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Everything You Need to Know About Achieving PCI Compliance [Checklist Included]

BigCommerce

If you’ve been contacted by your bank or financial institution lately only to discover that your credit card information has been compromised, then you’ve felt the growing frustration many consumers face today. Indeed, the situation with respect to credit card fraud is only getting worse. Card data stolen from 5 million Saks and Lord & Taylor’s customers in 2018. 56 million card numbers from Home Depot in 2014. 40 million card numbers from Target in 2013.

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Amazon Flirts With Banks And Their Customers: Here’s What You Should Do

Forrester eCommerce

Like a football team captain at a junior high dance, Amazon just sauntered up to a big group of people and started dropping hints about its sweet moves on the dance floor. Okay, that’s not exactly what’s happening here, but it sure felt like that to many bank executives who heard the […].

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People Matter; Marketing Channels Don’t

Optimizely

This article originally appeared in MediaPost. What matters more to your B2C business — a new customer buying your product or the new marketing channel that brought in the new customer? It may seem like a tough question at first glance, but it isn’t really. The marketing channel is only important because it brought in that new customer. Your customer always will be your number one concern, and you should focus on his or her needs first and foremost.

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What is Vero? 9 Things About the New Social Media App

Kissmetrics

Remember Orkut? Or Friendster? How about MySpace and Classmates? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t, because social media platforms come and go faster than most of us can keep up. For every success like Snapchat, there are plenty of others that failed to gain any serious momentum, even if they were fun and innovative ideas. Are you familiar with Vero? You know Facebook, of course, and Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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With 1 in 4 Online Dollars Spent on Mobile, Ecommerce Mobile SEO is More Important [& Intricate] Than Ever

BigCommerce

By the time you read this, everything we’ve learned about mobile SEO could be wrong. This is because the existing paradigm is based on a desktop-first world, and Google is about to catapult us into a mobile-first world with a major update on how they crawl, render and rank the web. Even the “Mobilegeddon” update of 2015, which promoted “mobile friendly” sites in the search results, did not approach the importance of what’s about to happen.

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Four Forces Drive The Consumer’s Tech Stack

Forrester eCommerce

Today I’m on stage in New York speaking to hundreds of marketing executives at our Consumer Marketing Forum 2018. I’m there to unveil the 2018 US Benchmark Data Overview, which for the first time ever we are making available to all Forrester clients. See the report here: The Consumer Tech Stack. The research is exciting. […].

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LinkedIn Pulse: A Complete Guide (+ Examples)

Kissmetrics

You blog because you want Internet users to discover your content and engage with it. But sometimes, your reach just isn’t large enough. That’s why it’s good to diversify your content. Creating more content and putting it in more places gives you as many views, readers, and customers as possible. If you want to boost brand awareness and engagement, you need to be active on as many platforms as you can to spread your brand across the web.

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BigCommerce Brings Google AMP to Ecommerce Sites Worldwide

BigCommerce

Today, BigCommerce is excited to announce the first native ecommerce integration for accelerated mobile pages –– i.e. Google AMP. This integration simplifies category and product detail pages, improving mobile site speed and click-through for online sellers. “Mobile has become the primary shopping method for many online consumers, and ecommerce brands are increasingly realizing that their mobile sites need greater prioritization,” said Brian Dhatt, chief technology officer for BigCommerce.

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Walled Garden No More: Digital China Goes Global

Forrester eCommerce

As China battles the US for global digital leadership, Chinese digital giants like Alibaba and Tencent are taking the first beachhead: Southeast Asia (SEA). My latest report, Walled Garden No More: Digital China Goes Global, tells how China’s global digital expansion is changing the digital ecosystems in SEA and how marketers should prepare for success. […].

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Should Your B2C Brand Switch to Direct-to-Consumer?

Optimizely

It’s a slight understatement to say that retailers are struggling. There were 21 retail bankruptcies in 2017 alone — dubbed the “retail apocalypse” — and there doesn’t seem to be a turnaround in sight. 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.

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AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype

AI is rapidly transforming digital commerce, but how do you separate real opportunities from hype? Moderated by Orium, AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype , experts from Bloomreach , commercetools , Contentstack , and Fluent Commerce explores where AI is already delivering results and where its potential is still unfolding. This masterclass dives into proven AI applications, emerging innovations , and the gaps between promise and reality in commerce.

