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How to Tailor Return Strategies to New Holiday Shopping Patterns

Retail TouchPoints

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

Retail TouchPoints

Nicolau said this ad type will be an effective tool to drive traffic to a brand’s website, feature seasonal deals, share limited-time offers, showcase top items or promote recent product launches. Dynamic Showcase Ads (DSA).

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How retailers can maximise returns during the upcoming sales season

Inside Retail

Additionally, retailers can expect promotional periods such as event days to be extended over a longer time frame as brands try to smooth out consumer demand. With parts of Australia still in lockdown, consumers are rushing to online stores, apps, and social media to start their Christmas shopping,” says Johnson.

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Why Amazon challenger Temu is so addictive to shoppers

Inside Retail

Given China’s leadership in live-streaming influencer marketing , Temu is now recruiting social media influencers , suggesting it might leverage its Chinese expertise to explore a social-commerce strategy. It also works especially well with sales promotions. An AI-powered promotional strategy. Loyalty program.

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With a Ban Looming, TikTok Pushes Forward with New Commerce Features

Retail TouchPoints

The social media juggernaut has made new updates to its ecommerce solutions to “make it even easier to drive product discovery and sales,” according to a new blog from TikTok. Regardless of the measurement methodology, we are seeing a return for retail advertisers that’s 1.6X to 2X better than other media channels.”

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How Rising AR Adoption is Driving Snap’s Commerce Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

Not to mention that AR try-on has been proven to increase conversion and reduce returns. For example, Zenni Optical saw a 42% higher return on ad spend (ROAS) on promotions that featured Snap’s true-to-size eyewear Lens technology, said Silverstein. billion , Instagram’s 2 billion or TikTok’s 1 billion MAUs.

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AuMake raises $2.2m to power post-transformation strategy

Inside Retail

Australian daigou social commerce business AuMake has raised $2.2 The business had been in a trading halt before making the announcement, and upon returning to normal trade saw shares tumble 14 per cent. million through a placement aimed at powering the business’ post-Covid, and post-transformation, strategy.