Thanks to tools such as Grok Bot, it's a fun time to be an entrepreneur. The operational components are now less burdensome, ...

Black Friday is the week your ad budget works hardest. It's also the week your bidding algorithms have the least room for error. Google's Smart Bidding, ...

I have recently created Beardbrand’s own voice customer service agent. And I did it in about a day. We’re still working on it, but the functional aspect is complete. Customer support has been a huge ...

Marketers next month can celebrate 50 years of “Rocky,” revisit Agatha Christie’s disappearance, explain product construction, answer shoppers’ questions, and more.

New services this week include AI agents, agentic commerce, B2B payments, live commerce, programmatic ads, product discovery, multichannel marketing, reviews, loyalty ...

Effective October 19, the rule establishes procedures for collecting or reimbursing foreign duties, taxes, and import fees. Essentially, the USPS, directly or through a third-party representative, ...

Ridge, the maker of metal-clad wallets, launched in 2014 via a father-son Kickstarter campaign. Sean Frank joined the company in 2018 as chief operating officer. He’s now CEO and hopes to sell the ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on payments, shipping, affiliate marketing, agentic AI, ecommerce accelerators, customer ...

U.S. ecommerce sales enjoyed a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in 2026, resembling pre-pandemic patterns. The U.S. Census Bureau reported last week that seasonally adjusted Q2 retail ...

Chatbots and AI shopping tools that generate gift ideas and recommend products could disrupt affiliate marketing and distort attribution in the 2025 holiday shopping season and beyond. Ecommerce shops ...

This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on ChatGPT ads, digital payments, visual search ads, authenticated deliveries, agentic commerce, CRM models, logistics, ...

The metaverse is the joining of physical and digital worlds. The idea isn’t new, particularly to gamers of Fortnite or Roblox. Second Life has been running a metaverse-like online world for a couple ...