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What Is Social Commerce and Why Should You Care About It?

Wiser

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. This is social commerce.

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The four trends defining online retail in 2024

Inside Retail

Customer retention With both consumers and retailers feeling the pinch of increasing costs, customer retention will be a key theme of 2024. According to research from McKinsey, 71 per cent of consumers expect companies to deliver personalised interactions. We see this play out across paid and organic social.

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TikTok Goes ‘All in’ on Social Commerce with Robust Suite of New Shopping Features

Retail TouchPoints

This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from culture and creation into commerce. billion views and counting.

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Why Amazon challenger Temu is so addictive to shoppers

Inside Retail

It’s safe to say the platform has some winning strategies that keep consumers coming back. But beyond that, similar to other e-commerce platforms, using it isn’t entirely risk- or guilt-free. However, Temu’s consumers are beginning to view it as offering affordable products that do not necessarily compromise on quality.

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Don’t Fall Victim to a Cyber Attack: A Shopper’s Guide to Cybersecurity

Retail TouchPoints

And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices. Shopping is one of life’s simple pleasures.

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Grab customer attention across channels with a diversified strategy

Inside Retail

E-commerce businesses are fighting for consumers’ attention at an extraordinary rate. It’s about knowing who your customers are and which channels they use, thoroughly understanding each channel’s requirements and streamlining consumers’ pathway to purchase. Best practices for multichannel e-commerce.

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The next billion shoppers: Where they live and how they’re changing retail

Inside Retail

Living in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, India , Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, and the Philippines, these digital consumers are between the ages of 6 and 26 and represent 36 per cent of the aforementioned countries’ populations. He went on to say that creating consumer awareness about a product or service can be challenging.