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Technical SEO: Why It’s Becoming More Important Than Any Other SEO Tactic

Kissmetrics

No website can stand without a strong backbone. And that backbone is technical SEO. Technical SEO is the structure of your website. Without it, everything else falls apart. Imagine you wrote the most amazing content in the world. It’s content that everyone should read. People would pay buckets of money just to read it. Millions are eagerly waiting for the notification that you’ve made it available.

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203: How To Get Millions Of People To Read Your Content Through Syndication With James Clear

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today I’m thrilled to have my buddy James Clear on the show. James is someone who I met at a mancation held by Billy Murphy:) Now I’ve known about James for a very long time and he’s one of the most successful writers that I know. James focuses on uncovering the habits and routines of entrepreneurs, artists, athletes and high powered individuals and shares them in easily digestible and actionable articles.

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Modernize Your Martech Stack for Moments

Forrester eCommerce

The world is changing and with it, consumers’ expectations of experiences and communication from brands. The paradigm for customer engagement is shifting from large, monolithic experiences that serve everyone to smaller, more contextual experiences served to consumers in just the moment they need them. Marketers must adopt the right strategy, operational best practices and technology […].

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How to Integrate BigCommerce Orders with Criteo & Rakuten

Groove

Marketing platforms like Criteo and Rakuten help eCommerce brands build personalized shopping experiences. These tools collect order information from eCommerce sites to retarget audiences across multiple devices and platforms to drive conversions. However after working with several of our clients, we realized Criteo and Rakuten integrations for BigCommerce are not always what they should be.

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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How to Manage a Sales Team: Killer Strategies in 2018

Kissmetrics

Managing a sales team is no easy task. You have the potential to either make or break your sales reps. And there’s tons of conflicting information out there. Effective sales managers recruit top sales leaders, provide them with the tools they need to bring in sales and watch the numbers grow. But it isn’t always as simple as that. Sales managers can either inspire their teams and help them reach their goals or crush their morale, which leads to a decrease in your company’s profitability.

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How to Increase Your Reach with Influencer Marketing Strategies

Ecommerce Platforms

Influencer Marketing Strategy – An Introduction. Word of mouth has always been one of the best ways to get people to buy or at least consider buying from a particular business. While it is hard to get everyday people to talk about a particular product, getting a group of say 100 people to mention a product to the 500 or so combined people they interact with frequently is rather easy — it's traditional word of mouth.

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My Sort-Of-Fictional-But-Really-Based-On-Reality Conversations With B2B Marketers About Insights

Forrester eCommerce

Despite acknowledging that insights-driven firms pack competitive advantage into every decision, marketers give me good reasons every single day that they can’t quite rise to the level of insights they want to. But, as in all things, progress can be as powerful as perfection. Take a look at some of these most common concerns and […].

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Small Business SEO: How to Implement SEO for Small Businesses

Bootstrapping Ecommerce

Small business SEO can take your website to a whole new level. The most important thing is that you create & implement a strategy that works and never fail to make it better than that of your competitors. In this article, we give you the steps on exactly how to do that. The post Small Business SEO: How to Implement SEO for Small Businesses appeared first on Bootstrapping Ecommerce.

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Future-Proofing Enterprise Commerce: Why Extensibility Wins with Shopify

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.

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How to Write an Amazon Product Description that Ranks High in Search

SellBrite

With over 500 million products in stock , Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world. As a result, sellers have to compete against each other to get their products in front of as many people as possible. One of the best ways to do this is to rank high in Amazon’s search results. Use strategic SEO basics — like keyword research — to give your Amazon product descriptions a boost so that your products are seen by the right customers.

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Building Custom COS Templates with HubSpot

Groove

With HubSpot's Content Optimization System, or COS, users can create entire websites, blogs, landing pages and emails that are mobile-optimized out-of-box. These assets also integrate with HubSpot’s full suite of inbound marketing tools. Although HubSpot offers many pre-built templates and a basic Template Builder tool (no coding required), they also allow you to build templates using HubSpot Markup Language (HubL).

