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Unwrap Holiday Growth: The Top Benefits of Joining an External Loyalty Program this Season

Retail TouchPoints

These networks enable targeted marketing, allowing retailers to deliver personalized offers that boost conversion rates. Additionally, retailers gain valuable insights into customer behavior, enabling effective marketing campaigns that attract new customers and re-engage lapsed ones.

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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers naturally plan a lot of spend around this, with extra staff and extra marketing. But their return to our shores after the pandemic has been far slower than Americans’ — flight bookings are down around 50% of pre-pandemic levels. Here’s why.

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How Temu and Shein drive up Black Friday marketing costs for US retailers

Inside Retail

Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors. Shein did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Digital Marketing Tactics for Uncertain Times

Retail TouchPoints

While optimizing budgets in times of financial uncertainty makes sense, such times also provide smart marketers with easier opportunities to improve market position. According to research from Analytic Partners, 63% of marketers that increased their marketing investment during the financial crisis of 2008 generated a positive ROI.

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How Retailers can Reallocate and Optimize Marketing Budgets in an Uncertain Economy

Retail TouchPoints

These factors have made it challenging for retailers to plan and execute effective marketing strategies. As a result, many retailers are adopting a more conservative approach to their marketing spend, focusing on efficiency and return on investment (ROI). Four of these strategies include: 1. Leveraging affiliate channels.

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Why retail media has become the next big tool in performance marketing

Inside Retail

“Right now, we’re seeing a once-in-a-generation shift that is opening the doors to a major new advertising opportunity for retailers and brands,” explains Troy Townsend, co-founder and chief innovation officer at The Pistol , a leader in marketing technologies and services. Embrace the opportunity.

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4 Steps Retailers Can Take to Market Themselves in a Recession

Retail TouchPoints

Marketing is often first on the chopping block during a recession, and with GDP contracting two quarters in a row, retail marketers are working hard to determine how to make each dollar go further. Many organizations will cut marketing spend in a bid to preserve margins. Investing in Long-Term Brand Building.

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