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How Ecommerce Retailers Can Prepare Now for Back-to-School 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. Digital wallets address both issues by storing card data for shoppers and by shielding it from retailers at checkout. Streamline Your Checkout Process for Busy Parents and Students.

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For Better Customer Experience, Make Your Website Easier to Search

Retail TouchPoints

A larger search usability study that looked at 19 major ecommerce sites found that 70% of those sites had search tools that didn’t allow searches by synonyms for product terms used on the site, so visitors had to use the same wording as the site to generate usable results.

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Why NPS Falls Short in Ecommerce, and the Case for Earned Growth Ratio as a Better Metric

Retail TouchPoints

At the same time, it is common knowledge that keeping an existing customer is cheaper than getting a new one, which makes it a worthwhile investment to understand and implement strategies (and proper incentives for internal teams!) One negative interaction can easily drive them away. Most companies can calculate this relatively quickly. (2)

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Strategies for Brands to Combat #AdBlindness

Retail TouchPoints

The digital advertising industry has arrived at its saturation point. Today’s market is faced with this spreading phenomenon — #adblindness. With lower price barriers to enter the market, digital advertisers proliferate. With lower price barriers to enter the market, digital advertisers proliferate.

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Short-Form Video and UGC are Reshaping the Realm of Influencer Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

If you spend any time at all on social media it’s hard to escape influencers, and there’s a good reason for that — they are incredibly compelling, both to consumers and advertisers. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are Where it’s At. On the advertiser side, 48% of influencer marketing budgets were spent on Instagram in 2021.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. Here’s a look at some of those initiatives and where Wish is focusing next: 1.

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In-store customer experience – a top retail focus for 2021

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The power of tech – Technology and automation enhance customer experience – existing initiatives such as contactless payments, self-checkout, BOPIS and curbside pickup will all continue to gain momentum, and will rely ever more heavily on barcode and OCR-enabled apps for maximum efficiency.