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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Google’s problem with AI-generated content is less the process than the lack of effort. The search giant’s spam policies don’t penalize AI content per se, but its guidelines for human quality raters ...

This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on international shipping, cross-border payments, AI-powered logistics, conversational ad campaigns, social commerce, ...

I met recently with a spa manager in California to introduce her to a French beauty brand. I told her about the company (a client) and shared that she might be the first U.S. spa to carry those ...

Google Search Console has introduced a filter to see URLs users viewed and/or clicked when searching by image. Google offers image search from multiple interfaces: Google.com. On any desktop browser, ...

Hal Smith says lowering clients’ customer acquisition cost on Meta and Google is a focus of his agency, H Street Digital. He cites five performance levers, starting with the offer. Hal founded the D2C ...

Shopify is welcoming Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent. Amazon is trying to keep it out. Meta introduced Muse this month as a personal AI agent that can browse websites, fill out forms, and complete ...

Retail media may provide ecommerce retailers with high-margin revenue from an audience they have paid to attract. Merchandise sales from online and even brick-and-mortar retailers often produce gross ...

I run content for ecommerce brands. Thanks to cheap, infinite copy from generative AI, the question I’m paid to answer has changed. It used to be “Can we publish this?” Now it is “Will anyone see it?” ...