Mon.Oct 11, 2021

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Make It Big Podcast: The Gen Z Effect on Culture and Commerce with Hana Ben-Shabat

BigCommerce

Welcome to The Make it Big Podcast, a bi-weekly audio series about all things ecommerce by BigCommerce.

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Walmart Launches Netflix Retail Hub

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has launched a new digital storefront that will feature exclusive products and experiences centered on some of Netflix ’s most popular franchises. The Netflix Hub at Walmart launched Oct. 11, and new products and content will continue to be added over the coming months for fan-favorite brands such as Stranger Things , Nailed It! and CoComelon , as well as for new shows like Ada Twist, Scientist.

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How to Run Holiday Promotions for Service-Based Businesses

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Whether you’re a product or service-based business, it’s never too early to start planning your holiday promotions. After all, the holidays are a key time for you to boost your revenue and grow your business before the year’s out, so it’s crucial you take advantage of the opportunity. Do you really need a seasonal promotion if you sell services, though?

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Michaels Prepares Marketplace Offering to Offer More Than ‘Just Coupons and Discounts’

Retail TouchPoints

Michaels will launch a marketplace for third-party craft supply sellers, though no debut date has been set. The Michaels Marketplace will be invite-only and aimed at “high-volume sellers of components, tools or craft materials,” according to an announcement on the company’s website. The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment.

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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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Creative Consumers Demand Your Creative Response

Forrester eCommerce

When Valve Software had to deal with consumers hacking into the encrypted software of its popular game “Half-Life,” the company took a bold, overt decision to release the code to the community. The result? A rapid-fire exchange of ideas, iterations, and crowdsourcing that led to the creation of “Counter-Strike,” which became one of the most […].

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Supercharge Your Holiday Pricing with AI-powered Data Science

Retail TouchPoints

Under any circumstances, the holiday season is a do-or-die time for retailers across virtually every segment. In 2021, the stakes are even higher — as the Delta variant sent shoppers into retrench mode yet again, retail and food services sales fell an estimated 1.1% in July, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, [i] ratcheting up pressure to deliver a strong retail holiday season.

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What Gives NFT Value?

Ecommerce Platforms

With iconic internet moments, popular memes, and captivating artwork being turned into high-value digital assets, you may have heard a lot of buzz about NFTs. How could you not? From reputable news outlets to famous celebrities, everyone is either talking about these assets or dealing with them actively. But that sudden exposure to these assets also opens doors to a plethora of questions.

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Choosing The Best Ecommerce Platform – Frequently Asked Questions

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When starting an online store, selecting the best ecommerce platform depends on 5 factors. Your Budget – How much money are you willing to spend on your shopping cart? Ease Of Use – Is the user interface intuitive and easy to navigate? Flexibility – Do you want to add custom functionality to your store? Do you want full control over the platform?

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How to Sell Videos Online: Essential Best Practices and Tips

Ecommerce Platforms

From YouTube to video on demand (VOD) stores, it's clear that video content has a foothold in the worlds of learning, entertainment, and ecommerce, considering many creators make solid incomes selling tutorials on topics like photography, business, and even unique areas like gardening, romance, and fingernail art. Videos make sense for aspiring online entrepreneurs: it's easy to launch a website to sell them; all you need is a topic you're passionate about; most people can learn how to produce a

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ServiceNow To Partner With Celonis – What To Make Of This Announcement

Forrester eCommerce

ServiceNow and Celonis recently announced a strategic partnership that is looking to create a closer linkage between ServiceNow’s low-code platform with Celonis’ Execution Management System. The partnership goes far deeper than your standard press release and actually includes some serious co-engineering by both firms, as well as an investment in Celonis by ServiceNow.

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From Concept to Deployment: Building Commerce Storefronts with Composable UI

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WooCommerce For Small Business: The Perfect Pair

MakeWebBetter

When selling through eCommerce, the most important decision to be taken is to choose the right platform. With the abundance of available choices, it can be arduous to choose the one best for your business’s needs. In a study it has been found that WooCommerce owns more than 26% of all online stores, making it […]. The post WooCommerce For Small Business: The Perfect Pair appeared first on MakeWebBetter.

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As Consumers Lose Faith in Traditional Institutions, Brands are Bridging the ‘Trust Gap’

Retail TouchPoints

It’s been a rough couple of years, to put it mildly. A global pandemic, social unrest, the proliferation of “fake news” and political gridlock have led to an erosion of consumers’ faith in some of our country’s most revered institutions. As consumers’ trust in religious organizations, government and the media crumbles, the Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI) has found that there is an opportunity for businesses to fill the gap.

