Rapid increases in profits for almost all of the world’s e-commerce groups are giving rise to serious discussions about an e-commerce tax. The reason: while the corporations are raking it in, retailers and small and medium-sized businesses are falling by the wayside.
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Druckfisch.de has been developing and marketing webshop solutions for print stores for four years. The focus is on B2B offerings, i.e. enabling a print store to offer its own customers a web store. The company is not an inexperienced start-up trying out something new in the home office with a chai latte in hand.
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At times, you might get the impression that it must have been incredibly savvy businessmen who invented the Internet. It’s as if they asked themselves: How can we conveniently reach as many people as possible on the planet, sell them products around the clock – and to make it all work perfectly, even make them totally transparent without them noticing?
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In Part 1 “MARKET: HOMEOFFICE – DO THE ADVANTAGES OUTWEIGHT THE BENEFITS?” we previously reported on how companies deal with the topic of home offices and what opportunities and risks this entails. Here in Part 2, you can read more comments and experiences from the IOP members.
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When science and politics implore us to avoid contact with other people and to work from home as much as possible, it sounds like the last resort against the spread of the virus. But what experiences speak for or against it from the entrepreneurial side? Here’s a little survey.
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We first introduced the ZOPI on February 8, 2021. There has never before been a price index for online print products. This first publication received a very positive response from the industry. Many thanks for the numerous suggestions!
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Until the very end, we, the bvdm and zipcon as organizers, had hoped to be able to hold the OPS in early June as planned. Due to the decision of the German parliament stating that “the epidemic situation of a national scope that was declared due to the corona pandemic will continue to apply for an additional three months until 30 June,” this is now no longer possible.
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In the new episode of the jabberfish podcast, I discuss a hot topic with Haeme Ulrich: Google has announced that it will no longer collect cookies for personalized advertising. But is that good or bad these days?
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Monitoring is a great thing when you can track an order until it arrives. However, if the proverbial red shoes that you clicked on one time follow you around the web for the next 14 days, it starts to get annoying. This will now be a thing of the past. For Google, at least. The company has announced that it will no longer use technology that can track individuals across multiple websites. This marks the end of personalized advertising on the Internet as we know it today.
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Cloudprinter.com has conducted a study on the global impact of Covid-19 on the printing industry. According to the report, photo personalization, capabilities via Amazon and shipment tracking are shaping the digital printing industry. It’s been more than a year since COVID-19 went global.
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