Wiser

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C or DTC) brands are everywhere these days: advertised on buses, pulling shoppers in on Instagram, and increasingly setting up storefronts on Main Streets around the world. After all, these brands found success online by really understanding their target market and directly applying this to consumer marketing.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In much of the rest of the world, meanwhile, from Southeast Asia to North America and Europe, consumers are in the thrall of fast-growing platforms, like PDD Holdings’ Temu and Bytedance-owned TikTok Shop , which ship cheap goods from China at a time when cost-of-living is front of mind for many.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With port delays, extended delivery times and increased consumer demand, what can retailers do to salvage the 2021 holiday season? Over the last 20 years of holiday shipping, we’ve seen how the most successful online retailers prepare for a stellar holiday selling season. Social media advertising and how to leverage it.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Occasionally, brands will advertise special releases on items like sneakers or jackets, other times it can be furniture or a once-in-a-lifetime experience like VIP tickets to meet your favorite artist. Consumers are left disappointed, feeling cheated and let down. The merchant-consumer relationship is built on trust.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. Product Sales May Not Matter, but Advertising Sales Matter a Lot.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated and are using a variety of tactics, such as identity theft, chargeback fraud , “silent” fraud, account takeovers and “pharming,” complicating organizations’ ability to detect these incidents. Media articles abound about the skyrocketing marketing dollars required to woo new consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

An Astound Commerce survey conducted in May found that 60% of consumers made online purchases weekly or more often since the onset of the pandemic. Bolstering that finding is research by eMarketer which indicates that direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecommerce sales will expand to $18 billion in 2021. McKinsey confirms that 75% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2022

But ongoing pressure from consumers, employees and even regulators has forced businesses — especially retailers — to reprioritize sustainability along with broader corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. Consumer Demands Accelerate Sustainability Priorities. of purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Indeed, there are millions of resellers on Amazon, Ebay and the like accounting for a significant portion of the total retail sales on these websites. For example, a product may not arrive in an expected time frame, it may arrive damaged due to insufficient packaging, or even the wrong product may have been shipped.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Digital will continue to be the star: Although Black Friday spending was lower than Adobe’s projections, consumers still spent a total of $9 billion online, making it the second-largest online spending day in U.S. Consumers spent $10.8 Shopper Yield data revealed that spend per consumer increased 36.3% billion , a 15.1%

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Wiser

APRIL 3, 2023

It usually goes something like this: you’re scrolling through your feed looking at normal posts when you come across an advertisement for a product. You choose the product you want, put in your shipping and payment information, checkout, and then go straight back to scrolling through your feed. What Is Social Commerce?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Despite rumblings of consumer fatigue, Insider Intelligence research indicates that U.S. That’s a good sign for CPG brands, which are capable of making the most seamless transition to subscriptions: deodorant, toothpaste, diapers and even smoothie packets quickly become part of consumers’ routines. billion in 2022 to a projected $43.13

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The wonders of cookies have been leaning toward the side of consumers so far. Once the datasets have been received, rewrite them into a legible format your tag management system can read, then ship them out to third-party vendors. Contextual Advertising. Third-Party Cookies. Don’t get us wrong. First-Party Data Activation.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The Retail market landscape has seen significant changes in retail trends and shifts in consumer behavior since the coronavirus breakout, but the industry now appears more optimistic about the growth prospects. The same applies to B2B marketing when you rely on ABM (Account-Based Marketing) to target corporate accounts, decision-makers, etc.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2022

Recupero, who was previously chief financial officer of Amazon’s North American consumer business, will be replaced by Chief Accounting Officer Diana Saadeh-Jajeh. Taco Bell pinches Amazon’s head of advertising. Joining as the business’ chief marketing officer, Howie said it was time for a change. I certainly can’t wait.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

Companies can create multi-user accounts to share payment information, order history and purchasing capabilities, and nonprofits can enroll to automatically have eligible taxes removed during checkout. That’s been on the rise, and as it did for consumers, it tipped up significantly for businesses during the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

With each tightening of the delivery window, consumer expectations rose accordingly — not just for Prime members but for a wide swath of ecommerce shoppers. Vendors like Instacart and Uber are expanding their marketing and advertising services, creating an opportunity for partners to drive awareness and conversions through their apps.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

To help retailers navigate the new realities of the customer journey while the fight for fresh customers picks up speed, Inside Retail has joined forces with multi-channel, multi-carrier e-commerce shipping solution provider ShipStation to release a new report on customer behaviour entitled Casting the Net.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Fueled by consumer behavior shifts during the pandemic, we continue to see increased importance placed on digital commerce and retail media to drive overall brand growth. Every element of the shelf, including promotions, advertising, inventory, content and competition, is active in real time.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The service, which reaches millions of shoppers daily, is a vertical (or topical) search engine that promotes product advertisements, enabling businesses to market themselves online. All consumers have to do is search for their desired product or service, and they’ll be able to see a listing that’s relevant to their query.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2020

