
Affiliate marketing strategies for success during the holidays
Black Friday and Cyber Monday on the horizon, here are some winning strategies from our advertiser and publisher teams to help you...

Online holiday sales projected to reach $129B this year, up 12% over 2016 [Forrester]
With eight weeks to go before Black Friday, online retailers are well into mapping their strategy for pulling as much of 2017’s holiday...

Wiser Solutions combines retail analytics with e-commerce solutions, aiming to be a one-stop shop
Earlier this month, Quad Analytix and Mobee — two retail-focused technology solutions — merged to form what is now Wiser Solutions, Inc.,...

Retailers, get ready: It’s the most mobile time of year
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales cycle, followed immediately by December’s holiday shopping frenzy. This holiday season is set to be...

Video marketing prep for great holiday results
What would your customers find useful for the holidays? What will resonate with your target customer for the holidays? Will they want to...

5 ways to write better email subject lines this holiday season
During the last holiday season, my employer tracked almost 8 billion emails and found that brands sent 14.5 percent (registration...

Want to win more sales this holiday season? Don’t bet the farm on digital
You’ve experienced it: You shop for a pair of shoes or a new chair on some retailer’s site. For the next six to eight weeks, you’re...

3 behavioral stats for retailers to supercharge your holiday strategy
best seasonal strategy. You also had better keep an eye on what your competitors are doing differently. At the company I work for,...

Why the C-suite loves loyalty
and loyalty in their earnings calls. While this used to be unheard of, it’s now commonplace, and it shows a shift in how the C-suite...

When Amazon comes for your company, don’t lose focus on what matters: Your customer
Whole Foods acquisition, Amazon slashed prices on dozens of staple goods, sending competitive grocery stock prices into a freefall. Many...

How retailers can put Amazon to work for them
Attention retailers: Amazon doesn’t have to be Public Enemy Number One. Yes, Amazon has a well-deserved reputation for disrupting (and...

41% report doing majority of their holiday shopping online last year [Survey]
According to a recent Walker Sands poll, 41 percent of more than 1,600 consumers surveyed report buying all, or at least a majority of...

Facebook updates its shoppable Collection ads to mirror print catalogs
Facebook is updating the shoppable Collection ad format introduced in March to combine the look of a print catalog with the interactivity...

Don’t follow the leader: Avoid these 5 common e-commerce SEO mistakes
Competitive research is an important part of any SEO program — after all, it’s a zero-sum game that we’re playing. However, there is...

12-part recipe for product descriptions that sell
Unfortunately, many digital strategists don’t take the time to do that. Instead, they just copy and paste some plain-vanilla...

A brief history of customer loyalty
$1 trillion being spent by consumers this holiday season. What many of them don’t realize is that much of their success will be...

How Dr. Martens’ VP of digital & e-commerce is using martech to create ‘super-audie
“I believe our learnings support industry findings — that delivering the right, tailored message, to the right group of people, at the...

Add chatbots to your arsenal today: Reap the benefits during the holiday retail season
Gartner estimates that by 2020, 85 percent of customer interactions with a company will be carried out without any human interaction. In...

More than 1/3 of shoppers plan to start holiday shopping before Black Friday [report]
After surveying 1,500 shoppers, the retail-focused digital marketing agency CPC Strategy forecasts this year’s holiday season will see...
























