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The Role of the B2C Marketer Is Changing Fast. Here’s How to Keep Up

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The best marketers are constantly reading up on trends, attending industry conferences, and keeping a close eye on the competition. But even more importantly, top B2C marketers are honing their skills and working to become well-rounded. Everyone in marketing knows that the field has been taking over by data.

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The Top 10 Sessions to See at IRCE 2018

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It’s almost time for the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition , AKA IRCE — the massive ecommerce conference with the largest expo hall in the industry. Here are the sessions you absolutely have to attend at IRCE 2018. Tuesday: June 05. Brendan Witcher, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research.

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Why Augmented Reality-Based In-Store Navigation Is A Smart Investment For Retailers

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Giving customers improved ability to navigate within a store increases loyalty to the brand. And when adding AR-based navigation to customized, data-driven offers made in real time and a digital catalog, the benefits of AR-based navigation go far beyond simply helping customers get from point A to point B. Kearney survey.

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6 Valuable Lessons from Etail East 2018

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Whether you couldn’t attend the conference yourself, or you couldn’t see every session you wanted while you were there, we’ve got you covered. For many B2C brands, the customer is the center of the world. But despite this, many brands make a lot of assumptions about what their customers want and need.

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Commerce Pulse: What’s keeping manufacturers and distributors up at night?

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As distributors and manufacturers of all makes and sizes convened in Chicago for the annual B2B Online conference they were determined to solve for their most pressing challenge – how to transform their organizations for the digital era. Pay-per-use for large expensive products is becoming the new norm.

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7 Major Takeaways from Shoptalk 2018

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Shoptalk 2018 was huge — the world’s largest conference for B2C, retail, and ecommerce innovation sold out for the third time in a row with more than 8,500 attendees from some of the biggest brands in the world. Customer data creates seamless customer experiences. AI is still not fully autonomous. “AI

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Commerce Trends for 2018: #1 Personalization in B2B

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For a few years, personalization has been B2C commerce’s favorite catch phrase: know your customer, personalize the offers and prices, sell at the right time and keep communicating until you build a relationship and not just a sale. But do B2C techniques work for this audience? B2B will look more like B2C.

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