Case study: A look into app-only custom-shirt maker MTailor
Two-year-old MTailor has garnered millions in sales for its custom-made shirts, all via its app.
Kira Wampler had previously been chief marketing officer for ridesharing app Lyft.
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The 2016 Top 500 elite show what it takes to compete in the Age of Amazon.
U.S. e-commerce is reaching a tipping point, with web sales for the first time taking a double-digit share (10.6%) of total 2015 retail sales of $3.22 trillion, up from 9.7% in 2014, according to the Commerce Department. The web merchants ranked in the 2016 Top 500 Guide® are spearheading that growth: their collective U.S. web sales of $286.2 billion claimed an 84% share of total e-commerce sales in 2015. But the stakes are higher than ever, with no. 1-ranked Amazon growing faster than the pace of e-commerce overall (16.3% vs. 15%), forcing retailers and brands to rethink their strategies to succeed online. The fruits of their efforts are chronicled in the 13th edition of the Top 500 Guide®, which, for the first time, ranks each Top 500 merchant by an Internet Retailer Performance Score that takes 10 metrics into account in addition to providing rankings of all 500 with 2015 web sales as the basis.
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View the TOCInternet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide® is one of the most highly anticipated e-commerce market research reports of the year.
Whether you choose the print/digital edition of the Guide or the online database version that lets you mine 276 metrics per ranked e-retailer, you're equipping your business with the most comprehensive competitive e-commerce intelligence that exists. Peruse debut Performance Score rankings, which measure a company's online retail performance against its direct competitors across 10 key metrics.
Below are the 276 individual data elements grouped under major headings that database subscribers will find for each 2016 Top 500 company. Because each listing includes separate elements under major headings, subscribers can quickly and easily find the key individual data elements they are looking for.
When There's No Substitute for Having "the Bible of E-Commerce" in Your Hands
NOTE: 2015 web sales figures are ONLY available in the database version of the 2016 Top 500.
Now available in its 13th edition, the 352-page, full-color print edition or the digital, paperless version of the 2016 Top 500 Guide® contain up to 35,500 total facts on the 500 largest e-commerce competitors in North America. As no. 1-ranked Amazon continues to grow faster than the pace of e-commerce in the U.S. overall (at 16.3% in 2015), how are other e-retailers rethinking their strategies for online success? What can you learn from them?
The 2016 Top 500 Guide® has the answers, ranking and profiling each e-retailer by their 2015 online sales (NOTE: the sales figures are only available in the database version) and other key metrics—view 71 data elements at a glance, including first-time-offered Performance Scores, which assess Top 500 web merchants against their direct competitors and the market overall.
Get in-depth analysis from an Overview on the tipping point in e-commerce as well as a feature story on the impact online marketplaces are having on U.S. web retailers' strategies.
Benchmark your own business against the North American masters of e-retailing and take your operation to a higher level of performance.
Competitive E-Commerce Data Unequaled in Scope and Power
The all-new and completely updated 2016 Top 500 Guide® can be accessed in online database format through a subscription to Top500Guide.com, the world's largest repository of competitive e-commerce information. Featuring current and historical (up to seven years) web sales and rankings as well as marketing, operating, financial and performance data on the 500 e-retailers dominating North American e-commerce, the database format of the Top 500 Guide® allows you as a subscriber to quickly access the competitive information you're looking for and easily generate custom reports in seconds. The database version is the only format that includes web sales figures of the e-retailers that made the 2016 rankings.
Through convenient web access and an easy-to-use interface, you can quickly retrieve competitive rankings according to all 276 metrics per ranked e-retailer—including web sales, merchant type, growth rates and conversion rates, to name just a few—on the e-retailers profiled in the Top 500 Guide® and present that data as you wish.
Features of the Top500Guide.com database include:
Present your analysis and search results to managers or clients. All standard or custom data reports or rankings can be saved for your personal use. The same is true for all profiles and executive contact listings of e-retailers in the Top500Guide.com® database. Whether you're conducting research on market trends, performing due diligence on a vendor or crunching the numbers for an important e-commerce presentation, Top500Guide.com® serves as your anywhere, anytime portal to e-commerce business intelligence—use it wherever you have Internet access.
Features of the Top500Guide.com database include:
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