My Wife Quit Her Job

APRIL 1, 2019

Did you know that every shipment that arrives into the United States by sea is documented on the public record? Every container, every boat and every product imported into the US can be easily accessed if you know where to look. But what can you do with this data? With access to the US import database, you can… Find Out Which Amazon Wholesale Distributors Your Competitors Are Using – Because all container contents and import data is clearly documented, you can look up all of your com

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BigCommerce

APRIL 4, 2019

Expert salespeople once handled all of B2B sales.

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GetElastic

APRIL 3, 2019

Businesses have a very short window to convince potential online consumers to put their trust in and convert into a paying customer. There are a number of factors that contribute to the final decision consumers make, and when you’re creating descriptions for your ecommerce products, there are specific things you can do to help boost the conversions you’re seeing.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 1, 2019

Channel incentives are used to improve indirect sales performance, orchestrate partners’ behavior, and engender channel loyalty. For decades channel professionals have used channel incentives to drive behavior; whether establishing new behaviors, suppressing old ones, or repositioning partners for a new opportunity. Incentives are also effective in masking deficiencies in business value propositions.

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Optimizely

APRIL 2, 2019

Getting your customers to open, read, click, and convert on your emails is hard enough, but what if the emails never even reach their inbox in the first place? That’s why email deliverability is so important. As you likely know, deliverability is the ability to get your email campaigns into your subscribers’ inboxes. To keep email users happy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can’t let every email ever sent to its users slip into their inbox.

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Groove

APRIL 2, 2019

Email marketing has stood the test of time because it helps brands engage with their customers. However, doing it wrong can hurt your business and damage relationships you've worked hard to maintain. Email marketing mistakes can take two forms: process issues and email issues. In this post, we'll cover both and provide tips to ensure your email marketing stays out of the spam folder.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 4, 2019

Apple first introduced Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) in 2017, but the latest update (2.1) creates a new set of challenges for advertisers, publishers, and tech vendors that make money from online behavioral advertising (OBA), attribution, web analytics, testing, and personalization. With new reports that Google may be following suit, we decided it was time to […].

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Optimizely

APRIL 4, 2019

An influencer program isn’t just asking a reality TV star to model your products in a #SponCon post on Instagram. Done right, social media influencers can help you build consumer trust in your brand. In fact, the best influencer marketing is similar to word-of-mouth advertising. It’s not the brand itself telling you how amazing it is, but rather the opinion of someone who is an industry expert, your peer, or even a friend.

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Groove

APRIL 4, 2019

What is User Generated Content? User-generated content (UGC) refers to written or multimedia content related to your brand that's created by someone unofficially affiliated with your business. User-generated content, such as product reviews, social media integration, FAQ forums and discussion boards, directly connects your brand with customers. This authentic content is personalized, socially-integrated, insightful and transparent.

eCommerce 167

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RTP blog

APRIL 5, 2019

By Tino Doan, Zehner When searching for a digital agency partner, brands need to find an ideal symbiotic relationship — not just a vendor. You want a partner that is just as passionate about what they do, and proud of their results, as you are. To find the right match, explore the following four areas with your prospective e-Commerce agency. Their Mastery Of Technology If you’ve gotten as far as interviewing digital agencies, you’ve at least done your homework.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 2, 2019

In recent years, a wave of so-called digitally native direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups have burst onto the scene and have grown in popularity. Consumers are increasingly purchasing products and services such as mattresses, shoes, razors, and groceries from the over 400 DTC firms now in operation. Forrester forecasts that online spend by DTC enthusiasts will grow […].

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 3, 2019

As you all already know, a number of factors go into building a dropshipping store : from the quality of your stock and delivery times to the profit margins and brand identity, each aspect plays a big role in the success of your online store. This is why apps like Spocket can be a big boon to your business. Integrations like Spocket help you tackle all the above- which is why nearly 30,000 entrepreneurs use it!

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GetElastic

APRIL 5, 2019

When enterprises began implementing ecommerce platforms back in the early 2000s, the monolith architecture at the time delivered. It was one unified application; the most essential features and functionalities were pre-packaged, and the requirements were easy to meet. Since then customer and market demands have evolved and become more complex and delivery expectations are now urgent.

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RTP blog

APRIL 3, 2019

Wayfair is the latest pure play making the move to brick-and-mortar retail , joining the long list of former online-only brands that have opened (or will open) physical stores, including Casper , Warby Parker , UNTUCKit , Adore Me and Allbirds. The move actually appears overdue given that Wayfair sells one category many people argue must be sold in stores to work in the long run — furniture.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 5, 2019

Low-code or no-code? Some vendors use these terms interchangeably or are overpromising. In particular, we cringe when we see or hear “low-code/no-code” — as if those two things are the same. Don’t be confused, don’t be deluded; here is what’s going on. Businesspeople hankering to deliver their own apps love the “no-code” message. […].

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 4, 2019

“A web hosting server is the lifeline of every site.” Said Dr. Chris Dayagdag , a Google partner and technopreneur. And he couldn’t have put it better. In essence, your site is only as good as its underlying hosting framework. And so, as part of my journey to establishing the best possible lifelines for ecommerce sites , I decided to take a slightly different route this time round.

