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  • Google Shopping and Ongoing Battle With Amazon

    Google is not a marketplace, yet this tech giant keeps rolling out new features that make other marketplaces take them as their biggest competition. Thus, it’s no surprise that the most competitive battle is happening with Amazon.

    Amazon might be the first address for retailers, but over the years, many of them understood that the most likely scenario for them...

  • Transformation toward eCommerce in the automotive industry

    Shopping patterns are changing in favor of eCommerce, and the automotive industry is no exception. The changes may vary depending on customer preferences, but it is clear that this industry is now at a tipping point toward eCommerce.

    Why is this transformation happening? What do customers expect? How should retailers respond to those changes?

    These are just some of the...

  • How the War in Ukraine Affects eCommerce

    It’s beyond saying that human casualties are the most important consequence of any war. Unfortunately, during this month, the world has been witnessing another conflict - this time between Russia and Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has already begun to seriously affect the worlds’ economy, therefore, eCommerce as well.

    Compared to the suffering of people who lost their loved ones,...

  • 7 reasons to abandon manual repricing

    Trying to keep your eCommerce business competitive and profitable? The advice that most retailers will give you is that you need to keep an eye on the price changes. Frequent price changes are not a novelty in the eCommerce world, and they are commonly used, especially by big eCommerce sites such as Amazon or eBay. The big players are performing...

  • Customer retention as a main eCommerce challenge of 2021

    Everyone is talking about how eCommerce sales have skyrocketed in 2020, right? But how come that you are not fully satisfied then? Well, one thing has been left in the dark and that’s the customers’ shift. That’s why one of the biggest challenges that retailers are facing in 2021 is customer retention.

    Let’s suggest some proven ways to ensure that...

  • WooCommerce vs. Shopify Who takes the win in 2021

    One of the first steps for creating a successful eCommerce business is to choose the right eCommerce platform. Nowadays, many eCommerce platforms can be found, which makes the choice a bit difficult. However, probably one of the most popular, yet easy-to-use are WooCommerce and Shopify. That’s why so many stores are faced with the dilemma - Woocommerce vs. Shopify.

    Both...

  • How to do eCommerce competitor analysis

    It’s common for eCommerce businesses to dedicate time and resources to investigate new markets, but once they manage to establish their position, competitor analysis becomes less important. That’s a huge mistake! If you are improving your business, why wouldn’t competitors do the same? And if you don’t perform a regular competitor analysis these changes might pass by you.

    Truth...

  • Social Commerce - The Leading eCommerce Trend

    The eCommerce sector is constantly evolving, but one trend has especially erupted during the previous year - social commerce. Social commerce refers to the integration of eCommerce and social media. It enables customers to explore and buy products via social media, without having to look for them on an eCommerce platform.

    Due to COVID19, almost all businesses had to move...

  • Price Comparison - How eCommerce Customers Use It?

    Who decides on purchasing a product or service at the first glance? Almost no one.

    Even if you are a traditional brick-and-mortar customer, it’s most likely that you’ll pay a visit to a few stores before buying anything. Moreover, if you are a modern, eCommerce user, your decision will be made after checking out different online stores. eCommerce customers have...

  • eCommerce during Christmas - What To Expect And How To Prepare

    While this year is coming to its end, the eCommerce world gets busiest with the Christmas season approaching. Only have you overcome all the fuss around the Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the new hectic period came. December is consistently the busiest month of the year for both sellers and shoppers. Everyone needs to be prepared - shoppers to...

  • Holiday Season Four Tips To Boost Your Sales

    With the holiday season reaching its peak by the end of this month, it’s time to make sure you have everything prepared to end up this strange year on a positive note. For sure, this festive season will be like no other. Regardless of the lockdowns around the world, people still want a bit of Christmas magic.

    <img src="/assets/images/post16/holiday...
  • 5 mistakes to avoid in your price monitoring strategy

    eCommerce is constantly boiling with new product launches, fierce competitors, news, offers, events. Prices are also in that pot, so they must adapt to changes as well.

    In order to do it, price monitoring is a necessary strategy. But, that strategy comes with stumbling blocks on the way. 

    In this article, we’re aiming to point out the most common mistakes in...

