Author: George Hari Popescu

The right to taste French sweets in your own home A Romanian man was given the right to receive sweets delivered from France. The man was mad when the Paris-based online shop refused to deliver to Romania and he complained about this situation at the European Consumer Centre. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. The most restrictive countries in terms of European e-commerce are France, Belgium, Spain, Germany and Poland. The most restrictive e-tailers sell clothes, shoes, books and gadgets. More details at Observator.tv 2016, a good year for 2Performant In 2016, 2Performant.com generated more than 780,000 sales for its 500+ online shops in the affiliate network; that means 39.4 million euros (VAT excluded). The total conversions number (sales and leads) is more than 840,000 – a more than 50% increase compared to 2015. The 2Performant affiliate network holds in its portfolio clients such as Elefant, Vola, evoMAG, Noriel, Miniprix, Libris,

Here are the most important news pieces about e-commerce from the last 7 days. If you found other news worth being disseminated, send us an e-mail at echipa@gpec.ro or leave a comment below or check us out on Facebook. Thank you! Inbound is more and more important in Romania This year, the HubSpot report by Beans United included 4,500 respondents, and based on the conclusions drawn from the State of Inbound 2016 report, it’s more obvious than ever that the inbound marketing is much more important these days. This proves that more and more companies are aware that consumer habits changed a lot are constantly changing and the only road to success is to keep up with this evolution. One of the conclusions of the study is: “only 20% of people want to speak to a salesperson to receive information and 62% prefer the search engines”.

Here are the most important news pieces about e-commerce from the last 7 days. If you found other news worth being disseminated, send us an e-mail at echipa@gpec.ro or leave a comment below or check us out on Facebook. Thank you! 2016, a fruitful year for the Romanian e-commerce According to estimations from GPeC, 2016 will see a turnover of 1.7 – 1.8 billion euros for the Romanian e-commerce (excluding services, air travel tickets, holidays, utility bills etc.), more than last year when we recorded 1.3 – 1.4 billion euros. GPeC will release more details on the blog soon, so stay tuned to find out how the Romanian e-commerce did this year! Online shops from TRUSTED.ro started their holiday campaigns Romanian online shops already started their special holiday discount campaigns. Some of them implemented special categories, others focused on special offers for their existing products, but all of them tried to offer

Here are the most important news pieces about e-commerce from the last 7 days. If you found other news worth being disseminated, send us an e-mail at echipa@gpec.ro or leave a comment below or check us out on Facebook. Thank you!   Black Friday, a whole month of Romanian discounts Romanian online shops use the expression “Black Friday” during the whole year, but November is the right moment to offer discounts. The first big Black Friday sale happened on November 18 and some shops even continued over the weekend. On our blog, you will find some figures and sales records from the biggest e-shops. The second Romanian Black Friday will be on November 25. You can also read about a study performed by One Hour Translation, measuring the success of Black Friday in the world.