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5 Ways Retailers Can Add Value to Their Customers

| George Chang

To generate sales without cutting margins and avoid partaking in this race to the bottom, retailers should think about how else they can offer value to their customers. A sure-fire way that retailers can do this is to provide a service that shoppers cannot get elsewhere and are willing to pay a premium for.

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Loyalty and the Rise of Gen Z

| Allison Novak

By 2020, Gen Z is projected to account for 40% of all consumers in the U.S. at a population of 84.7 million. Here is what you need to know about this demographic of shoppers and what it could mean for your business.

How to Beat Counterfeits and Police Your Brand

| Kathleen Egan

The risk of brand degradation is nothing new (fake Coach purse, anyone?). But brand degradation against price transparency, access to goods, manufacturing capabilities, dissolving of geographical boundaries and shipping innovations, and you’ll see the risk has increased dramatically. Here is what you should do as brand degradation gets worse.

Merchandising in Multiple Sales Channels

| Steve Weber

In order to maximize sales in all of your channels, yet maintain a consistent brand experience, it is important for multichannel merchants to understand the best ways to develop channel-specific content. Here are several ways to develop channel-specific content for your brand.

Brands: Get in the Game or Get Played

| Mark Smith

Marketers, I’ve got news for you: Consumers are on to us. If it wasn’t bad enough that they’re constantly pulled in opposing directions – moving from device to device and channel to channel with essentially unlimited buying options – they’re now learning to beat us at our own games. brands need to get in the game or risk getting played. Here are five tips to get started.