  • 4 Reasons Why You Need Competitor Price Monitoring

    Your company doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Numerous internal and external factors can shape your business, whether it be consumers, suppliers, or competitors. In today’s way of doing business, monitoring your competitors become one of the first and foremost steps. Why is that so? Well, retailers are turning mainly (if not entirely) over to eCommerce, which means little to no...

  • Machine Learning A Pillar of Price Optimization

    “A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.” - Bill Gates

    Well, then machine learning must be a serious thing. And to be honest, it does sound so. You would think that is meant only for high-tech companies, and that it doesn’t have much to do with your eCommerce store. But, that’s not entirely true. Whether you’re a beginner, or...

  • How is Coronavirus changing the Google Search Terms?

    Coronavirus is creating an enormous change in the business environment as we know it. Since the world hasn’t experienced such an unpredictable crisis in recent history, businesses, especially the online ones, are trying to find new ways to adapt to the changes as fast as possible. Because everything is so unpredictable many eCommerce companies are more than ever putting their...

  • Price optimization - what do you need to know and how to get started?

    Until fairly recently, price optimization has been connected primarily to certain industries that by nature have limited inventory, such as airlines and hotels. This is not strange, having in mind how complex and time-consuming price optimization is. It requires a lot of time and dedication - performing different analyses, gathering a great quantity of data in order to be able...

  • What are the basic eCommerce metrics that you need to focus on?

    There are lots of great advice that you can come across when learning about the important eCommerce metrics. Nevertheless, if you’ve ever gotten yourself into this process, you must have realized how easily the situation can get out of hand. Soon, you find yourself overwhelmed by thousands of articles with even more numbers mentioned. It’s difficult to figure out where to...

  • PricingBot acquired by Price2Spy, a leading price monitoring and repricing tool

    Price2Spy, a leading price monitoring and repricing tool developed for eCommerce professionals acquired - PricingBot.

    With this new acquisition, Price2Spy tends to strengthen its position in the French market, where currently has a collaboration with many clients from different industries. It is worth noting that even though Price2Spy has a name that is already worldwide recognizable in the eCommerce circles...

  • Three steps to monitor your competitors in E-commerce

    Competitor price monitoring is a game-changing process for E-commerce companies. In this post, we are going to see how to easily monitor your competitors using a Google Sheet and a simple formula.

    Most of the time, price monitoring involved scraping, and because webscraping is often difficult we recently launched the simplest web scraping API around here. But don’t worry,...

  • E-commerce pricing strategies

    Pricing your products is one of the most challenging things in E-commerce. It will affect how much you sell, your margins, and even your brand. There are lots of different pricing strategies, however, there isn’t a one-fits-all formula that will work for every different type of E-commerce businesses.

    More than that, pricing is a process. You will have to iterate...

  • 7 numbers you should absolutely know about e-commerce pricing.

    There are lots of great advice out there to increase conversion rates for online merchants. A great design, a fast website, a great checkout experience, upsells, email marketing, abandoned checkout retargeting… Those things are very important but those strategies won’t have a deep impact on your conversion rates if your pricing is wrong.

    There are more and more consumer apps/websites...

  • Getting started with PricingBot

    In this post we’re going to see how to configure your PricingBot account. The problem PricingBot solves is manual price monitoring. Instead of wasting time manually checking competitor’s prices, PricingBot helps eCommerce store automatically monitor their competitors.

    Importing your products

    Adding a product

    Importing your own products is the first step to set up your account....


Tutorial

  • Three steps to monitor your competitors in E-commerce

    Competitor price monitoring is a game-changing process for E-commerce companies. In this post, we are going to see how to easily monitor your competitors using a Google Sheet and a simple formula.

    Most of the time, price monitoring involved scraping, and because webscraping is often difficult we recently launched the simplest web scraping API around here. But don’t worry,...

  • Getting started with PricingBot

    In this post we’re going to see how to configure your PricingBot account. The problem PricingBot solves is manual price monitoring. Instead of wasting time manually checking competitor’s prices, PricingBot helps eCommerce store automatically monitor their competitors.

    Importing your products

    Adding a product

    Importing your own products is the first step to set up your account....


Price-monitoring

  • Google Shopping and Ongoing Battle With Amazon

    Google is not a marketplace, yet this tech giant keeps rolling out new features that make other marketplaces take them as their biggest competition. Thus, it’s no surprise that the most competitive battle is happening with Amazon.

