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Growing Sales With Attribution Models in Google Analytics

Store Growers

Attribution is hard. So you’ve probably tried to ignore attribution for as long as you could. (I know I have.). But there comes a time when you can’t ignore it anymore. And at that moment it will morph from a headache into a very valuable tool. The right time to look at attribution models is when growth has stalled on your marketing investments.

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Retail Auto-Replenishment: the Pros and Cons

GetElastic

Automation is a powerful and strategic tool for brands looking to scale their retail offering, from large supermarkets working to automate their stock replenishment process, to consumers themselves installing Amazon Dash Buttons within their homes, is auto-replenishment really the future of retail? 2019 is set to be a challenging year for retailers in all sectors, but just how will these brands innovate their offering to keep themselves at the front of consumers’ minds?

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Why Global Retailers Are Leaving Tmall And What This Means For Your Business

RTP blog

By Franklin Chu, Azoya USA International retailers have been quick to flock to large e-Commerce platforms in China, enticed by impressive consumer traffic in the world’s biggest retail market. Yet a growing number of them – including Macy’s , Watsons and New Look – have recently decided to shutter their Tmall Global stores despite growing demand among Chinese consumers for foreign goods.

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The Employee Experience Index

Forrester eCommerce

Six years ago, I noticed a pattern in the inquiry calls I was fielding from clients. At the time, many of them centered around things like BYOD, whether to take away local admin rights from PCs, and other decisions driven by escalating fears of security or compliance risks. If I was able to answer their […].

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Guest Checkout vs Customer Accounts: What Performs Better?

Groove

Checkout is arguably the most important step in the eCommerce process. After all, it's where you seal the deal and make the sale. Although many online retailers consider factors like checkout page design, some overlook customer accounts and guest checkout during the purchase process. This factor is one of our eCommerce checkout best practices and brands should consider it when designing their checkout experiences.

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If I Had to Start All Over Again, I Would…

Kissmetrics

I started young. At the ripe age of 15 and a half, I started my first online business. Can you guess what it was? It was a job board. I created it because I couldn’t find a high paying job at that young of an age. Heck, I struggled to find even a low paying job! As you probably can guess, it failed and, eventually, I went on to do other stuff. From creating an ad agency to a few software companies… the list goes on and on.

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AI Creates The CRISPR For Corporate DNA

Forrester eCommerce

Every company has a specific DNA. You may think DNA is the brand or values. But corporate DNA is what makes a company tick, not what the company is. Talent, operations, technology, and data make up your base pairs. How those combine will have a specific outcome for the business, and even the overall sequence […].

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How to Pick WordPress Ecommerce Plugins: Your Top 9 Choices

BigCommerce

Did you know that there are over 50,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin repository?

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Cohort Analysis: How to Study Cohorts for Actionable Insights

Canonicalized

Why are cohorts useful from a business perspective? How to perform a cohort analysis in a meaningful way? What types of data visualization work well? How to gain cutting-edge insights from studying user behavior? The post Cohort Analysis: How to Study Cohorts for Actionable Insights appeared first on Canonicalized.

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WHITEPAPER: The Marketer’s Guide to Developing Your Inner Marketing Technologist

Optimizely

In this whitepaper, we dig into how today’s marketers think about evaluating and implementing new technology — and how to become a marketing technologist. . Today’s Marketers Must Be Technologists. When you think of your role as a B2C Marketer, does “technologist” immediately come to mind as a description? If it doesn’t, it should. You spend a lot of time evaluating, using, and optimizing your marketing tech stack all while staying up on the latest trends in the industry.

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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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Just Published: The Forrester Retailer Wave™ On US Mobile Apps

Forrester eCommerce

Today’s Retail Apps Meet mCommerce Purpose, but Fail To Inspire Omnichannel Shopping Brendan Miller and Madeline King The Forrester Industry Wave evaluates digital experiences of firms; they highlight digital best practices from leading firms and help our clients better understand what digital strategies will best win, serve and retain customers.

