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Visual Analysis Series: SEO Growth or Business Decline? eCommerce Edition

Canonicalized

Data visualization is a powerful tool in the hands of those who try to answer the right question. For some it might be pretty pictures, others might build charts for the sake of it. For us, it’s something that should move minds in the right direction. We decided to show how we use data visualization […]. The post Visual Analysis Series: SEO Growth or Business Decline?

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Checkout on Instagram is Coming: What It Is, Why It Matters, and When You Can Get It

BigCommerce

Today, Instagram publicly announced their closed beta for checkout on Instagram in partnership with select ecommerce platforms including BigCommerce.

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4 Reasons Why You Need to Sell on Walmart Marketplace

SellBrite

As a retailer, you’re in business to attract lots of customers and sell as much as possible. But only selling on your website limits your audience to people actively searching for your products that already know about you. There’s a large chunk of people that don’t ever find your website. One way to extend your reach and increase revenue is to list your products on marketplaces.

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Make No Mistake — Microsoft Is A Security Company Now

Forrester eCommerce

Microsoft has announced support for macOS in its rebranded Microsoft Defender ATP product, taking this product from being an offering that could be considered an add-on for hardening its own operating system to a multiplatform security solution. While this is an early release, it is a clear signal of the investment Microsoft is making to […].

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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6 Ways to Avoid and Improve Email List Fatigue

Optimizely

Email list fatigue is almost inevitable, even if you’re an email marketing magician. Even if you’re sending captivating emails with loads of creative, well-researched content and great graphics, you may reach a point where some customers feel overwhelmed and stop engaging with your messages. Do you know the signs? The first step towards avoiding email list fatigue is to know when it is happening so you can take action.

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How Your Business Can Make Money Selling on Instagram

BigCommerce

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The Future of Department Stores

Forrester eCommerce

The Department Store’s Bright Future Department Stores Can Enjoy a Bright Future. Department stores must change to survive and thrive fierce competition from brands’ direct to consumer initiatives. Synchronizing supply and demand to sell inventory at full price is one issue. But the Department Store’s Bright Future depends on enticing customers through the […].

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Zaius: The Award-Winning CRM for B2C Marketers

Optimizely

We work hard to help marketers thrive every day at Zaius, but sometimes it’s nice to have that effort recognized. . That’s why we’re so excited to share that Zaius won the award for Best Customer Relationship Management Platform (CRM) at last night’s Marketing Technology Awards 2019. Put on by ClickZ , the award ceremony celebrated a number of top technology brands in marketing, including Salesforce, Seismic, Adobe, and more.

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How One PTA Meeting Turned Into a Thriving School Supplies Business with a Charitable Arm

BigCommerce

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

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How a Digital eCommerce Agency Works

Groove

If you haven't worked at or with an eCommerce marketing agency before, understanding what we do and how we do it often leads to a number of questions: How does an agency operate? What benefits can an agency offer? How much does an agency cost? Our agency is committed to helping eCommerce businesses grow. To accomplish that, we believe every client needs to understand how an agency functions.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Happy Agents Deliver Better Customer Service. Here’s How To Enable Them.

Forrester eCommerce

Happy customer service agents mean happy customers — and happy shareholders. Engaged agents also have better job performance, are more productive and stay in their jobs longer — one of the costlier factors in managing customer service operations. Customer service leaders have to balance their job demands with technology and training. They also have to […].

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Measuring Ecommerce Ad Attribution for Maximum Impact

Optimizely

When it comes to ad attribution across channels like Facebook, Instagram, and Google, many marketers only look at cost-per-click (CPC). They get excited by the number of clicks on their ads, invest more in the channels that led to the most clicks, and consider their job done. But do you know how many of those clicks actually led to revenue? Up to 98% of visitors to your site will not buy on their first visit , so lots of clicks on an ad does not mean that your marketing campaigns are a success.

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How to Make Social Commerce the Key to Unlocking Customer Loyalty

Omnisend

The average US millennial spends more than eleven hours a day consuming media. They’re well versed in moving from one app to another and are ambivalent about which platforms they perform actions on. As a result, there are more and more digital spaces becoming vital sales channels. Nearly 25% of business owners are selling through Read more The post How to Make Social Commerce the Key to Unlocking Customer Loyalty appeared first on Ecommerce Marketing Automation | Omnisend.

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Transactions to interactions: how Carnival is disrupting the travel industry [video]

GetElastic

The Get Elastic team was recently down in Miami at The Carnival Experience Center and caught up with John Padgett, Chief Experience and Innovation Officer of Carnival Corporation and Sal Visca, Chief Technology Officer of Elastic Path. During the visit, we were able to capture a captivating conversation with Padgett and Visca where they discussed how Carnival is transforming cruise vacationing into seamless interactions to create an experience unlike any other.

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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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Digital Myth No. 5 — Every Tech Vendor Is An Expert In Digital Transformation

Forrester eCommerce

While every tech vendor seems to lay claim to being an expert in digital transformation, it stands to reason that not all can be. For sure, there are many vendors with experience helping clients create new customer or employee digital experiences, but this experience doesn’t make them experts in digital business transformation. For 20 years, […].

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Five Breakthrough Data-Driven Strategies To Win Retail Customers For Life

RTP blog

By Deesean Wilson, DXC Technology Digital technology has had a profound effect on the retail industry, an effect demonstrated by the importance and utility of data. Cracking open this treasure of new insight on consumers, distribution, margins and trends — both emerging and fading — has created new ways retailers can expand and serve their customer bases.

