Merchants & Marine Bank

newburyportnews | November 22, 2018

Black Friday may be the biggest and busiest shopping day of the year, but area merchants and chamber of commerce directors are hoping people save some of their money to shop local. With that in mind, nationally recognized Small Business Saturday was created to promote the importance of supporting area merchants and expanding one’s holiday gift giving horizons. “We hope people will shop small, think smaller and be more conscious of their purchases,” Amesbury Chamber of Commerce ...

smallbiztrends | December 18, 2018

Shopify merchants saw huge earnings on the platform over the Black Friday through Cuber Monday shopping weekend this year. Over the Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) shopping weekend Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) was generating peak sales of $870,000 and 10,978 orders per minute. This resulted in Shopify merchants collectively making more than $1.5 billion in sales from November 24 to November 26.Although the vast majority of sales took place in North America, Shopify reported close to one in five o...

Business Strategy

BigCommerce | February 01, 2022

BigCommerce, a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, today announced it has extended its global presence into Germany, Mexico and Spain. With BigCommerce’s flexible enterprise-grade ecommerce platform and best-of-breed partner network, local merchants will be able to build, scale and grow their B2C and B2B businesses internationally and leverage industry-leading omnichannel capabilities for marketplace selling to drive revenue. The company’s la...

smallbiztrends | September 09, 2018

In order to combat this problem, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council or PCI SSC has launched a new tool along with updated educational resources to help small merchants.The PCI SSC said small merchants are highly targeted and when they are attacked, they are more vulnerable because they don’t have the technical know-how or resources to protect themselves. The Council said the tool they created has been developed to be simple so merchants can easily evaluate their security ...