
How to manage ad partners in regulated industries: Retail (Part 3 of 5)
Welcome to Part 3 of my five-part series on managing your online advertising partners in highly regulated industries. I created this...

The secret to intelligent growth: Know your customers
However, as e-commerce brands reach the saturation point and digital advertising formats mature, the cost per acquisition is increasing....

How to master content marketing for your e-commerce company
Getting increased online visibility can be a significant challenge for e-commerce businesses. As you’ve likely already figured out, it’s...

Consumers have spoken: 2016 is the year of “webrooming”
It’s no secret that shopping in the last decade has been an evolving journey between in-store and online environments. And as consumers’...

Christmas in July: 4 ways to maximize your holiday ad budget
When it comes to advertising during the all-important holiday season, there isn’t such a thing as “planning too early.” The competitive...

Back to school 2016: A shopping season for the books
It might be hard to believe, but July is in full swing, and the lazy hazy crazy days of summer are quickly slipping by. Before you know...

3 retail strategies to beat Amazon this holiday season
It’s that time again. Time for retailers to rally their troops for the end-of-year holiday shopping season, getting strategies and...

The 2016 guide to preparing for the holiday rush
It’s that time of year again… well, almost. For e-commerce folks, now is the time to start thinking about the holidays. Let’s take a look...

Holiday marketing: Take some cues from 2015 trends
more people shopped online than in stores between Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend. This shouldn’t come as a surprise; we all know...

How retailers are getting mobile engagement wrong
from Walmart to Best Buy have alarmed shareholders and employees alike in recent years with struggling profits and slumping sales. For...

3 doable steps toward always-on, always-relevant marketing
the campaign is dead, there’s another celebrating its virtues. And while the future of marketing will likely be about continuously...

Why CPG brands (and their budgets) need to focus on e-retail search
threat that vertical search engines pose to Google. Fast-forward to today: Consumer behavior has increasingly shifted, and according to a...

Secrets for digital commerce success in 2016
These are just some of the words that have been used to describe best practices for digital commerce in 2016. But the problem is that...

The struggle is real: Marketing to Millennials
The retail environment is crazily competitive. The old guard retailers have upped their game, and there are new startups coming online...

4 strategies for stretching your summer marketing spend
Groan, eye roll and so on. It’s a common request that makes marketers collectively cringe, yet it’s a challenge we’re constantly asked to...

How to harness the IoT of retail technology
Digitally connected brick-and-mortar retailers have gathered an enormous amount of data regarding their consumers’ preferences via...

Top 10 payment processing companies in the world
In the simplest terms, a payment processor is a company that handles transactions between two parties, such as a merchant and a customer....

Which trend-setters will shape back-to-school marketing in 2016?
School isn’t even out, but marketers are already finalizing their strategies for the upcoming shopping frenzy that precedes each new...

The loyalty funnel: 3 KPIs for measuring customer retention
retention marketing have become stronger priorities for today’s data-driven marketers. When approaching customer loyalty as a marketer,...
























