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How Social Commerce, Same-Day Delivery and Live Chat are Driving Sephora’s Omnichannel Evolution

Retail TouchPoints

For those who are a bit fuzzy on social media history, that equates to 16 years. In that time, Bojanowski has seen her fair share of shifts and transformations in the business, but even still 2020 stood out, as it did for many retail executives. As the company’s SVP and GM of Ecommerce, Bojanowski was at the center of the storm.

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How to Tailor Return Strategies to New Holiday Shopping Patterns

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It might seem counterintuitive for retailers to focus on returns when they are so focused on trying to convince customers to buy products in the first place (and rightly so). However, return policies actually have a major influence on whether shoppers go through with a transaction — particularly for increasingly popular online purchases.

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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. Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves.

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How businesses are leveraging GenAI to curate bespoke customer experiences

Inside Retail

“We don’t hold stock, handle payments or shipping. The app plays a key role in increasing overall customer satisfaction within the online fashion retail space, which results in purchases that are significantly less likely to be returned. We’re a technology platform,” Mys Tyler CEO and founder Sarah Neill told Inside Retail.

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The Most Important Retail Metrics to Leverage in 2021

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You’ll want to look at organic sessions, paid sessions, how long people have stayed on your page and the number of new visitors vs. returning visitors. You’ll also want to look at referral traffic to see if you’re getting page views from being featured in any news outlets, blogs or social media posts. Website traffic: More than 4.5

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

Half shipped, half in store? Ship to store? This could include any one or combination of stores, catalogs, social media, the phone, online. Allbirds (via Shopify), to highlight one retailer, offers pick up in store and fulfills orders via ship from store. . Social commerce. They are in control. CONCLUSION.

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2021: The Year of Social Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

In pure COVID-19 nature, brands across the retail industry underwent a rapid transition to the digital-first space during 2020; and a lot of first-time online shoppers were activated. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix.