The rise of e-commerce has transformed the global retail landscape, making platforms like Amazon essential marketplaces for modern entrepreneurs. While traditional franchises have relied on physical ...

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In recent years, a new wave of non-traditional, alt-commerce models has emerged, challenging our assumptions about consumer purchasing and preferences. Alt-commerce represents a radical shift in the ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Today social networks are more powerful than ever, and startups and ...

Advising global retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) leaders over the past year, I have witnessed a pivotal transformation: The era of static digital storefronts is ending. Consumers still largely ...

The consumer-to-consumer (C2C) business model is an e-commerce framework where consumers trade with each other directly, often mediated by a third-party platform or website. In this model, one ...