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Cloudways Launches Black Friday Offers and a New Pricing Tool to Help Small Businesses

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Monday, November 14, 2022

Cloudways , the multi-cloud managed hosting platform and subsidiary of DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN), announces the launch of its Web Hosting Savings Calculator for small businesses.

Key Points: 
  • Cloudways , the multi-cloud managed hosting platform and subsidiary of DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN), announces the launch of its Web Hosting Savings Calculator for small businesses.
  • Rising costs and inflation have presented formidable obstacles to the growth of small businesses and freelancers in 2022 and are predicted to continue their upward trend in 2023.
  • Cloudways champions small businesses, offering flexible and easy-to-use services that make it straightforward for a business to build a modern online presence.
  • Cloudways is proud to offer a service that lets small businesses quickly and affordably build a modern, secure, high performing digital presence.

Report Reveals European E-commerce Companies Struggle With Poor Website Performance

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

LINZ, Austria, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Storyblok, the content management system (CMS) category leader for 2022 that empowers both developers and content teams to create better content experiences across all digital channels, today announced the findings from its Enterprise eCommerce Leader Report (2023 EMEA).

Key Points: 
  • The report examines data from 3,583 e-commerce companies in the EMEA regions that have 100+ employees and revenue above $10 million.
  • The data reveals that the top five monolithic CMSs perform poorly in Google Lighthouse speed and performance scores, with websites built on these CMSs achieving a maximum average performance score of 34.6.
  • These low scores have a negative impact on responsiveness and visual stability, which makes websites more difficult to use and decreases conversion rates.
  • Leading brands such as Adidas, T-Mobile, Renault, and Marc O'Polo use Storyblok to shape their digital storytelling.

Nexcess Report Reveals Top 10 Cities Rising as Most Innovative in U.S.

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Monday, November 14, 2022

ATLANTA, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexcess, the premium provider of managed hosting and cloud solutions optimized for managed WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento, today released a ranking on the top 10 most innovative cities across the U.S.

Key Points: 
  • "At Nexcess, our goal is to help innovators and entrepreneurs who want to make money online," says Terry Trout, SVP of Marketing.
  • "For nearly 23 years, we've helped organizations of all sizes start, manage, and expand their online businesses."
  • As digital commerce experts and the industry's trusted leader in open source ecommerce, Nexcess empowers individuals to open and build high-performing online stores.
  • For more information, visit Nexcess.net or read the full report: Top 10 Rising Innovative Cities in the US .

Thanx Media Partners with Bridgeline

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Friday, November 11, 2022

WOBURN, Mass., Nov. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLIN), announced today its partnership with the US-based digital marketing agency Thanx Media.

Key Points: 
  • WOBURN, Mass., Nov. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLIN), announced today its partnership with the US-based digital marketing agency Thanx Media.
  • The agency is certified in both the Optimizely and BigCommerce platforms, where Bridgeline has an extensive history of providing value.
  • "We look forward to working with Thanx Media to generate revenue for our customers."
  • Bridgeline helps companies grow online revenue by increasing traffic, conversion rates, and average order value.

Revolutionary Breakthrough by NOWPayments: NOW Online Stores Can Accept Recurring Payments Automatically

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NOWPayments , the leading crypto payment gateway, has launched a revolutionary subscription-based payment solution that allows businesses to accept recurring payments from various tarification plans automatically.

Key Points: 
  • AMSTERDAM, Nov. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NOWPayments , the leading crypto payment gateway, has launched a revolutionary subscription-based payment solution that allows businesses to accept recurring payments from various tarification plans automatically.
  • This groundbreaking solution helps merchants to settle up rypto subscriptions and start accepting recurring payments in a few clicks.
  • With NOWPayments' Recurring Invoicing solution, crypto subscriptions go way easier and totally hassle-free, allowing merchants to set up subscription groups and tarification plans automatically.
  • Now businesses can start to accept recurring payments in just a few clicks.

Ordergroove Raises Over $100 Million to Fuel Its Rapid Growth, Helping Brands and Retailers Increase Customer Lifetime Value and Generate Recurring Revenue

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

This vote of confidence by Primus underscores our leadership position in the category, said Greg Alvo, Founder and CEO of Ordergroove.

