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

Retail TouchPoints

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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Exclusive: New Research Highlights How Brands Can Capture Today’s Always-On Shopper

Retail TouchPoints

Then, 61% said their likely next step would be an online search or to visit an online retailer (only a small percentage said they’d go straight to a brick-and-mortar store or ask others for advice at this point). Checking prices and comparison shopping, that makes a lot of sense, but you know what else they’re doing?

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5 Ways Home & Decor Brands can Optimize the Shopping Experience

UpSellIt

By leveraging price fluctuations, such as seasonal markdowns, online retailers can move shoppers down the conversion path without hurting the bottom line. This is particularly true in the home and decor industry where measurements, planning, and comparison shopping can result in long consideration times.

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Shoppers’ In-Store and Online Expectations for 2019

Wiser

To learn more about the changes consumers are looking for in the coming year, Wiser has surveyed over 2,400 of our mobile app users about their 2019 shopping preferences. Both in-store and online retail is constantly changing as new trends and technologies are introduced to the market. In-Store Preferences.

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What Should You Look for in an Ecommerce Platform?

Kibo

Native Personalization Capabilities Built-In Order Management API-First, Microservices Architecture Admin Tools and Settings Advanced Catalog Management Mobile-centricity SEO Friendliness 24/7 Support Pre-Integrated Payment Gateways Speed Easy-To-Use UI. Perhaps you only offer online shopping now, but plan to open stores in the future.

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7 Strategies to Convert Comparison Shopping Consumers

UpSellIt

With the eCommerce market as saturated as it is, comparison shopping has essentially become standard practice among consumers, and individual eCommerce brands can take a hit as a result. Let’s take a look at what comparison shopping is and how your business can combat it. What is Comparison Shopping?

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The Art of Retail: Balancing Retail Brand Experience In-Store and Online

OrderDynamics

Which presents a number of challenges for retailers to overcome. As e-commerce adoption increases, today’s customer journey is spread across multiple channels such as website, mobile app, physical store and social media. Moreover, Ikea online and Wayfair mobile app recently integrated AR/VR concepts to their digital channels.

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