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GetElastic

APRIL 2, 2019

In September 2017, T-Mobile announced that it would include a free Netflix subscription for family plan members. “While on the surface this might seem to be just a promotion, it highlights how T-Mobile can layer on additional services into a bundle that customers actually want,” said BTIG research analyst Walter Piecyk. Since 2013 , T-Mobile has used bundling and pricing to attract more new subscribers than all of its rivals combined.

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RTP blog

APRIL 1, 2019

By Olivia Skuza, NuORDER In today’s fast-paced market of “see now, wear now”, it’s no surprise that many brands continue to capitalize on various cultural events, particularly those featuring celebrities, to quickly design, produce, and sell trend-driven items. The digital fashion landscape has become a consumer’s dream of being able to see their favorite celebrity wearing something they want, only to go shopping a mere 24 hours later and find an almost exact replica.

Fashion 150

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 4, 2019

Forrester’s vision for the future of business applications is that modern specialist SaaS platforms will replace on-premises “omnisuites.” Forrester clients can read more about this vision in our new report: “Create A Modern Software Strategy With AI-Driven Platforms And Their Ecosystems.” The enterprise resource planning (ERP) era is over.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

APRIL 2, 2019

Today I’m thrilled to have Victor Cheng on the show. Victor is someone who I met at Billy Murphy’s annual retreat. He’s a former McKinsey consultant, a Stanford graduate, and he’s been on tv a number of times on Fox Business and MSNBC. Victor advises CEOs of small businesses and Inc 500 companies and is well known for his website CaseInterview.com where he teaches others how to get jobs in the consulting field.

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GetElastic

APRIL 4, 2019

This post is a compilation of our best “4” stories. Giving you the four reasons to love Get Elastic even more than you already do. The following articles will equip you with the 4 key questions to ask before selecting a commerce platform, outline 4 things you may not have known about API-first (or headless commerce), 4 reasons why headless commerce is better for CX and 4 steps to create a unified commerce strategy.

Customer Experience 148

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 1, 2019

The best way to understand Amazon is through numbers. In 2018 Amazon generated an estimated $258.22 billion in US retail e-commerce sales, marking ? 30% increase compared to 2017. To put Amazon’s size in perspective – the online shopping juggernaut captures 49.1% of the online retail market and 5% of the whole (online and offline) US retail market.

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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.

Fashion

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 4, 2019

I went to see a concert last night that epitomizes the state of customer insights in most companies today. It was a benefit for Creative Music Studio and brought together incredible artists such as Billy Martin, Cyro Baptista, Marc Ribot, and Ingrid Sertso. While I was happy to contribute to Creative Music Studio’s cause, the […].

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Steve Dennis

APRIL 4, 2019

Restoration Hardware’s stock has been under pressure despite since last week’s earnings report. Whether this is because of Wall Street’s tendency to not let any good deed go unpunished or perhaps because the company tried to tamp down future growth assumptions is anyone’s guess. But I continue to be impressed by the home furnishing chain’s progress.

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Home Furnishings Fashion Retail Customer Experience 135

GetElastic

APRIL 1, 2019

There’s no mistaking what a major force ecommerce is in the business world today. Consumers and businesses alike appreciate the technology that allows them to find the products and services they need virtually anywhere and at any time. However, that convenience can be a double-edged sword. Although customers love how quick and convenient it is to shop and buy online, it also means they won’t have the patience to put up with a site that doesn’t perform to their expectations. .

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 2, 2019

Before we dive deep into the blubolt review, I must admit that we've sampled a wide range of ecommerce platforms. On the other hand, we’ve also tried out numerous managed hosting services for online stores. Normally, we’ve always considered these two as separate solutions on opposite ends of the spectrum- each with its own exclusive set of specialized providers, dealing with a specific type of users.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 1, 2019

Since the birth of cloud computing in early 2000, telecommunications companies have seen business growth thanks to these IT transformational partners. But as we head into the next 20 years of this digital transformation decade no one in the networking space should keep their focus purely on their networking business. With the emerging technologies of […].

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Omniconvert

APRIL 3, 2019

There is a fundamental distinction between data types: qualitative and quantitative. Typically, we call data ‘quantitative’ if it is in numerical form, and ‘qualitative’ if it’s not. Marketers love to get into customers’ mind. But for that they need to do a qualitative research. Face-to-face interviews, focus groups, or qualitative observations can provide valuable insights about your products, your market, and your… The post Qualitative Research: Definition, Method

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GetElastic

APRIL 4, 2019

This post originally appeared on CMSwire.com. Just when marketers solve one problem, another rears its head. Multichannel commerce is presenting marketers with a whole new raft of challenges. Ensuring consistent messaging across many channels is one thing, but doing so while dynamically pricing, generating contextual bundles and creating promotions personalized to a segment of one is quite another.

eCommerce 134

eCommerce Multi-channel Payment Services Mobile 134

A Better Lemonade Stand

APRIL 1, 2019

A great web hosting provider can do great things for your website and in this Kinsta Review we cover why Kinsta is the best WordPress hosting on the market. The post Kinsta Spotlight: The Best WordPress Hosting on the Market appeared first on A Better Lemonade Stand.

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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

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