BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

No single formula, algorithm or crystal ball can tell you for sure when and why each individual customer will make a purchase. It’s a complex process, and it’s why omni-channel selling is so important. Both BigCommerce and Square exist to make shopping easier and more enjoyable for both sellers and customers, whatever the platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With the sector continuing to experience accelerated growth, major retailers are looking for ways to maintain and build trust while dramatically improving customer experience and orchestrating cohesive customer journeys. Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2024

Despite Tightening Wallets, Select Brands Flourish As spend growth softened in the second half of 2023 across discretionary categories and companies geared toward more price-conscious consumers flourished, opportunities presented themselves for brands that kept an open mind. However, not all customers behave the same.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Phone-based customer service, or voice, is well established as the most commonly used and the most tightly managed customer service channel. It may be exactly what contact centers need to not just move on from deflection, but have the confidence to once again encourage customers to call. And yes, customers are noticing.

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Korona

APRIL 1, 2021

Digital channels and the ability to keep in constant and instant communication with shoppers have made this easier than ever. There are different retailing channels for any type of business. Why Are Multiple Retailing Channels So Important? Shoppers, too, are now using multiple channels in the buying process.

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Groove

APRIL 1, 2022

Introduction Because you’re reading this eBook, you’re likely an eCommerce retailer selling consumer packaged goods online, or you own a brick-and-mortar store and want to transition to eCommerce. What are Consumer Packaged Goods? First, let’s define what you’re trying to sell — consumer packaged goods. increased $63 billion.

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365 Retail

MAY 17, 2022

In the purchase process, payment is a delicate phase because it determines the transition from the purchase intention of the customer to the actual sale and the less friction there is at this juncture, the more pleasant the customer experience. billion in fees, labour, and lost business in 2020.

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Groove

APRIL 12, 2024

Integrating Multi Storefront BigCommerce The BigCommerce multi store integrates seamlessly with your Groove Commerce websites. You can even choose to have one storefront for business-to-consumers and another for business-to-business if you want the ability to wholesale. Create custom price lists for each storefront.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

True to form, Best Buy turned its eye to advertising’s newest tech-infused channel to reach this consumer segment — connected TV (CTV). CTV viewership is growing every year as more and more consumers “cut the cord,” and the vast majority of U.S. But just as the number of CTV viewers is climbing, so is the number of advertisers.

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ChannelAdvisor

APRIL 15, 2022

But expanding across channels and geographies is challenging when each one has its own requirements, audience, and tone. Abhi Tiwari, Director of Product Management and Technology at Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment . Can you add more channels and still provide stellar experiences — without subtracting from the bottom line?

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ChannelAdvisor

APRIL 15, 2022

But expanding across channels and geographies is challenging when each one has its own requirements, audience, and tone. Abhi Tiwari, Director of Product Management and Technology at Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment . Can you add more channels and still provide stellar experiences — without subtracting from the bottom line?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

Accenture surveyed more than 10,000 consumers in 16 countries and found that although we’re living in a time of “lasting uncertainty,” the “ resilient consumer ” is uncovering new ways to protect and control what is most important to them. As a result, consumer behaviors are becoming more complex.

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GetElastic

AUGUST 9, 2021

More and more brands are eager to expand their reach and connect with customers by selling directly to them. But, there are several contributing factors to consider: Customers want to buy direct: As customers become more comfortable with purchasing via digital channels, they are less likely to visit their local brick-and-mortar distributor.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2023

As more direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands face heightened competition and rising cost-per-acquisition rates online, many have disinvested in their branded ecommerce experiences and doubled down on unique brand opportunities found on marketplaces like Amazon. For brands, that makes it much more difficult to stand out. It’s inevitable.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 2, 2021

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is a metric that has been growing with the emergence of Internet companies and web-based advertising campaigns that can be tracked. Traditionally, a company had to engage in shotgun style advertising and find methods to track consumers through the decision-making process.

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lateshipment

AUGUST 31, 2023

59% of US consumers planning to shop online this year, and 63% of consumers are planning to spend more money shopping compared to the 2022 holiday season. JustUno ] It’s important that e-commerce businesses brace themselves to handle the holiday rush and keep up with the evolving consumer trends. But, let’s face it.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2023

We are a company all about relationships because that’s what our customers are celebrating when they buy from us — all the relationships in their lives. Understanding this process and implementing a relationship and engagement strategy has been a priority for us as we create a dialogue with our consumers that is more than just a transaction.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For consumers, creators and retailers alike, sifting through the ever-changing array of functionalities across platforms is still fraught with misfires, miscommunications and mistrust. There’s no time to waste, because consumers are already there. Social commerce is already a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It started with COVID, and it hasn’t stopped — consumer shopping behaviors continue to rapidly shift even as the pandemic moves into the realm of memory. For brands and marketers, it’s hard, nigh impossible, to keep up with how and where consumers are shopping today, but media planning and buying platform Infillion tried.

