As expected, All About ROI readers will be focusing on their e-commerce websites this year. But print catalogs are still in the mix, at least according to your responses to this year's Annual Trends Survey.
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Unlike other retailers that strive to build lifelong relationships with customers, our company — Due Maternity, which sells designer maternity clothing and accessories online and in retail stores — has only about three months of interaction with customers before they...
Most multichannel sellers have a small group of extremely loyal customers who buy year in, year out, or come back annually making substantial purchases. These are your biggest fans, and you'd be surprised to realize how much more they spend...
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The past year was extremely difficult for catalog companies, and many firms elected to mail deeper to their housefiles instead of prospecting for new buyers. Catalogers, however, need to start prospecting again. File counts can’t continue to decrease, or sales...
If you're wondering, "How am I going to increase my online sales and profits in 2010?" here's an easy answer: TEST! An e-commerce site should run at least one test a month with the potential to increase sales by 10...
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Coupons Perk Up Joe's Coffee House's Prospecting Efforts;
Overstock.com's International Efforts Paying Off With New Customers...
Problem: Fred Meyer Jewelers, a multichannel jewelry retailer, needed to upgrade an email marketing program plagued by poor deliverability, reporting and overall conversion. Solution: Contracted with an email software, services and solutions provider. Results: Email bounce rates decreased from 46
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A 2009 year-end survey of store traffic conducted by ShopperTrak, a provider of shopper traffic counting technology, showed a reasonably encouraging year-over-year increase of 3.5 percent. But store traffic has been so light over the past couple years that retailers,...
The report, ForeSee Results 2010 Social Media Report, found that retailers that focus their energies and resources on Facebook — as opposed to the myriad of other social media sites — are making the best choice....