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Art Purveyors Expand Their Payment Palettes to Serve Customers Across Borders
Cross-border Payments // October 14, 2021

With most consumers who migrated to online shopping during the pandemic expected to remain there, eCommerce will most likely remain the dominant form of purchase for many products. A growing percentage of these online sales will be made across borders, with predictions that the value...

Art Collecting Goes Digital As New Generation Comes Of Age
Retail // June 30, 2021

Like virtually every market in 2020, art collecting saw a digital expansion last year, a seismic shift for consumers and artists accustomed to stuffy galleries, auctions and in-person experience that could upend decades-old ways of doing business. In 2019, online sales accounted for just 9...

The Art Of Business In The Online Art Marketplace
Markets // July 24, 2017

For many years, as communication, commerce and even crafting (see: Etsy, Pinterest) migrated to digital spaces, the art world stayed behind, lingering in brick-and-mortar museums, galleries and auction halls. People thought no one would ever buy art online, sight-unseen. They were wrong. “The art world...

Tumblr’s New Buy Button
Mobile Commerce // December 03, 2014

Tumblr on Tuesday (Dec. 2) rolled out an apparently easier way to make purchases through the service. In its own blog post, Tumblr offered simple instructions: “1. Find something you love on Etsy, Artsy, Kickstarter, or DoSomething. 2.      Post it to Tumblr. 3. That’s it....

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Art Purveyors Expand Their Payment Palettes to Serve Customers Across Borders

October 14, 2021
With most consumers who migrated to online shopping during the pandemic expected to remain there, eCommerce will most likely remain the dominant form of purchase for many products. A growing percentage of these online sales will be made across borders, with predictions that the value of cross-border retail payments will reach $3.6 trillion by 2022. […]

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Tumblr’s New Buy Button

December 03, 2014
Tumblr on Tuesday (Dec. 2) rolled out an apparently easier way to make purchases through the service. In its own blog post, Tumblr offered simple instructions: “1. Find something you love on Etsy, Artsy, Kickstarter, or DoSomething. 2.      Post it to Tumblr. 3. That’s it. You were done at step two.” By the way, in […]