The Future of Ecommerce: 10 Predictions

Being able to capture a shoppers attention by engaging them with a customized shopping experience has truly changed ecommerce.

Below are just some of the ideas entrepreneurs need to know about the future of ecommerce from 10 successful founders:

Patrick Curtis – Custom Everything: why leave the comfort of your own home when you can get something custom made to your exact size for less? I believe this is the future…

Liam Martin – Customized Outfit Planning: Combining user-submitted and digitally collected data with current trends would provide a service that could put together outfits to fit the consumer's style while being trendy and even suggest sizes…

Kelly Azevedo – Virtual Sizing: Because brands vary widely in size charts, it will be even more important for profit margins to avoid returns and exchanges for color, style, design, and fit…

Bhavin Parikh – Custom Designs – This trend of custom designs and interchangeability lets customers truly express themselves through their clothing. It's very powerful.

Erik Severinghaus – Personalized Brands -There's so much data available about customers, and the e-commerce companies that care enough about their clients to personalize their communication will win the day…

Mitch Gordon – 3D Printing for Clothing: I think 3D printing technology will get to the point where we'll be able to print clothes according to our sizes. How cool would it be to go to Banana Republic, pick out the fabric of your choosing and have the machine print out some shirts for you? It will happen.

Chuck Cohn – Human Online Shopping Concierges – Technology will enable companies to provide a concierge-style service that will use underlying personalization algorithms to allow a real person to make recommendations to you…

John Jackovin – Shopping Experience Convergence: Until a few years ago, mobile shopping was nearly unheard of. We read about mobile this and mobile that, still creating that delineation between mobile and computer. As this line blurs, the shopping experience will converge around the person…

Trevor Summers – Algorithmic Recommendations: Amazon's product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. But they don't have enough data about me from other services and products I own. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of what's relevant to me based on a more complete profile.

Eric Koester – 360 Degree Customer Engagement: A customer may first experience your brand from a personal referral, but then may explore on mobile or a tablet before doing a deep dive on the Web. After those experiences, they may review on a third-party site before going in-store to purchase. That cross-platform, pre-purchase experience requires a 360-degree view of the customer to ultimately complete the sale…