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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. The competitive landscape is overflowing, making customer acquisition more expensive. Customer retention efforts are six to seven times more cost-effective.

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Building a Customer Retention Strategy

Rangeme

With funnel understanding, you can build a customer retention strategy for e-commerce and retail. Customer retention in e-commerce. E-commerce retention starts the moment a customer makes a purchase (in the diagram above that would be the Decision step). Customer retention in retail.

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What investors want: The four e-commerce metrics that matter most

Inside Retail

This means not just looking at the cost of the product and the number of units you’re selling, but also being clear on your costs around freight and logistics, tariffs, shipping to customers, warehousing and merchant fees. Know your Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS). No metric is an island.

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5 Ways Retailers Can Tackle Wavering Customer Loyalty

Retail TouchPoints

In some cases, they’re even returning to the channels of yester-year to shake things up. In fact, the use of traditional media — such as TV, radio, direct mail and outdoor advertising — as a customer acquisition tool rose from 29% in 2021 to 51% in 2022, second only to email outreach (68%). Stand Out Beyond Free Shipping .

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Welcome to the new customer experience

Inside Retail

While 88 per cent of retail marketers share integrated tech stacks with advertising teams, this alignment alone is not enough. A unified front has to span the entire customer journey. In this regard, retailers are re-evaluating and revolutionising their value propositions for higher customer retention.

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What data tells us about retaining customers during Covid

Inside Retail

Customer retention is important to every business, but loyalty is hard-won, especially when a single bad customer experience can now be easily amplified to a mass audience in a matter of seconds. Sustainability is becoming more and more of a hot topic, especially with too much plastic used in shipping and packaging.

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The 4 pillars of e-commerce profitability (promos aren’t always the answer)

Inside Retail

The most expensive advertising options are not always the most effective. Retailers should also consider the differences between new and existing customers and shape retention strategies accordingly. While retailers struggle with fulfilment, Australia Post research shows that fast and free shipping are key drivers of sales.