It should go without saying, but things are a little strange right now. We are a few weeks into implementing social distancing practices and there’s not a single aspect of life that this COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t altered. I’m sure you know the feeling. 

As a distributor, you could be experiencing higher demands of your products. Or, oppositely, a break in the supply chain could have drastically changed your product availability. Regardless, with an unprecedented number of people now working and shopping from home, it’s more important than ever that your website is running smoothly and that you are utilizing an efficient B2B e-commerce integration system. 

To help set you up for success, here are three e-commerce best practices that will keep your business moving forward during this Coronavirus pandemic. 

On October 25, 2019, Google announced their latest search algorithm update: BERT. 

BERT is an acronym that stands for "Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers". In simple terms, BERT helps computers interpret language more like humans do. This can make search results more relevant, which is a good thing. 

Google announced last week that they will gradually start to block mixed content.

Mixed content occurs when subresources on a secure https:// page are loaded insecurely over http:// pages. Types of common mixed content are scripts, images, videos, stylesheets, and iframes.

Last night on September 8, 2019, Aldrich Web Solutions attended the opening reception of the Connect 2019 conference at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown New Orleans. Aldrich Web Solutions is a standard sponsor at the conference this year and is at booth number 215 in the Napoleon Ballroom at the Sheraton through 4pm CST on September 10, 2010. Keith Robinson (Customer Experience Manager) and Sara Fisher (Sales and Marketing Coordinator) are representing Aldrich Web Solutions and manning the booth at the conference.  

In June 2019, Aldrich Web Solutions was chosen to be Tribute Inc.'s e-commerce partner. 

In 2019, Aldrich Web Solutions will be attending and sponsoring two different user conferences in the distribution software industry. By attending these conferences, Aldrich Web Solutions will have the opportunity to meet with distributors that use ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and speak to them about their e-commerce plans and goals. For the past fifteen years, Aldrich Web Solutions has helped distributors sell their products online, serve their customers better, and attract new customers to their websites with the WebAlliance Suite of E-Commerce products for distributors.

On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, we'll finally will be relocating to our new location at 1100 West Boulevard in Marion, Illinois. Our team is excited to get moved in their brand new facility next week. 

Here's the latest on our remodeling project for our new office location, coming May 2019. We're approximately six weeks away from being completely moved in to our new building, located about one mile northwest of our current location. The Aldrich team is getting excited to move in.

Have you ever been on a tour (maybe Washington DC), and came away feeling like it was the best two hours you've had in a long time? Encouraged by this experience, you sign up for another tour the next day and feel like it will never end...

In case you missed it, a couple weeks ago we announced we'll be relocating in May 2019. We didn't just buy a new building to move into—we're completely remodeling the interior to make it just right for our growing team, and construction is quickly underway. Actually, we just hit the halfway mark of our construction plans!