Tue.Sep 28, 2021

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Forrester’s 2021 Financial Services Architecture Survey Needs Your Input

Forrester eCommerce

Banks and other financial services firms always ask: “What are the others doing?” They leverage the answer to this question to assess their overall strategic position, compare their key challenges with those of others, and plan for the transformation of their application landscape to a more powerful customer-centric approach. Source: Financial Services Firms Have Solid […].

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Whole Foods Adds $10 Fee to Amazon Prime Members’ Deliveries

Retail TouchPoints

In a nod to rising last mile costs, Whole Foods is ending free delivery for Amazon Prime members on Oct. 25, 2021. Orders placed through Amazon Prime will include a $9.95 delivery charge designed to help cover operating costs, a Whole Foods spokesperson told CNN Business. Whole Foods delivered three times as many orders in 2020 as it did in 2019, causing the costs associated with equipment and technology to rise.

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The Race For Growth Is On

Forrester eCommerce

How will your firm grow and succeed when your competitors have access to the same resources? Find out in this sneak preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation event.

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How to Streamline PHP for SEO

Kissmetrics

There’s a lot of misconceptions about PHP for SEO. Many people don’t understand it, what it is, how we use it, and how it impacts our SEO. The good news is that you don’t likely have much to worry about. PHP can make your website better for SEO and better for your users. The key is to know how to use it properly and what pitfalls to look out for. The goal of this guide is to help you better understand how PHP relates to SEO and how to use it to your advantage.

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Innovation Fest: Summer of AI

Join Bloomreach at Innovation Fest: Summer 2024, a virtual event, to explore the future of personalized marketing and merchandising! Along with the company’s top product experts, CEO Raj De Datta will provide an exclusive look at the company’s latest AI innovations reshaping the omnichannel experience. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to connect with fellow industry leaders and explore the latest trends in retail technology.

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Service Design’s Cocreation Principle: The Secret Sauce For Success

Forrester eCommerce

Co-creation is the service design principle that transforms successful CX initiatives into game changers for organizations.

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Could Data Privacy Be Retail’s New Competitive Differentiator?

Retail TouchPoints

Some say that in the new era of retail, data is gold. For others, data is oil. Whatever valuable commodity data represents, it’s key for retailers in their quest to drive innovation and differentiation in vital areas including marketing, customer experience and product development. But new laws, regulations and tech policies are forcing businesses to completely rethink how they collect and use data.

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Beyond the Transaction: How to Make Your Ecommerce Site an Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Back in the heyday of the shopping mall, retailers attracted and retained customers with their in-store experience. Free samples, beautiful displays and attentive salespeople made shopping an immersive experience. Combine that with a trip to the food court, and going shopping was an event you looked forward to — and were prepared to drop serious cash for.

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Dog-eat-dog: Ren’s Pets selects Emarsys to replace soon-to-be obsolete Bronto

Retail Technology Review

Omnichannel customer engagement specialist Emarsys has entered into a new partnership with Ren’s Pets, the Canadian pet feed and supply store, as a means of centralising and drastically upscaling its customer outreach to accommodate for drastic growth.

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How Store Architecture Can Create a Successful Three-Dimensional Brand Experience

Retail TouchPoints

As the world emerges from a global pandemic, brands and retailers are struggling to create stores that provide a positive in-store experience and achieve sales and marketing objectives. Creating an environment that is a three-dimensional and immersive representation of the brand while maximizing efficiency and profitability are some of the key considerations when designing a successful retail store.

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Squarespace vs WordPress (Sep 2021): The Ultimate Comparison

Ecommerce Platforms

Are you looking for the perfect website builder for your next web building project? You’re not alone. Every creative, entrepreneur, business, etc., needs a website to add an air of professionalism to their venture. But deciding on the right website builder for your business isn't easy. There are dozens of options on the market, many of which seem very similar.

