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Ecommerce, also known as electronic commerce or internet commerce, has likely created more success stories across more industries than any other opportunity in the past century. It has created a separate economy, all online, that has given entrepreneurs the opportunity to disrupt every industry. Fashion, beauty, electronics, jewelry, cars and even the real estate industry, as well as every other retail and consumer-based industry has been affected by the rise of digital marketplaces. Here is a list of an elite few of the top Ecommerce experts from all over the world, and their advice for how to break through the chatter and find success as a digital entrepreneur in the Ecom world.

There’s no denying that the growth of social media interactions between brands and consumers has been explosive, especially over the past five years or so. With 70% of Americans using social media, many consumers have hung up the phone, stopped writing emails and turned to social media to reach out with questions, compliments and, very often, complaints about their experience with a brand or business.

Raj Nijjer / August 11, 2019

Around three-quarters of U.S. internet users regularly or always search for visual content prior to making a purchase, according to eMarketer; only 3% never do.

When it comes to shopping online, product images create a positive experience for potential customers.

Many experts share that featuring multiple professional images for a product helps reduce customer uncertainty, resulting in improved conversion and lower return rates.

Google Images search share is approximately 26% of overall search, according to Jumpshot and Moz.

Optimized product images can drive new customer acquisition for ecommerce websites. Connecting discovery of up-to-date and accurate product information like images is key to completing a successful buyer experience on Google Images.

By Nausicaa RennerAugust 8, 2019

Illustration by Tallulah Fontaine
Last year, I had a strange dream. My father and I were wading in an industrial canal, reminiscent of a subway, as thousands of hatchery-raised fish were being released into it. The fish crowded, slimy, around our legs, and I knew (in the way that one knows in a dream) that they thought, as they hit the water, that they were drowning—that they had to experience death before entering adulthood. The next day, I told my father about the dream. He revealed that, when I was three, when we were living in Pittsburgh, he took me to see a truckful of catfish being pumped into an artificial pond. I was too young to remember this. But somewhere in my mind the vision of fish being spewed into water had lodged itself, resurfacing more than twenty-five years later.