Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Hawkins’ job is to actually deliver on all those buzzy retail aspirations — omnichannel, seamless, frictionless — and fast, because if there’s one thing the mobile-first Gen Z shopper is not known for, it’s patience. Then all of that is getting pushed out through the influencers’ channels and our channels.”

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Omnichannel Social Media Mobile Fashion 266

365 Retail

JANUARY 18, 2024

The world of customer data is rapidly changing, and companies are responding with diverse strategies to stay ahead in this dynamic environment. The data foundation is behind the wall, and all the marketing and analytics tools get power from the foundation. Customer data should always be two things: reliable and repeatable.

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Customer Data Customer Multi-channel Events 62

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

After doing these data-driven transformations one retailer at a time, I realized that if I transitioned to Google, I could impact the industry in a scaled way and build the things that I always wanted Google to build for me,” said Tharp. I think people are getting tired of using the word omni — it’s really “channel-less.”

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Channel Omnichannel Retail Merchant Services 182

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Blueshift is expanding the journey orchestration of its AI-powered SmartHub Customer Data Platform (CDP) across all customer experience touch points, including support, commerce, sales, loyalty, product and other CX channels.

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Omnichannel Customer Retail Customer Data 147

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

Navigating digital transformation in 2024’s B2B ecommerce landscape hinges on a deeper comprehension of AI, omnichannel strategies and social commerce. B2B brands should invest in AI-driven CRM (customer relationship management) systems to analyze customer data, offering insights for personalized marketing and sales strategies.

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B2B eCommerce BigCommerce Omnichannel 208

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, some DTC brands have hit the saturation point on digital channels like social media and display, further driving up CPA. Still, these channels carry significant costs — the kind that can make even an experienced marketer do a double take. Investing in New Channels. Invest in First-Party Data.

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Omnichannel Marketing Social Media Channel 247

Optimizely

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The experts all agree: omnichannel marketing is key to success in ecommerce. That’s why it’s so surprising that the majority of B2C marketers have yet to achieve a true omnichannel ecommerce experience. If you’re behind on your own omnichannel strategy, this should comfort you somewhat. By the numbers. What’s behind this trend?

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Omnichannel B2C Marketing Channel 236

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

With these sweeping shifts in consumer needs, retailers relied on data more than ever to quickly position themselves to create the kinds of offerings and experiences that consumers expected during this unprecedented period. Real-time data is the key for 2021. One such area where on-demand data can help retailers is inventory.

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Small Business Retail Retail eCommerce Social Media 231

Algopix

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Cross-channel tracking, also known as cross-device tracking, involves monitoring customer interactions and behaviors across multiple online channels and devices. These channels can include websites, mobile apps, social media platforms, email, and more. This is where cross-channel tracking becomes invaluable.

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Channel eCommerce Social Media Customer Loyalty 129

Optimizely

JANUARY 30, 2018

True omnichannel marketing is tough to do well. But, according to the 2017 Ecommerce Holiday Report , 86% of ecommerce marketers have still not executed a full omnichannel marketing strategy for their brand. A study from IDC also showed that consumers who shop on multiple channels have a 30% higher lifetime value.

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Omnichannel eCommerce Marketing Marketing eCommerce 191

Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 3, 2021

Following up the previously published Now Tech report, I’m excited to announce that The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management In Asia Pacific, Q2 2021 is now live.

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Channel Management Customer Data Technology 228

Optimizely

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Zaius team came prepared with plenty of cookies, and we even sat in on some sessions in between confessionals to cheer on our customers. . How AI Continues To Change Omnipresent Omni-Channel Strategies. So many Zaius customers sharing their stories at #eTailBoston ! So what did we learn?

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Channel Department Stores B2C Recommendation 150

365 Retail

AUGUST 16, 2023

Amperity , the leading enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands has been selected by beauty giant Shiseido Americas Corporation as the foundation of its first-party data strategy, to help create connected and personalised digital customer experiences across all of its brands.

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Omnichannel Point of Sale Customer Data Customer Experience 98

Optimizely

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Driven by consumers doing more and more shopping online and accelerated by the ongoing pandemic, many brands saw a month’s worth of data in a single day. Not all CDPs are created equally, but all CDPs start with the collection of your customer data. We do this by building bespoke models based ONLY on your data.

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Beauty and Health Marketing Customer Data Sporting Goods 195

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

These days, it seems like every major retailer has its own channel for serving ads, and advertisers are seizing this opportunity eagerly, to the tune of $114.4 First-party customer data. The most important component of building an RMN is first-party data — a dataset of all your customers’ shopping habits and preferences.

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Retail Customer Data Channel Arts 242

Optimizely

AUGUST 16, 2018

Marketers already know data is key to success in B2C and ecommerce. But knowing it’s important and actually being able to utilize data are very different things. Unfortunately, complete and accurate customer data has been shockingly difficult to get your hands on in B2C marketing. Own your customer data.

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B2C Customer Data Omnichannel Marketing 210

Groove

APRIL 16, 2024

Depending on the plan you choose, Shopify offers a wide range of features and apps designed to help you build your eCommerce store and attract customers. Salesforce Commerce Cloud also offers a deep integration with Salesforce's customer relationship management (CRM) platform. For one, Shopify is a hosted platform.

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BigCommerce Magento Multi-channel Shopify 364

Optimizely

DECEMBER 18, 2018

While that’s useful for increasing customer engagement and loyalty, there’s so much more you could be doing with your in-store data throughout the customer journey. If you’re a traditional retail brand looking to get more data savvy, this can be a huge challenge. What is in-store data? Cross-sell and up-sell.

