
The shifting social landscape of Black Friday & Cyber Monday
holiday season is approaching, and along with it comes the busiest time of the year for retailers around the globe. Black Friday — the...

Black Friday and beyond: Mobile strategies that keep on giving
With Black Friday and the holiday shopping season around the corner, retailers are hoping for a fourth quarter that’s good to them,...

Last-minute SEO for the holidays
So, you’ve procrastinated until mid-November, and now you’re struggling to figure out how it’s possible to boost your organic search...

7 omnichannel marketing tips to attract holiday shoppers
holiday retail season. Holiday spending is expected to reach record levels since the Great Recession — increasing 10 percent since the...

‘Tis the season: 6 ways to prepare for holiday shoppers
For marketers, Christmas isn’t just one day a year — months of planning and weeks of meticulous optimization precede our celebration of...

Pinterest & Snapchat: 12 tips to dial in your visual ads
If you’re not using all the tools in Facebook’s ROI kit in the next few weeks through the busy holiday shopping season, you don’t have...

3 techniques to boost holiday CLV with advanced segmentation
over $655 billion during the holidays. For the retail industry, the holiday season is a sure-fire source of new customers. New customers...

At Amazon.com, Black Friday began today
Your calendar says it’s Tuesday, November 1. Never mind that. As far as Amazon.com is concerned, Black Friday starts today. Yep, the...

Strategies to maximize retail marketing efforts BEFORE holiday sales events
Navigating change in anything is never easy. Change requires of us new ways of thinking and doing that we may not have prepared for or...

Look to Thanksgiving dinner for holiday shopping trends
In thinking about the upcoming holiday season, I thought it would be interesting to create customer profiles for each family member and...

Adobe predicts 2016 online holiday sales to reach $91.6B, an 11% YoY increase
After last year’s record-breaking holiday shopping season, Adobe is forecasting $91.6 billion in online holiday sales — up 11 percent...

Making sense of the latest trends in digital retail
Last month, a group of my colleagues attended Shop.org, one of the biggest gatherings of digital retail professionals on the planet. As...

Survey: Almost 40% of US consumers will make a mobile purchase during holidays
A recent study from ad tech company Fluent shows that about 40 percent of US consumers plan to make at least one purchase this holiday...

Google shares data on how mobile is set to impact shopping this holiday
Along with a set of recommendations for effectively reaching shoppers on mobile this holiday season, Google published a compilation of...

10 tips for retailers’ Q4 social advertising
Knowing how to navigate the waters can mean the difference between a highly successful quarter and one that leaves you feeling that...

How Pinterest is cracking the social commerce code
hurdle for marketers and advertisers alike. However, with over 100 million monthly active users globally, Pinterest is one channel that...

NRF’s 2016 holiday retail season forecast: 3.6% increase & strong chance of non-store gro
New data from the National Retail Federation (NRF) forecasts modest growth this holiday season, with expected sales of $655.8 billion, up...

The new era of brick and mortar: not business as usual
omnichannel strategies; however, the rules of consumer engagement have changed. Many major anchor stores are either closing or...

Dark social dominates holiday sharing [RadiumOne data]
A majority of consumers will share holiday-related content during the holiday season, but marketers will have a hard time tracking most...
























