7 ways to reduce cart abandonment with a more seamless checkout
Ecommerce

7 ways to reduce cart abandonment with a more seamless checkout

8y Mike O'Brien

7 ways to reduce cart abandonment with a more seam...

Cart abandonment is rampant, with fewer than a quarter of ecommerce transactions actually being completed. While expensive shipping is the number one ...

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The three reasons CPG brands can't ignore ecommerce
CPG

The three reasons CPG brands can't ignore ecommerce

8y Al Roberts

The three reasons CPG brands can't ignore ecommerc...

The lucrative CPG space has historically been dominated by some of the world's most powerful brands, like Unilver and Procter & Gamble. But the ma...

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Five reasons SMBs should be using email automation
Email

Five reasons SMBs should be using email automation

8y Al Roberts

Five reasons SMBs should be using email automation

Marketing automation is such a crucial element of most marketers' overall strategies that there's a strong argument to be made that small and medium-s...

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Website conversions and the 'North Star' metric: Q&A with Subway’s Chad Sanderson
Ecommerce

Website conversions and the 'North Star' metric: Q&A with Subway’s Chad...

8y Mike O'Brien

Website conversions and the 'North Star' metric: Q...

How does the world’s largest restaurant chain make enough sense of its data to drive online conversations? According to Chad Sanderson, Subway's Exper...

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Technology empowers companies to remain agile against Amazon, whether they're David or Goliath
Leadership

Technology empowers companies to remain agile against Amazon, whether they'...

8y Mike O'Brien

Technology empowers companies to remain agile agai...

Amazon’s dominance has certainly hurt many retailers, but new technologies allow marketers to be agile and remain competitive, no matter their company...

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[Report] How artificial intelligence can enhance retail marketing
AI & Automation

[Report] How artificial intelligence can enhance retail marketing

8y Al Roberts

[Report] How artificial intelligence can enhance r...

Retailers are banking on artificial intelligence, with a quarter spending as much as $100 million on the technology this year. Our latest report outli...

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Six ways online retailers can minimize merchandise returns
Ecommerce

Six ways online retailers can minimize merchandise returns

8y Al Roberts

Six ways online retailers can minimize merchandise...

Returns are always challenging to retailers, but especially during the holidays, when everything is magnified. Fortunately for ecommerce brands, there...

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What’s your Amazon strategy?: Breaking silos and brand new budgets
Search

What’s your Amazon strategy?: Breaking silos and brand new budgets

8y Mike O'Brien

What’s your Amazon strategy?: Breaking silos and b...

Marketers largely see the need for an Amazon strategy, though many are still working out the kinks, such as breaking down the silos between the differ...

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Can subscription box offerings help CPG brands restore loyalty?
Digital Transformation

Can subscription box offerings help CPG brands restore loyalty?

8y Al Roberts

Can subscription box offerings help CPG brands res...

CPG brands face a loyalty crisis unlike any they’ve faced before. But the source of many of their loyalty challenges – the rise of ecommerce and...

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Digital transformation in luxury retail
Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in luxury retail

8y Chris Camps

Digital transformation in luxury retail

The luxury goods industry faces a unique challenge when it comes to digital disruption. For businesses in other sectors, online channels offer a way t...

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What’s your Amazon strategy?: Tapping into The Holy Grail of transactional data
Ecommerce

What’s your Amazon strategy?: Tapping into The Holy Grail of transactional ...

8y Mike O'Brien

What’s your Amazon strategy?: Tapping into The Hol...

Over the last 23 years, Amazon has evolved from an online bookseller to an “everything store” that’s becoming a bigger player in the digital marketing...

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What's your Amazon strategy? The evolution of ecommerce
Data insights

What's your Amazon strategy? The evolution of ecommerce

8y Mike O'Brien

What's your Amazon strategy? The evolution of ecom...

Amazon's star is in the ascendancy, thanks to the company's ability to evolve along with customers' behaviors and expectations. As ecommerce grows in ...

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What does visual search mean for ecommerce in 2017?
Disruptive MarTech

What does visual search mean for ecommerce in 2017?

9y Chris Camps

What does visual search mean for ecommerce in 2017...

Since the early 2010s, visual search has been offering users a novel alternative to keyword-based search results. But what commercial opportunities do...

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Amazon is changing the future of shopping by reshaping the customer experience
Disruptive MarTech

Amazon is changing the future of shopping by reshaping the customer experie...

9y Al Roberts

Amazon is changing the future of shopping by resha...

