Remote Business: Organising Events and Workshops Online [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 27. April 202025. October 2021 | by Sara Herrera Source: Pexels The Corona crisis forces us to react to new circumstances in a flexible and agile way. Because many things are simply no longer possible given the current situation, we have to come up with new solutions. And of course, the first thought that comes to mind is often »How is this supposed to work out?« or »This cannot be digitally mapped«. However, the experiences we have had over the past few weeks have shown us that it is very well possible to find solutions for the new circumstances – because if we have to act, our creativity and flexibility will not let us down. We use collaboration tools for working from home and holding meetings is no problem at all thanks to video conferencing. Events that had to be cancelled in the last few weeks and will probably have to be cancelled in the months to come have been hit particularly badly by the crisis and the omnipresent contact restrictions. This means that event organisers are also forced to find and implement new solutions, for example turning offline events into online events. Continue (6 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories E-Commerce Reading Tips of the Week
E-Commerce Quick & Easy – Get Started with the Salesforce B2C & B2B E-Commerce Packs! Posted on 21. April 202025. October 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Source: Unsplash Kickstarter is not only the name of the pioneering start-up from New York, but also the term for the type of financing that the American crowdfunding platform has introduced into global digital business. In light of current events, however, giving companies a kick start, i.e. providing support to get off to a flying start into digital business is not only something for start-ups. Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are currently also facing the challenge of quickly and productively getting started in remote business, or expanding their digital presence. Starter packs for B2C and B2B would be greatly appreciated. Therefore, we started working together with our partner Salesforce because »we’re all in this together«, right? ? Continue (6 vote(s), average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading... Categories Design & Usability Digital Marketing E-Commerce PIM/MDM/DAM
E-Food: Good Things Come to Those Who Order [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 20. April 202025. October 2021 | by Sara Herrera Source: dotSource Prof. Drosten is pleased. The chief virologist of the Charité Hospital in Berlin, who has become a media star with his daily podcast on NDR Info and thanks to whom hundreds of thousands of laypeople are suddenly talking about viral envelopes, PCR tests and antibody serums, recently made the following observation: the isolation is effective. It seems that the infection rate can be flattened thanks to strict measures, such as those imposed by Jena, the first major city to make face masks mandatory in supermarkets and public buildings. Through many tests and voluntary physical distancing between people, the lethality rate among those infected with the coronavirus in Germany might be contained. To formulate it in slightly exaggerating terms: couch potatoes save lives! However, the word »potato« already contains the current challenge: even couch potatoes have to eat. This is where food delivery services come into play. Because those who want to stay at home right now and do not have any neighbours who would kindly buy groceries for them type »food delivery« into a search engine – and just like that, they end up in the so-called e-food industry. Continue (4 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories Design & Usability E-Commerce Industries Reading Tips of the Week Retail
E-Food in Times of Corona: The bofrost* Online Shop Is Booming [Success Story] Posted on 9. April 202025. October 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Download the bofrost* Success Story for free now! It does not happen all that often these days that the doorbell rings. No one comes around spontaneously anymore, and anyone doing so would make himself liable to prosecution – or at least look suspicious: the coronavirus (COVID-19) has a tight grip on the world. Habits are changing: we buy more toilet paper and less clothes. Those who can, work from home, not from the office. We eat home-cooked food instead of eating in the bistro of our choice. Or we opt for ready-made meals. They can even be healthy and delicious, and this allows us to tell success stories from the business world, even in times of the coronavirus. One of these stories is about bofrost*, Europe’s largest direct distributor of frozen foods, whose business is currently booming. Find out in our »dotSource Relaunches bofrost* Online Shop with Inclusive Design« success story what this has to do with dotSource and why particularly older people and people with impairments benefit from new technologies during the Corona crisis. Continue (6 vote(s), average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading... Categories Design & Usability E-Commerce Publications
