Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Within the world of B2B and B2C commerce, where understanding consumer behavior is key, this change has spurred a quest for innovative solutions. Many retailers grapple with insufficient product data. Here, gen AI intervenes, enriching catalogs and enabling a more comprehensive customer experience.

Social Media 254

Social Media B2C B2B Customer Data 254

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Customer experience (CX) has become the number one business priority for marketers. The percentage of European B2C marketers considering improving CX as their company’s top business priority has jumped from 26% in 2019 to 46% in 2020. CMOs are fully aware of the importance of customer data to personalise experiences.

B2C 204

B2C Customer Customer Experience Customer Data 204

Optimizely

APRIL 5, 2018

Buyers today have simply changed the way they purchase products, with more and more of the B2C market moving online (or to Amazon) each year. Many B2C brands are making the leap and shifting away from retail and toward direct-to-consumer (DTC). Here are the top reasons you should consider selling to potential customers directly.

B2C 170

B2C Consumer Shipping Costs Supplies 170

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 29, 2019

Customers demand that marketing coordinate with sales, service, and commerce to deliver better experiences. That’s why enterprise marketing technology (martech) is melding with customer experience (CX) to deliver consistency and relevance (see Forrester’s “Predictions 2019: B2C Marketing” report).

B2C 338

B2C Customer Experience Technology Marketing 338

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

What was a surprise-and-delight experience for customers two years ago is now an expectation. For example, according to Forbes , 71% of B2C customers expect companies to deliver personalized interactions and 70% are frustrated when they don’t. One of the issues is thatcustomer data is often siloed.

Multi-channel 204

Multi-channel Retail Customer Experience Customer Data 204

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

B2B brands should invest in AI-driven CRM (customer relationship management) systems to analyze customer data, offering insights for personalized marketing and sales strategies. Influx of AI and Hyper-Personalization AI and hyper-personalization will be a driving force in B2B ecommerce in 2024.

B2B 205

B2B eCommerce BigCommerce Omnichannel 205

GetElastic

JANUARY 13, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Multichannel Social Media 150

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 26, 2020

CMOs are fully aware of the importance of customer data. The employee data tsunami is less obvious, though. Expect the lines between employee and customer experiences to blur. CMOs often own external communication, while chief human resources officers (CHROs) own internal communication.

Customer Experience 502

Customer Experience Customer Data Customer B2C 502

Digital Doughnut

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

CDPs help businesses collect, store, and analyse customer data, while MAPs help businesses automate and personalise their marketing efforts. CDPs and MAPs are two key technologies that businesses are using to deliver seamless CX.

Customer Experience 97

Customer Experience Customer Customer Data Technology 97

Optimizely

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Are your customers truly engaged, or are they just coasting? Unless you’re keeping a close eye on customer interactions with your B2C brand, it’s impossible to know for sure. You must have quality customer data so you know which customers really are happy, and which customers are entering the at-risk zone.

Customer 210

Customer B2C Customer Loyalty Customer Data 210

Optimizely

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Have you ever actually asked your customers what they think of your B2C brand? If not, you’re missing out on key data points. While it’s vital to collect and analyze customer data across channels and devices, it isn’t enough to track email opens, social media likes, and website visits alone.

Customer 250

Customer B2C Social Media Improvements 250

GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the past two years, businesses have had to adapt to a new normal and accommodate for new customer expectations throughout their eCommerce strategy. B2B businesses specifically have felt an unprecedented amount of pressure to expand their B2B offerings and align more with B2C shopping experiences.

B2C 145

B2C B2B Reference eCommerce 145

Groove

AUGUST 18, 2020

No matter the size of your B2B or B2C eCommerce business, Klaviyo can help your store grow. Store all of your customer data in one place, and deliver customized experiences through email and other owned channels. Real-Time Customer Data. Data Science. Klaviyo Features. Automation.