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From Concept to Deployment: Building Commerce Storefronts with Composable UI

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Younger Consumers Are Driving the Rise of Global DTC Sales

Retail TouchPoints

It wasn’t just Netflix that benefited from discovery during the pandemic. Global direct-to-consumer brands (DTC) reaped exponential rewards, especially from Millennial and Gen Z shoppers. We recently surveyed almost 15,000 consumers across 14 countries to better understand the global opportunity for DTC brands and found that more than half of the millennials surveyed (52%) made purchases online from brands located outside of their home country during the pandemic lockdowns.

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6 of the Best Print on Demand Companies in Canada

Ecommerce Platforms

There’s no shortage of Print on Demand companies in Canada. Just like the rest of the world, Canada recognizes the clear value of having access to simple and effective dropshipping solutions, which support both creativity and cost savings. The print on demand market allows today’s entrepreneurs to create a host of products featuring their own designs, without having to spend a fortune on things like manufacturing and warehousing.

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Know a Retail Innovator? Nominate One for a Retail Innovator Award

Retail TouchPoints

There’s still time (but just until Oct. 8) to nominate a retail practitioner for the 2021 Retail Innovator Awards, which spotlight individuals who create tangible, positive change for their companies, organizations and the retail industry. “We are thrilled to continue to honor executives who are forging ahead with innovative strategies and technologies, especially in this challenging time in the retail industry,” said Debbie Hauss, Executive Director of Content, Retail TouchPoints. &

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Coinbase Commerce Review (Sep 2021): Everything You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

Coinbase Commerce is a merchant payment solution that helps online businesses accept cryptocurrency payments. The platform leverages blockchain technology in order to facilitate digital asset payments for its customers. Coinbase Commerce is available to an array of business sectors and can be integrated with popular eCommerce platforms. This provides it with the foundational functionality of traditional payment providers but with the major difference of handling cryptocurrency payments.

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How To Craft Your Perfect Retail Tech Stack

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

The era of all-in-one platforms is over. Now, retail success depends on integrating a blend of diverse technologies to thrive. As customers and stakeholders expect agility and innovation, how can you meet these expectations efficiently without stumbling into complexity? Explore a customer-centric approach to navigating digital transformation in retail.

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HomeGoods Debuts Online Channel

Retail TouchPoints

HomeGoods, a division of The TJX Companies , has made a belated entry into digital commerce with the debut of the HomeGoods.com site. The online assortment mirrors the merchandise available in HomeGoods stores, including bedding, bath, decorative pillows, kitchen goods, seasonal décor, pet and storage/organization. Merchandise purchased online can be returned via mail or in-store at any one of the more than 820 HomeGoods locations across the country. “We are excited to expand HomeGoodsR

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HomeGoods launches e-commerce arm

RetailDive

With its latest online store, off-pricer TJX Cos. is expanding its digital sales efforts in a sector that has long shunned internet retailing.

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Know a Retail Innovator? Nominate One for a Retail Innovator Award

Retail TouchPoints

There’s still time (but just until Oct. 8) to nominate a retail practitioner for the 2021 Retail Innovator Awards, which spotlight individuals who create tangible, positive change for their companies, organizations and the retail industry. “We are thrilled to continue to honor executives who are forging ahead with innovative strategies and technologies, especially in this challenging time in the retail industry,” said Debbie Hauss, Executive Director of Content, Retail TouchPoints. &

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Etsy debuts shoppable virtual house

RetailDive

Using augmented reality to generate virtual products, the experience allows customers to tour a curated home and purchase products they like.

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Get MACH Ready with Orium, Commercetools, and Contentstack

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Optimizing the Affiliate Marketing Sales Funnel

UpSellIt

If you’re in the world of marketing or sales, you’re probably familiar with the word “funnel.” The traditional sales funnel, also known as the buyer’s journey, describes moving a potential customer through a set of stages to complete a desired action – the goal usually being a sale. Brands use this conversion funnel as a visual road map to create a plan of action for their business, all of which is focused on the customer.

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Why PIM for Ecommerce Is Essential | Salsify

Salsify

Product detail pages (PDP) can make or break an ecommerce store.

