ended, but only 8% had remained…
Canada saw year-on-year growth for online sales reach between 175% to 625% between March and May of last year. The surge of ecommerce has seen many turn to online to offer new ways to connect audiences with their stores. Canadian consumers have been shown to have a willingness to adopt alternative and new payment methods,…
27.2% of worldwide viewers watch more then 10 hours of online videos on a weekly basis, with another 28% watching between 4 to 10 hours (Statista). The large audience presents a perfect opportunity to connect further with audiences. The rise of ecommerce has illustrated the importance of content, with video content among the most consumed…
As 40% of small Canadian businesses selling online say that their biggest challenge to success is attracting customers, the importance of content is heightened. Relevant content helps generate more traffic to your website, in particularly blog posts on topics your audience needs answers to. You should be optimizing website pages around the keywords that your…
Email marketing holds a customer acquisition rate that is 40x more effective then either Facebook or Twitter can achieve. Despite the dominance of social media, email marketing still stands ahead. Matched with a high Return of Investment (ROI), sitting at US$1 spent generating $38, email marketing is incredibly useful for the growth of business, acquiring…
Google is set to release a number of new updates to Google Maps and Google My Business (GMB) which include new features for pickup and delivery options for online stores. Businesses will be able to show delivery fees, providers, order minimums and pickup and delivery options, further highlighting the importance of having an up-to-date online…
Google is set to trial a new feature that automatically detects products in videos and displays them in a list, as well as other related products, to viewers. Google and YouTube have occasionally tested new tools and features on the video sharing site, normally to a small group of people at one time. This comes…
Canadian ecommerce sales saw a massive surge from previous years, fueled in part by lockdown measures, with retail sales up 83.6% year-over-year. This trend is expected to continue in 2021. In total, CA$39.5 million was made in ecommerce sales by Canadian businesses in the last 12 months, with $15.7 billion of that from brick and…