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When Goofy Kicks Donald Duck Your Company Loses

Forrester eCommerce

I just had the pleasure of attending a Forrester Leadership Boards workshop followed by our Consumer Marketing Forum in New York City. As usual, data challenges remain top of mind for most marketers – siloed data, dirty data, inaccessible data… the usual suspects. However, there was also a data manifestation of an age old organizational […].

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Shoppers Weigh In On Pricing And Promotional Strategies: What You’re Doing Right And Wrong, And What You SHOULD Be Doing

RTP blog

By Cheryl Sullivan, Revionics The pace of change in retail is more breathless than ever, and today’s always-on, cross-channel shopper has preferences and tastes that evolve at the speed of social media. Meanwhile the competitive landscape continues to increase in scope and complexity as global discounters extend their reach and Amazon and other online giants rush into more and more market sectors and geographies.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Spam Traps: Ignorance is NOT Bliss

Webbula

Imagine how frustrating it is putting a ton of time and hard work into creating your next marketing campaign, growing your email list, only to have it blow up in. The post Spam Traps: Ignorance is NOT Bliss appeared first on Webbula.

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Trust Seals: We Ran 3 Tests on McAfee and Norton Trust Seals. Here’s What We Found

Inflow Insights

We’ve tested security and customer service seals countless times in our ten years analyzing eCommerce websites. Here’s a little of what we’ve learned: Seals are more important if your company or your industry has trust issues. Seals are more likely to positively impact smaller or lesser known brands. If you’re Amazon or Walmart, seals don’t matter as much.

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Are You Ready For Sales Readiness?

Forrester eCommerce

When was the last time you noticed that a colleague was excited about sales training? After having created many a training deck myself, I frequently feel badly about my inability to muster enthusiasm and prioritize time to invest in skills development. When today’s prospects and clients have high expectations for highly personalized consultative interactions, how […].

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RevTech Event Spotlights Retail Innovation: Which Technologies Will Win Out?

RTP blog

RevTech , a venture accelerator focused on developing early-stage retail technology companies, is hosting its 11 th semi-annual Tech Trends in Retail event in the flagship Neiman Marcus store in Dallas on April 5. This event showcases new retail strategies and the technologies that power them, and includes presentations from several RevTech “graduates,” including: Neighborhood Goods ; Envizzo ; Xenio Systems ; Bottlefly ; Roopa ; Cherry Pick AI ; and.

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🚀Future-Proof Your Salesforce B2C Commerce: Modernization Strategies Inside!

Outdated platforms are costing you sales. Legacy platforms like Salesforce SiteGenesis and SFRA can slow innovation, increase maintenance costs, and frustrate customers. This playbook provides a strategic roadmap to modernizing your Salesforce B2C Commerce platform using a composable approach to transition to faster, scalable, and flexible e-commerce solutions —without disrupting your business.

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What’s Hiding in Your Email?

Webbula

An email list can be a ticking time-bomb, ready to explode at any minute. There are hidden threats lurking within in your email lists that can damage your ability to. The post What’s Hiding in Your Email? appeared first on Webbula.

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New Tool to Streamline your Automation

Klaviyo

Targeted, personalized marketing is relevant marketing, and relevant marketing drives revenue. Creating automated email series (flows) that are triggered by the recipients’ actions is a great way to get targeted around timing. But if you’re sending automated emails, how personal can your content get? In January, we released a new visual Flow Builder that also introduced advanced flow branching.

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AWS Broadens Focus On Innovation Acceleration

Forrester eCommerce

At its AWS Summit in San Francisco this week, Amazon Web Services announced a series of new services and GA’d a few from Re:Invent but the theme coming out at the conference was clearly on broadening its ability to accelerate your organization’s digital innovation strategy. While the core of this theme has been a key focus of AWS since its […].

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Is There A ‘Silver Bullet’ To Stop Offensive Products?

RTP blog

By Adam Blair, Executive Editor Whenever an offensive (or sometimes just plain tasteless) product or ad campaign makes it out into the market, the same question is inevitably raised on social networks: “In all the design meetings and during all the approval processes, didn’t somebody notice that this would be problematic?” Even with an acknowledgement that hindsight is always 20/20, it’s a legitimate question when in recent years we have seen: H&M use a black child to model its hoodie embla

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.