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MarketLive Q2 Performance Index Report: Brick & Mortar Cracks e-Commerce Puzzle With 59% Revenue Gain(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/30/14 -- MarketLive, the leading Total Commerce platform for high-growth merchants, today announced the results of its Performance Index™ report for Q2 of 2014. The index report signaled a strong retail economy with across-the-board, year-over-year increases in traffic, revenue, conversion, add-to-cart and average order sizes. Among these positive performance results reported by MarketLive's customers, Brick and Mortar retailers stood out with an impressive 59 percent revenue gain, showing how these 'old-school' merchants have embraced e-commerce and surpassed many of their online peers at their own game. Another highlight was mobile share-of-revenue growing 335 percent faster than it did in Q2, 2013. While total revenues from generated from smartphones and tablets are just below 20 percent of total, that share continues to increase and 39 percent of all e-commerce site traffic comes from shoppers searching on their mobile devices (even if they do not complete their transaction there). "Our latest Performance Index results illustrate how agile and tech-savvy our merchant customers really are at innovating their e-commerce strategies, and how willing consumers are to adopt new paths to purchase from their mobile devices," said Ken Burke, founder and CEO of MarketLive. "Brick and mortar merchants should be exploring different ways to showroom and to accommodate online and offline shopping behavior, and all merchants should be preparing now for the holiday season by optimizing their websites for mobile." MarketLive's Performance Index Vol. 25 details year-over-year online retailing performance among its omni-channel commerce customers. The survey results are broken out by retail sector and key performance metrics including average customer visits, average order size, conversion rates, and more. The report also tracks path to purchase and cart abandonment data and offers online retailing tips and best practices, based on the real-world buying behavior of millions of online consumers. Other highlights from the Q2 Performance Index report include: Total revenue increased by an average of 19.4 percent over Q2 of 2013 Site traffic increased an average of 11.1 percent Add-to-cart rates increased 3.6 percent Average order size in Q2 was $117.33, up 5.3 percent Conversion rates increased by 4.7 percent Media may request a free copy of the Performance Index report, Volume 25, by contacting Renee Newby at [email protected]. Interested companies may complete an online form to request Volume 25: http://www.marketlive.com/marketlive-library/performance-indexes.html Connect with MarketLive Find case studies and best practices at the MarketLive blog: http://www.marketlive-blog.com/ Follow us on Twitter for the latest webinar invites, events and surveys: https://twitter.com/MarketLiveIncDiscuss e-commerce with your peers at our LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/company/marketliveLike MarketLive on Facebook to receive the latest trends and news: https://www.facebook.com/marketliveAbout MarketLiveSince 1995, MarketLive, Inc., has been the leading provider of e-commerce technology and services that help fast-growing companies successfully sell goods and services online. Designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers, the extensible MarketLive® Customer Driven Commerce technology and services solution integrates commerce across all channels, enabling merchants to enhance their customers' experience online while dramatically improving acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. The MarketLive platform is the most retail-targeted, fully featured, customizable Total Commerce solution on the market today. MarketLive powers many successful retail e-commerce sites, including Armani Exchange, Party City, Perricone MD, Sport Chalet, Sundance, Helzberg Diamonds, John Deere, Title Nine, Intermix and others. For more information, visit www.marketlive.com. Media Contact: Renee Newby Rocket Science PR, for MarketLive Office: +1 415 464 8110 x213 Mobile: +1 757 651 6554 Email: Email Contact Source: MarketLive, Inc. |