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Carted’s Thesis

At Carted we see the world of ecommerce differently to most people. We're sharing our thesis on the future of commerce.

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What type of Carted customer am I — Elements, SDK or API?

So, you’re thinking about leveraging the capabilities of the Carted API but you’re just not sure where to start. Carted Elements, Elements SDK or the API?

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Why You Need To Be Investing In Tech To Level Up Your Commerce Content Game

Looking to generate more value from your affiliate marketing strategy? Here’s why commerce content tech needs to be a top priority for publishers.

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Link Rot In Commerce Content: How Fresh Are Your Affiliate Links?

How fresh are your affiliate links or product links? Discover how to overcome link rot in commerce content as a publisher.

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Ecommerce Fundamentals Part 4: Retention

Learn how to drive user engagement and maximize your retention strategies with our expert tips for publishers, bloggers, and content creators.

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Ecommerce Fundamentals Part 3: Conversion

Ready to turn high-intent audiences into paying customers? Discover how to master conversion as a publisher, blogger or content creator.

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Ecommerce Fundamentals Part 2: Acquisition

Discover how to level-up your acquisition strategy and boost your revenue as a publisher, blogger, or content creator by targeting high-intent audiences.

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Ecommerce Fundamentals Part 1: Introduction

Ready to maximize the lifetime value of your site visitors? Explore your guide to the ecommerce fundamentals as a publisher, blogger, or content creator.

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Using audience insights from on-site checkout to create content that sells

Learn how on-site checkout can unlock more revenue for publishers with deeper shopper insights.

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Everything That’s Broken With Affiliate Marketing…

Here is everything that is wrong with affiliate marketing and an opportunity for innovation.

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Better Hardware Provisioning for ML Experiments

We demonstrate how to use Terraform to provision cloud hardware for running ML experiments with Vertex AI Workbench.

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How Publishers Can Build a Holistic Commerce Strategy

Learn how publishers can better integrate commerce into their strategy to improve overall business outcomes.

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Make First-Party Data Your Superpower

An introduction to first-party data and practical examples to turn it into a competitive edge.

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Commerce 101: On-site Shopping for Publishers

A primer for ecommerce best practices that publishers can use to maximize the impact and effectiveness of on-site checkout.

Building an Efficient Machine Learning API

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Building an Efficient Machine Learning API

Learn the techniques we used to build a performant and efficient product categorization endpoint that will be used within our product data pipeline.

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How We Designed Our Scalable Microservice Architecture

A look at how we architected our codebase to meet our ambitious goals and work well for our distributed team.

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Why Contextual Commerce is Taking So Long to Build

Contextual commerce promises to bridge the gap between inspiration and purchase. Hear from our founder on why this future has yet to materialise.

Variable-Length Sequences in TensorFlow Part 3: Using a Sentence-Conditioned BERT Encoder

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Variable-Length Sequences in TensorFlow Part 3: Using a Sentence-Conditioned BERT Encoder

To conclude this series, we examine the benefits of using a sentence-conditioned BERT model for multi-sentence text data.

Variable-Length Sequences in TensorFlow Part 2: Training a Simple BERT Model

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Variable-Length Sequences in TensorFlow Part 2: Training a Simple BERT Model

In this article we demonstrate how to use a BERT model with variable-length text data while minimizing training time.

Like, Subscribe, and Buy: Empowering Creator Commerce

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Like, Subscribe, and Buy: Empowering Creator Commerce

Creators are increasingly looking to commerce to fuel their growth. We assess the state of creator commerce today, and where it’s headed.

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Variable-Length Sequences in TensorFlow Part 1: Optimizing Sequence Padding

We analyze the impact of sequence padding techniques on model training time for variable-length text data.

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Carted’s Elevator Pitch

This article is Carted’s elevator pitch — the problems we’re solving, why and how we’re solving them, and most importantly, what sets us apart from the status quo.

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Product Taxonomy: Improve Sales with Effective Categorization

A clear and comprehensive product taxonomy enables your customers to find exactly what they need to complete their checkout. Learn how to construct the ideal product taxonomy with this guide.

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7 Best Practices for Creating a Product Taxonomy

A well-constructed product taxonomy provides lasting benefit to both your customers and your business. Understand these 7 tips to optimise your own product hierarchy.

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Improving Dataflow Pipelines for Text Data Processing

This post discusses recipes to improve Cloud Dataflow pipelines for large-scale datasets involving sequential text data.