Essential Ecommerce Resources

[James]

This is a thread to share useful ecommerce resources that you can vouch for, to help people find reputable and trustworthy information sources. Below is a starter list based on the #EcomChat on 9th April 2018:

Twitter chats

• #EcomChat (obvs!)
• #UXChat
• #SEMRushChat

Podcasts

• SEMRush Marketing Scoop – https://www.semrush.com/blog/the-search-marketing-scoop-podcast-is-now-live/

Industry voices/consultancies

• Internet Retailing > https://twitter.com/etail
• Smart Insights > https://twitter.com/smartinsights
• Econsultancy > https://twitter.com/econsultancy
• Practicology > https://twitter.com/practicology

Agency blogs/resource centres

• Moz – https://moz.com/blog
• Search Engine Land – https://searchengineland.com/
• Ometria – https://blog.ometria.com/
• Digiday – https://digiday.com
• PPC Hero – https://www.ppchero.com/
• Retail Dive – https://retaildive.com
• Hubspot Academy – https://academy.hubspot.com/
• Deep Crawl – https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/

Industry data sources

• @BainAlerts
• @businessinsider
• @eMarketer
• @ThinkwithGoogle
• @Baymard
• @PracticalEcomm
• @MobilePayToday
• @MarketingSherpa
• @StatistaCharts

Events

• BrigtonSEO – https://www.brightonseo.com/
• MeasureCamp – https://measurecamp.org
• Search Elite – https://www.searchelite.co.uk/
• Conversion Elite – https://www.conversion-elite.co.uk/info/
• Bloomreach Connect – https://events.bloomreach.com/connect/2018
• DeltaV Web Performance – https://2018.deltavconf.com/

Meetups

• Shopify Meetups – https://www.meetup.com/topics/shopify/
• Magento Meetups – https://www.meetup.com/topics/magento/
• Cambridge SEO Meetup – https://www.linkedin.com/company/optimisey/
• Take It Offline – https://www.takeitoffline.co.uk/

Books (Audio & Print)

• Webs of Influence – https://www.nathalienahai.com/books/
• Managing Yourself – https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/HBRs-10-Must-Reads-on-Managing-Yourself-
• Audiobook/B00YZ1X2HI
• Naked Statistics – https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Non-fiction/Naked-Statistics-Audiobook/B00CH3TWW0
• Design of Everyday Things – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Everyday-Things-revised-expanded/dp/0262525674
• Don’t Make Me Think – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758

[Graham]

Hi James,

Some good picks there.

Here’s a couple more…

WhatUsersDo – some great UX related articles and examples of user tests: http://whatusersdo.com/blog/

Baymard – ecommerce / UX research: https://baymard.com/blog

SaleCycle blog – shameless self-promotion I know, but hopefully useful to some: https://blog.salecycle.com/

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