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Estimated read time: 10 minutes, 29 seconds Throughout the year, sales and subscription management teams juggle hundreds or thousands of subscription upgrades, add-ons, and renewals across customer accounts. However, existing solutions for generating pricing estimates for subscription changes, securing internal approvals, and providing customers with formal documentation are overwhelmingly manual, cumbersome, and error-prone. And with businesses tightening their belts, one misunderstanding or misstep during the upgrade or renewal process can mean the difference between a multiple-year contract and unexpected customer churn. What if every customer renewal—from estimate to invoice—was predictable and seamless for everyone involved? That’s the vision behind FastSpring’s…

Streaming TV advertising has transformed from the catchy jingles of the ‘60s to the integrated, data-driven campaigns we see today. Despite the rise of digital media, TV continues to be a cornerstone in capturing audience attention and driving sales.  Let’s take a look at the benefits and limitations of TV advertising in today’s world, along with best practices and key examples that showcase how brands can make the most of television advertising. What is Television Advertising? Television advertising allows marketers to promote their offerings through audiovisual commercials. In the past, this meant reaching large audiences through mass broadcasts that reached…

Estimated read time: 5 minutes, 17 seconds In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI search has become an invaluable tool for finding information quickly and efficiently. At FastSpring, we aim to continually enhance our AI search capabilities, ensuring you receive accurate and relevant answers. Here, we’ll explore how to make the most of FastSpring’s Owlbot search, why your feedback is so important, and best practices for crafting effective search prompts. The Benefits of FastSpring’s Owlbot Search Owlbot search provides numerous benefits: Speed: Instant responses to your queries save you time. Accuracy: AI algorithms sift through vast amounts of data to find…

HTML headings such as H2 and H3 are powerful ranking signals to search engines. Their importance is increasing because Google’s featured snippet algorithm looks for sections of a page to answer a query. Headings help Google better understand the content. Thus analyzing competitors’ HTML headings and optimizing your own can improve rankings. Here are three tools to help. Devaka Tools Devaka Tools SEO bookmarklet. Devaka Tools offers a quick (and free) way to identify and extract on-page headings via a bookmarklet, which the site explains: Bookmarklets are small JavaScript programs that can be stored as bookmarks in a web browser.…

Streaming By Emily Sullivan Aug 12 2024 In recent years, Connected TV (CTV) has revolutionized the way audiences consume television content. CTV has emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional linear TV offerings, giving viewers the flexibility to stream content through various internet-connected devices.  This shift has not only transformed consumer behavior but has also opened up new opportunities for advertisers to reach their target audiences in more personalized and engaging ways. In fact, U.S. brands are expected to spend over $28 billion on CTV in 2024.  In this post, we’ll dive into the diverse landscape of CTV platforms, including…

A survey from Databox reveals that nearly 40% of eCommerce stores consider search engine optimization (SEO) as the best investment in terms of results. To perform these optimizations, eCommerce businesses need to perform SEO audits. An SEO audit is a health checkup for your eCommerce store that reveals issues, misconfigurations, and areas of improvement that are affecting organic visibility. eCommerce teams can quickly spot technical problems, unoptimized pages, and missing data with SEO audits. This helps streamline the site maintenance process as webmasters won’t have to scratch their heads by much to discover opportunities for site enhancements. There are many…

Every week we publish a rundown of new products from companies offering services to ecommerce and omnichannel merchants. This installment includes updates on AI writing assistants, biometric payments, social commerce, fraud protection, and cross-border payments. Got an ecommerce product release? Email releases@practicalecommerce.com. New Tools for Merchants: August 12, 2024 Automattic rolls out AI-powered writing assistant for WordPress. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and its Jetpack AI performance and security application, has released Write Brief with AI, an AI-powered writing tool in JetPack. Write Brief with AI can measure readability, simplify lengthy sentences, write and suggest strong and clear prose, and…

While everybody has been patiently waiting for Sora, Runway, a renowned generative AI platform, introduced its latest innovation – the Gen-3 Alpha. This model leverages cutting-edge machine learning techniques to generate high-quality text, images, and videos, making it a powerful tool for creatives and professionals alike. And now the advanced AI model is accessible to all users! Gen-3 Alpha represents a major advancement in fidelity, consistency, and motion compared to its predecessor. Trained on an extensive dataset of videos and images, it offers unmatched capabilities in generating videos and images based on text prompts or other visual inputs. The model’s…

Dropshipping is the entry point for many new ecommerce retail ventures, but selling essentially the same product as hundreds of other online stores makes search engine optimization challenging. With a payment card, a logo, and a few clicks, entrepreneurs can quickly launch an online store by combining an ecommerce platform such as Shopify, BigCommerce, or WooCommerce with dropshipping apps such as Dsers, Spocket, or SaleHoo. Advertising The products for a dropshipping-enabled ecommerce shop could come from multiple sources, including AliExpress. These shops work on thin margins, effectively practicing retail arbitrage. The relatively small margins can complicate advertising since just about…

Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed an AI-powered robot capable of playing competitive table tennis at an amateur human level.  Registering the presence of a ping-pong ball, calculating its direction, and moving the paddle to hit it – all in a split second – is a mammoth task in robotics.  DeepMind’s robot is equipped with an IRB 1100 robotic arm mounted on two linear gantries, which allow it to move swiftly across and toward the table. It has an incredible range of motion, reaching most areas of the table to strike the ball with a paddle as a human does. …