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Chico’s Sees Success with Mobile Messaging

| Daniela Forte

Women’s apparel brand Chico’s is connecting with customers in a new way through mobile messaging, which helps the brand connect with its customers on a personal level. In the latest MCM CommerceChat podcast, Chico’s talks about the success it has found with mobile messaging.

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Google Redesigns Its Shopping Experience

| Daniela Forte

Google is making products people browse across its world more shoppable, including the ubiquitous browser, Google Images, YouTube and the redesigned Google Shopping platform, in an effort to better monetize online activity a la Instagram and Pinterest.

H&M Discontinues Its Catalog After 39 Years

| Daniela Forte

H&M has discontinued its catalog after 39 years in an effort to be relevant, convenient and inspiring, the company said. Here is look at H&M’s catalog history and whether or not the catalog is still a channel of choice for retailers.

Using Email to Effectively Engage with Gen Z Shoppers

| Daniela Forte

This year it’s expected that members of Gen Z, now in their late teens and early twenties, will be the largest generational cohort, surpassing millennials and baby boomers and making up one-third of the global population. In a new webinar, Greg Zakowicz, senior commerce marketing analyst at Oracle Bronto, will talk about how to effectively market to Gen Z shoppers via email marketing.

Why Consumers Prefer Personalization

| Tom Zawacki

For years, marketers have debated the importance of personalized, people-based marketing as a means of communicating more effectively and efficiently with prospects and customers. Here is why consumers prefer a personalized experience.

How to Steer Past Three Retention Roadblocks

| Denise DeSisto

Despite the evidence stressing the importance – and payoffs — of a concerted effort to retain customers, many organizations continue to spend a lopsided amount of time and resources on customer acquisition. In the process, they are overlooking rich pockets of revenue and predictably strong ROI from evolving customer relationships. Here are three common retention roadblocks marketers need to get past.