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- E-commerce and Retail
Five Steps You Can Take Today to Boost Your Amazon Sales
Recent shopping seasons were certainly atypical. During a historic pandemic, shoppers abandoned brick-and-mortar shops in droves, with Black Friday foot traffic falling by more than 50% year-over-year. In contrast, online sales surged, particularly for Amazon. In 2020, the online giant reported that independent sellers on its platform had moved $4.8 million of merchandise on Black Friday and Cyber Monday —…
- Customer Data Platforms
How E-commerce CRM Benefits B2B and B2C Businesses
A significant shift in customer behavior has impacted many industries in recent years, but the e-commerce sector has been hit the hardest. Digitally savvy customers have gravitated toward a personalized approach, touchless shopping experience, and multichannel interactions. These factors are pushing online retailers to adopt additional systems to assist them in managing customer relationships and ensuring a personalized experience in…
- Customer Data Platforms
Gleam: Marketing Apps Designed To Grow Your Business
A friend of mine said that he believes marketing is a job where you make people who don’t want to buy something buy it. Ouch… I respectfully disagreed. I believe that marketing is the art and science of pushing and pulling consumers and businesses through the purchase cycle. Sometimes marketing requires amazing content, sometimes it’s an unbelievable offer… and sometimes…
- Customer Data Platforms
Why You and Your Customer Should Act Like a Married Couple in 2022
Customer retention is good for business. Nurturing customers is an easier process than attracting new ones, and satisfied customers are far more likely to make repeat purchases. Maintaining strong customer relationships not only benefits your organization’s bottom line, but it also negates some of the effects felt from new regulations on data collection such as Google’s impending ban on third-party…
- Advertising Technology
Brax: Create, Optimize, And Scale Your Native Advertising From A Single Dashboard
Much of the complexity of working with Native Advertising networks is the difficulty of working across ad networks and their tools to measure, compare, create, optimize, and scale your native advertising. Brax: Manage Native Ads All In One Place Brax is a native advertising platform for bulk management, unified reporting, and rule-based goal optimization across sources. Brax streamlines content syndication…
- Content Marketing
5 Ways Animated Explainer Videos Increase Inbound Marketing Effectiveness
When we say video has become an essential part of our daily lives, we’re not joking. We watch online videos daily on our computers, phones, and even Smart TVs. According to YouTube, the number of hours people spend watching videos is up 60% yearly! Text-only-based websites have become outdated, and we’re not the only ones saying it: Google is! Video…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
WordPress Plugin: How to Add a Lightweight, Custom Pinterest Pinit Button on Image Hover
If you run a WordPress site and want to make your content more shareable on Pinterest, one of the simplest yet most effective enhancements is adding a Pin It button that appears when users hover over images. While Pinterest offers an official widget script to handle this functionality, many site owners prefer a lighter, more controlled approach that doesn’t rely…
- Advertising Technology
Great Data, Great Responsibility: How SMBs Can Improve Transparent Marketing Practices
Customer data is essential for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to better understand customer needs and how they interact with the brand. In a highly competitive world, businesses can stand out by leveraging data to create more impactful, personalized experiences for their customers. The foundation of an effective customer data strategy is customer trust. And with the growing expectation for…
- Content Marketing
Queue-it: Add A Virtual Waiting Room To Your Website To Manage High Traffic Surges
We can’t take orders… site is down because it’s getting crushed with traffic. These is never the words you want to hear if you’ve ever been part of a product launch, an online sale, or selling tickets to an event… the inability to scale your infrastructure as fast as demand hits your site is a disaster for several reasons: Visitor…
- E-commerce and Retail
ReferralCandy: A Complete E-commerce Referral Platform You Can Launch In Minutes
For the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing our successful launch of our client’s site where you can buy dresses online. One strategy we wanted to deploy was building out a referral program for customers, affiliate marketers, and influencers. Some of our needs: We wanted to have it work with Shopify so that we could include a discount for the…
