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Ecommerce with Flair: Digital Tools for a More Inspiring Online Experience

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Ecommerce can sometimes lose the experience of in-person shopping and, with it a retailer’s ability to show off its products in ways that can set a store apart from its competition. Ecommerce sites can now highlight products in new and interactive ways that make the discovery process more fun for consumers.

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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

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Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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Google Targets Holiday Bargain Hunters with New Search Tools

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Details like sale prices and price drops have been part of Google search results for some time, but the new badge offers more details on specific promotional offers to make comparison shopping directly in search easier. According to the Ipsos study, more than half of U.S.

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4 Steps Retailers Can Take to Market Themselves in a Recession

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Recessions bring a change in consumer behavior, but they don’t mean customers stop going to stores altogether. Using OOH media and location-based targeting strategies allows retailers to maximize the value of customer floor time to increase basket size and drive revenue. During downturns, consumer trust is especially valuable.

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Retailers: Leverage Customer Data to Navigate Lower Spending Due to Inflation

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forcing retailers to grapple with remaining relevant to increasingly price-sensitive consumers. Illustrating the consumer response to the Fed’s activity, on June 15 the U.S. We’re doing everything we can to help this customer stretch their budgets.”. What do customers see when they ask for things? 7% increase.

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After Summer Sale Comes Amazon Prime Day — Retailers Must Prepare

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Brands can use Amazon’s June summer sale shopper data to help formulate their Prime Day strategy, such as better targeting and personalization based on comparison shopping habits, price sensitivity and search behavior. Last year, a study noted that 68% of shoppers planned to comparison shop against Amazon on Prime Day.

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Frugal Shoppers: The Untapped Shopper Base You Can Reach to Win the Holiday Sales Season

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Smart brands and retailers will take advantage of an extended holiday season by giving consumers what they need and by focusing on a particular shopper base that might not have been on their radar last year: frugal shoppers. ’ This shopper base is made up of consumers who only want to buy at a discount.