    Amazon might be the first address for retailers, but over the years, many of them understood that the most likely scenario for them...

  • Transformation toward eCommerce in the automotive industry

    Shopping patterns are changing in favor of eCommerce, and the automotive industry is no exception. The changes may vary depending on customer preferences, but it is clear that this industry is now at a tipping point toward eCommerce.

    Why is this transformation happening? What do customers expect? How should retailers respond to those changes?

    These are just some of the...

  • How the War in Ukraine Affects eCommerce

    It’s beyond saying that human casualties are the most important consequence of any war. Unfortunately, during this month, the world has been witnessing another conflict - this time between Russia and Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has already begun to seriously affect the worlds’ economy, therefore, eCommerce as well.

    Compared to the suffering of people who lost their loved ones,...

  • 7 reasons to abandon manual repricing

    Trying to keep your eCommerce business competitive and profitable? The advice that most retailers will give you is that you need to keep an eye on the price changes. Frequent price changes are not a novelty in the eCommerce world, and they are commonly used, especially by big eCommerce sites such as Amazon or eBay. The big players are performing...

  • Customer retention as a main eCommerce challenge of 2021

    Everyone is talking about how eCommerce sales have skyrocketed in 2020, right? But how come that you are not fully satisfied then? Well, one thing has been left in the dark and that’s the customers’ shift. That’s why one of the biggest challenges that retailers are facing in 2021 is customer retention.

    Let’s suggest some proven ways to ensure that...

  • WooCommerce vs. Shopify Who takes the win in 2021

    One of the first steps for creating a successful eCommerce business is to choose the right eCommerce platform. Nowadays, many eCommerce platforms can be found, which makes the choice a bit difficult. However, probably one of the most popular, yet easy-to-use are WooCommerce and Shopify. That’s why so many stores are faced with the dilemma - Woocommerce vs. Shopify.

    Both...

  • How to do eCommerce competitor analysis

    It’s common for eCommerce businesses to dedicate time and resources to investigate new markets, but once they manage to establish their position, competitor analysis becomes less important. That’s a huge mistake! If you are improving your business, why wouldn’t competitors do the same? And if you don’t perform a regular competitor analysis these changes might pass by you.

    Truth...

  • Social Commerce - The Leading eCommerce Trend

    The eCommerce sector is constantly evolving, but one trend has especially erupted during the previous year - social commerce. Social commerce refers to the integration of eCommerce and social media. It enables customers to explore and buy products via social media, without having to look for them on an eCommerce platform.

    Due to COVID19, almost all businesses had to move...

  • Price Comparison - How eCommerce Customers Use It?

    Who decides on purchasing a product or service at the first glance? Almost no one.

    Even if you are a traditional brick-and-mortar customer, it’s most likely that you’ll pay a visit to a few stores before buying anything. Moreover, if you are a modern, eCommerce user, your decision will be made after checking out different online stores. eCommerce customers have...

  • eCommerce during Christmas - What To Expect And How To Prepare

    While this year is coming to its end, the eCommerce world gets busiest with the Christmas season approaching. Only have you overcome all the fuss around the Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the new hectic period came. December is consistently the busiest month of the year for both sellers and shoppers. Everyone needs to be prepared - shoppers to...

  • Holiday Season Four Tips To Boost Your Sales

    With the holiday season reaching its peak by the end of this month, it’s time to make sure you have everything prepared to end up this strange year on a positive note. For sure, this festive season will be like no other. Regardless of the lockdowns around the world, people still want a bit of Christmas magic.

    <img src="/assets/images/post16/holiday...
  • 5 mistakes to avoid in your price monitoring strategy

    eCommerce is constantly boiling with new product launches, fierce competitors, news, offers, events. Prices are also in that pot, so they must adapt to changes as well.

    In order to do it, price monitoring is a necessary strategy. But, that strategy comes with stumbling blocks on the way. 

    In this article, we’re aiming to point out the most common mistakes in...

  • 4 Reasons Why You Need Competitor Price Monitoring

    Your company doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Numerous internal and external factors can shape your business, whether it be consumers, suppliers, or competitors. In today’s way of doing business, monitoring your competitors become one of the first and foremost steps. Why is that so? Well, retailers are turning mainly (if not entirely) over to eCommerce, which means little to no...

