A recent Wall Street Journal article features results from a UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper Study (PDF) that shows some interesting data on why people choose PC over mobile for their online shopping. Given the current challenges with mobile commerce, it’s not surprising to see the top 2 selections as selected by survey participants. 43% selected “can’t get a clear or large enough image of the product” and 34% selected “product information ...
Continue Reading →MarketingCharts recently released figures for Q1 2014 ecommerce conversion rates by device. Not surprising is that PC still leads the way for conversions at 3.15%. What is surprising is how low smartphone-based conversion rates continue to be. In a previous eMarketer study, mcommerce was only projected to grow to 2.4% of all U.S. retail sales by 2018. Though smartphones are becoming an increasing part of the omnichannel experience, the mcommerce experience for ...
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eMarketer recently released it’s first ever forecast for total U.S. retail and retail store sales and the results are surprising – if you’re a ‘mobile first’ advocate. Though U.S. total retails sales are projected to grow to $5.5 trillion by 2018, mobile commerce, or mcommerce, is only set to grow to 2.4% of total retail sales in ...
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