Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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Traditional Types of Ecommerce Business Models + Innovative New Ones To Consider For Your Next Venture

BigCommerce

Think back to how you shopped five years ago. Better yet, ten years ago.

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Google Shopping Product Feed Optimization: How to Optimize Your Data Feed for Better Ad Performance

Inflow Insights

When most people think about optimizing their Google Shopping ads, they focus on optimizing their campaigns, bid strategy, and execution. While this is important, we’d argue that the more significant wins come from optimizing your data feed. Your data feed is a subset of all of your products. It’s a digital product catalog that contains attributes like product title, description, GTIN, category, etc.

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Mother’s Day Marketing Tips for Online Retailers

ecomdash

It’s estimated that consumers spent $23.1 billion for Mother’s Day in 2018. Do you want a piece of those billions of dollars? If so, you need to develop unique and creative marketing campaigns that are tailored specifically for the holiday. To help you make the most of Mother’s Day spending, we put together some marketing tips that will increase your revenue for this holiday.

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34% of traffic and 28% of orders for large online fashion retail brands come directly from search and social

Retail Technology Review

34% of traffic, 28% of orders and 26% of the total order value for large online fashion retailers comes directly from search and social sites including Google and Facebook, new global researchsuggests.

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The Future of Multi-Vendor Commerce

In this on-demand webinar, discover how Logicbroker’s cutting-edge technology enhances the overall experience for both current and future customers and gain insights into how leveraging our seamless integration process unlocks new dimensions of efficiency and functionality. Plus, learn how our advanced marketplace features are set to revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering opportunities for growth and success within your multi-vendor commerce program.

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Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Brand Growth Will Boost Social Ad Spending

Forrester eCommerce

In recent years, a wave of so-called digitally native direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups have burst onto the scene and have grown in popularity. Consumers are increasingly purchasing products and services such as mattresses, shoes, razors, and groceries from the over 400 DTC firms now in operation. Forrester forecasts that online spend by DTC enthusiasts will grow […].

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Email Marketing Mistakes Every Business Should Avoid

Groove

Email marketing has stood the test of time because it helps brands engage with their customers. However, doing it wrong can hurt your business and damage relationships you've worked hard to maintain. Email marketing mistakes can take two forms: process issues and email issues. In this post, we'll cover both and provide tips to ensure your email marketing stays out of the spam folder.

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17 Charts That Show Where Social Media is Heading

Kissmetrics

You already know it’s harder to get traffic from the social web unless you spend money ads. There’s nothing new with that fact… just look at the graph above: It breaks down how the average number of social shares per blog post has been dying year over year. But the reality is you can’t ignore platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or any other new contender that comes out and gains traction.

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Single Source Provider for Data Management – Not Yet

Forrester eCommerce

Architects can choose, and do, a primary cloud service provider and/or Hadoop system to house their data. Moving, transforming, cataloging and governing data is a different story. So, architects come to me after throwing up their arms searching for solutions to tame the information fabric thinking they must be missing something. “Isn’t there a single […].

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Bundling matters: why telecom companies seek an API-based commerce solution

GetElastic

In September 2017, T-Mobile announced that it would include a free Netflix subscription for family plan members. “While on the surface this might seem to be just a promotion, it highlights how T-Mobile can layer on additional services into a bundle that customers actually want,” said BTIG research analyst Walter Piecyk. Since 2013 , T-Mobile has used bundling and pricing to attract more new subscribers than all of its rivals combined.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester eCommerce

Tech Sells, And Everyone Is Buying What do McDonald’s, Honda Motor Co., and Nike all have in common? These 50-year-old-plus global giants have all acquired small tech startups within the last year. McDonald’s just bought Dynamic Yield, an Israeli-based, AI-powered personalization tech company. Last month, Honda acquired a major stake in Ubitricity, a German-based maker […].

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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250: How To Win Any Argument And Influence Others With Victor Cheng

My Wife Quit Her Job

Today I’m thrilled to have Victor Cheng on the show. Victor is someone who I met at Billy Murphy’s annual retreat. He’s a former McKinsey consultant, a Stanford graduate, and he’s been on tv a number of times on Fox Business and MSNBC. Victor advises CEOs of small businesses and Inc 500 companies and is well known for his website CaseInterview.com where he teaches others how to get jobs in the consulting field.

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Retail Quality Report 2019: Global retailers still struggling with digital

Retail Technology Review

Applause, the digital quality and crowdsourced testing solutions provider, has released the global findings of its annual Retail Quality Report. It shows that global retailers are failing to keep up with consumer expectations for optimised digital experiences.

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Subscription Finance: What is Monthly Recurring Revenue?

FastSpring

Understanding SaaS metrics can be a bit daunting when you first look at your financial reports. Making sense of all the numbers is hard enough, but adding new acronyms like MRR & ARR into the mix can make the process even more complicated. To spare you the headache, here’s a quick guide to help you make sense of subscription finance—starting with monthly recurring revenue.