When talking about the huge disruption that is taking place in retail markets today, Amazon is often singled out as the culprit. But Amazon's success ...

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The battle for retail (or why Amazon acquired Whole Foods)
Disruptive MarTech

The battle for retail (or why Amazon acquired Whole Foods)

9y Chris Camps

The battle for retail (or why Amazon acquired Whol...

Retail is at war. On one side sit historic brick-and-mortar stores, built from the ground up to become titans of industry. On the other, ecommerce ins...

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Rethinking retail: Why big brands need to act small
Ecommerce

Rethinking retail: Why big brands need to act small

9y Evan Magliocca

Rethinking retail: Why big brands need to act smal...

In previous generations, big-box retailers could out-muscle competition, offering lower prices and more variety. But ecommerce has flipped the script ...

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How 4 retailers are bringing the online experience alive in-store
Disruptive MarTech

How 4 retailers are bringing the online experience alive in-store

9y Chris Camps

How 4 retailers are bringing the online experience...

At eTail Europe 2017, four retail brands discussed the future of the in-store customer journey, and strategies for bringing the online experience aliv...

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How the top 100 US e-retailers are using welcome emails (and what marketers can learn)
Ecommerce

How the top 100 US e-retailers are using welcome emails (and what marketers...

9y Chris Camps

How the top 100 US e-retailers are using welcome e...

Welcome campaigns are an effective strategy to engage new subscribers and boost brand loyalty, but most businesses aren't realizing their full potenti...

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May | Moving at the speed of flight: Kevin Krone, former CMO of Southwest Airlines
Digital Leaders

May | Moving at the speed of flight: Kevin Krone, former CMO of Southwest A...

9y Rebecca Sentance

May | Moving at the speed of flight: Kevin Krone, ...

Kevin Krone, ClickZ’s Featured Digital Leader for May, talks about his 25-year rise through the ranks of Southwest Airlines: from intern to the compan...

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The Retail Reckoning: How retailers can survive the digital revolution
Disruptive MarTech

The Retail Reckoning: How retailers can survive the digital revolution

9y Evan Magliocca

The Retail Reckoning: How retailers can survive th...

The retail bubble is finally bursting. For too long, retailers have remained bloated in store footprints and overconfident in mindset. Finally, retail...

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Why data aggregation services will transform ecommerce
Data insights

Why data aggregation services will transform ecommerce

9y Chris Camps

Why data aggregation services will transform ecomm...

The growing accessibility of third-party data is changing the way retailers do business. But what does it mean for the future of ecommerce? Read More...

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The top ecommerce marketing trends of 2017 and how to keep up with them
Ecommerce

The top ecommerce marketing trends of 2017 and how to keep up with them

9y Tereza Litsa

The top ecommerce marketing trends of 2017 and how...

Ecommerce marketing is all about coming up with new ideas to engage with customers. The latest trends are all about focusing on the customers and thei...

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Will Instagram crack the local commerce code?
Local

Will Instagram crack the local commerce code?

9y Al Roberts

Will Instagram crack the local commerce code?

When Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, skeptics questioned whether the world's largest social network would ever recoup its investm...

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How deep learning is changing the game for both advertisers and consumers
Data insights

How deep learning is changing the game for both advertisers and consumers

9y Daniel Surmacz

How deep learning is changing the game for both ad...

Deep learning tools are the next major area of AI-based research, and it will spark a wave of future innovation in every industry – bringing a new era...

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Mobile conversion remains the crux of mobile adoption in retail
Ecommerce

Mobile conversion remains the crux of mobile adoption in retail

9y Evan Magliocca

Mobile conversion remains the crux of mobile adopt...

Despite the meteoric rise of ecommerce, mobile conversion rates are still a critical issue for retailers. Read More...

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Key insights from the ‘Mobile App vs Mobile Web’ webinar
Disruptive MarTech

Key insights from the ‘Mobile App vs Mobile Web’ webinar

9y Chris Camps

Key insights from the ‘Mobile App vs Mobile Web’ w...

Last week, a panel of ecommerce and mobile experts joined together for a webinar to discuss key topics surrounding the mobile app vs mobile web debate...

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Optimizing images for mobile: right format, right size, right place, right device
Ecommerce

Optimizing images for mobile: right format, right size, right place, right ...

9y Andy Favell

Optimizing images for mobile: right format, right ...

As we have learned from the previous columns in this series, images are the major contributor to bloated, slow-loading mobile pages. Read More...

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