Sandra Hess — June 27, 2018 — June 27, 2018 It’s no secret that attrition rates in the retail industry are significantly higher than those in almost every other industry. It’s a struggle that retailers have been working to overcome for years. With the average cost of hiring now reporting at more than $ 4,000 … Continue reading What an Interview Won’t Reveal about Retail Candidates
Amanda Clark — June 18, 2018 Follow @GrammarChicInc — June 18, 2018 Free-Photos / Pixabay If you’ve ever spent time working in retail, you quickly realize that the skills and responsibilities can be fairly similar between jobs. This can make writing your resume more challenging because you don’t want to repeat the same thing for … Continue reading Making Retail Experience Pop on Your Resume
Contributor Steve Tutelman advocates for three important attitude shifts that can enable your organization to use data efficiently and effectively. Steve Tutelman on April 27, 2018 Think about all the data you have as a retail marketer. Not just the volume of it; the actual contents of it. E-commerce site performance. In-store performance. … Continue reading You vs. data: Where people fit in modern retail marketing strategy
The bar is getting higher for retailers, and most of them won’t clear it. Greg Sterling on April 26, 2018 It may be that different generations have always shopped differently. However, new research from Euclid shows that millennials stand apart from earlier generations in their shopping habits and use of technology. The new Euclid report … Continue reading Report: Millennials least influenced by retail advertising, most active tech adopters
Retail Brands Investing More In Amazon, Less In Traditional Search Channels: Forrester by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 25, 2018 Findings in a new Forrester report suggest that retail brands will invest 55% more in online marketing and advertising by 2023, but fewer dollars will go toward traditional search channels like Google. The move … Continue reading Retail Brands Investing More In Amazon, Less In Traditional Search Channels: Forrester
Retail Search ‘Fit’ Recommendations Fail To Curtail Returns by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 13, 2018 As consumer expectations continue to shape online shopping, retailers are under increased pressure to deliver personalized shopping capabilities. Most have mastered search and discovery. Now the challenge has become trying to find the correct item size to reduce the number … Continue reading Retail Search ‘Fit’ Recommendations Fail To Curtail Returns
Contributor Rohit Gupta outlines three steps retailers must take to evolve for the changing expectations of a new generation coming of age. Rohit Gupta on April 2, 2018 By now, it’s no secret that Gen Zs (born between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s) value individuality, innovation and creativity above all else — especially when … Continue reading The future of retail is Generation Z-dependent — and martech is the way to reach them
You don’t have to be Amazon, Facebook or Google to turn insights into actions. If you were paying attention, 2017 might have seemed like the year that industry pundits’ predictions about the death of retail finally came to fruition. The traditional Main Street took some major blows last year. Shopping mall mainstays like Wet … Continue reading Three ways retailers can deliver meaningful 1:1 shopping experiences amidst the retail apocalypse through AI marketing
Contributor Steve Tutelman explains how voice search is bringing marketers closer to the customer. Steve Tutelman on January 17, 2018 Voice search stands to live at the heart of how retail marketers guide the customer experience into the future. Behind every voice query lies data riper with real-time intent and context than perhaps any … Continue reading Voice search in retail: Evolving the customer experience
James Glover — January 17, 2018 Follow @coherentpath — January 17, 2018 Despite the hype around new marketing channels like social media and tactics like search engine optimization (SEO), email continues to be one of the longest standing and most powerful marketing tools across all industries. In fact, research from SmartDataCollective found that 95% of … Continue reading The State of Email in Retail [Infographic]