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How to Create an Omnichannel Customer Journey

Omnisend

Customers are fickle. They’re demanding- and they want every message they receive to be completely tailored to their wants and needs. We want our marketing messages to always be relevant. We want to make sure the right message gets to the right person at the right stage of their customer journey. This is why omnichannel Read more The post How to Create an Omnichannel Customer Journey appeared first on Ecommerce Marketing Automation | Omnisend.

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What specifies a web application as a Progressive Web App (PWA)

GetElastic

Progressive Web Apps’ (PWAs) biggest draw is in their ability to adapt and provide the best overall mobile web experience regardless of what screen they’re being viewed on or what browser they’re being run on. PWAs drive performance and load similar to a regular web page, but offer additional native device functionality such as working offline, serving notifications, launching a camera, etc.

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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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Amazon’s Haven Is An Incubator, Not A Disruptor

Forrester eCommerce

Haven, the recently named joint venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, has officially emerged from the shadows with a public persona, giving industry pundits new details about the company’s ambitions and intended trajectory within healthcare. Haven has struck fear in the hearts of many healthcare organizations (HCOs), in part because of Amazon’s reputation […].

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Can Retailers Hold Their Own In The Battle Of DTC Vs. Private Label?

RTP blog

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands such as Dollar Shave Club , Casper. and Glossier have taken retail by storm in recent years — in fact, $3 billion in venture funding has gone to DTC brands since 2012, according to CB Insights. More than $1 billion of that total was invested in 2018, indicating plenty of investor confidence that DTC brands can grow at a rapid pace, despite fervent competition.

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Mailchimp for Shopify: What to Do for Ecommerce Email Marketing When the App Is No Longer Available

Omnisend

We’ve all heard the news. As of May 12, 2019, or sooner, Mailchimp will no longer have native integration with Shopify. The statement released today by Mailchimp states that they will try to offer integration until Shopify’s new terms are in effect on May 12th, but the cut may happen sooner. If you’re a Shopify Read more The post Mailchimp for Shopify: What to Do for Ecommerce Email Marketing When the App Is No Longer Available appeared first on Ecommerce Marketing Automation | Omnisend.

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Security & Android apps: why automated testing matters

GetElastic

Android smart devices have gained tremendous popularity, leading to the pervasiveness of its apps. As of December 2018, there were over 2.6 million Android applications distributed within its official app store, Google Play. Ranging from financial and educational to personalization and entertainment, the app store had over 30 categories of apps. . Source: Android Central.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Shape Shift Your Retail Offer With Software Defined Stores

Forrester eCommerce

We’ve all learned about the advantages of software defined infrastructure. We don’t think twice about network or desktop virtualization. But what about using software to define, and remotely manage, store infrastructure and applications? Think about the rise of pop up stores or the rapid proliferation of store banners as retailers shape shift in anticipation of […].

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Brand Value: Measuring The Long-Term ROI Of Different Advertising Channels

RTP blog

By Michael Cross, Brightblue Consulting Consider it’s the late 1980s. Marketing analysts in the U.S. are completing work on a project known as “How Marketing Works,” studying historical data across 40 packaged goods companies. As part of this work, the analysts will propose that the so-called long-term impact of advertising can be considered to be, on average, twice the measured short-term uplift.

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How To Use Keywords For Better Conversions on Amazon

SellBrite

If you’re an ecommerce seller, whether on Amazon or elsewhere, you are no doubt always looking to increase conversions for your listings. Driving traffic to your listings takes a lot of work and investment, so once your visitors are there, you want to make the most of it and make sure as many of your visitors as possible follow through and buy your products.

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Digital Transformation with Rachel Mushahwar [video]

GetElastic

Digital transformation has become a hot topic among countless enterprises across many verticals and industries. It’s ultimately the latest buzzword many practitioners would like to see banned – and for good reason. Businesses know they need to future-proof to stay competitive, but jumping on the latest buzzword initiative bandwagon is not the way to go about it.

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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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What’s Going On With Online Grocery

Forrester eCommerce

Last week, IRI hosted its fourth annual Growth Summit in Denver (where some hapless attendees were snowed in by an unfortunate blizzard on the second day). For anyone not familiar with IRI, it is one of the world’s largest analytics firms. Among a slew of other assets, it has proprietary data from checkout registers, which […].

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Thinkific vs Teachable: What’s the Best Way to Sell Online Courses

Ecommerce Platforms

Selling your own online course doesn't have to be scary. In fact, you don't even need to be a web designer. That's thanks to the wide variety of online sales platforms and website building tools made just for online courses. Today, we're pitting Thinkific vs Teachable to see which one might be best for your situation. Both Thinkific and Teachable are reputable, high-powered online course building and selling platforms.

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Edge SEO for eCommerce: How to Spend Less for Faster SEO Implementation

Inflow Insights

eCommerce companies trying to improve their SEO often run into a host of bottlenecks that get in the way. These bottlenecks can occur for a few reasons: Long development queues, meaning that even quality SEO recommendations could take months to incorporate; Unavailable, cost prohibitive or otherwise uncooperative developers ; Limits to functionality , such as a hosted platform not allowing you to edit your own Robots.txt file, or the inability to host a WordPress blog on the same subdomain as yo

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IRCE @ RetailX – are you going?

GetElastic

The well-known ecommerce event, Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE), returns to Chicago’s McCormick Place on June 25th – along with two other shows in the mix, GlobalShop and RFID Journal LIVE! Retail, this trifecta creates RetailX. For three days in June, IRCE @ RetailX will give attendees compelling programming, business solution offerings and most importantly networking.

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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.