Have a question about a product? Need help with an order? Trying to find an item in your local store? Where do you turn? Customer service. Here are four tips that will help your customer service team enhance the brand loyalty.
Putting the customer at the center of everything a brand does is vital to success in retail and ecommerce. In the latest MCMCommerceChat podcast, Bruce Pullens, Director of Customer Strategy and Insights for Lane Bryant, discusses why a customer-centric approach is critical and what it looks like within his company. Listen to what Pullens has to say about how retailers can achieve this.
In the latest MCM CommerceChat podcast, Manish Chowdhary, CEO of Pulse Commerce, discusses the company’s recent study that tracked live orders of leading merchants and analyzed 50,000+ purchase path data points. Learn what these results mean in terms of addressing the post-purchase performance gap.
Surprisingly, Asian consumers far outstripped their U.S. counterparts in terms of expectations for placing late orders and still qualifying for fast delivery, according to a new global version of the UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper survey. See what other insights were gleaned from the study on preferences around the globe.
Customer experience is the new frontier of business differentiation. Eighty-nine percent predicted that by 2016, they will separate themselves from their competition on the basis of customer experience—more so than product and service Here are six top innovations that will benefit retailers.
Abercrombie & Fitch reported a strong fourth quarter of 2017, returning to positive comp territory, besting revenue and profit estimates, right-sizing its store footprint, increasing direct sales and continuing integration of its omnichannel initiatives.
In our monthly MCM CommerceChat podcast, Angie Stocklin of One Click Ventures discusses how to provide a consistent customer experience across every touchpoint to foster true customer centricity. Angie will be speaking on this topic at the seventh annual Ecommerce Operations Summit 2018, April 3-5 in Columbus, OH, in a session entitled “It Should All Look the Same: Creating True Cross-Channel Customer Centricity.”
While 92% of consumers fail to complete ratings and reviews, 82% rely on them to make purchasing decisions. But there’s actually hope in the “silent majority” and it starts with bridging the gap between timely customer feedback and the brick-and-mortar shopping journey.
A new report published by Multichannel Merchant and Brightpearl, a provider of retail management systems, found 87% of retailers agree omnichannel is a critical business function, yet only 8% believe they have mastered it, an enormous gap between importance and execution.
As consumers have shown their growing preference for online shopping, buy online, pickup in store is becoming the answer to returning footfall to physical stores. Here are some steps you can take to find BOPIS success and increase customer choice and satisfaction.