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365 Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

Consumer touchpoints are growing exponentially, making media activation more complicated as shoppers flutter across thousands of channels and apps, making the possible combinations infinite. It means simplifying the customer experience, telling brand stories effectively and evaluating performance more accurately.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With China set to become the world’s largest luxury market by 2025 , Alibaba is intent on building out the immersive digital experience on its Tmall Luxury Pavilion to capture those consumers. From 2019 to 2021, the Luxury Pavilion has seen its customer base grown by more than 150% and sales have increased nearly 300%.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

These days, the framework for marketing success is still being driven heavily by a company’s media plan rather than in the context of overall customer health. Many companies are accustomed to viewing performance by channel, by store or by product. Are existing customers sticking around? Are new customers coming back for more?

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Optimizely

JUNE 12, 2018

That’s exactly why you need to stop relying on email alone and branch out into new channels instead. Email is just one of many ways to engage buyers, and you have to spread out your communications to your audience across multiple channels and platforms. How do I find the right channels to engage?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of TikTok Shop While the ecommerce functionality has been available to at least some users since late last year, today marks the service’s debut to the wider TikTok community, and to say that both consumers and brands have been eagerly anticipating this development might be an understatement. Photo courtesy of TikTok)

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Wiser

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In a recent panel discussion hosted by Wiser Solutions, senior leaders at brand manufacturers and retailers shed light on the delicate interplay between direct-to-consumer (D2C) channels and traditional retail partnerships.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

According to the study, TV and movies no longer dominate the media landscape like they once did as consumers, especially younger ones, increasingly turn to new digital channels for more immersive entertainment experiences. However, this isn’t a case of purely replacing one medium for another.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offering excellent customer service is a business basic at any time of the year, but it’s particularly vital during the holiday season. Unfortunately, the nature of holiday shopping also makes customer service issues more problematic. If the wrong food is in the bag [that’s given to the customer], your CX is shot.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

based sellers exported more than 216 million products to customers in other markets through the platform. Sellers themselves can now choose to offer customers the option of paying in anywhere from three to 24 monthly installments at 0% interest. A decade ago, hardly any sellers sold globally through Amazon; last year, U.S.-based

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Customer loyalty experts know that the best-run programs do far more than simply boost sales by rewarding members with points and perks. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How is Sephora dealing with shifts in shopper behavior over the past few years, particularly as consumers’ budgets have come under increased pressure? .

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Fabric Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Consumers are treating the traditional shopping experience as increasingly transactional. By conducting research and comparisons online before visiting a brick-and-mortar retailer, customers limit their browsing time. Shifting consumer trends are evident in the increase of options such as curbside pickup—which grew from 10.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The positive vibe of the show was largely driven by retail executives’ obvious eagerness to explore which new technologies would help them maximize customer retention and business growth in 2024. Is the digitization of in-store experiences driving a context collapse for consumers? The top five themes include: 1. ” 5.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With social marketing in decline , and with the economic uncertainty driving the need to reduce “awareness” marketing in favor of performance channels, the need for retailers to find new measurable, scalable marketing channels is more urgent than ever. For instance, TV attribution is unique (consumers can’t click on a TV).

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2023

There’s a lot of talk about artificial intelligence these days, with countless posts about how it’s changing consumer expectations , influencing operations and transforming entire industries. Retailers and brands spend weeks or months mapping new products and catalogs to online channels. Go to market in minutes.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Stitch Fix value prop has always centered around its robust data and analytics strategy — with so much insight into consumer behaviors and preferences, stylists can match shoppers to the perfect wardrobe pieces. The multi-channel initiative was developed in partnership with stylist and social media influencer Allison Bornstein.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Traditional outbound marketing to consumers, such as email campaigns, SMS text messaging, display ads, retargeting and other forms of “push marketing,” will in the future see even less engagement from consumers. for a store the customer is actually interested in, not by random email blasts), at the right time (e.g.

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ESW

JULY 6, 2023

But as retailers and brands with DTC ecommerce channels know, meeting online customer expectations in an Amazon-dominated environment is challenging to say the least. Essentially, The Amazon Effect refers to the ways in which consumer expectations have changed as a result of shopping with the dominant online marketplace.

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

It costs 5X less to retain a customer than it does to acquire a new one. That’s why customer retention is crucial to growing your Ecommerce business. What is customer retention? Customer retention is the ability to encourage customers to keep coming back to make purchases. Why is customer retention so important?

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