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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. Chucking the expensive commercials.

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Inside Johnny Cupcakes’ ‘Fakery’: Gourmet Retail Theater Thrives in Boston

Retail TouchPoints

And it’s what inspired him to start his T-shirt line, Johnny Cupcakes, in 2001…before he even turned 20. “It And often, it gets a little weird: He has hosted pop-ups in ice cream trucks and has done scavenger hunts and giveaways that start on social media and end in the most random of places. “I

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

BigCommerce

After one of those Live videos hit 1,000,000 views (with a bit of social media promotion), he realized he was on to something. 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.

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234 American Business Owners on Starting, Scaling and Staying Inspired

BigCommerce

Their physicians and lymphedema therapists recommended a compression sleeve as the most efficient way of controlling the swelling. 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.