Key Points: 
  • This vote of confidence by Primus underscores our leadership position in the category, said Greg Alvo, Founder and CEO of Ordergroove.
  • With customer acquisition costs at an all-time high, recurring revenue has never been more critical to brands and retailers," Alvo said.
  • "Subscriptions are hard, and Ordergroove makes it easy and delightful for both Fortune 2000 companies and emerging brands to become subscription-first.
  • As customer acquisition costs have risen dramatically over the past five years, more and more retailers and fast-growing DTC brands are turning to Ordergroove to maximize customer lifetime value and grow recurring revenue.

Balance Hires Former Marqeta Executive as VP of Customer Growth to Drive Financing and Ecommerce Payments for B2B Businesses

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Friday, November 4, 2022

“At Marqeta, I was focused on improving the experience across the entire customer base, and amplifying the voice of the customer throughout the company. The customer must be at the heart of everything you do. A business won't succeed if its customers aren't successful,” Loftis said. “What excites me about the opportunity at Balance is the white space--the freedom to take the challenges of B2B payments, apply solutions, see where you get traction and iterate. The Balance product is transformative, and I look forward to helping our customers' businesses experience that transformation.”

Key Points: 
  • Balance , the leader in B2B payments, specializing in financing and ecommerce, today announced the hiring of fintech executive Kim Loftis , the companys VP of Customer Growth.
  • Loftis joins Balance with over 20 years of customer management and executive experience within fintech and financial services.
  • From her role as VP, Investment Specialist at JP Morgan to leading the Global Customer Experience at Marqeta, she is bringing a wealth of expertise to Balance.
  • At Marqeta, I was focused on improving the experience across the entire customer base, and amplifying the voice of the customer throughout the company.

BookOutdoors Launches with $4M Seed to Take the Pain Out of Planning and Booking Outdoor Travel

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

DENVER, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BookOutdoors, the travel tech startup aiming to get more people outdoors, announced it has launched in twelve states, with plans to quickly expand to the rest of the country and Canada. The launch comes on the heels of a $4 million seed funding round raised late last year and led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed fund, R-Squared Ventures, and former C-level executives from several of the largest travel and hospitality companies, such as Aman Bhutani, former president of Expedia (and now CEO of GoDaddy), and Brendan Bank, former CTO of Booking.com.

Key Points: 
  • "We believe there is a large and untapped opportunity to vastly improve the outdoor travel planning experience.
  • However, unlike the experience for booking a hotel room, there is no single destination for searching all available outdoor travel accommodations, particularly at professionally-managed properties.
  • Driven by the belief that the future is brighter when everyone spends more time outdoors, BookOutdoors makes planning and booking outdoor travel a more joyful, seamless experience, while fueling the growth and success of its partners.
  • For property owners, BookOutdoors works alongside their existing booking channels to help eliminate unsold site nights and deliver additional value.

Nexcess & Recapture Announce Masterclass on Recovering Lost Ecommerce Revenue from Abandoned Carts

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Abandoned cart expert Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture, will lead online store owners through battle-tested strategies for preparing Black Friday/Cyber Monday abandoned cart campaigns.

Key Points: 
  • Abandoned cart expert Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture, will lead online store owners through battle-tested strategies for preparing Black Friday/Cyber Monday abandoned cart campaigns.
  • This experience gives Rodenbaugh access to best practices gleaned from a wide spectrum of online ecommerce, membership, and SaaS businesses.
  • The partnership brings together Nexcess' highly performant managed hosting solutions with the specialized ability of Recapture to help store owners increase revenue.
  • Nexcess was founded in 2000 with the goal of building fast hosting for the most powerful ecommerce and content applications.

The Future of Digital Innovation is B2B Payments

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Building on the explosive growth of B2C digital commerce revenues over the last 3 years, B2B digital commerce will see significant growth across categories in 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Building on the explosive growth of B2C digital commerce revenues over the last 3 years, B2B digital commerce will see significant growth across categories in 2023.
  • Balance provides a B2B customer-focused payments service that enables businesses to meet an important emerging customer need," said Dan Saltzman, VP Client Services at MRM Commerce.
  • The report shows that the future of B2B will be about so much more than simply fulfilling a service.
  • MRM Commerce is an award-winning global digital commerce practice that is part of world class digital experience agency MRM.