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5 Ways Retailers can Begin to Market from the Outside-In

Retail TouchPoints

The ongoing decentralization of retail and retail marketing is forcing CMOs to embrace new strategies in the media world to compete, especially amid more ephemeral brand affinity. The dot.com bust in 2001 slowed, but didn’t stop, the inexorable move toward consumers shopping and buying online.

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33 Ecommerce Strategies for Growth from 12 $1M+ Brands [18 Must Have Tools Included]

BigCommerce

Photos are worth millions of dollars: Don’t skip the most important part of your customer experience, showing them exactly how to style and put together an entire look. A flexible platform for online retail: Originally, Merritt built his own online selling platform when the company was started back in 2012.

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234 American Business Owners on Starting, Scaling and Staying Inspired

BigCommerce

Even though it was right after 9/11 and the economy was dire, we opened the day after Thanksgiving in 2001, just in time for Christmas, and have been in Abilene, Kansas ever since. He is a veterinarian and I spent the last decade in online retail, so the opportunity finally emerged for it to become a reality.