September, 2020

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Simple Strategies for Success: How to Write a Great Ecommerce Business Plan

BigCommerce

You glance at the clock and it’s only two in the afternoon.

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COVID-19 Stokes The Chatbot Hype In Financial Services

Forrester eCommerce

COVID-19 and the associated containment measures are accelerating digital transformation and automation in financial services. Customer service in particular has been under enormous pressure and financial services firms such as Nationwide Building Society in the UK and the Royal Bank of Canada have launched chatbots to deal with the unusually high volume of requests.

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How Google Local Guides Improve Visibility

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As a business owner, you know reviews and fresh content are essential to your success. Suppose you’re passionate about promoting your business. In that case, you likely spend a lot of time creating new blog articles, crafting social media posts, or developing video content to keep your audience engaged. But there’s another, more passive promotion method that can help grow your business and boost your local search results: Google Local Guides.

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How Retailers Can Control Costs Even As Return Rates Climb

Retail TouchPoints

Returns are a cost of doing business for any retailer. But despite representing $309 billion in lost sales for U.S. retailers last year, they haven’t always been a strategic focus. In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. They are expected to keep merchandise out of circulation due to COVID infection concerns and to provide employees with personal protection to prevent infec

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Creating Efficient Commerce Systems

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

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What to do when you get stuck in Tableau!?

Canonicalized

As a person who uses Tableau 95% of the time, I have to say it: I get stuck. A lot! And I'm not ashamed of it. I believe it's normal to run into problems when you're trying to improve. Here are some thoughts that I hope will help you as well as myself in troubled times. The post What to do when you get stuck in Tableau!? appeared first on Canonicalized.

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The Increasingly Useless Middleman

Steve Dennis

Traditional retail, at its core, relies largely on being a middleman. The typical multi-brand retailer sits between the manufacturing community and its target consumers, performing valuable intermediary tasks like selecting the right products for the markets it serves, carrying local inventory, owning and creating attractive environments to sell the product, and so on.

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Three Tips for Using Design Thinking in Product Management Activities

Forrester eCommerce

Product managers must integrate design thinking into their product commercialization and lifecycle process to foster a customer-focused approach for offerings. Otherwise they risk being too internally focused and out of touch with the market segments they serve. Sam Somashekar shares the top three tips to help integrate design thinking principles into product management activities to ensure commercial success of your products.

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Best VPS Hosting Plans

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Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. In a world filled with different web hosting options, VPS hosting has become a popular choice for websites in various categories. Upgrading to a virtual private server (VPS for short) will drastically improve your site performance if you’re currently on a shared hosting plan.

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Bed Bath & Beyond Rolls Out Same-Day Delivery with Shipt and Instacart

Retail TouchPoints

In anticipation of customer demand for more and faster delivery options during the holidays, Bed Bath & Beyond has launched multiple options for same-day home delivery. Customers selecting home delivery on the Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy BABY websites will have their orders fulfilled in stores by personal shoppers working with Shipt , a division of Target.

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5 Ways to Use SMS with Your Holiday Promotions

Omnisend

Reading Time: 5 minutes. This holiday season will be busier than ever before, with customers who are more accustomed to shopping in brick-and-mortar stores moving online for their purchases. As inboxes become more crowded, retailers need to be ready to catch the attention of newcomers and existing customers alike. This is where SMS will become a major differentiator for brands this holiday season.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Five Benefits of Online Shopping and Offline Shopping

RetailMinded

People decide to do shopping online or offline due to several reasons. When shopping online, there are several benefits you will enjoy. Online shopping allows you to save time and money. You can relax in your home and use your laptop to access several shopping sites online. The ability to compare several shopping sites online make it easy to save money.

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A case for radical retail reinvention

RetailDive

Hudson Yards, American Dream, and Nordstrom's New York City flagship all opened before COVID-19 shut everything down. But are flashy retail destinations now obsolete?

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BI Is Dead; Long Live BI

Forrester eCommerce

The perception of legacy enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms comes with some legitimate stigma and baggage. It’s technology first, not business-led; the graphical user interface (GUI)-based user experience (UX) doesn’t address ease of use for all business decision-makers; there are too many underutilized reports and dashboards floating around in the enterprise; and signals produced by […].

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The Ubersuggest Chrome Extension: The Ultimate Link Build Tool

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Over the next few months, you are going to see a lot of updates in Ubersuggest , including new features. But before I dive into what I’m going to release soon, let’s first talk about the new Chrome extension. If you haven’t installed it, make sure you go and do so now …. No more Neil’s face. The biggest complaint we got about the extension was “my face” being in the search results.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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The Need for Delivery Speed Drives Holiday Hiring

Retail TouchPoints

Seasonal hiring provides a window into retailers’ priorities, and 2020 demonstrates both the COVID-19-powered growth in ecommerce and the need to operate stores and supply chains safely. Across a wide range of retailers, three trends are driving the industry’s holiday hiring strategies: The race is on for same-day delivery. Competition for faster deliveries is being spurred by Amazon’s resurgent ability to deliver for Prime members after a rough period early in the pandemic as well as the launch

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Face coverings rule extended to retail staff

TalkingRetail

All retail employees will have to wear a face covering from Thursday (24 September), the government has announced. Other measures unveiled by the government include: All pubs, bars and restaurants must operate on a table service only basis and must close at 10pm and if office workers can work from home, they should do so.

