Attention retailers: Amazon doesn’t have to be Public Enemy Number One. Yes, Amazon has a well-deserved reputation for disrupting (and obliterating) brick-and-mortar retailing. But offline retailers can learn to get along with Amazon and even generate more sales working with them. Just ask Aaron Jarvis, who operates Near Mint Games. For the past few years, […]
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 their holiday gifts online last year. Aiming to get a better understanding of this year’s online holiday shopping trends, the 2017 Future of Retail Holiday Report (registration required) includes survey results
41% report doing majority of their holiday shopping online last year [Survey] Read More »
As we move closer to 2018, many retailers will try to break through the clutter and grab their portion of the more than $1 trillion being spent by consumers this holiday season. What many of them don’t realize is that much of their success will be predicated on how they handled their relationship with customers
While many retail marketers are excited about the opportunities technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence will bring in terms of customer engagement and meaningful connections, the reality is that most haven’t even figured out how to tackle truly personalized omnichannel engagement. For brick-and-mortar retailers, hybrid retailers, online-only ones and everything in between, omnichannel
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After surveying 1,500 shoppers, the retail-focused digital marketing agency CPC Strategy forecasts this year’s holiday season will see steady growth over last year’s numbers, with consumers hunting for holiday discounts well before the usual deals begin to surface. “More shoppers expect deals far before Black Friday or late in December,” says the agency’s CEO, Rick
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Each year, Google rolls out several new features ahead of the holidays for retail advertisers. This year’s updates have started coming out. The company introduced a new metric and new reporting for Shopping campaign advertisers — only in the new AdWords interface. The new metric, called absolute top impression share, reports how often Shopping ads and
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One of today’s marketing mantras is “brand loyalty is dead.” As always, the truth is more complicated than a slogan. While millennials and Generation Z are less likely to be loyal than previous generations — chiefly because there’s more transparency and information available to them — there’s a strong argument to be made that brands
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Google parent Alphabet is preparing to comply with EU regulators’ demand that it no longer “favor its own content” in shopping search results. Google must propose a solution that will offer “equal treatment” to Google’s shopping rivals by Tuesday at midnight. In June, Google received a long-anticipated antitrust fine of EUR 2.4 billion (now $2.9
Google says it will offer antitrust remedy to EU to avoid further penalties Read More »
The major advantage that traditional retailers had over Amazon was the availability and immediacy of stores. You could see and touch products and take them home the same day. You could return products more conveniently than shipping them back to Amazon. Over time, however, Amazon has chipped away at these advantages with Prime, Prime Now,
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Last May, Google introduced the ability to find out if a local retailer had specific products in stock right from the knowledge panel listing for the retailer. Now, it’s dedicating a whole lot more real estate to the feature. Glenn Gabe, digital marketing consultant at G-Squared Interactive, tweeted a look at the update. Below are
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