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UK shoppers demand faster in-store payments that replicate ‘one-click’ transactions online

Retail Technology Review

Speed and convenience prove key to enhancing customer experience around in-store payments, a new report from RetailEXPO reveals.

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The B2B Digital Commerce Playbook for Manufacturers

In this comprehensive guide, we delve into four essential ecommerce strategies for manufacturers. Each strategy is backed by a clear vision to ensure your efforts are aligned. Whether you’re a seasoned industry player or a budding digitalization champion, these strategies offer actionable insights to drive success. What will you find in the guide: Overview of how current events and external pressures impact business priorities.

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What it Takes to Win on Amazon: Automation

Salsify

By the end of this year, Amazon is expected to account for more of than half of the total US ecommerce market. It currently dominates share of the digital shelf sales for several categories, including books, toys, consumer electronics, and office supplies. Your success in ecommerce is increasingly dependent on your products’ success on the site. In order to manage reliable digital growth on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, you need a way to consistently and strategically execute across you

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Office Depot Europe selects CommerceHub to strengthen ecommerce presence

Retail Technology Review

Office Depot Europe, retailer of workspace solutions, has selected CommerceHub, a distributed commerce network specialising in drop-ship technology – to help expand its product assortment and create a more efficient supply chain in the UK and Europe.

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The Oh La La’s and the Non Non Non’s: The State of Omni-channel in France

OrderDynamics

The Oh La La ’s and the Non Non Non ’s: The State of Omni-channel in France. OrderDynamics’ Omni-2000 research looked at over 2,000 global retailers. It set out to uncover the shopper’s view of retail omni-channel offerings. In the global report , results were presented to give an overall understanding on the state of omni-channel capabilities across the world.

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JD.com and ARCore by Google launch augmented reality contest

Retail Technology Review

JD.com, China’s largest retailer, is hosting the JD-AR & ARCore by Google Innovative Consumer Application Competition in China.

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The Personalization Playbook: 2024 Strategies

Did you know—74% of IT leaders are looking to improve their tech stack to offer better personalization? It’s impossible to ignore the importance of personalization, but it comes with challenges. How do you do it with a tight budget? What about customer privacy and the use of data? The Personalization Playbook is packed with research and insights from Orium, Talon.One, and Bloomreach and gives IT leaders answers to these tough questions, helping them shape 2024 strategies for personalization.

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Bronto Spring 2019 Release: Enabling Faster, Smarter Marketing

Bronto

The latest updates to the Bronto Marketing Platform focus on helping marketers save time and deliver better brand experiences. From increasing customer engagement to accelerating campaign delivery, our Spring 2019 release. The post Bronto Spring 2019 Release: Enabling Faster, Smarter Marketing appeared first on Bronto Blog.

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Why overhauling the way a brand speaks is worth its weight in gold

Dynamic Yield

Language is an identity that can pour into various areas of the business, altering decisions and even helping to reshape the company culture. The post Why overhauling the way a brand speaks is worth its weight in gold appeared first on Dynamic Yield.

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Machine Learning in E-commerce: How Machine Learning Supports Price Optimization

Prisync

Whether you’re running an established store or just starting out, you might’ve have considered adopting machine learning into your e-commerce stack. Machine learning is an advanced technology that provides e-commerce owners with a wealth of benefits. In this post, though, we’re going to reflect on how e-commerce stores can utilize machine learning within their pricing.

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How to Install Magento 2 on Localhost (A Windows 10 Guide)

Onilab User Guides

This is a step-by-step guide on how to install Magento 2 on a Windows 10 machine. We’ve noticed a lot of developers have trouble finding detailed instructions on how to install Magento on different configurations. This guide can be used as a manual to deploy Magento 2 on a Windows 10 PC using Vagrant and Oracle Virtual Machine. Please note that the official Magento 2 development environment guide is available here.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Why Tim Horton's New Rewards Program is Too Little, Too Late

Smile.io

If you’re at all familiar with Canadian culture you’ve probably heard of the largest coffee chain in the country: Tim Hortons. Despite being a national favorite, up until very recently they were one of the few national coffee chains that didn’t offer any kind of reward or loyalty program for their customers.

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What Are Spam Traps and Why Should You Care?

Optimizely

Getting your customers to open, read, click, and convert on your emails is hard enough, but what if the emails never even reach their inbox in the first place? That’s why email deliverability is so important. As you likely know, deliverability is the ability to get your email campaigns into your subscribers’ inboxes. To keep email users happy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can’t let every email ever sent to its users slip into their inbox.

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The Ultimate Blubolt Ecommerce Review

Ecommerce Platforms

Before we dive deep into the blubolt review, I must admit that we've sampled a wide range of ecommerce platforms. On the other hand, we’ve also tried out numerous managed hosting services for online stores. Normally, we’ve always considered these two as separate solutions on opposite ends of the spectrum- each with its own exclusive set of specialized providers, dealing with a specific type of users.