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Why Imagineers, Not Engineers, Will Change Business Today

RTP blog

By Mark McGregor, Signavio Customer Experience is one of the hottest topics discussed in business right now. Almost every journal you read or web site you visit seems to be full of variants stating, “why it should be important to you” and “how your business will be at risk.” Customer experience management seems to mean different things to all people and there are just as many arguments about what it means as there are ways of improving those customer experiences.

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The 9 Best Small Business Email Marketing Software for 2019

Omnisend

At one point or another, every small business needs a tool to help with email marketing. With a market that’s so saturated, it can be quite difficult to weed through all of the tools to find the best one. But you’re a small business owner, you don’t have time for all that. So I’ve provided Read more The post The 9 Best Small Business Email Marketing Software for 2019 appeared first on Ecommerce Marketing Automation | Omnisend.

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The Empowered Marketer: Brian Lim of The Emazing Group

Optimizely

If you’ve ever dreamed of turning your favorite hobby or passion project into a full-time job, you’re not alone. That’s what drove Brian Lim, the CEO and Founder of The Emazing Group , to start three massively successful ecommerce brands — Emazing Lights , iHeartRaves and INTO THE AM. The brands collectively gross over $20M per year and Brian was on season 6 of ABC’s Shark Tank, where he received offers from all five sharks.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Enable Marketing’s CX Ambitions With Real-Time Interaction Management

Forrester eCommerce

One of our 2019 B2C marketing predictions is that enterprise marketing technology will meld with customer experience (CX) investments to deliver the relevancy and consistency that consumers crave from brands. Real-time interaction management (RTIM) provides critical capabilities that enable marketers to realize their CX ambitions. Forrester defines RTIM as: Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually […].

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Editors Share Their Most Memorable RIC Moments

RTP blog

The 2019 Retail Innovation Conference , set to take place a little more than two months from now on May 6-8 in NYC, will give retail executives the chance to gain key insights from today’s leading industry innovators, to help them meet and exceed their own business goals. As past RIC events have shown, there are plenty of “a-ha” moments from the thought-provoking keynotes, panel discussions, breakout sessions, Store Tours — and even from fellow attendees during the event’s many networking opport

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5G and the latest digital transformation

GetElastic

5G has been an overall popular conversation topic globally and it definitely dominated at Mobile World Congress. The anticipated low communication latency and increased network speeds with 5G are drastically heightening further interest in areas where real-time data processing and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) will be prevalent. Sal Visca, CTO at Elastic Path is looking forward to the disruption this new technology is about to cause.

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Marketing Unboxed: Kylie Cosmetics Has the Key to Beauty Marketing

Optimizely

For makeup brands, the competition in ecommerce is as tough as it is beautiful. When we ordered from the much-hyped Kylie Cosmetics , we expected the marketing to be standout. After all, this is the brand that transformed Kylie Jenner into the youngest self-made billionaire ever. But was it all just Instagram filters and influencer marketing? Or did Kylie really create a brand built to last?

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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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Forrester’s Top Customer Experience Research Findings Of 2018

Forrester eCommerce

Forrester’s customer experience (CX) research team published more than 100 reports in 2018. I just released a report that pulls together our most important CX findings from those publications and highlights them in one place. The report is called “Forrester’s Top Customer Experience Research Findings Of 2018.

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Lead Scoring Is Important For Your Business: Here’s How to Create Scoring Model and Hand-Off Strategy

BigCommerce

68% of businesses don’t practice any type of lead scoring.

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BlueHost Ecommerce Hosting Review 2019

Ecommerce Platforms

As a small business owner who is in the process of setting up an ecommerce storefront, you may have selected a software platform that is not a hosted service but requires you to provide your own web hosting for your store (such as WooCommerce). This being the case, you're probably looking for a suitable and affordable hosting service. In this BlueHost review we'll talk about the pros and cons of one of the most popular hosts.

