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Successful Retail Marketing Requires a Skilled ‘Data Translator’

Retail TouchPoints

Mastering data is critical for retailers, particularly those serving specialty areas. The ability to reach consumers at the moments in time when they’re likely to make — or at least consider — key purchase decisions is the ultimate marketing challenge. Consumers today expect seamless connectivity.

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3 Ways Livestreaming is Shaking Up the Retail Marketing Playbook

Retail TouchPoints

Through a survey of 475 consumers, Influence Central also found that only 19% of U.S. consumers have tuned into a livestreaming event. The biggest draw for consumers comes from livestreaming’s unique mix of entertainment, behind-the-scenes product information, shared commenting with others, and simple click-to-buy options.”

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Retail Roulette – Why Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts are a complete gamble for retailers and consumers alike

Retail Focus

Now, securing sought after products at the best price is becoming increasingly chaotic for consumers, with prices fluctuating during a number of weeks across the Golden Quarter. Forget deal or no deal, it’s more like deal or disappointment for consumers, leaving much to be desired in terms of results for retailers.

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5 New Ways Retail Marketers Can Utilize Location Data This Year

Retail TouchPoints

Here are five novel use cases (with real world examples) for retail marketers looking to maximize offline intelligence in 2020: 1. Additionally, almost half of those exposed to the campaign (42% of consumers) visited a location within 24 hours. Uncovering each channel’s conversion window.

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Why Retail Marketers Should Think of AI as a ‘Team Member Who Has Superpowers’

Retail TouchPoints

Today’s consumer exhibits little patience with retailers that don’t understand them on a deep, personal level. Data-driven AI is part of the remedy for this challenge, but even the best AI tools need support from human intuition to drive truly powerful marketing efforts, according to Amy Heidersbach, Chief Marketing Officer at Persado.

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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

Brands and retailers are feeling mounting pressure — from consumers, shareholders and even their boards — to be more inclusive. Because of efforts to address this mismatch of product and real-world sizing, Coresight Research estimates that the value of the extended-size market for women will grow to $32.3 billion in the U.S.

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Immune to interest rates, young Aussie consumers are splurging

Inside Retail

According to Colliers’ research, Australian consumers have spent 27 per cent on dining and restaurant services in the year’s first quarter. The luxury retail market also expects spending to increase through 2027, up 5.4 million of the population. per cent annually, mainly by the same category.

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