  • Machine Learning A Pillar of Price Optimization

    “A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.” - Bill Gates

    Well, then machine learning must be a serious thing. And to be honest, it does sound so. You would think that is meant only for high-tech companies, and that it doesn’t have much to do with your eCommerce store. But, that’s not entirely true. Whether you’re a beginner, or...

  • How is Coronavirus changing the Google Search Terms?

    Coronavirus is creating an enormous change in the business environment as we know it. Since the world hasn’t experienced such an unpredictable crisis in recent history, businesses, especially the online ones, are trying to find new ways to adapt to the changes as fast as possible. Because everything is so unpredictable many eCommerce companies are more than ever putting their...

  • Price optimization - what do you need to know and how to get started?

    Until fairly recently, price optimization has been connected primarily to certain industries that by nature have limited inventory, such as airlines and hotels. This is not strange, having in mind how complex and time-consuming price optimization is. It requires a lot of time and dedication - performing different analyses, gathering a great quantity of data in order to be able...

  • What are the basic eCommerce metrics that you need to focus on?

    There are lots of great advice that you can come across when learning about the important eCommerce metrics. Nevertheless, if you’ve ever gotten yourself into this process, you must have realized how easily the situation can get out of hand. Soon, you find yourself overwhelmed by thousands of articles with even more numbers mentioned. It’s difficult to figure out where to...

  • E-commerce pricing strategies

    Pricing your products is one of the most challenging things in E-commerce. It will affect how much you sell, your margins, and even your brand. There are lots of different pricing strategies, however, there isn’t a one-fits-all formula that will work for every different type of E-commerce businesses.

    More than that, pricing is a process. You will have to iterate...

  • 7 numbers you should absolutely know about e-commerce pricing.

    There are lots of great advice out there to increase conversion rates for online merchants. A great design, a fast website, a great checkout experience, upsells, email marketing, abandoned checkout retargeting… Those things are very important but those strategies won’t have a deep impact on your conversion rates if your pricing is wrong.

    There are more and more consumer apps/websites...


e-commerce

  • E-commerce pricing strategies

    Pricing your products is one of the most challenging things in E-commerce. It will affect how much you sell, your margins, and even your brand. There are lots of different pricing strategies, however, there isn’t a one-fits-all formula that will work for every different type of E-commerce businesses.

    More than that, pricing is a process. You will have to iterate...

  • 7 numbers you should absolutely know about e-commerce pricing.

    There are lots of great advice out there to increase conversion rates for online merchants. A great design, a fast website, a great checkout experience, upsells, email marketing, abandoned checkout retargeting… Those things are very important but those strategies won’t have a deep impact on your conversion rates if your pricing is wrong.

    There are more and more consumer apps/websites...


pricing-strategies

  • E-commerce pricing strategies

    Pricing your products is one of the most challenging things in E-commerce. It will affect how much you sell, your margins, and even your brand. There are lots of different pricing strategies, however, there isn’t a one-fits-all formula that will work for every different type of E-commerce businesses.

    More than that, pricing is a process. You will have to iterate...



SaaS


Price-optimization

  • How is Coronavirus changing the Google Search Terms?

    Coronavirus is creating an enormous change in the business environment as we know it. Since the world hasn’t experienced such an unpredictable crisis in recent history, businesses, especially the online ones, are trying to find new ways to adapt to the changes as fast as possible. Because everything is so unpredictable many eCommerce companies are more than ever putting their...

  • Price optimization - what do you need to know and how to get started?

    Until fairly recently, price optimization has been connected primarily to certain industries that by nature have limited inventory, such as airlines and hotels. This is not strange, having in mind how complex and time-consuming price optimization is. It requires a lot of time and dedication - performing different analyses, gathering a great quantity of data in order to be able...


Big-data


Machine-learning

  • Machine Learning A Pillar of Price Optimization

    “A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.” - Bill Gates

    Well, then machine learning must be a serious thing. And to be honest, it does sound so. You would think that is meant only for high-tech companies, and that it doesn’t have much to do with your eCommerce store. But, that’s not entirely true. Whether you’re a beginner, or...


eCommerce

  • Google Shopping and Ongoing Battle With Amazon

    Google is not a marketplace, yet this tech giant keeps rolling out new features that make other marketplaces take them as their biggest competition. Thus, it’s no surprise that the most competitive battle is happening with Amazon.

