E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- January 23, 2019

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Apple Pay's US Expansion Will Fuel Mobile Payment Turf Wars
Future Whisper Coaching: Will AI Do All the Whispering?
Is Facebook's Five-Point Fix-It Plan Enough?
4 Techniques for Validating Enterprise Blockchain
How My E-Commerce Business Soared From 0-$100K in Less Than 4 Months

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Today's Story Highlights

Apple Pay's US Expansion Will Fuel Mobile Payment Turf Wars
Apple on Tuesday announced more large retailers will accept Apple Pay:
Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest, Speedway
convenience stores, and the Jack in the Box fast food chain. With those
additions, 74 of the top 100 merchants in the United States, and 65
percent of all retail locations across the country, now support Apple
Pay, the company said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85806.html

Future Whisper Coaching: Will AI Do All the Whispering?
The customer experience battle is being fought in the contact center.
Whether it's a service line or an inside sales call making first
contact, the phone is often the medium that matters in moments of truth.
When customers are talking to an inside sales rep or an agent in a
support organization, the ideal interaction is often described by
customers as "a conversation."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85805.html

Is Facebook's Five-Point Fix-It Plan Enough?
Many faithful Facebook users had the rug pulled out from under them
during the last year. Both Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg appeared
before the U.S. Congress and spilled the beans on how the company had
betrayed its members. I don't think the company's leaders realized that
Facebook was doing the wrong thing until recently. Now they have a five-
point fix-it-plan. Will it work?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85803.html

4 Techniques for Validating Enterprise Blockchain
There's been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past few years.
Nowadays though, there are signs that we may be on the cusp of moving
from the "blockchain will solve all your problems" segment of the hype
cycle into the "blockchain may be useful for a few targeted
applications" segment. Utility-based Darwinism is at work -- we're
starting to see the less likely applications fall away.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85801.html

How My E-Commerce Business Soared From 0-$100K in Less Than 4 Months
Over the past 10 years, I've been a part of at least that many startups.
The tools of the trade have changed rapidly, but the core elements of
successful entrepreneurship remain relatively unchanged. When I first
started out, "social media marketing" was a brand new concept. Now
entrepreneurs have a slew of tools to amplify their brand and grow their
e-commerce revenue.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85797.html

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