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How to Turn a Rough Stone into a VVS1 Jewelry Business?

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Managing a jewelry store or a fast-growing retail operation is already a daunting task when you don’t have a smart Jewelry business software system to tame the day to day operations; let alone coping with the changing dynamics of consumer trends and markets in the disruptive times. Despite the plummeting jewelry sales during the first period of confinement between March and April of 2020, the mood is on the up-swing again.

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American Eagle to close up to 50 stores this year, eyes hundreds more

RetailDive

The closures will hit the retailer's namesake brand, while the Aerie lingerie business and new activewear brand "Offline" are poised for growth.

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The Future of Multi-Vendor Commerce

In this on-demand webinar, discover how Logicbroker’s cutting-edge technology enhances the overall experience for both current and future customers and gain insights into how leveraging our seamless integration process unlocks new dimensions of efficiency and functionality. Plus, learn how our advanced marketplace features are set to revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering opportunities for growth and success within your multi-vendor commerce program.

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Why Wait? The Future of Data is Now.

Forrester eCommerce

Over the last 10 years we’ve watched big data, cloud, advanced analytics, and now AI and machine learning drive increased data platform investment. Yet, there wasn’t any real change from traditional data strategy and approaches. The evidence? Massive blind spots and hardened data arteries in the disruption of COVID-19. We were looking back, even when […].

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

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Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. There is one decision in life that you simply cannot get wrong. And no, it’s not choosing the right partner or career. That life-changing decision comes down to what website builder you decide to use. Whether you are setting up a small non-profit or are itching to take over the world with your handmade jewelry, the quality of your site will be a key factor in your success.

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David’s Bridal Launches 3D- and AR-Enhanced Dress Shopping Online

Retail TouchPoints

David’s Bridal has launched an immersive commerce experience that brings wedding attire directly into shoppers’ homes through 3D and augmented reality (AR). The technology, developed in partnership with Vertebrae , enables customers to view bridal gowns and bridesmaids’ dresses at a full 360-degree angle. Customers browsing on the David’s Bridal website can access 3D and AR visualizations of the brand’s 50-plus. best-selling dresses directly from product pages without needing to download a se

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Small Business Saturday launches virtual roadshow

TalkingRetail

Small Business Saturday UK has launched an online roadshow for towns and cities affected by the pandemic. The initiative will launch on 2 November with daily ‘virtual visits’ to small businesses and communities in more than 30 locations across the UK.

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The B2B Digital Commerce Playbook for Manufacturers

In this comprehensive guide, we delve into four essential ecommerce strategies for manufacturers. Each strategy is backed by a clear vision to ensure your efforts are aligned. Whether you’re a seasoned industry player or a budding digitalization champion, these strategies offer actionable insights to drive success. What will you find in the guide: Overview of how current events and external pressures impact business priorities.

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Productivity Superheroes (aka Project Managers)

eCommerceFuel

Have you been hoping to boost productivity in your business? Maybe you are looking for some help executing a project? Today I have my project manager (PM), Jessie, joining the show to discuss what a good project manager does, how a PM can help you boost productivity and free up your time, and how you can bring one into your company. You’ll learn: What a project manager does.

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Ralph Lauren to cut workforce by 15%

RetailDive

The apparel company is boosting its digital operations and cutting merchandising as it works to evolve despite unprecedented unknowns.

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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance

Forrester eCommerce

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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The Best VoIP Phone Services (In-Depth Review)

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Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. The best VoIP phone services create exceptional customer experiences. And exceptional customer experiences work wonders for your bottom line. Imagine this: a potential customer calls the sales number listed on your website. Six states away, a personal cell phone rings.

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The Circular Product Journey: Powering a Sustainable, Data-Driven Future With PIM

The linear flow of make > use > dispose is unsustainable. Not only is it at odds with the realities of modern society, but it also fails to meet evolving demands from consumers and regulators. Linear is out. Circular is in. Going circular is not an overnight switch. It requires forward planning and data-driven decision-making. In this ebook, you’ll see how the right technology can help brands and manufacturers secure the product data governance they need to power this circular transition.

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GameStop Will Close Up To 450 Stores In Fiscal 2020

Retail TouchPoints

GameStop is accelerating store closure plans as part of its “de-densification” strategy. The retailer plans to shutter 400 to 450 stores worldwide in fiscal 2020, which ends in February 2021. GameStop already has closed 388 locations this year; the retailer currently operates more than 5,100 stores around the world. “These closures, along with the growth in our online business and expanded omnichannel capabilities, will allow us to more efficiently and profitably service our customers,” said Jim

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Nisa unveils new deals

TalkingRetail

Nisa has launched its latest promotion. The ‘Half Price or Better’ promotion will enable consumers to pick up a selection of branded products at less than half their usual price.

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A Step-By-Step Guide To Technical SEO

Ecommerce Platforms

If you get your site's technical SEO wrong, everything else goes down the drain. Get it right, and you've probably solved the number one headache of site optimization and conversion. In one study, 59 percent of SEO buffs named technical on-site optimization as their most effective SEO strategy. For enterprise and mid-level companies, that figure goes to 65.4 and 66.7 percent, respectively.

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Neiman Marcus Group plans store layoffs in pivot to e-commerce

RetailDive

The changes are "substantial," according to WWD, which first reported the news. And they represent further erosion of the department store sector.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.