However, Amazon still has a firm stranglehold on the ecommerce market, accounting for roughly 50% of all ecommerce sales in the U.S. It’s not all doom and gloom though: the pandemic looks set to impose permanent lasting change on retailers far beyond the end of the shutdown, pushing more consumers online than ever before.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2022

In fact, last year saw over 30% growth in brands investing in Amazon advertising, with the $31B marketplace giant now making up 13.3% This year, brands should consider the following: Supply chain Issues: Recent pressures on the global supply chain resulted in shipping and receiving issues across the board, and Amazon is not immune.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 13, 2023

As consumers actively seek out more experiential retail engagement, brands are increasingly looking for ways to integrate digital signage in stores. In the past, digital signage has very much been ‘let’s put a TV here and some LED here’ but those days are over,” adds Natalie Layton, Entwined’s key account manager. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But why would Amazon be better than IKEA at shipping furniture around? If you order four AA batteries Amazon charges you $2.16 , but it costs them at least $4 to ship it to you. By the way, both of them together accounted for 37% of total U.S. These small, low-value items can’t possibly be making money for them.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As we fast approach the ‘spooky season’, here, Charlie Casey, CEO of LoyaltyLion provides the best ways for brands to capitalise on the spike in spending by connecting with consumers so they come back for more. Free shipping. Spooktacular’ incentives. This shows that added value, not just lower cost, can make all the difference.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 15, 2024

The two credit card data sets we work with now, Orion and Vela, are probably the most pertinent to my conversations about the consumer economy and certainly this conversation today about TMU. They sourced respectively from a large account aggregator, like a budgeting app, and part of a POS system in the US.

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Rangeme

JUNE 8, 2021

billion global digital buyers, with e-commerce sales expected to account for 18% of all retail transactions. Let’s take a look at the options: Direct to consumer, via your own website. Direct to consumer, via Shopify. With e-commerce, the barriers to entry are low, while the chances of success are high.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 17, 2022

Amazon is the first channel consumers turn to when conducting a product search online ahead of even Google. We have a direct-to-consumer business that's growing and we have a wholesale business that is growing.” Amazon spent morethan $61 billion on shipping costs in 2020 up from nearly $38 billion in 2019. Think about this.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

As the LUXIE brand has grown to become a global DTC cosmetic tools brand sold in 160 countries, its consumer base has shifted from an average age of under 20 to a 30- to 45-year-old demographic. Riley : When I first came on board as CEO in February 2018, I wanted to get us out in front of a lot of consumers.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 22, 2021

Access to consumer information to better understand consumer behavior. Because marketplaces want to drive customers to their platform, some will advertise your products for you if they match user interests. . Take Into Consideration Shipping Methods As Well. Here are the pages that must be ready at launch: Home page.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Through an Instagram account called ‘Outta The Gloss’, the group detailed their grievances and urged a boycott. After news of the mass layoffs hit the media, eagle-eyed netizens noticed a number of new positions up for hire at the company were being advertised on job-seeking websites, which seemed insensitive.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 8, 2022

Promotional products are useful items for small business owners to increase brand awareness among consumers. Business promotional items are a great marketing tool as they allow your brand to connect with consumers by engaging their senses. It is a form of advertising that allows consumers to interact with a brand on a physical level.

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Hyken

APRIL 23, 2021

Businesses have been using social media for years now to publish content, engage with their audiences, advertise their products, and stand up for social causes. . consumers have used social media to complain about a brand. consumers say brand transparency is more important now than ever before. .

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Small Biz Trends

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Advanced selling tools: Many platforms offer a variety of powerful tools for customer service, fulfillment, and logistics to make shipping easier for active buyers and sellers. You can post items without listing fees and advertise your products to local and international customers. You can create a FREE account to get started today.

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Rangeme

AUGUST 31, 2022

More and more food and beverage consumer packaged goods (CPG) discovery and commerce is happening online. Consumers discover products online. At a retailer point of sale, brands will grow and gain maximum consumer awareness. Therein lies a great responsibility on brands to have some consumer recognition once they hit the shelf.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Listen in to hear from Tom Vieira, Wiser’s Director of Product, In-Store, and Casey Berns, Associate Director Shopper Insights and Category Advisory Services at The Clorox Company, as they cover six store conditions consumer brands need to monitor to win at the register. We have a recording of the webinar below.

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Store Growers

JUNE 3, 2022

Advertisers use Google Merchant Center to connect their product feed to Google Ads. Advertisers can connect product reviews, and add their promotions with their Shopping Ads, among other things. This gives you an overview of all the programs that are available in your account. Google Shopping Ads. Google Dynamic Remarketing.

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