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Alibaba’s Business Model – How the eCommerce Giant Makes Money

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It launched in 2003 and provided an opportunity for China’s entrepreneurial class to reach China’s increasingly affluent consumer market. Merchants are charged a fee to list on Tmall as well as a sales commission and advertising fees. Alibaba’s cloud computing business is the market leader in China. Source: Statista.

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6 Successful Marketing Campaigns in Retail

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Tim Hortons and Justin Bieber marketing campaign. Whether its ads in your social media feed, hauls on YouTube or a dancing TikTok marketing messages just won’t seem to go away and for good reason. If you are building a brand or trying to turn one around then consider how some of the best in the business use marketing to drive sales.

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

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For many years analysts were saying stores are dead but if Walmart didn’t start testing grocery pickup back in 2013 its grocery pickup services would not have performed so well when put to the test during the pandemic. Walmart had this foresight and a decade ago in 2013 it started testing a grocery pickup service. I do it naturally.

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5 Ways to Make Your Retail Store Grow Faster

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Nearly a decade ago when Best Buy was trying to turn its business around one of the things it did that was quite effective was to allow Apple, starting in 2013, to set up store in store selling areas within Best Buy locations becoming one of the first retailers Apple partnered with. After that Samsung, Sony and Microsoft followed.

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The Top 15 Ways to Find New Customers in Retail

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Explore unconventional and creative marketing. While these are not the kinds of marketing moves that everyone is talking about these vehicles often have more captive audiences than a fast-moving social media feed. Free samples are really just another form of marketing retailers use to generate more sales.

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10 Ways to Succeed in Retail

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You have had success in your home market and now it’s time to expand into a new market, the United States. The first question many brands facing this opportunity will ask is how are we going to market our product in the United States? Recently two organizations started sending me marketing emails. Become a savvy marketer.

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The Growth Strategy Behind Goop, a Brand Owned by Gwyneth Paltrow

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Tony Florence, a venture capitalist and goop’s first institutional investor has said : “Gwyneth was super sophisticated in how she thought about the market opportunity.” One of the reasons goop is so popular is because it sets the trend instead of following it. Paradoxically, going into a crowded market can feel easier.