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Marketing Customer Loyalty POS Point of Sale 225

Kibo

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Omnichannel shopping isn’t just a passing trend. Consumers are dividing their shopping journey across multiple online and offline channels, including in-store browsing, ranked as the most useful touchpoint by consumers in the Google survey. What Is Omnichannel Order Management? Omnichannel vs. Multichannel Order Management.

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Omnichannel Management Multichannel B2C 114

Groove

MARCH 3, 2022

What Is Data-Driven Decision Making? Data-driven decision making involves businesses taking advantage of the statistics, metrics and data that they have available to direct their business decisions. However, one of the greatest things about using data to make decisions is that it is not limited to a specific role or industry.

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Merchant Services Subscription eCommerce Reference 195

365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Unilever-owned fine food and gourmet ingredient brand Oswald, has partnered with MoEngage , the leading insights-led customer engagement platform, to power personalised, omnichannel engagement at scale to drive customer interaction and performance.

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Omnichannel Customer Data Channel Improvements 62

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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. These are rules to live by.

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Consumer Customer Experience eCommerce Technology 245

Omnisend

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The challenge for ecommerce businesses is the average customer uses ten different channels, including contact forms, social media profiles, live chat, and email—making it hard for companies to know where to focus their efforts. What is Omnichannel Support? This way, your customers always get accurate answers. Learn more!

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Omnichannel Live Chat Customer Social Media 148

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Creating a competitive advantage in personalization is based on a company’s ability to capture, analyze and use personalized customer data, as well as understand, customize and optimize the customer journey, all at scale. It has to be cross-channel. One of the issues is thatcustomer data is often siloed.

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Multi-channel Retail Customer Experience Customer Data 203

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Also, it is not enough for marketers to just ‘know’ their customers; it is important for them to be one step ahead and predict what they need and how they will behave. A real-time CDP will help retailers keep track of customer behavior across channels to provide a ‘phygital’ or ‘omnichannel’ experience to customers.

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Multi-channel POS Customer Data Mobile 205

Fabric

MARCH 19, 2024

To meet their needs, retailers need to adapt quickly and deliver seamless omnichannel experiences. The composable commerce framework also includes fabric’s full suite of commerce services for building enterprise-ready experiences from merchandising to fulfillment on any channel.

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X-cart eCommerce eCommerce Platforms Omnichannel 130

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

The 2023 Omnichannel Retail Index demonstrates that understanding what customers value and using that information to build long-term customer relationships is essential for survival. Companies with loyal customers understand their customers’ needs and deliver personalized experiences.

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Shipping Costs Improvements Live Chat Retail 203

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Profile information and third-party data can be useful, but it can’t capture a shopper’s intent in the moment. For example, my customer profile at Petco says I have a 15-pound Yorkie, but it doesn’t know his dietary restrictions. Connect every channel. Capture shopper signals. Optimize the experience in real time.

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Customer Experience Customer Channel Omnichannel 259

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Consumer expectations of retailers have been transformed by their experiences buying from Amazon and other innovative retailers that are able to provide fast, efficient omnichannel experiences. Recent data shows that people plan to buy more gifts and spend more money than they did in 2020. Dazzle Your Customers With Real-Time Data.

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Shipping Costs Retail Omnichannel Supplies 221

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

Best Buy Ads will be available for partner brands and services looking to reach customers both on Best Buy’s own channels and through external sites. The ad firm will utilize Best Buy’s internal customer data to recommend relevant methods of connecting with shoppers based on their habits. “We

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Omnichannel Customer Data Recommendation Mobile 254

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As part of the agreement, GameStop will standardize its solutions on Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s portfolio of cloud-based business applications and customer data platform.

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Games Omnichannel Retail Subscription 235

Omnisend

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Ecommerce data drives almost every business decision for online merchants. This is in no small part due to the goldmine of valuable insights it provides—a merchants’ own performance, customer behavior, and their relative position among their competitors. The Importance of Data-Based Marketing in Ecommerce. At what times?

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eCommerce Customer Retention eCommerce Analytics Improvements 148

Optimizely

MARCH 9, 2021

While the Oracle Customer Experience Cloud is an option, there’s a way you can migrate all of your data without missing a single beat once their contract runs out. Thanks to our turnkey integration, customers can bring in historical data, replicate their campaigns and do so much more with a customer-centric approach.

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Customer Experience Demo Customer Data Omnichannel 195

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Lesson 2 Transparency and alignment are key to agile marketing operations: Marketing strategies and investments need to change at the speed of the customer. And in today’s omnichannel environment, that change is happening faster than ever.

Marketing 271

Marketing Customer Loyalty Omnichannel eCommerce 271

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Results from Retail TouchPoints’ annual Customer Loyalty and Personalization Benchmark Report reaffirm that retailers are focused on building a strong foundation of first-party data to support their supply chain, in-store services, omnichannel marketing and experiential strategies. . Collect and Leverage First-Party Data .

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Customer Loyalty Customer Retail Shipping Costs 184

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

The new operating model will help each organization focus on their biggest growth opportunities while still working together to provide a seamless customer experience across both channels. Going forward, the ecommerce business will become “The Bay,” while the banner’s 86 stores will continue operating as Hudson’s Bay.

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eCommerce Operations Customer Experience Omnichannel 295

lateshipment

JANUARY 17, 2023

Customized experiences are the need of the hour for customers who expect brands to know about them and provide experiences that are tailor-made for them, i.e customers expect a personalized experience at every channel and touchpoint. Omnichannel experience will be play a huge role in offering customer convenience.

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eCommerce Merchant Services Omnichannel Customer Experience 130