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Lightspeed: Supercharge Retail With Unified Commerce POS and Reporting Tools
Retailers today are under constant pressure to streamline operations, delight customers across every channel, and adapt quickly to market changes. Managing inventory, payments, e-commerce, and customer data across multiple locations — all while trying to grow — can overwhelm even seasoned merchants. Many turn to retail POS systems to ease the burden, but they often find these tools lacking in…
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Responsys Launches Interact Preference
As large marketing technology companies merge and acquire other applications into their product mix, there’s often a gap in the ability for the customer to set communication preferences. If you want email, you go to one site, if you want mobile alerts, another… if it’s SMS still another. According to Forrester, 77% of consumers want to be able to decide…
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Immerss: Increase E-commerce Revenue With Co-Shopping And Live Video Events For Your Shopify Store
If you take a moment to study in-store retail sales for a brand that has incredible customer service versus a store that struggles with it, you can definitively see the difference a human can make in driving increased revenue. Online stores are utilizing technologies to try to overcome the in-person experience – with tools like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality…
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Enterprises using Social Media To Predict Demand: PepsiCo
Consumer demand today changes faster than ever before. As a result, new product launches are failing at extremely high rates. After all, accurately assessing the market and predicting demand requires terabytes of data, which ranges from point-of-sale numbers, e-commerce transactions, out-of-stock histories, pricing averages, promotional planning, special events, weather patterns, and a many other factors. To add to that, most…
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Writing Engaging Content that Converts for Business
I’m often surprised when I read an amazing article on someone’s business site or blog, but then I have no clue who they are, why I’d want to work with them, who they serve, or what they expect me to do next on the site. As you invest Content that’s done well requires a significant investment in research, article design,…
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Moz: Create A WordPress Shortcode To Publish Your Site Authority and Metrics
When companies review sites to write articles on, they often look for sites with high domain authority, indicating solid ranking and traffic from search engines. One leader, of course, in the SEO industry is Moz. For my site, I hoped to take some of the information from Moz’s collected data and publish it on my Media Kit page. Moz has…
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When and How to Hire Developers for Complex Marketing Technology Integrations
Marketing tech stacks have grown significantly more complex and must accommodate a number of tools for seamless customer journeys. Demand for extremely skilled developer resources to perform these integrations is off the charts. The answer is nearshoring. What is Nearshoring? Nearshoring is the practice of outsourcing business or development tasks to companies or teams in nearby countries, offering geographical proximity,…
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CRM: Data Cleanliness is Next to Data Godliness
I wrote a colleague today reinforcing how important Data Cleanliness is in your CRM efforts. Says I, “Data Cleanliness is next to Data Godliness.” Says She, “Then I will be in Data Heaven!” We chuckled, but it’s no small feat. Data cleanliness and accuracy are critical for effective sales and marketing efforts. Ensuring clean and deduplicated data is essential for…
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The Business Impact of Early Adoption and Change
I’m reading Kevin Eikenberry’s book, Remarkable Leadership, and I will have coffee with Kevin tomorrow. It’s a fantastic book – and one chapter hit home with me on championing change. Kevin discusses change in great detail. One of Kevin’s references is the 1962 book by Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations. It’s a theory that has stood the test of time……
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Social Media PR – Risks and Rewards
A number of years ago, I discovered the benefits of on-line PR as a way of extending exposure for my clients. In addition to submission to established news sites, I created my own site – Indy-Biz, as a way of sharing good news stories about clients, friends and the local biz community. For more than two years the site has…
