
Journey analytics: The GPS for understanding your customers
That’s why it’s so important to understand when, where and how customers connect with your business. However, the always-on consumer is...

StepsAway launches in-store, WiFi-based marketing for retailers
Mobile marketing platform StepsAway builds mobile shopping portals for malls on top of guest WiFi access. Now the company is offering an...

Two social media heavyweights show us inside Amazon’s Influencer Program
Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out a beta program aimed at social media influencers with high follower numbers and frequent social...

Google’s “buy button” is moving forward; now taking beta requests
Kashin / Shutterstock.com Google is opening the beta for its “buy button,” dubbed Purchases on Google. Sales & Orders reported finding...

Salesforce makes Einstein a bit smarter in its Commerce Cloud
This week, Salesforce is adding some smarts to the Einstein layer in its Commerce Cloud. Einstein provides a consistent artificial...

E-commerce sales reach $105.7B in Q1 2017, to make up 8.5% of all retail sales
The US Census Bureau released its latest e-commerce report, showing retail e-commerce sales reached an estimated $105.7 billion in Q1...

A smarter approach to ‘back to school’ marketing
Likewise, if marketers define their Back to College (BTC) consumer target as the traditional student, they ignore the range of students...

Amazon undercuts Walmart’s free shipping minimum — dropping order amount to $25
Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com Amazon and Walmart’s battle over who has the lowest minimum order amount for free shipping hit another...

The other side of brick-and-mortar retail: Survival of the fittest
Clearly, there are too many malls and too many stores, and the internet is impacting the retail landscape significantly. As a result, a...

Top mistakes new online retailers make
Although you may have the best intentions, there’s no denying the fact that you’ll make mistakes from time to time. However, you should...

With 80M members, Amazon Prime will generate $104B in topline revenue
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) estimated on Monday that Amazon now has roughly 80 million US Prime members. That’s up...

Amazon launches self-serve marketplace for subscription-based sellers
Many companies that offer a subscription-based product or service have an easier way to sell their wares to Amazon.com customers with...

Survey: Almost one-third of Amazon sellers plan to expand to Walmart.com this year
In a survey polling more than 1,600 Amazon merchants, nearly 50 percent of the respondents said they sell almost exclusively on Amazon,...

Cost-per-visit ad models, offline verification set to shake up online advertising
Retail makes up the largest category of internet ad spending, representing about 21 percent of total revenues, according to the most...

3 steps for retailers to perfect one-to-one customer segmentation
When personalization is effective, it boosts conversion rates, increases average order values, creates greater customer engagement and...

Watch this retail space: 2017 retail prediction
Google has dominated consumer search for nearly 20 years. While this dominance continues today, there is one area of search where it is...

Newest perk for Amazon Prime members? NFL football livestreams
The newest perk for Amazon Prime members includes Tom Brady, Cam Newton, J.J. Watt and other NFL superstars. That’s because Amazon is...

Amazon beta testing Influencer Program aimed exclusively at social media bigwigs
Amazon is beta-testing an invite-only Influencer Program that will give social media influencers an Amazon.com vanity URL to make...

Start thinking now about how to tug at the heartstrings of your holiday shoppers
holiday sales. While it may seem early to start thinking about the 2017 holiday shopping season, it’s never too soon to get your...
























