
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...

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...

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...

Retailers: The high cost of holiday packages going undelivered
When the treats’ sender in St. Louis made a small error in the ZIP code of the package, intended for her son in Santa Monica, it threw...

2017’s holiday e-commerce sales projected to grow 10% over last year’s holiday season
Based on nine years of aggregate data from mid-sized and large online retailers, NetElixir forecasts this year’s holiday e-commerce sales...

Why your brand should obsess over its customers, not its competitors
But this one isn’t about its latest acquisition, innovation or market share growth. It’s a story about what gave Amazon headliner status...

The holidays hinge on your marketing ecosystem
It’s almost like that first day of fall, when the weather changes, the air gets a little crisper, the wind a little chillier, and the...

Data is the new currency, but are advertisers spending wisely?
Amazon’s foothold in retail, technology and media. Based on the company’s Q2 earnings call, Amazon also expressed significant growth...

Nailing down ads for the holiday season
Believe it or not, it’s that time again for us to start gearing up for the holidays. Not every brand sufficiently prepares their paid...

Retailers: Here are the building blocks for winning the digital shelf
Every company that sells online goes through several stages of thought to answer this question. On the data side, perhaps they initially...

Amazon orders with 3rd-party sellers will soon be authorized for automatic returns
Amazon has announced a new automatic return policy rolling out October 2 that makes it mandatory for third-party sellers to accept...

Online retail sees continued growth with digital commerce up 14% YoY [Report]
Tracking the online behavior of 500 million global shoppers, Salesforce Commerce Cloud’s Q2 2017 shopping index spotlights the various...

60% of SMBs report half or more of online sales come from Amazon, Jet & eBay [Survey]
According to a recent survey conducted by NetElixir, a majority of SMBs are seeing strong returns on Amazon, Jet and eBay. Surveying 500...

4 deceptive Google Analytics metrics that fool retail marketers
For retailers, popular KPIs include Conversion Rate, Average Order Value and Customer Lifetime Value. KPIs only make up a tiny percentage...

How to use the power of social media to better market your online store
When you own, run, or look after the marketing for an online store, there are plenty of strategies you can implement to generate...
























