Sat.Jan 05, 2019 - Fri.Jan 11, 2019

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It’s Time To Stop Talking Retail Innovation, And Start Doing It

RTP blog

By Tim McMullen, redpepper “Nike Pushing Retail Innovation” “Sephora’s innovation ‘gathering speed’ at LVMH” “Will These Trends Shape Retail for the Next 25 Years?” These are three recent articles on retail innovation. If you took everything that’s been published about the topic this year, you’d be looking at the figurative tippy-top of the iceberg.

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How to Use Targeted Email Marketing for Ecommerce

Omnisend

Today, our users are actively looking for a personalized customer experience. Targeted email marketing is a great way to respond to that need by ensuring that the messages those customers receive is always relevant. In this article, I’m going to tackle everything you need to know to be successful in targeted email marketing. By the Read more The post How to Use Targeted Email Marketing for Ecommerce appeared first on Ecommerce Marketing Automation | Omnisend.

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Is Omnichannel Retail Strategy Like a Board Game?

OrderDynamics

How Is Omnichannel Retail Strategy Like a Board Game’s? Our marketing team have recently started playing board games as part of our work-life balance. Since then, I realized the strategy of a game called “Ticket to Ride” is similar to an omnichannel retail strategy. Here is why: To begin with, Ticket to Ride is a German-style, railway-themed board game designed by Alan R.

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Channel Data Is A Competitive Differentiator

Forrester eCommerce

Leverage Channel Data To Give Partners A Better Experience: Winning In The Channel Requires Data-Driven Program Innovation Brands that provide an enhanced partner experience grow faster than their peers, are more profitable, and drive higher customer satisfaction and retention downstream. Smart channel professionals are looking at data across the partner journey as a […].

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Modernizing the Frontend Experience on Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Unlock agility, boost performance, and gain control over your Salesforce frontend with the latest masterclass from Composable.com : Modernizing the Frontend Experience on Salesforce Commerce Cloud Featuring experts from Algolia, Ember, Netlify, and Stripe, this masterclass focuses on practical strategies for optimizing your Salesforce Commerce Cloud storefronts using modern composable commerce integrations.

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How To Avoid And Manage B2B Ecommerce Channel Conflict

BigCommerce

Customers insist on more choices regarding where, when, and how they can purchase goods – including buying directly from brand…

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7 Marketing Mistakes That Nearly Broke Me… Literally

Kissmetrics

When you look at me, what do you see? Someone who is a marketer… maybe even an entrepreneur. As you may already know, I’ve co-founded a handful of companies. I’ve received a handful of awards from people like President Obama and the United Nations. And I am a New York Times bestselling author. The list keeps going on and on. In other words, most people see me as successful.

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Autonomous Testing Is Like Autonomous Driving: The AI Needs Human Assistance

Forrester eCommerce

The US Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has defined a scale to describe the autonomous capabilities that self-driving cars have — i.e., their levels of automation. ([link] Level 5 is full automation, which allows self-driving cars to operate with no human assistance. Google and Uber, among others, are aiming to develop level 5 cars, but […].

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Why Website Backups Can Save Your Business

BigCommerce

Website backups are the insurance of online business.

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Top Omnichannel Survey Takeaways: RTP Editors Weigh In

RTP blog

The term “omnichannel” gets thrown around a lot — some might say too much — by retailers and industry observers. However, the word still conveys an important truth: retailers must take every action possible to maximize customer engagement opportunities across both traditional and emerging channels. The seventh annual Retail TouchPoints Omnichannel Survey shows where retailers are succeeding in connecting with the consumer, as well as where they need to improve.

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How to Run an Online Contest for Your B2C Brand

Optimizely

If you’re anything like me, you’ll have spent the first few weeks of the new year when it’s gray and cold looking at holidays in the sun. After hours (and hours) of browsing photos of golden sands and turquoise seas, I started seeing retargeted ads with contests to win vacations. Running an online contest to capitalize on the mood of consumers during the dreary days at the start of a new year is a great example of successful contest marketing.

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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.