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Gopuff opening a retail and delivery store in Pennsylvania

RetailWire

Gopuff, the third-party delivery service, is planning on opening a 23,700-square-foot store in Ardmore, PA, at the site of a former local hardware store. The startup has opened other locations but those were for delivery only, which would make the new location the first to also operate a retail business. Gopuff delivers groceries and other everyday essentials in more than 1,000 cities in the U.S. and Europe.

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Square, PayPal mobile wallets attract funds

RetailDive

The payment companies have seen significant increases in the total amount of money stored on their mobile wallets, but individual accounts still hold relatively small sums.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Run a Successful Identity Marketing Sweepstakes

SheerID

Learn 8 tips for getting more leads from a sweepstakes campaign that targets the your best consumer communities and can deliver a ROAS as high as 100:1.

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Why isn’t Elastic Path part of the MACH Alliance?

GetElastic

First, let’s understand what the MACH Alliance is and what it isn’t. The MACH Alliance is a marketing alliance started by commercetools to promote the acronym MACH, which they coined to refer to Microservices , API-first , Cloud-native, and Headless Commerce technologies. MACH-based technologies and architectural approaches have grown in popularity in recent years as a more modern alternative to traditionally monolithic system architectures, especially in the eCommerce space where digital transf

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September 2021 SEO News Recap

ROI Revolution

Published September 28, 2021. Google Page Title Update. Google officially announced that they had changed the way they handle page titles in the organic search results. As we mentioned, Google has a long history of making changes to how page titles appear in the search engine results page (SERP), typically based on the search query. With this new update, Google says their system is aimed at “producing titles that work better for documents overall, to describe what they are about, regardles

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Why isn’t Elastic Path part of the MACH Alliance?

GetElastic

First, let’s understand what the MACH Alliance is and what it isn’t. The MACH Alliance is a marketing alliance started by commercetools to promote the acronym MACH, which they coined to refer to Microservices , API-first , Cloud-native, and Headless Commerce technologies. MACH-based technologies and architectural approaches have grown in popularity in recent years as a more modern alternative to traditionally monolithic system architectures, especially in the eCommerce space where digital transf

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential With AI

Discover how retailers are transforming data into actionable insights for growth. By leveraging data and analytics to their potential, retailers can enhance decision-making, improve customer experiences, and streamline operations to stay ahead of the competition. From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential With AI, authored by Orium, commercetools, and Google Cloud, demonstrates how businesses can unify and activate data across the tech stack to achieve retail excellence and create growt

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Removal of tax-free shopping takes shine off UK as luxury shopping destination

Retail Technology Review

The removal of tax-free shopping in the UK is set to impact the travel and purchasing decisions of international shopping tourists after the end of COVID-related travel restrictions, the latest data from ESW (formerly eShopWorld) reveals.

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Apple's privacy changes drive up ad prices for e-commerce marketers

RetailDive

The rising costs of mobile ads will push online retailers again to find ways to improve campaign performance, a report by ad-tech startup Moloco suggests.

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Surviving to thriving: The digital transformation of SMBs

Retail Technology Review

As a result of the pandemic, SMBs are investing increasingly more time and money in their digital transformation efforts. While some implemented digital capabilities for the first time as a matter of survival, others accelerated their journey to cloud adoption in order to remain nimble in light of ongoing disruption.

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Morgan Stanley lowers expectations for Amazon shares as e-commerce gets more expensive

RetailDive

The online giant hasn't escaped the whipsawing of supply and demand during the pandemic, and it's been forced to balloon its logistics workforce.

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The Future of Multi-Vendor Commerce

In this on-demand webinar, discover how Logicbroker’s cutting-edge technology enhances the overall experience for both current and future customers and gain insights into how leveraging our seamless integration process unlocks new dimensions of efficiency and functionality. Plus, learn how our advanced marketplace features are set to revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering opportunities for growth and success within your multi-vendor commerce program.