    Amazon might be the first address for retailers, but over the years, many of them understood that the most likely scenario for them...

  • Transformation toward eCommerce in the automotive industry

    Shopping patterns are changing in favor of eCommerce, and the automotive industry is no exception. The changes may vary depending on customer preferences, but it is clear that this industry is now at a tipping point toward eCommerce.

    Why is this transformation happening? What do customers expect? How should retailers respond to those changes?

    These are just some of the...

  • How the War in Ukraine Affects eCommerce

    It’s beyond saying that human casualties are the most important consequence of any war. Unfortunately, during this month, the world has been witnessing another conflict - this time between Russia and Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has already begun to seriously affect the worlds’ economy, therefore, eCommerce as well.

    Compared to the suffering of people who lost their loved ones,...

  • 7 reasons to abandon manual repricing

    Trying to keep your eCommerce business competitive and profitable? The advice that most retailers will give you is that you need to keep an eye on the price changes. Frequent price changes are not a novelty in the eCommerce world, and they are commonly used, especially by big eCommerce sites such as Amazon or eBay. The big players are performing...

  • Customer retention as a main eCommerce challenge of 2021

    Everyone is talking about how eCommerce sales have skyrocketed in 2020, right? But how come that you are not fully satisfied then? Well, one thing has been left in the dark and that’s the customers’ shift. That’s why one of the biggest challenges that retailers are facing in 2021 is customer retention.

    Let’s suggest some proven ways to ensure that...

  • WooCommerce vs. Shopify Who takes the win in 2021

    One of the first steps for creating a successful eCommerce business is to choose the right eCommerce platform. Nowadays, many eCommerce platforms can be found, which makes the choice a bit difficult. However, probably one of the most popular, yet easy-to-use are WooCommerce and Shopify. That’s why so many stores are faced with the dilemma - Woocommerce vs. Shopify.

    Both...

  • How to do eCommerce competitor analysis

    It’s common for eCommerce businesses to dedicate time and resources to investigate new markets, but once they manage to establish their position, competitor analysis becomes less important. That’s a huge mistake! If you are improving your business, why wouldn’t competitors do the same? And if you don’t perform a regular competitor analysis these changes might pass by you.

    Truth...

  • Social Commerce - The Leading eCommerce Trend

    The eCommerce sector is constantly evolving, but one trend has especially erupted during the previous year - social commerce. Social commerce refers to the integration of eCommerce and social media. It enables customers to explore and buy products via social media, without having to look for them on an eCommerce platform.

    Due to COVID19, almost all businesses had to move...

  • Price Comparison - How eCommerce Customers Use It?

    Who decides on purchasing a product or service at the first glance? Almost no one.

    Even if you are a traditional brick-and-mortar customer, it’s most likely that you’ll pay a visit to a few stores before buying anything. Moreover, if you are a modern, eCommerce user, your decision will be made after checking out different online stores. eCommerce customers have...

  • eCommerce during Christmas - What To Expect And How To Prepare

    While this year is coming to its end, the eCommerce world gets busiest with the Christmas season approaching. Only have you overcome all the fuss around the Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the new hectic period came. December is consistently the busiest month of the year for both sellers and shoppers. Everyone needs to be prepared - shoppers to...

  • Holiday Season Four Tips To Boost Your Sales

    With the holiday season reaching its peak by the end of this month, it’s time to make sure you have everything prepared to end up this strange year on a positive note. For sure, this festive season will be like no other. Regardless of the lockdowns around the world, people still want a bit of Christmas magic.

    <img src="/assets/images/post16/holiday...
  • 5 mistakes to avoid in your price monitoring strategy

    eCommerce is constantly boiling with new product launches, fierce competitors, news, offers, events. Prices are also in that pot, so they must adapt to changes as well.

    In order to do it, price monitoring is a necessary strategy. But, that strategy comes with stumbling blocks on the way. 

    In this article, we’re aiming to point out the most common mistakes in...

  • 4 Reasons Why You Need Competitor Price Monitoring

    Your company doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Numerous internal and external factors can shape your business, whether it be consumers, suppliers, or competitors. In today’s way of doing business, monitoring your competitors become one of the first and foremost steps. Why is that so? Well, retailers are turning mainly (if not entirely) over to eCommerce, which means little to no...