Only about a quarter of the companies were able to process transactions online, and fewer than half had methods in place to assess e-commerce performance.
Plans for Staples.com to continue to build out its services offering, and to hire more staff for the site, are behind the launch of a Staples.com tracking stock, which, as announced last week, will follow the company's e-commerce performance.
The most notable is Ve Interactive, an e-commerce "performance and conversion platform" that Pearson says was recently valued at over £1.2 billion and in which he invested £500,000 early on.
The average amount spent also rose to $145 from $100. "It's very unusual to see something that can have this level of impact on e-commerce performance," he said.
The operation revealed a much wider, more diffuse commerce in performance-enhancing drugs than previously known, with a latticework of bathroom and basement manufacturers and distributors.
Airborne commerce required dependable performance, with departures and arrivals on schedule.
Alibaba Group's sales for its Singles' Day shopping festival have topped $14bn£9bnbn), a 60% rise on the Chinese e-commerce giant's performance a year ago.
It is a mark of how complicated the relationship between music, performance and commerce is nowadays that up until now, Grown Woman has soundtracked an advert for Pepsi (and another new track, Standing on the Sun, has soundtracked an ad for H&M) raising the question of what exactly is being advertised, and by whom: a song?
The important thing about companies like O2O commerce companies is that performance is readily quantifiable, which is one of the tenets of O2O commerce.
This study explores effective mechanisms for maintaining competitive advantages, and the results provide an in-depth understanding of the impact of e-commerce on travel agency performance.
