
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,...

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...

4 marketing innovations headed to brick-and-mortar retail in 2017
continue to grow, and brick-and-mortar retailers are feeling the heat. There’s plenty of evidence pointing to their survival, so why the...

Why are retailers spending more money for the same number of eyeballs?
The e-commerce industry spends more on digital advertising than on any other vertical. By the end of 2016, digital ad spend will total...

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...

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...

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...

Are fake online reviews killing consumer confidence?
Ninety percent of shoppers say reviews impact their purchasing decisions. They are as good as gold — when they’re real. There’s just one...

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...

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...

’Tis the season to be savvy with your digital marketing
Everyone dreads that ol’ holiday creep. And I don’t mean the unctuous uncle you see only at Thanksgiving. I’m talking about the...

The stat-backed holiday advertising tips to know for 2016
underlying motivations of shoppers are important during the holiday season, so are the on-the-ground behavioral trends. This is something...

7 advanced tips for Google Shopping ads
I’ve put together a list of seven tips to bring your shopping campaigns to the next level. Tip #1: Use the multiple-campaign method to...

From insight to action: 3 common pitfalls and strategies for more actionable data
mining for customer insights. But an abundance of customer insights does not always lead to more data-driven marketing strategies. The...

Looking beyond the holiday purchase: understanding customer lifetime value
The ideal brand relationship is much more than a single experience. It comprises multiple experiences and events that tie the consumer to...
























