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Meta, Amex and TikTok Offer Holiday Help to Small Businesses

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Square plans to announce additional details about the card in 2023. It will include the Holiday 2022 Meta Foresight Interactive Report , offering insights from the 2019, 2020 and 2021 holiday seasons across 33 key markets as well as tips on turning new holiday customers into returning shoppers after the season ends.

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Want to Know the Holiday Season’s Top Trends? Look at Back-to-School for Insight

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A recent Shopkick survey proposes that these behaviors are likely to continue through the holiday season: 22% of consumers plan to shop for the holiday well ahead of schedule and 25% even plan to finish their shopping by Thanksgiving, which historically has been the “official kick off” of the holiday shopping season.

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How Flip is Flipping the Script on Influencer Marketing by Making Actual Customers its Stars

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His platform Flip — described as a “shopping social network” — already has more than 1,000 brands participating, including E.l.f. Now Flip is planning an “aggressive” expansion beyond the beauty category in the coming months that is likely to enlarge both its brand portfolio and its user base. “I Here’s how he’s doing it.

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

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Households with children in elementary and high school are set to spend an average of $789.49 , far exceeding the 2019 record of $696.70. There was a high degree of folks who were cautious about whether their kids were prepared for the next grade, so there may be a tendency to over-compensate and spend a little more than initially planned.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

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The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. We tend to think of agile pricing as something done on the website.

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Holiday 2020: With $189 Billion in Online Sales on the Line, Transparency and Social Outreach are Essential

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While this figure is down $50 from 2019, given 2020’s overall uncertainty, such a slight decline would represent a significant victory. A survey by Accenture found that 75% of consumers say they’ll do at least some of their holiday shopping online, up from 65% in 2019, while 43% plan to shop online exclusively.

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Blockbuster Alibaba Singles Day Signals China’s Economic Recovery, U.S. Opportunities

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That’s nearly 2X the 2019 GMV total of $38.4 The payoff is that because these consumers are diligent about doing their research, they return fewer items, “which is so much more sustainable.”. For Singles Day 2019, there were huge problems with the postal service, couriers and warehousing in general. 1 — generated $74.1