Eric Bandholz is the host of "Ecommerce Conversations," Practical Ecommerce's weekly podcast, and co-founder of Beardbrand, a leading men’s grooming company that focuses on beard care. With the help ...

Sig Ueland is a longtime contributor to Practical Ecommerce, having written weekly ecommerce resource lists since 2011 — addressing tools, products, and services to help merchants. He is also a ...

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 ...

ChatGPT is becoming a valuable traffic source. It may not appear in a Google Analytics 4 overview because the volume is small, but ChatGPT traffic is often the most engaging source, even more than ...

An ecommerce merchant might sell the exact product a generative AI shopper wants and still not appear in the platform’s recommendations. The disconnect starts with how consumers use AI chat and ...

ChatGPT now recommends products directly in search results. The feature has no ads (so far). Hence any ecommerce business can presumably gain visibility for free. The recommendations follow from ...

Augmented reality and virtual reality provide opportunities to create product experiences for shoppers that are immersive — the feeling of being physically present. Here is a list of recent AR and VR ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on release-based selling, quick deliveries, secure payments, managed social commerce, ...

For four years Eric Steckling has run two direct-to-consumer brands. Brio, the company he founded in 2014, sells beard trimmers and related goods. In 2022, he acquired Ollie, then a seller of ...

This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, generative engine optimization, AI-powered marketing, analytics, sales agents, payment links, B2B, ...

ChatGPT increasingly queries Google and other search engines for answers to prompts. Atlas, ChatGPT’s browser, similarly searches Google for research. Here’s how to identify that activity in Google ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on autonomous deliveries, reviews, generative AI optimization, performance marketing, ...