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3 strategies that all retailers should do today

RetailDive

Retailers need to adapt to changes through revisiting staffing models, pricing, automation and partnerships in the marketplace.

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How to Run Responsive Display Ad Campaigns

Kissmetrics

Getting your products or services in front of the right audience is becoming increasingly more challenging. This is because most businesses are going digital, increasing their reach online, and leveraging paid ads. To help you stand out from the crowd, you should consider running responsive display ads. What Are Responsive Display Ads? Don’t let the name confuse you.

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Is Your Retail Model a Burnt Turkey?

Fabric Blog

Many employees working for traditional retailers will miss their turkey dinner this year. Not because of recent supply chain issues , but because of outdated business models and technology. With 97% of people doing holiday shopping online, employees will scramble to keep websites live, fulfill online orders, and manage customer service issues related to shipping delays and returns.

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The President’s New Management Agenda Has A Clear Approach To Strengthen Customer Experience (CX)

Forrester eCommerce

The new PMA has three priorities: employee experience, customer experience, and managing the business of government. In this blog post I evaluate the CX priority and offer advice to implement it.

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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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Google Shares How to Harness the Power of AI at Make it Big 2021

BigCommerce

Data insights from artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help retailers learn more about their customers — and therefore make better…

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How Backlinks from Different Page Locations Are Worth More (Or Less): Not All Backlinks Are Created Equal

Kissmetrics

If you want to get found online, you need a strong backlink profile. The problem? Not all backlinks are created equal. Links from high-quality, relevant sites are far more valuable than links from random sites in another industry. Links from spam sites can actually hurt your website. How do you make the most of your backlinks? You need to pay close attention to the factors that impact backlink value.

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Leadership And Innovation — Learning From The Triumph And Tragedies Of The New Space Race

Forrester eCommerce

“Space flight needs leaders who go beyond where they can’t see, into the unknown, pushing the envelope for what might be possible. They are not satisfied staying within the box or looking within their own horizon.” — Mark “Forger” Stucky (former Virgin Galactic lead test pilot) Look Beyond The Horizon To Be Future Fit There […].

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Calendly Review (Nov 2021): Everything You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

Thriving businesses often have loads of customers requesting appointments, consultations, or just a quick chat. Of course, that’s excellent news for profits and engagement. But, without a proper system in place, scheduling meetings can quickly turn into a nightmare for both business owners and customers. Traditionally, the whole affair comes with a lot of back and forth, where both parties have to: Find a meeting time .

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The Riches is Not in The Niches

Kissmetrics

In marketing, everyone says you need to pick a niche. And mainly because people believe the following things…. It is easier to market when you pick a niche (fewer competitors) Easier to make money (fewer competitors) You can get traction faster from a monetary standpoint (fewer competitors). In other words, you make money faster because there are fewer competitors, but that isn’t really true.

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How Meta, QVC and Coresight Research Use Livestreaming to Drive Holiday Demand

Retail TouchPoints

For decades, Black Friday marked the official start of the holiday shopping season and was one of retailers’ most critical sales days. But thanks to the evolution of ecommerce and, specifically, live shopping, brands and retailers have the power to expand their holiday revenue opportunities and capitalize on an entirely new wave of commerce. In fact, recent examples show that adding livestreams to the existing digital holiday formula helps brands build hype , connect with shoppers in a more mea

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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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Wordpress Alternatives Your Marketing Team Will Love

Groove

So, you want to use Wordpress as a CMS but want the inside scoop on Wordpress alternatives before making a final decision. Well, you’re in the right place! In this blog, we’re discussing the Wordpress CMS platform and a few of its competitors - more specifically - the platforms that our eCommerce marketing team believe are optimal alternatives. Wordpress As A Content Management System.

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Tendances Retail et eCommerce 2022

Forrester eCommerce

Vidéo du keynote du One to One de Monaco sur les tendances retail et eCommerce.

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How to Change Your Username on Social Media

Kissmetrics

The username you use on social media sites can either help or hurt your brand. One way to make sure that it helps your efforts is by making sure that the username conveys what you want it to convey. If people are searching for content related to your brand , they should be able to find you with ease. If you can’t be found, you risk losing market share to brands that are more easily accessible.

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Report: Ohio Jury Finds CVS, Walmart and Walgreens Contributed to Opioid Overdoses

Retail TouchPoints

A federal jury in Ohio found that CVS Health , Walmart and Walgreens substantially contributed to opioid overdoses and deaths in Lake and Trumbull counties, according to The New York Times. Hearings slated for spring 2022 will determine how much each company will be required to pay the affected counties. The verdict was the first to find that pharmaceutical companies contributed to a “public nuisance,” which includes the opioid crisis, according to plaintiffs.

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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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7 best practices for nailing your abandoned cart emails

Omnisend

Reading Time: 8 minutes. Picture this. You want to lure back shoppers who populate their online carts but don’t buy. So you create a workflow—leaning on some abandoned cart best practices—with a couple of emails and a sprinkling of SMS. Later, you get fancy by turning extra attention to those contemplating a top seller. After eight months, you’ve got an abandoned cart email automation that’s bringing in 27.67% of your email-generated revenue.

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How B2B Brands can Leverage Conversion Rate Optimization

UpSellIt

If you’re a B2B marketer, you understand the process of closing a sale takes time. However, it’s still crucial to incorporate conversion rate optimization in your digital marketing strategy to find success. Conversion rate optimization (CRO) moves shoppers to complete a desired action, but the action can be more than getting visitors to add to their shopping cart.