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How New Rules Will Impact Recurring Transactions in India

FastSpring

If you’ve noticed a drop in subscription credit card approval rates for customers located in India, you’re not alone. The Reserve Bank of India issued new guidelines for subscription purchases earlier this year — and the new rules came into effect a few days ago, on October 1, 2021. As we’ll describe in this article: The Reserve Bank of India is enforcing new data storage rules.

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7 experiential store concepts that opened this year

RetailDive

From Dick's Public Lands outdoors banner to Bloomie's to Ulta's Target shop-in-shops, here's some of the most notable concept launches this year.

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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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Why Long-Term SEO is Worth the Squeeze: A COVID-19 Case Study

Inflow Insights

When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, did your business pull back on marketing efforts? If so, you’re not alone; global ad spend fell by $63.4 billion last year, and digital marketers reported budget cuts to be their top challenge in a post-COVID-19 world. But, like they say, hindsight is 20/20. With more than a year and half of COVID under our belts, this might not have been the best course of action for every business.

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A Quick MarketerHire Review (Oct 2021) – Everything You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

In a saturated market, how companies market themselves is vital for competing against their rivals and bringing their brand's values to the forefront. Your business needs to work with marketing experts across various disciplines to succeed with an effective marketing campaign. If you don’t want to hire an in-house marketing team, freelancers may be a welcome alternative.

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Retailers are betting on wage hikes, perks to woo workers ahead of the holidays. Will it work?

RetailDive

Employers are offering incentives like sign-on bonuses, tuition assistance and higher pay to staff up, but challenges remain.

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How To Use Responsive Search Ads Effectively

Store Growers

Last Updated on October 11, 2021. An essential part of Google Search campaigns are your text ads. Google used to have a number of different text ad formats you could choose from, but today, responsive search ads are the default option. So in this article, we’ll explore what a responsive search ad is, how to set them up correctly and what you can do to get the best possible results from them.

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Get MACH Ready with Orium, Commercetools, and Contentstack

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Millennials drive demand for DTC brands: report

RetailDive

Digitally natives adopted an aesthetic particularly attractive to young shoppers. The pandemic only helped push consumers to shop with those brands.

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How to Be a Dropshipper: The Ultimate Guide

eCommerce CEO

Thinking about starting an ecommerce business, but having a hard time deciding which business model you want to use? Dropshipping is one of the most. Read more.

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Creating a balance: fraud prevention strategies and revenue optimization

RetailDive

With fraud losses totaling $7 billion in the U.S. and $30 billion globally, retailers must find ways to protect their bottom line from erosion while growing the top line through sales.

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Managing Risk Aversion and Accepting Failure

Omnisend

Reading Time: 19 minutes. No successful business venture is ever made without a few mistakes along the way. It’s the inevitable nature of both life and business that we must learn from our mistakes to grow and improve—which makes mistakes an essential part of success. Naturally, this applies to the world of ecommerce too. Many merchants strive to avoid failure at all costs.

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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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Consumer habits: What retailers need to know for the holiday season

RetailDive

The 2021 holiday season is bound to be a tug and war between shifts back to pre-pandemic consumer habits and mounting supply chain and labor challenges.

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Astound Commerce UK announces new Managing Director as part of global reorganisation

Retail Technology Review

Global digital commerce specialist Astound Commerce has announced a series of global and local market leadership appointments, in a move that reflects the company’s need for scalable expansion in the face of extraordinary growth.

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Walmart teams with Netflix on exclusive products, digital storefront

RetailDive

The partnership gives the retailer access to the streaming platform's viewership as it establishes itself as a major destination for fan merchandise.

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Tech bosses warn of potential e-commerce Black Friday and Xmas ‘meltdown’ for high street and online retailers

Retail Technology Review

With the high street already struggling following the pandemic, both physical and online retailers will be looking to their e-commerce systems to make up for lost revenues and profits this Christmas after a disastrous year.

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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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The 2021 holiday season is here. Here's what retailers need to know.

RetailDive

Holiday retail sales expected to reach a record-breaking $1.093 trillion, but the way customers shop doesn’t look the same anymore.

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Debenhams launches online marketplaces with Mirakl tools

Retail Technology Review

Mirakl, the enterprise marketplace SaaS platform, and the boohoo group, the online fashion retailer, have launched the Debenhams online marketplace.

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Solve iOS 15 challenges with SMS this holiday season

RetailDive

To engage iOS 15 users and drive sales this holiday season, embrace the channel that is already privacy-first — SMS.

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Amusement Park Marketing Strategies: Attract More Theme Park Visitors

Korona

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in March 2, 2017 and has been revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Amusement parks are a place where families can enjoy spending time together, taking in the rides, shows, and corn dogs. What we don’t always realize when we’re there is that it takes a lot of time and effort to own and operate one of them.

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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.