By Bart Mroz, Co-founder/CEO, SUMO Heavy

Choosing the right ecommerce tools makes a huge difference in how your online store will perform, but deciding which ones are the right fit can be an overwhelming process. Online businesses come in all sizes and shapes, and each one has needs specific to its vertical.

It’s not just you - Amazon is a fiercely competitive place for a brand to sell products. And the competition is heating up with unscrupulous sellers using black hat tactics to get popular products suspended. Here are four methods currently being used by scammers within Amazon’s system.

There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don’t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there’s always the old-school, free method.

The success of e-commerce is wreaking havoc on the economics of parcel delivery. The millions of single-parcel deliveries to private homes are pushing up costs for parcel delivery companies, while prices have not followed.

Marshalls will start an e-commerce business for its brand later this year.

CBRE found two dozen examples of properties across the country that were once home to retailers but now have turned — or are in the process of being turned — into industrial centers. Since 2016, at these 24 locations, 7.9 million square feet of retail space has been converted into 10.9 million square feet of industrial space.

On National Ranch Day, the well-known dressing purveyors will have an outpost in Las Vegas where, for one glorious hour, they will fill any bottle you bring with as much ranch dressing as it will hold.

This “All-Day National Ranch Day Celebration” will happen this coming Sunday, March 10, outside of the New York, New York Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.