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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. But times have changed dramatically in the 13 intervening years: Temu , which debuted just last September, is now the top shopping app in the U.S., Reducing shopping and shipping friction.

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Personalization in the Age of GDPR

Retail TouchPoints

They connect that data with a user’s online behavioral history to get a full picture of what that person typically shops for and how. McKinsey reported that “personalization can reduce acquisition costs by as much as 50%, lift revenues by 5%-15%, and increase the efficiency of marketing spend by 10%-30%.”.

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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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Opinion: Why foresight is the future of marketing strategy

Inside Retail

The fact that this ad is still relevant in 2022 shows the strength of this longer-term vision, first conceived in 2018. TRA is currently working on a foresight project for a large retailer in Australia to help them understand the attitudes of a particular demographic and how they affect shopping behaviour.

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Behind Cotton On Group’s big investment in customer data

Inside Retail

Anything we can do to keep customers shopping with us for longer and get them shopping across more brands and more channels is enormously valuable for us, as it is for any business in a world where the cost of acquiring new customers keeps going up and up and up.”. That’s actually quite laborious for us to do today,” he said.

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Why DoorDash & Other Delivery Apps Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

In the third quarter of 2022 DoorDash paid $446 million in marketing expenses or 35% of revenues. A healthier rate of marketing spend would be around 10% of sales. In 2019 DoorDash spent 101% of its revenues on marketing in the first quarter a few months before it passed Grubhub in market share. "We

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Why Direct to Consumer Brands Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

With companies like Shopify it has never been easier to set up shop online. That is significantly higher than what companies typically spend on sales and marketing. Take department store Kohl’s, last year its marketing costs were only 4.9% million on “refunds, returns, and discounts” in 2018. of revenue.