New Work and Corona: A Virus Accelerates the Change of the Working World [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 6. April 202025. October 2021 | by Sara Herrera Source: dotSource At the beginning of March, a friend of mine who works in a Parisian design office posted on social media: »Salut, mes chers, je passe au télétravail!« She was asked to leave her open-plan office due to the coronavirus. Télétravail is the French word for something for which we do not have a proper German word in German: we call it home office whereas real native speakers would rather describe it as »working from home« or »remote work«. The word component »tele« is not even French but ancient Greek. It means far away. The French thus work discretely from far away these days. At least conceptually, they do not let themselves be nailed to any place in times of curfews (sorry, I mean contact bans) when they are not working from their office. No matter whether they are working from far away, from home or via mobile devices: while the world is standing still to flatten an infection curve, the global working world is in fact changing rapidly. But what was the so-called New Work all about before the coronavirus? Why can such impulses lead to great benefits, in particular for many companies that now believe they are sliding into a crisis? Continue (5 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories E-Commerce Reading Tips of the Week
Personalisation Is Not One-Way Traffic – GRANIT PARTS Expands Digital Marketing with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Posted on 31. March 202025. October 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Download the GRANIT PARTS Success Story for free now! Personalisation – buzzword, trend, obsession. Whatever you want to call it: there is no way around personalisation for brands, retailers and manufacturers if they do not only want to be part of the battle for customer attention and loyalty, but also want to be at its forefront. And every step forward also brings new challenges. For example, it is one of these challenges that a targeted and individual customer approach must not be one-way traffic. Companies have to think and act in a cross-channel manner. Their customers have been doing this for a long time. Efficient marketing campaigns are required. The GRANIT PARTS Success Story shows what these campaigns should look like and how companies actually manage to keep up with the competition. Continue (6 vote(s), average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading... Categories B2B B2C Digital Marketing E-Commerce Platform Integration
Deepfakes – AI Simulates Real People [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 30. March 202025. October 2021 | by Sara Herrera Source: Pexels For years, artificial intelligence has been increasingly influencing our everyday life, but also the economy, politics and science – as chatbots in customer service, GPS assistants or characters in video games. AI can be used in many different ways and offers us new innovative solutions to problems in the most diverse areas. However, deepfakes show that AI also offers potential for controversy. Continue (5 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories Data-Driven Business E-Commerce Reading Tips of the Week
Online MVP #HK20STR – We Made It! [Recap] Posted on 27. March 202025. October 2021 | by Franzi Kunz Online? No problem. MVP? No problem. Last week, we proved with the debut of the Handelskraft Conference 2020 Online Edition that we are able to pull this off under enormous time pressure and extreme conditions. Up to the day of the conference, we experienced 16 exciting days between »Oh my God«, corona master plan and »dotSource goes home office«. Within a very short time, everything that had been prepared intensively for more than a year was rethought, rebuilt and turned into a day that we will not forget so quickly for various reasons. Continue (6 vote(s), average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading... Categories E-Commerce Interviews Webinars
Hexagon – From MVP to International B2B Online Shop [Case Study] Posted on 24. March 202025. October 2021 | by Luise Beyer Download the Hexagon Case Study for free now! The ability to operate internationally and scale globally is a high priority for many business models in B2B. However, meeting these requirements online often poses a major challenge: each country has different expectations with regard to the structure, design and functions of an online shop and communication takes place in different languages and time zones. The minimum viable product (MVP) approach can therefore be worthwhile, particularly for complex products: first of all, mandatory core functions are identified to cover the basic requirements of the customer. However, an MVP is always only the first step, the basis for a well thought-out further development of the solution. The functional scope is then gradually expanded – and customer feedback can be incorporated directly. Continue (5 vote(s), average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading... Categories B2B Design & Usability E-Commerce Platform Integration
Payments in 2020 – ECC Study Confirms Online and Offline Trends [5 Reading Tips] Posted on 23. March 202025. October 2021 | by Sara Herrera Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash The piggy bank of children in Denmark looks weird: it is black, not pink. It is made out of plastics and metals, not porcelain. It is rectangular, not round and no coins disappear in the slot. Instead, the charger docks – if the charging process is not wireless anyway. This is because the average Danish child already receives his or her pocket money directly on the smartphone these days. 13-year olds like August from Copenhagen simply hold their phone close to payment terminals when they want to pay for a bag of liquorice at unmanned checkouts in the supermarket. What is already common practice in future-oriented Denmark also slowly gets going in Germany: mobile payment via smartphone – that small supercomputer we all carry around in our pockets. Cash is increasingly becoming a case for the history books. Credit and debit cards are also used less frequently. But how do payment methods actually change? Continue (6 vote(s), average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading... Categories E-Commerce Reading Tips of the Week