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Mobile’s impact on holiday shopping and how to compete next season

GetElastic

Previously published on the Insights Blog. The numbers are in and there is no denying that the 2018 holiday season outshined the 2017 holiday in terms of ecommerce revenue. From Black Friday through Christmas week, consumers spent more dollars overall and spent more time on mobile. According to Salesforce’s holiday shopping report , ecommerce brands saw a 12% growth in online revenue during the 2018 holiday season.

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Forrester Report: Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions

Understanding the intricate world of Point-of-Sale (POS) technology is a common challenge for tech buyers. When it comes to defining the functions of Point-of-Sale systems, the communications have yet to be standardized–—until now. Forrester’s new report, Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions, breaks through the noise and provides business leaders with the information and tools they need to evaluate the features of POS systems.

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The Revenge Of The Atoms Can Drive A New Relationship With Customers

Forrester eCommerce

We’ve just released a major new report, “The Revenge Of The Atoms.” The report starts with an anecdote from MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Once, when traveling through US customs, Negroponte declared the value of his laptop at $2 million, counting the value of the bits of information stored on the hard drive.

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How to Use Visual Search to Drive eCommerce Growth

SellBrite

Unlike pre-internet days where everyone watched the same 10 channels on TV and read the same newspapers, people have access to hundreds of channels across multiple platforms. Between social media campaigns with popular influencers and display ads that pop up everywhere on the web, it’s no wonder customers are distracted online. It’s harder than ever to grab their attention and convince them to buy from you.

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All You Need To Know About Recharge Payments

Ecommerce Platforms

Are you looking for a reliable recurring billing app for your Shopify Store ? If so, Recharge Payments could be the solution for you. This review takes an in-depth look at its features, hits and misses to help you determine if it is the right fit for your subscription business model. But first about the subscription market. The subscription industry has grown by more than 100% in the last five years.

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246: Everything You Need To Know About Sales Tax With Martina Chavez Of Avalara

My Wife Quit Her Job

Martina Chavez is an expert in sales tax compliance over at Avalara and I invited her on the show today to clear the air in regards to everything that is happening with Amazon and nexus when it comes to paying sales tax. Ever since the decision of the supreme court case Wayfair vs South Dakota was handed down, states may now charge tax on purchases made from out of state sellers even if the seller doesn’t have a physical presence in the taxing state.

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The Circular Product Journey: Powering a Sustainable, Data-Driven Future With PIM

The linear flow of make > use > dispose is unsustainable. Not only is it at odds with the realities of modern society, but it also fails to meet evolving demands from consumers and regulators. Linear is out. Circular is in. Going circular is not an overnight switch. It requires forward planning and data-driven decision-making. In this ebook, you’ll see how the right technology can help brands and manufacturers secure the product data governance they need to power this circular transition.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech and Marketing Execs

Forrester eCommerce

Are we running out of ideas? As the pace of disruption accelerates, there is an increasingly important focus being put on innovation. Now along comes some work published in the MIT Technology Review by economists from MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, AI is reinventing the way we invent, that highlights how the increasing amount […].

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Why Product Packaging Design is Important to Ecommerce Success

SellBrite

Ecommerce brands like Birchbox and Harry’s have found a way to create exceptional product experiences online that transfer over to the real world. Specifically, both use unique, custom-made product packaging design as a tangible representation of what they each stand for. Both brands have managed to create the expectation of exceptional customer experience and quality—with their packaging.

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Multilingual SEO: Site structure and best practices

Canonicalized

Multinational markets used to be a thing that only big companies can tap. However, as an online business, we have one big advantage that many small and medium businesses did not had in the past, the internet. The internet does not have borders and can be accessed from anywhere in the world. This means that […]. The post Multilingual SEO: Site structure and best practices appeared first on Canonicalized.

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Does it Payless to pay less?

Bryan Eisenberg

Do you want to get paid less for any value you bring to your customer? Obviously not! Do you prefer to pay more for products than they are actually worth? Today Payless announce they are closing all their stores. I want us to step back too late November/December of last year (yes only a couple of months back) and take a look at what we can learn from the PayLess disaster to understand how we need to adapt to stay ahead of our customers.

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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