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Blockchain And GDPR: Not Mutually Exclusive But Can Be A Toxic Blend

Forrester eCommerce

Depending on who you listen to, the combination of GDPR and distributed ledger technology (DLT, AKA blockchain) is either a poisonous cocktail or a magic potion. As you’d expect, the reality is more nuanced: While GPDR poses a challenge to DLT-based architectures, it doesn’t make them obsolete or unviable. Furthermore, DLT can actually form an integral […].

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Ecommerce Marketing 101: Personas, Traffic Drivers, Advertising Channels & More

BigCommerce

Ecommerce marketing is the practice of driving top-of-funnel traffic to convert into sales and customers.

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Ship-From-Store – How It Can Be A Key Competitive Advantage For Physical Retailers

RTP blog

By Michael Manlapas, MetaPack Retailers and brands are important to consumers, and physical stores help to reinforce the connection between customer and brand, providing a marketing touch point that is harder to duplicate online. Consumers still primarily shop in-store; they like to browse and touch products even if they then purchase them online. Equally, a shopper could purchase online and opt to pick the product up in-store.

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WHITEPAPER: The Rise Of The B2C Marketer

Optimizely

Your role as a marketer is getting more complex by the day. From constantly changing marketing platforms to ever-increasing increasing competition for buyer’s attention, it’s harder than ever to succeed in marketing. The role has evolved beyond simple campaign management to focus on the entire customer experience, from the first moment of interaction to customer loyalty.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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16 Retail Trailblazers To Learn From In 2019

Forrester eCommerce

On our morning news feeds, we see headlines chock-full of emerging tech that is supposedly changing the game for next generation retail experiences. Somehow those hover-boarding delivery robots, AmazonGo check out knock-offs and frighteningly-accurate computer vision powered taco stands are most certainly going to put you out of business. No, not quite.

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239: Paul Jarvis On Business, Happiness And Running A Company Of One

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today I’m thrilled to have Paul Jarvis on the show. Paul is an author, designer, podcaster, course and software creator. His works have been talked about by Ashton Kutcher and Ariana Huffington. He’s worked with clients like Danielle Laporte, Microsoft, Marie Forleo and Mercedes. Now Paul is obviously a total stud. But the reason this interview is special to me is because his latest book “Company of One” has had a profound effect on me.

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Convert your mobile browsers into buyers with these recommendations

GetElastic

Consumers, on average use five to six touchpoints before making a purchase – and for those multi-device shoppers their commerce journey starts and ends on smartphones. And not all journeys end with a conversion. Based on data from comScore there are five reasons mobile shoppers don’t convert: 2% — security concerns. 6% — unclear product details. 6% — inability to open multiple browser tabs to compare. 3% — difficulty navigating. 6% — difficulty inputting

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We Used Ahrefs to Analyze 25 Highly Competitive eCommerce Search Terms. Here’s What We Found

Inflow Insights

How can you rank your eCommerce product pages for competitive terms? What page elements help product pages rank well for trending and profitable keywords? Is building as many backlinks as possible really the key to ranking well? ( Hint: nope). To help answer these questions, we identified 25 competitive eCommerce terms that have been trending upward in search volume in the past year (according to data from Google Trends and Shopify ).

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5 Steps to Omnichannel E-Commerce Success

Today’s e-commerce landscape is vast and it’s moving fast and is fiercely competitive. To thrive you need to offer the right products to the right customers on the best channels. Learn how to successfully harness the power of omnichannel selling to reach more online buyers, diversify and grow revenue, and reduce cost – while delivering a seamless "shop to ship" customer experience across all channels.

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Akamai Purchases Janrain

Forrester eCommerce

Today, Akamai announced that it has acquired Portland, Oregon-based Janrain. Although the financial terms were not disclosed, Forrester estimates the purchase price to be in the $250M–$275M range, based on typical M&A SaaS revenue multiples of 4X to 6X and Forrester’s estimation of Janrain’s annual revenue.

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Our Top 10 Favourite Apps of 2018

A Better Lemonade Stand

If you’re interested in learning about new ways to run your ecommerce business better, check out this roundup of the best business apps for ecommerce! The post Our Top 10 Favourite Apps of 2018 appeared first on A Better Lemonade Stand.

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Was 2018 the best holiday shopping season in years? Well, what do you mean by “best”?

