Study: Social Trumps Mobile for Retailers’ 2014 Holidays Spend
Retailers are spending more on marketing data capture than mobile heading into the 2014 holidays, based on a survey by Edelman Berland for eBay Enterprise.
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How Retailers Can Ensure Winning Customer Care This Holiday Season
This year, customers will be more likely to send an email than place a phone call. Unfortunately, email has the lowest rate of issue resolution of all channels. Here’s a few key learnings from StellaService to ensure retailers are ready for this year’s holiday season.
How the Cover of Cosmo Helped Me Build Meaningful, Lasting Customer Relationships
As much as they’d like to believe otherwise, brands don’t interact with their customers in the way likable people interact with people. So how should a brand act more like a likable person?
Your 5-point Checklist for Going Omnichannel
With the right omnichannel strategy in place, retailers can enhance engagement between the customer and store associate, better leverage inventory positions and maximize the store footprint. To prepare to go omnichannel, retailers’ checklist should focus on the following five points
The Beauty of Browse Data
On average, about 97% of the visitors to a retailer’s website leave without making a purchase. Of those, about 70% or so at least leave something in a shopping cart before abandoning, so merchants have the opportunity to remarket to them via email. But what about the others? That’s where browse data comes in.
3 Strategies to Convert More Mobile Traffic
Smartphones and tablets are the ultimate business tools, the coolest technologies and the biggest distractions any of us have ever seen.
UPS Plans to Hire 90,000-95,000 Seasonal Workers
UPS is calling for 90,000 to to 95,000 temporary workers to handle the holiday season’s shipping crunch, a significant increase over 2013.
Same-day Delivery Rollouts Speed Up
The same-day delivery sweepstakes certainly seems to be heating up as the summer nears the end. Just this past week, Foot Locker, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s all announced plans this week to test or roll out same-day delivery.
Adyen Enables Alipay Mobile Payments for Evernote
Adyen, a global payment solutions provider, announced it is partnering with Evernote to launch Alipay’s new mobile optimized checkout for Evernote’s user base in China, according to a press release.
Foot Locker Testing Same-Day Delivery in California
In a first in the athletic footwear and apparel space, Foot Locker has started a trial of same-day/next-day delivery at five stores in California, with plans to roll it out at its 1,300 locations across the U.S. and Canada