Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2024

The L’Occitane Group has streamlined its leadership structure, combining the responsibilities of CEO and Group Managing Director and naming current Group Managing Director Laurent Marteau as its new Group CEO. Marteau joined L’Occitane as Group Managing Director in 2022.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 11, 2020

Measuring marketing performance is not just a tongue twister; it’s hard work. It’s even harder to align marketing performance metrics with customer-focused business objectives, but marketers can no longer pat themselves on the back for […].

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 8, 2022

Today’s marketers face an existential crisis of looming irrelevance. To combat this, companies must follow the model for modern marketing: customer understanding informs brand strategy, which leads to brand experience.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 2, 2022

What Is A Marketing Resource Management (MRM) Solution? A tool or suite of tools that enables marketers to manage planning and budgeting, project and program management, collaboration and calendaring, content production, asset management, and performance analytics. Why Do Marketers Need MRM?

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marketing analytics is the practice of measuring, managing, and analyzing data from marketing initiatives — including channels, programs, campaigns, and tactics — to improve marketing effectiveness and identify opportunities to optimize short- and long-term objectives.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Though many of the economic indicators were excellent, including the low unemployment numbers and strong GDP growth, there was a lot of uncertainty in the market throughout the year. She previously served as a data analyst and media buyer for a broad range of digital marketing clients. billion, up 7.5% from last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In fact, data from Legion Technologies finds that 37% of managers say they’re hiring more minors due to the shortage. However, ensuring compliance is especially tricky for retailers operating in multiple markets, as labor stipulations will vary from location to location and any changes must be made in time with laws taking effect.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In a market so large and competitive, businesses compete to stand out to deliver bigger and better. Let us look at a few ways to improve customer experience in the retail industry through knowledge management. What is Knowledge Management and Why is it Important? trillion in 2023. Knowledge acquisition. Knowledge application.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Product managers must integrate design thinking into their product commercialization and lifecycle process to foster a customer-focused approach for offerings. Otherwise they risk being too internally focused and out of touch with the market segments they serve.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2024

store managers’ base pay from an average of $117,000 per year to $128,000 and has redesigned its bonus program to include a store’s profits, not just its sales. Bonuses could now amount to 200% of a manager’s base salary. A strong labor market has many retailers raising wages and improving benefits for workers at multiple levels.

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Groove

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2024, email marketing is far from dead. Personalization has always been one of the most important concerns with Klaviyo email marketing, and it's going to continue getting more granular. With the advent of advanced machine learning and AI, email marketers will be expected to tailor emails for individual subscribers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

Let’s dive into some small ideas that can help tackle big goals: 1) Think Big: Increase customer engagement with more interactive marketing. 4) Think Big: Improve supply chain and inventory management. Evolving a retailer’s marketing strategy and approach can take time. Act small: Use a QR code! The QR code is back.

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 17, 2022

The scope of the CMO role continues to grow, customers are more demanding than ever, and marketing operates under constant disruption driven by factors beyond your control. I know that CMOs are busy — I mean, really busy. Practically speaking, there are only so many hours in a day, so it stands to reason that […].

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A lot has changed since the last Forrester Wave™ evaluation on vulnerability risk management (VRM) in 2019. Since then, the VRM market has experienced several mergers, an unprecedented increase in volume of common vulnerabilities and exposure, and vulnerabilities such as Log4j that will forever live in infamy (and responder nightmares).

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 7, 2019

Marketers will run a portfolio of automation technologies; take an organized and intentional approach to this complex but crucial effort.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 12, 2021

The CCCM market is growing as independent players deliver innovation that outshines many of their more established competitors.

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 19, 2023

Every time I talk to people about skills management, we arrive at two conclusions: 1) skills management has a ton of potential benefits; and 2) it’s incredibly confusing. The market is full of articles unpacking number one, so I want to share what I’ve learned about number two.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Misfits Market has introduced Fulfilled by Misfits (FBM) , offering its logistics platform for perishable brands to store, pick, pack, fulfill and deliver their products nationwide. The solution leverages Misfit Market’s existing infrastructure and in-house technology to provide a simple, customizable solution for perishable businesses.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 10, 2020

How do you successfully manage your online reputation, too? But if you’re already managing a lot, your best bet is outsourcing it to an ORM, or an online reputation manager. To help you put your best image out there, I’ve reviewed and done extensive research on online reputation managers, so you don’t have to.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 30, 2021

Yesterday evening, Qualtrics announced that it’s acquiring Clarabridge in an all-stock deal worth $1.125 billion. This is a great move for Qualtrics.

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Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2017, Forrester expanded upon the IT service management market (ITSM) to establish enterprise service management (ESM) as a chosen area of coverage, continuing this research with a 2019 Forrester Wave™ evaluation. Now, we are pleased to announce The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2022

Rakuten Advertising has entered into a partnership with influencer marketing platform Mavrck that will expand Rakuten’s influencer offerings and provide program oversight, optimization and measurement for affiliate advertisers.

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Wiser

APRIL 25, 2024

In retail operations, the interaction between category management and price optimization teams is key to staying competitive. However, the inherent differences in approach and objectives between category managers and pricing analysts can lead to internal challenges, underscoring the importance of finding a harmonious balance.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 9, 2021

In Forrester’s recently published report, “The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Events Management Solutions, Q1 2021,” we evaluated the 14 most significant ones — 6Connex, Bizzabo, CadmiumCD, Certain, Circa, Cvent, Hubb, Intrado, Kaltura, meetyoo, ON24, RainFocus, Splash, and SpotMe — against 28 criteria.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 17, 2020

To understand the B2C marketing predictions for the year, we spoke with Forrester experts Tina Moffett and Jim Nail. To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 12, 2022

The bot management market has matured considerably over the past few years. With the release of The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022, we see a market that […].

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Groove

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the realm of digital marketing, email continues to be a potent and influential channel for engaging with audiences, fostering customer relationships, and driving business growth. However, the landscape of email marketing is constantly evolving, presenting marketers with new challenges and opportunities. and the A.I.-Powered

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I led Forrester’s recent update of the Forrester Wave evaluation of the HCM market after three years in which the market rapidly evolved.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Who should own go-to-market strategy?” “Who These questions aren’t surprising, given that one of the most common topics we help our clients with through our Product Management and Portfolio Marketing research services is establishing or improving the product commercialization and lifecycle process. Who creates user personas?”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

8fig , a funding and management platform for ecommerce businesses, has closed a $140 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $196.5 8fig provides ecommerce businesses (primarily marketplace sellers) with bespoke funding plans, optimized according to their supply chain and cash flow needs, to accelerate growth.

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