UPS Kicks Off Peak Week
UPS’s extensive network is designed to provide for timely and safe delivery of customers’ holiday gifts. Customers can ship as late as Monday, Dec. 23, using UPS air services.
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Ecommerce & Marketing Trends: What Retailers Need to Know Now for 2014
As we wrap up another year, merchants are now looking into what they can expect for 2014 in the ecommerce world. This article will look back at what was hot in 2013, and what merchants should focus on moving into 2014, including creating targeted, personalized and seamless shopping experience for consumers.
Omnichannel Crystal Ball: What’s Ahead in 2014?
What will retail look like in 2014? Contributing writer Jonathan Levitt sees two major emerging trends occurring in the New Year: the rise of the ubiquitous shopper and wide-scale retail automation.
How Effective Promotions Affected Cyber Weekend Sales
Ecommerce sales grew considerably over the Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday weekend, and the channel itself took a bigger slice of the pie when compared to in-store revenues. In this video, Adobe Digital Index principal analyst Tamara Gaffney talks about some of the holiday sales trends to date.
Why Amazon Tops the ForeSee Experience Index
In this video interview, Foresee president and CEO Larry Freed says Amazon is doing just about everything right, which is why it tops the first ForeSee Experience Index.
Clearing Up the Confusion Between Omnichannel and Multichannel
The terms omnichannel and multichannel are more often than not used all too frequently and often interchangeably in the ecommerce world. However, have two completely different meanings. Here is a breakdown of what they mean and how you can use both, separately, to execute them flawlessly in order to create the best ecommerce brand.
Shopping Cart Recovery: What Top Retailers are Doing Right and Wrong
The top merchants continue to improve on adopting best practices in their shopping cart recovery tactics, but Listrak says there are a surprising number who are clearly missing opportunities, and literally leaving money on the table.
5 Steps to a Successful Convenience Commerce Model
For merchants wanting to implement a successful convenience commerce program, there are five ways to make it both convenient for customers and profitable for your business.
Improving Usability and Winning Customer Loyalty
Whether you are making enhancements to or rolling out a new or refreshed ecommerce site, it’s important to test that links work, buttons lead where they promise, and the coding … Continue Reading →
Showrooming vs. Webrooming: A Tale of Two Holiday Shopping Trends
If showrooming was a holiday trend to watch in 2012, then webrooming – wherein consumers do their research online and then head to the store to actually make a purchase – is the one to watch this holiday season. Here’s how consumers responded to a pre-Cyber Weekend Harris Poll on the two retail trends.