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How to Get Your E-Commerce Website to Rank in the SERPs

Kissmetrics

It’s probably fair to say that all e-commerce website owners want the same thing: higher visibility on search engines and more sales. After all, heightened visibility means getting seen on search engine results pages, or SERPs. You’re likely familiar with these as you see them on Google in the form of ads, featured snippets, and video links. You see them on other search engines too.

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How Not to Build DTC Retail Wrong

Retail TouchPoints

Ten years ago, brands had a fear of upsetting wholesale partnerships. Beholden to industry powerhouses like Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdale’s in the fashion vertical or Target and Walmart in the CPG space for the majority of sales, brands across the board were wary of entertaining direct-to-consumer initiatives (DTC) that might disrupt their wholesale business.

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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 Handle Client Feedback And Improve Your WordPress Business?

MakeWebBetter

As season sale is still ongoing… I hope you all have done a lot of online shopping? But wait… One second… Did you check the reviews and feedback before ordering your product? Customers are smart enough… Every time you buy an online product, the first thing that comes to your mind is client feedback and […]. The post How To Handle Client Feedback And Improve Your WordPress Business?

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382: Post-Pandemic Business Strategies To Focus On In 2022 With Andrew Youderian

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today, I have my good friend Andrew Youderian back on show. Andrew runs the Ecommerce Fuel Podcast and an amazing community of 7 and 8 Figure eCommerce entrepreneurs. This episode is all about strategy. Specifically, Andrew and I discuss our post pandemic business strategies for 2022. What You’ll Learn What Andrew and I are going all in on for our businesses in 2022 Why you need to be on Twitter and TikTok Why live events are back Other Resources And Books Ecommerce Fuel Podcast Ecommerce

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How to Use Google’s Advanced Search Operators

Kissmetrics

Regardless of which industry you operate in, providing value and gaining visibility has never been more important. With increased competition in the digital space for audiences, you need to employ every tool in your toolbox to outmaneuver your competitors. If your website isn’t ranking high on Google’s search engine results page (SERP), you may need to look for different ways to reach your intended audience.

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YouTube Makes Major Push into Live Shopping with Holiday Stream and Shop

Retail TouchPoints

In the last few years, YouTube has seen huge growth in live video, with more than half a million channels livestreaming for the first time in 2020. And as on many other online platforms, where there’s livestreaming there’s live shopping. This holiday season, YouTube is promoting the commercial potential of its platform with its first-ever live shopping pop-up event.

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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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Shopping Cart Checklist – What to Look For in a Checkout Experience

GetElastic

Author's Note: This is an update to a post originally published in May 2011 and has been edited for relevancy. There are myriad reasons why your customers don’t complete a purchase; from sticker shock, to wanting to showroom an item instead prior to purchase, to simply getting distracted and abandoning the cart,andit can be something entirely unrelated to design or usability.

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This DC neighborhood used to be synonymous with high-end shopping. Now it's mostly abandoned.

RetailDive

Friendship Heights was once known for luxury retail in the Washington, D.C. area, but retail options have dwindled.

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Nola Skinsentials – A skincare brand that went from a humble beginning to 200k+ community

lateshipment

If two things could define the last two years other than the pandemic, it is the rise of TikTok marketing and conscious consumption of skincare products. Jane Ormon, a young entrepreneur has taken advantage of both and has built a rapidly growing skincare brand that has grown beyond double its production value in the past year alone. She and her fiance have put in their educational background, personal experiences, and love to create a community to create Nola Skinsentials.

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The Cloud in Retail: Transforming the Use of Video in Stores

Retail TouchPoints

One of the most significant trends over the past several years has been the adoption of cloud-based services, spearheaded mainly by an increasing number of IoT and video solutions being deployed in the retail market. While most high-tech deployments still primarily consist of on-premises solutions, especially when it comes to video, the benefits of the cloud are too appealing for some retailers to ignore.

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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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Digital Readiness: How Your Ecommerce Brand Can Succeed This Holiday Season and Beyond

GetElastic

The 2021 holiday shopping season is expected to be a record breaker. Retail ecommerce sales are projected to increase nearly 17% this year and reach roughly $4.9 trillion. But capturing market share and exceeding the expectations of shoppers beyond this season will require brands to overcome a number of persistent challenges. Ongoing supply chain issues, continued disruption from the pandemic, worker shortages and consumer habits that have changed forever have forced ecommerce brands to operate

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'You can almost taste the hot chocolate': Why catalogs are still winning holiday marketing

RetailDive

As digital advertising becomes less reliable and more expensive, retailers are turning back to print to win over consumers during peak season.

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Last-minute Post-purchase CX Essentials for This Holiday Season

lateshipment

We’re now just days away from the most crucial week of the Holiday season. We’re overlooking the most anticipated streak of holidays — Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, all coming consecutively. Though this might be a stressful delight for the retail community, one thing to be kept in mind is that customers aren’t gonna be accommodating of any discrepancies, given that their orders during this time are largely gifts for loved ones and themselves.

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Keeping Stores Safe Amid the Autonomous Retail Revolution

Retail TouchPoints

Autonomous retail technology is on the rise, with innovations like Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology already leapfrogging past yesterday’s self-checkout solutions. This technology has helped make shopping a more frictionless experience for shoppers, but retailers that choose to implement these solutions must place a heavier focus on security technology as well.

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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.