Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Given that many of these expectations were first set by customers’ experience with Amazon , it should come as no surprise that third-party marketplaces have become a key tool for many retailers to meet these consumer demands. So if a customer comes to Macy’s, can they find what they’re looking for? It’s a high bar.

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Algopix

AUGUST 12, 2023

This guide unveils the crème de la crème of YouTube channels tailored for Amazon FBA sellers. With these channels at your disposal, you’ll gain unparalleled knowledge, tactics, and strategies, ensuring you outshine your competition and thrive in the Amazon marketplace. Continuous Growth : Learning should be an ongoing journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“We’ve talked for many years about how digital channels influence the buying journey whether or not the consumer ends up buying in a digital channel versus a physical one. Then, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), conversion rate optimization, Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and new traffic acquisition all ranked higher.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2022

According to Forbes, today’s business benchmark is customer experience. The key to having that edge over the competition is delivering top-notch customer experience, ensuring the quality of well-trained staff and continuously studying customer behavior and trends to ensure that customer needs and expectations are met.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2023

Primark hosted 43 sessions in 2022 covering core basic repair skills — from sewing buttons, zips and mending tears to customization tips. The retailer also has created an online hub with easy-to-follow repair videos that it will share across its social channels. “We This has never been more important for our customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Consumer-facing brands have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few decades creating unique customer experiences in their physical brick-and-mortar locations. A new customer experience study from J.D. How to Really Know Your Customer One standout example of this is a project my company worked on with a major U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Using the data at their fingertips, retailers can capture a more in-depth view of customers’ lives, allowing them to better understand their wants and needs — and ultimately use that picture to create a service experience that incorporates both technology and humans. We really believe that technology should help, not replace.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

At a time when brand interactions bridge both digital and physical shopping, it is increasingly important for retailers to leverage technology to improve customer experiences and create value. Here are a few examples of how technology enhances customer experience and strengthens brand value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

If the shipment was late, maybe someone had to get up earlier to stock the shelves, or a customer or two couldn’t find what they wanted and had to go to a different store. Unlike with Netflix phasing out DVD delivery and focusing on streaming, with ecommerce you can’t just forget about your other channel (the stores).

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Kibo

APRIL 27, 2020

The Rise of Personalized Commerce Study reveals that companies that leverage a personalization strategy across all elements of the customer lifecycle not only see higher ROI (300% or more), they are in the best position to quickly pivot their business to meet changing customer behaviors.

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Omnisend

AUGUST 25, 2023

It enhances customer engagement and contributes to boosting conversion rates. Also, it expresses gratitude to recipients for connecting In addition, it offers a glimpse of the value your potential customers can expect. Source Free shipping promo SMS is a powerful incentive that resonates with customers’ desire for added value.

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CPC Strategy

MARCH 29, 2023

From search to influencers, TikTok to Instagram, Amazon to mom-and-pop shops, CPG customers have never before had as many ways to discover and purchase day-to-day essentials as they do in 2023, and marketers have never had more potential touchpoints to use in influencing those purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

advertising channels in 2022, according to a study by IAB. The study found that retail media network (RMN) ad buyers — defined as buyers at brands or agencies that spend at least $5 million on RMNs annually — are planning to increase their overall ad spend by 11% YoY in 2023. Retail media was one of the fastest-growing U.S.

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ESW

APRIL 5, 2023

While every brand with a DTC channel dreams of a sudden surge in website traffic, too much of a good thing can do irreparable damage to even the most established online retailer. Preparing a DTC channel for peak season is a must for growing revenue and preserving brand reputation. times higher than a site page that loaded in 5 seconds.

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RTP blog

MARCH 17, 2019

are completing work on a project known as “How Marketing Works,” studying historical data across 40 packaged goods companies. Many marketers have been relying on this rule of thumb over this time, in doing so risking overlooking the key differences that come with variation in creative, sector, campaign KPI and media channel.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Smile.io

APRIL 15, 2024

Whenever a brand reconfigures its loyalty program, there’s cause for worry amongst its most loyal customers.   That’s because rewards program changes devalue the points currency more often than not, making them less enticing to loyal customers. Will my points be worth the same value? Are you changing your rewards?

