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This Season Don’t Let Holiday Returns Make You See Red!

Demac Media

Holiday sale days like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Boxing Day etc, drive insane profits for retailers! In 2016 UPS saw over 1 million returns on January 5 aka. Extremely high return rates during the mania of the Holiday Season are making retailers see red instead of black. National Return Day”, and that’s just one carrier.

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This Season Don’t Let Holiday Returns Make You See Red!

Demac Media

Holiday sale days like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Boxing Day etc, drive insane profits for retailers! In 2016 UPS saw over 1 million returns on January 5 aka. Extremely high return rates during the mania of the Holiday Season are making retailers see red instead of black. National Return Day”, and that’s just one carrier.

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Seriously, Stop Trying to Beat Amazon at Ecommerce

Optimizely

billion in revenue in 2016 , up 27.1% Amazon has all the sales — 43% of ALL online retail sales in the US went through Amazon in 2016. It seems like no matter what you do as an ecommerce retailer, Amazon is pushing into your space and taking over. Amazon has all the money — the company generated $136.0

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Is A Subscription Business Model Better for Online Retailers?

Lemonstand

A 2016 study from Hitwise Retail 500 noted that visits to subscription box websites grew almost 3,000% from 2013 to 2016, representing tremendous opportunity for both brick-and-mortar retailers and traditional eCommerce. Customer loyalty. Traditional Retail with Subscription Options.

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The 19 Most Innovative Ecommerce Brands of 2017

BigCommerce

In fact, it’s likely all of this year’s 19 most innovative ecommerce brands have your online channel activities beat in terms of impact on: Conversions. Customer Loyalty. Customer Lifetime Value. Michael Leff , vice president of technology at StoreYourBoard, the 2016 Innovation Award winner. Time Saved.

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Rethinking Retail Fulfillment – the key to Navigating a Post-Brexit Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

To overcome supply chain disruptions, many online retailers are already making changes to their existing fulfilment operations. To avoid damaging customer relationships and putting hard-earned customer loyalty at risk during this time, brands must act fast.

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The Key to Wielding Big Data in Ecommerce to Build Personalized Experiences and Improve Retention

BigCommerce

The surfacing of the Facebook debacle involving Cambridge Analytica and the massive amounts of data collected from 87 million users, which was used to influence the 2016 presidential election, revealed big data as the powerful beast it can be. If customers are not satisfied, 13% of them will tell 15 or more people they are unhappy.