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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

To design a quick and easy experience, Fisch recommended that retailers include “new back-to-school products such as masks, gloves, plastic cutlery and paper goods together with more traditional back-to-school products, decreasing the amount of time shoppers need to spend in-store.”.

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Graf Lantz Seeks Growth Without Sacrificing Product Quality or Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

To boost wholesale and DTC acquisition, the brand also has been ramping up paid marketing investments — specifically social media and search. However, the brand has especially profitable relationships with the specialty retailers that focus on curating unique products from emerging and lesser-known brands.

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These 40 Entrepreneurs Swear by These Marketing & Growth Strategies

BigCommerce

We started by attending over 20 retail shows a year to get in front of people. We continue to attend shows, expand our social media following, and update our website for improved customer experience. However, professionally, email marketing and social media have by far been the most successful. Be SEO focused.

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A baker’s dozen of provocative retail predictions for 2018

Steve Dennis

At the other end of the spectrum, many luxury brands and well focused specialty retailers continued to thrive. Omnichannel is dead. Digital-first, harmonized retail rules. Too many retailers chased being everywhere and ended up being nowhere. This will end badly.

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Retailers, Reach For The Minimum By 2020

RTP blog

By Ed King, HighStreet Collective Since we started our consultancy, HighStreet, in mid-2017, it’s become painfully clear that legacy retailers have had a difficult time with their “omnichannel” and in-store innovation efforts. The retail bar has been re-set, and there are new table stakes. Share best practices store to store.

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Can Modern CRM be the Lifeline Retail is Looking for?

Retail TouchPoints

Rather than focusing on an omnichannel or multichannel approach, ‘modern CRM’ favors a channel-less approach, which may involve merging the online experience with the offline one, creating ultra-personalized shopping experiences, or bringing gamification and geolocation into the fold. You avoid wasted spend and develop tailored content.

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What is Point-of-Purchase Marketing?

Wiser

Ad campaigns, email marketing, social media, content marketing, and influencer marketing are great for getting people to visit a store or a website. Let’s look at a few examples of how brands and retailers are presenting POP displays. POP marketing is far down the purchasing decision funnel. Store Within a Store. Mobile Apps.