Mobile, Personalization, Relevance Key to Milennials at Steve Madden

| Mike O'Brien

Retailers need to have more of a mobile-first mentality, a high degree of personalization and a strong loyalty focus if they’re going to reach, engage and retain millennial shoppers, according to Mark Friedman, president of ecommerce for youth apparel firm Steve Madden. See what Friedman had to say to his IRCE audience about that plus omnichannel and technology integration.

Steve Madden To Discuss the Unified Customer Experience at IRCE

| Mike O'Brien

Creating a unified customer experience across channels through a shared repository of store and ecommerce data, as well as striking a balance on its ecommerce site between sales and branding, is a lot of the focus these days at Steve Madden. See what Mark Friedman, president of ecommerce at the apparel retailer, will cover in his June 9 keynote at IRCE.

Olapic Announces Launch of Photorank at IRCE 2014

| MCM Staff

Visual commerce platform, Olapic, today announced the launch of its new Photorank algorithm tool to help brands identify and display customer photos that have the most potential to drive conversions in an ecommerce environment.

eGifter Launches Digital Gift Card Platform for SMB’s at IRCE 2014

| MCM Staff

The new platform, launching in coordination with IRCE 2014 easily integrates with any ecommerce or point-of-sale technology to provide an easy, low-risk entry for retailers implementing digital gift cards for the first time. Once in place, the rest of the eGifter stack of technology can help realize the program’s full potential.