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Inflow Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Many modern eCommerce businesses don’t just rely on online channels to generate sales. More often than not, these brands employ additional channels — like brick-and-mortar locations, pop-ups, and call centers — to diversify and maximize their revenue streams. The Client: A Wholesaler Operating on Seasonal Trends.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

With so many unique approaches to connectivity, retailers often struggle with effectively reaching their customers. Navigating these touch points can be challenging, but the potential rewards, like enhanced customer loyalty, are worth the additional effort. Yet subject lines are just the beginning.

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Smile.io

JANUARY 27, 2022

DICK’S Sporting Goods and Nike recently announced they would be taking their long-standing business relationship to the next level by partnering on customer loyalty. Customers of DICK’S and Nike can now link their DICK’S’ ScoreCard and Nike Membership loyalty program accounts to unlock exclusive products, events, and offers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

However, retailers themselves also are playing an important part in the growth: as more and more companies accept and advertise these options, it becomes more convenient for customers to utilize them. Digital wallet adoption is forecasted to reach 15.5% of POS payment volumes by 2024. I think it’s about the comfort level,” said Brames.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2021

Fueled by the rapid shift to online channels and the desire to meet digitally savvy consumers’ expectations for instant gratification, the on-demand food delivery market is surging. And passing on those costs to customers can backfire. And if that is the case, must they face the tradeoff between losing customers or losing profit?

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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. It’s another to develop strategies and procedures that meet customer expectations without damaging revenue and profits. billion in sales in Q3 2020.”

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Groove

MARCH 7, 2024

Using Klaviyo email marketing, you can sync your customers' external data from a CRM or eCommerce platform directly into your contact database. With this information, you can market to the customer when you offer new styles of running shoes. You can also set up other flows, such as post-purchase flows or VIP customer flows.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

Retailers have begun leveraging their substantial customer purchase data to inform advertiser’s media strategies. This way buyers can choose what media channels perform best. Retail Media Networks that offer managed service advertising solutions are likely to take a more active approach to channel selection.

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Omnisend

JANUARY 8, 2024

Reading Time: 8 minutes A common misconception about repeat customers is that they only respond to crazy discounts. While providing discounts is an effective strategy to encourage returning customers, it’s neither the only nor the best way. Use Omnisend’s powerful email and SMS marketing to create a superior customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2021

COVID-19 undoubtedly convinced a large number of ecommerce “virgins” to make their very first online purchase, but it’s likely much of the dramatic growth seen over the past year came from infrequent ecommerce users — those that had used online channels for less than 25% of their purchases prior to the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

However, as a study from Oxford found, the effects of technology on loneliness depend on the type of interaction with that technology. A few common touch points include: Customer Service Customer service is perhaps one of the most important communication touch points for your brand, though one that’s becoming increasingly automated.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2020

One common thread among many of the studies: fewer trips to brick-and-mortar stores in favor of increased online shopping. However, other potentially even more significant trendlines show fundamental changes in consumers’ decision-making process related to picking brands and demonstrating customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2021

Suppliers are breaking down their demand forecasts geographically, while retailers are breaking them down by channel. While CPGs are looking at geography, retailers are largely looking at specific channels. Now that online and offline inventory are converging due to BOPIS, a more unified channel lens is often more sensible.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This is true all year long, but recent studies show at least 26.8% 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2023

For this year’s report, in an effort to provide greater granularity, NRF paired the responses from its annual survey with the returns data of Appriss Retail’s customers, which include 60 of the top 100 retailers in the U.S. The study found that $148 billion in holiday merchandise is expected to be returned at a rate of 15.4%.

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lateshipment

JULY 17, 2020

Visitors who make it to case studies or reviews are more likely to eventually buy your product. Why focus on customer retention , and not just increasing the number of new visitors? But returning customers can become influential online ambassadors for your organization. For this to happen, you need to combine the right channels.

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Sailthru

JANUARY 13, 2020

Every marketer has done painstaking research to understand where mobile makes an appearance along the customer journey. They understand that customers always have their phones, and always expect a personalized, relevant interaction on mobile. The app also needs to be tied to other channels with shared data and content strategies.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Every great site has a powerful customer testimonial page. It’s formed by compelling quotes from current customers that make a product or service seem like such an obviously good idea, anyone would sign up. In fact, 92% of customers report they read online reviews before making a purchase decision. And testimonials are powerful.

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365 Retail

MAY 2, 2023

Wunderkind’s 2023 [GL1] WunderkIndex Report conducted in-depth research of 99 UK eCommerce brands, analysing on-site shopping journeys and customer engagement across both email and text channels over a six-month period.

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