Sephora, Nordstrom, Rent the Runway rank top 3 brands in retail personalization
Disruptive MarTech

Sephora, Nordstrom, Rent the Runway rank top 3 brands in retail personaliza...

5y Kimberly Collins

Sephora, Nordstrom, Rent the Runway rank top 3 bra...

Sailthru's Retail Personalization Index 2019 ranks the top 100 retail brands. Sephora tops the list for the third year in a row. Read More...

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Geofencing: Impact, spending, limitations, and examples for marketers
Digital Advertising

Geofencing: Impact, spending, limitations, and examples for marketers

5y Jacqueline Dooley

Geofencing: Impact, spending, limitations, and exa...

Geofencing goes beyond standard geographic targeting by honing in on very specific locations down to a drawn radius of X miles, streets, or even build...

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How Walgreens is differentiating and personalizing its customer experience
Digital Transformation

How Walgreens is differentiating and personalizing its customer experience

5y Mike O'Brien

How Walgreens is differentiating and personalizing...

“The world is moving and it’s moving fast. It’s going to be about personalized value," says Walgreens' Group VP of Beauty and Personal Care. In 2019, ...

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6 examples of perfect proactive triggered emails from Amazon, Airbnb and Stitch Fix
Email

6 examples of perfect proactive triggered emails from Amazon, Airbnb and St...

5y Mike O'Brien

6 examples of perfect proactive triggered emails f...

Triggered messages generate 77% of revenue from emails. Brands like Amazon, Aibnb and Sephora (and hopefully Saucony) show they can also be proactive....

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What makes retail mobile apps rock solid, according to Forrester Research
Mobile

What makes retail mobile apps rock solid, according to Forrester Research

5y Mike O'Brien

What makes retail mobile apps rock solid, accordin...

Consumers are selective about the mobile apps where they spend the majority of their smartphone time. Forrester determined what makes a great retail o...

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"Stores are the new media": Q+A with Adobe's Michael Klein
Ecommerce

"Stores are the new media": Q+A with Adobe's Michael Klein

5y Mike O'Brien

"Stores are the new media": Q+A with Adobe's Micha...

Michael Klein, Adobe's Director of Industry Strategy for Retail, shares his insights on what is the biggest holiday shopping season ever. Read More...

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Technology enables brands to evolve their loyalty programs
Leadership

Technology enables brands to evolve their loyalty programs

6y Mike O'Brien

Technology enables brands to evolve their loyalty ...

Loyalty programs are older than the state of California (seriously). Technology has enabled brands to evolve their programs, earning more loyalty. Rea...

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Digital data dictates in-store decisions for modern retailers
Ecommerce

Digital data dictates in-store decisions for modern retailers

6y Mike O'Brien

Digital data dictates in-store decisions for moder...

Data is central to everything modern marketers do online. But digital data is also a factor in physical stores, as T-Mobile, Roots and Birchbox demons...

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Chatting with bots: How well 5 brands' chatbots actually work
Chatbots

Chatting with bots: How well 5 brands' chatbots actually work

6y Mike O'Brien

Chatting with bots: How well 5 brands' chatbots ac...

We usually write about what chatbots can do, rather than how well they do it, so we're testing branded bots from the likes of Sephora, eBay, and H&...

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AR isn’t just fun and games: Here are the brands at the forefront of functional AR
AR & VR

AR isn’t just fun and games: Here are the brands at the forefront of functi...

6y Emily Alford

AR isn’t just fun and games: Here are the brands a...

In the past couple years, brands have started to incorporate the hot topic of augmented reality into their business. They have seen mixed reviews with...

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Why beauty retailers are leading the way in digital transformation
Ecommerce

Why beauty retailers are leading the way in digital transformation

6y Mike O'Brien

Why beauty retailers are leading the way in digita...

Failure to embrace digital transformation is a death sentence for retailers. However, beauty brands like Sephora, L'Oréal, and Ulta aren't struggling ...

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Location and lenses: What does the future look like for Snapchat?
Social & Community

Location and lenses: What does the future look like for Snapchat?

6y Mike O'Brien

Location and lenses: What does the future look lik...

Despite new features for users and better analytics for marketers, Snap had a dismal Q1. Instagram has duplicated many of Snapchat's signature feature...

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The new luxury landscape: How Tiffany & Co., Gucci and LVMH are embracing digital transformation
Ecommerce

The new luxury landscape: How Tiffany & Co., Gucci and LVMH are embraci...

6y Mike O'Brien

The new luxury landscape: How Tiffany & Co., G...

As wealthier consumers do more of their shopping online, luxury brands have no choice but to embrace digital transformation. See how Tiffany & Co....

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How 3 retailers are looking ahead in the wake of Toys ‘R’ Us
Leadership

How 3 retailers are looking ahead in the wake of Toys ‘R’ Us

6y Mike O'Brien

How 3 retailers are looking ahead in the wake of T...

Earlier this month, Toys ‘R’ Us shut its doors for good, proving once and for all that retail is incredibly disruptable. Three brands that don’t plan ...

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St. Patrick's Day reminds us that "the holidays" don't end in January
Leadership

St. Patrick's Day reminds us that "the holidays" don't end in January

6y Mike O'Brien

St. Patrick's Day reminds us that "the holidays" d...

It's easy to think of "the holidays" as that period between Black Friday and New Year's Day. But there are plenty of other holidays throughout the yea...

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Leading by example, compact content and other insights from Freedman International's Global Marketing Trends study
Leadership

Leading by example, compact content and other insights from Freedman Intern...

6y Mike O'Brien

Leading by example, compact content and other insi...

ClickZ and Freedman International surveyed more than 500 senior global marketers in the U.S. and U.K. to ask them what challenges and opportunities th...

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6 retail brands who are nailing the app game
Ecommerce

6 retail brands who are nailing the app game

6y Mike O'Brien

6 retail brands who are nailing the app game

Researching how retailers can improve their apps, everyone named a few examples of brands with exceptionally good apps. Amazon, Target and Sephora are...

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How can retailers improve their mobile app experience?
Ecommerce

How can retailers improve their mobile app experience?

6y Mike O'Brien

How can retailers improve their mobile app experie...

We spend the majority of our time on smartphones in-app, but our usage is concentrated on a select handful of apps. What do retailers have to do to en...

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Flashback to the forecast: Revisiting our 2017 predictions
Leadership

Flashback to the forecast: Revisiting our 2017 predictions

6y Mike O'Brien

Flashback to the forecast: Revisiting our 2017 pre...

Before we make predictions for 2018, we decided to take a look back at the ones from last year, such as explosions in artificial intelligence, live vi...

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[Report] How artificial intelligence can enhance retail marketing
AI & Automation

[Report] How artificial intelligence can enhance retail marketing

6y Al Roberts

[Report] How artificial intelligence can enhance r...

Retailers are banking on artificial intelligence, with a quarter spending as much as $100 million on the technology this year. Our latest report outli...

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