Merchant Services 370

Merchant Services Shopify Subscription Multi-channel 370

Optimizely

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Are your customers truly engaged, or are they just coasting? Unless you’re keeping a close eye on customer interactions with your B2C brand, it’s impossible to know for sure. You must have quality customer data so you know which customers really are happy, and which customers are entering the at-risk zone.

Customer 150

Customer B2C Customer Loyalty Customer Data 150

Optimizely

MARCH 27, 2018

Shoptalk 2018 was huge — the world’s largest conference for B2C, retail, and ecommerce innovation sold out for the third time in a row with more than 8,500 attendees from some of the biggest brands in the world. AI is here, but the experience is not amazing just yet. Customer data creates seamless customer experiences.

B2C 150

B2C Omnichannel Channel Customer Experience 150

Optimizely

JULY 17, 2018

As a marketer, you understand why you’re collecting the data, but what are you doing with it? In fact, fewer than a quarter of marketers are extremely satisfied with their ability to use customer data to create more relevant experiences. And 54 percent of marketers are only using half of their customer data.

Marketing 170

Marketing Social Media Customer Data B2C 170

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

For today’s B2C brands, nothing happens outside the context of the customer. Traditional corporate balance sheets can capture a snapshot of financial health in a given moment, but they do little to recognize the long-term value of customer-obsessed marketing organizations. The New Balance Sheet.

Customer 290

Customer Multi-channel B2C Omnichannel 290

Optimizely

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In this case, that means sourcing information from your customer’s initial purchase, then using that customer data to drive targeted upsell and cross-sell marketing campaigns with recommended products to encourage a second purchase. (If If you’re not sure how to do this, using a B2C CRM is a great place to start.).

Customer Loyalty 332

Customer Loyalty B2C Recommendation Marketing 332

Kibo

MAY 14, 2014

5 Tips for Improving Your Omnichannel Customer Experience Technology is rapidly changing the way we connect with the world, including how we shop for the products we want. Little more than a decade ago, a smiling sales associate and a 1-800 support number were enough to ensure a great customer experience.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Omnichannel Improvements Customer 62

Optimizely

JUNE 28, 2018

Yes, there are a million moving parts to juggle, not to mention the stamina and creative aplomb it takes to pull off successful B2C marketing campaigns and grow your online business. Customer relationship management (CRM) – Software that centralizes your customer data to organize and automate customer relationships across the business.

eCommerce 199

eCommerce Marketing Multi-channel Payment Services 199

GetElastic

JANUARY 10, 2018

For a few years, personalization has been B2C commerce’s favorite catch phrase: know your customer, personalize the offers and prices, sell at the right time and keep communicating until you build a relationship and not just a sale. But do B2C techniques work for this audience? B2B will look more like B2C.

B2B 141

B2B Multi-channel B2C Customer Experience 141

GetElastic

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In today’s digital commerce world, customer experience is the key differentiator and competitive basis between brands. Every experience a customer has with both your brand and a competitor will influence their final purchase, and as a result, any commerce offering needs a state-of-the-art solution to capture growth effectively.

B2B 150

B2B Customer Data B2C Technology 150

Optimizely

AUGUST 9, 2018

For many B2C brands, the customer is the center of the world. But despite this, many brands make a lot of assumptions about what their customers want and need. More and more brands are taking their buyer’s needs into account — doing surveys, focusing on personalization, and mapping the customer journey with care.

Shipping Costs 150

Shipping Costs Omnichannel B2C eCommerce Marketing 150

Kibo

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This follows our earlier announcement of bring named the only Leader in The Forrester Wave : B2C Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022. It enables businesses to manage inventory, fulfill orders quickly, and provide a consistent experience no matter where a customer’s shopping journey begins and ends. Kibo Order Management.

Management 62

Management B2B B2C Fulfillment 62

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Two types of technological change are causing the proverbial sleepless nights for business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers: updating data strategies to adapt to data deprecation, and introducing or enhancing their organization’s AI capabilities.