Steve Dennis

If you are the sort of person who tracks stories on retailers’ holiday sales performance you know a certain ebullience has set in. On the heels of optimistic forecasts by the National Retail Federation and others, Mastercard’s SpendingPulse indicates that retail had the “best” season in six years , with overall sales growing 5.1%.

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What’s Spree Commerce? Everything You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

Have you come across Spree Commerce while browsing the web, and are you unsure what it is and whether it'll help your business? If so, you're in the right place. Read our thorough review to get to grips with everything you need to know about this software. Let's dive in! Who's Spree Commerce? Ruby on Rails created Spree Commerce back in 2007. In short, it's a comprehensive e-commerce framework offering entrepreneurs a scalable, open source solution.

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Is Your Business AI-Ready? Find Out with Orium’s Maturity Model

Generative AI is poised to redefine B2B, but scaling AI success in this space isn’t without obstacles. From fragmented data sources and complex buyer journeys to operational inefficiencies, the road to AI-powered growth can be challenging. To achieve a competitive edge, understanding your organization’s AI-readiness is essential. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model provides a quick, actionable way to assess your starting point.

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China Takes the Moonshot Advantage

Forrester eCommerce

The origin of the term used to describe the most advanced, disruptive innovations has returned again as an innovation focus of its own. Last week, the China National Space Administration disrupted its competitors, like NASA, by landing its Chang’e-4 spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. Its Moonshot is now using robotics to collect information […].

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7 Ways to Use Slack to Manage Your Online Business

A Better Lemonade Stand

Slack gets an unfair reputation for only being used as an instant chat messenger between teams, and while it is useful for that purpose, there are several other ways to use Slack to provide value to your businesses every day. The post 7 Ways to Use Slack to Manage Your Online Business appeared first on A Better Lemonade Stand.

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How to Work with Digital Influencers to Increase Your Instagram Followers

Bootstrapping Ecommerce

If you’re wondering how new brands go from 0 - 100,000 followers super fast we’re here to spill the secrets: They work with digital influencers. The post How to Work with Digital Influencers to Increase Your Instagram Followers appeared first on Bootstrapping Ecommerce.

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How to Create Online Courses and Landing Pages on Teachable

Ecommerce Platforms

Can you feel the itch? The online learning market has been expanding exponentially of late and is expected to hit $37.6 billion in value by next year. Yet all we’ve been doing is churning out content after another for our blogs, without a solid strategy for monetizing knowledge and expertise. Well, the good thing is that your blog has already won you some online following, and possibly even a decent email list.

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NEWS: SML RFID Delivers 98% Inventory Accuracy to Gina Tricot

I’m getting in touch with the news that fashion retailer, Gina Trictot, has achieved 98% inventory accuracy thanks to its partnership with SML RFID. Please see the full press release below, including exclusive quotes.

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Using the cloud for integration turns marginal into massive gains for retailers

Retail Technology Review

By Graham Woods, Managing Director of W3Partnership. No-one talks about retail in terms of online and offline anymore. The word omnichannel entered and left our parlance with equal speed. Retailers are now focussed on providing customers with the choice, experience and delivery they want, when they want it – regardless of the channel on which any part of the customer journey takes place.

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How to Scale Enterprise eCommerce: Managing Peak Traffic Times

ESW

You’re most likely here because your eCommerce business is achieving scale, and it’s time for you to start thinking about how to grow the business strategically and effectively. In part one of this conversation, we walked through a few specific ways to prepare for long-term growth. But you can’t stop there. A growing eCommerce business means more traffic to your shop, particularly during peak times like Black Friday and the week leading up to Valentine’s Day.

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Where Will Webbula Be in 2019?

Webbula

Webbula might be based in Pittsburgh, but we like to travel, especially early in the year. Our incredibly good looking sales team will be making their way around the United. The post Where Will Webbula Be in 2019? appeared first on Webbula.

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How to Move Excess Inventory After the Holidays

Wiser

So, you have excess inventory after the holidays. You are not alone. This is a common scenario faced by all retailers, as they spend months preparing for the holiday season, only to be left with the back of the store full of post-holiday inventory. This isn’t good for many reasons. For starters, many products have finite life cycles, so you run the risk of losing profits as inventory sits.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt