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Banner Black Friday Sales Bode Well for Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

on Black Friday according to Mastercard SpendingPulse , which measures in-store and online retail sales across all payment types. That is more than double what consumers spent just a few years ago in 2017, when Black Friday drove a little over $5 billion in online spend. retail sales (excluding automotive) up 3.4%

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Mastercard faces court over anti-competitive deals with major retailers

Inside Retail

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the financial services giant has been engaging in anticompetitive conduct since 2017 in the supply of debit card acceptance services, with the purpose of substantially lessening competition.

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How digital payments can help businesses lead in customer experience

Inside Retail

The acceptance of cash has started to trend upwards again, but payment technology is helping businesses to deliver consistently better experiences, so what does the future hold? And how can businesses be ready for evolving payment technologies? Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online.

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How to Scale the Competitive Promotional Monitoring Process

Wiser

Take a guess: what occasion is being advertised by the following promotions from various sources? The campaigns surrounding Prime Day are a clear example of the difficulty in scaling promotional monitoring. In other words, be willing to go beyond the traditional holiday-based promotional calendar. Homepages on Prime Day 2017.

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B2B Marketplace Faire Accelerates the Digitization of an Underserved Market: Wholesale

Retail TouchPoints

Since its launch in 2017, the platform has raised more than $1.29 The platform now features more than 100,000 brands from 100 + countries, and in September 2023, ecommerce vanguard Shopify took a stake in the company and made Faire the recommended wholesale marketplace for its millions of merchants. billion and was valued at $12.59

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What is Affiliate Marketing? Everything You Need to Know in 2023

Small Biz Trends

You can make quick money as a marketing affiliate by recommending great products and services to your readers. Affiliate marketing is a type of advertising in which a firm pays third-party publishers to create traffic or leads to its products and services. Customers: Customers are those who buy products and services.

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How livestreaming is driving e-commerce sales in China

Inside Retail

The first time that I ever livestreamed was in 2017, when I was accompanying a Chinese rap star, Jackson Wang, to LA to attend the American Music Awards. In 2017, it was mostly a show, used as entertainment, for brand building. Prices for certain products are cheapest in their livestream room, when that product is on promotion.