B2C 208

B2C Marketing Technology Customer Data 208

Fabric

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For omnichannel retailers, these cutting-edge solutions can help to deliver seamless shopping across various channels and improve the overall customer experience. Customization options allow businesses to build more unique and personalized shopping experiences for customers.

eCommerce Platforms 130

eCommerce Platforms eCommerce Payment Services Merchant Services 130

Kibo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Individualization—also called 1-to-1 personalization—is an ecommerce personalization technique that retailers use to automatically optimize customer experiences for each person. This lift was even higher for other retailers, with increases driving higher loyalty and share-of-wallet among existing customers.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce B2C B2B Omnichannel 62

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Prioritiz e profitability and customer experience to help retailers fight the impact of inflation. Not only does it hinder repeat engagement and building loyalty, but anonymous shoppers also make it difficult to deliver a 1:1 personalized experience because no historical customer data exists.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Shipping Costs Retail Recommendation 196

Optimizely

AUGUST 27, 2019

Last week, eTail East 2019 was back in Boston with four days of retail and ecommerce insights from top B2C marketers. The Zaius team came prepared with plenty of cookies, and we even sat in on some sessions in between confessionals to cheer on our customers. . So what did we learn?

Channel 150

Channel Department Stores B2C Recommendation 150

Optimizely

JULY 25, 2019

If your buyer clicked on a specific product detail page , for example, you need to use that data to power all of your marketing messages and drive higher conversion rates. With the right customer data, you can personalize your marketing in real-time across channels, platforms, and devices. What is dynamic personalization?

Marketing 150

Marketing Recommendation Channel B2C 150

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 3, 2021

Marketers are obsessed with data. But when that obsession turns into tunnel vision on customer data only, it becomes impossible to achieve personalization at scale. Instead, brands need to know both their customer and their content, and Adobe took the wraps off a prototype that aims to do just that.

Customer Data 312

Customer Data Customer Marketing Customer Experience 312

GetElastic

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

  In order to compete, companies must differentiate – and that comes down to the customer experiences they deliver. B2B buyers want  the same digital commerce  experiences they are receiving on B2C channels.  

B2B 136

B2B B2C Mobile Social Media 136

GetElastic

AUGUST 2, 2022

Online businesses are fighting tooth and nail to deliver customer experiences that make them stand out in a sea of similar-looking websites. For some, running multiple storefronts is the best way to give customers different experiences. Want to work towards unifying your customer data? Go to Eval Tool.

Multi-channel 78

Multi-channel Customer Data B2B eCommerce 78

Optimizely

JUNE 29, 2017

Razorgator is based in California, has over 1 million customers, and has sold over 3.5 One of the biggest pain points was the 4-hour lag between a customer’s actions and Razorgator’s ability to act on them. million tickets to more than 250,000 events.

B2C 150

B2C Events Channel Customer Data 150

BigCommerce

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Like B2C, B2B businesses know the importance of offering a multi-channel experience to drive sales. But historically, that multi-channel experience for B2B buyers meant only having access to an online catalog. For FlexFire LEDs, the name of the net new customer acquisition game is SEO. Let’s dive in. .

B2B 251

B2B eCommerce Payment Services Multi-channel 251

Kibo

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It represents the new normal in how B2B and B2C consumers research, purchase, and acquire products. The shopping journey for a B2B customer typically tends to be more complex, involve larger-ticket items, and take longer to complete than a B2C purchase. Omnichannel shopping isn’t just a passing trend.

Omnichannel 114

Omnichannel Management Multichannel B2C 114

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Forrester’s customer experience Forums are in their tenth year — from our first one in 2009 in New York, they’ve grown and spread to San Francisco, London, Singapore, and other cities around the world and become yearly destinations for CX pros far and wide. CX Europe 2018 is just 10 days from now — Tuesday […].

Other 366

Other Customer Customer Experience Customer Data 366