June 18, 2013
Motorcycle Superstore travels its own road with its in-house ecommerce platform. However it still needs a powerful analytics engine to power customers down the purchase path.
May 30, 2013
DMA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other associations joined forces in filing an amicus brief in the controversial class-action lawsuit likely to impact Internet commerce practices.
May 28, 2013
How the high-tech leader got its marketing and tech teams to rally around a common goal
May 21, 2013
More than just marketing in the channels customers use, marketers should provide purchase ability, as well.
March 25, 2013
As Acer moves forward, it's refined its banner ad strategies.
January 03, 2013
Hertz Corporation relaunched websites use responsive web design to improve the customer experience across channels.
November 09, 2012
Google analyzes the middle ground between where online ends and offline begins.
October 25, 2012
The opening of Japan-based clothing retailer Uniqlo's first ecommerce site earlier this week signaled yet another step in the company's plans for aggressive North American expansion.
September 25, 2012
A new study finds that search, email, and direct visits remain the chief conduits for online purchasers. Fewer than 1% of transactions can be traced to social links.
August 03, 2012
NetSuite announced August 3 the signing of three new accounts—Hydro Flask, Solio, and X-1 headphones—at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.
June 29, 2012
Expand2Web has partnered with Cashie Commerce to launch an integrated e-commerce plug-in on its website offerings.
June 27, 2012
Tesco has proverbial shopping carts full of data about its customers — and the U.K.-based grocery chain just announced it's going to really start using it.
May 18, 2012
Following former CEO Scott Thompson's departure, restructuring is on the agenda for Yahoo.
May 15, 2012
NetSuite announced the SuiteCommerce platform at its SuiteWorld 2012 conference in San Francisco. The platform, which connects companies' CRM to ERP, is the first of its kind, said CEO Zach Nelson during his May 15 keynote address.
April 09, 2012
Sephora launched a personalized, targeted website, mobile site and targeted in-store experience and integrated Pinterest fully into their e-commerce platform on April 9, said Bridget Dolan, VP of interactive media at the company.
April 01, 2012
The controversy surrounding the collection of online sales tax isn't new, but the renewed fervor buzzing around it is.
March 26, 2012
Arby's today became the latest member of Plink, a loyalty program that gives restaurant consumers Facebook credits for their real-life purchases, said Peter Vogel, Plink's cofounder and head of sales and business development.
March 23, 2012
I love you, H&M. I really do. From your inexpensive hipster-esque flats to your cotton dresses that shrink up oh-so perfectly in the dryer to fit my short frame, it's all great. Truly it is.
March 09, 2012
Great customer engagement is creative, appealing and above all, entertaining. That's why Modcloth, vintage and faux-vintage clothing website, is such a great example of multichannel marketing success.
March 01, 2012
No matter how you slice it, the experience of ordering and consuming a pizza should be fun, fast, easy and, of course, tasty. How do Domino's Pizza and Pizza Hut rate?
Staples will open an e-commerce innovation center in Massachusetts in May that will house teams "responsible for designing and implementing innovative new e-commerce solutions" for Staples' business customers, the company said in a Jan. 26 statement.
EBay recorded $11.7 billion in net revenue for 2011, a 27% increase compared with the prior year. The company's net income for the year also spiked, jumping 79% year-over-year to $3.2 billion.
Tablet users who visited e-commerce websites in 2011 spent 54% more per purchase than smartphone visitors and 21% more than desktop or laptop visitors, according to a Jan. 19 report by Adobe Systems.
Sears Holdings Corp. named Ron Boire EVP, chief merchandising officer and president of the Sears and Kmart business units on Jan. 3.
January 01, 2012
In addition to long-standing tenure in the retail space, Wal-Mart Stores and Sears Holdings Corp. apply a similar approach to direct marketing, including direct mail, email, social media outreach, loyalty rewards and extensive e-commerce platforms.
January 01, 2012
Chaparral Motorsports, a San Bernardino, Calif.-based retailer of motorcycle parts, helmets, gear and tires, wanted to drive transactions from its Facebook fan page. In addition to an e-commerce site and a brick-and-mortar showroom, the company decided it made sense to provide consumers with a Facebook shopping option that was both social and informative.
January 01, 2012
Several b-to-b merchants are taking their cue from consumer-oriented e-commerce sites to provide business customers with a friendlier, streamlined online buying experience.
Home improvement retailer Lowe's acquired online retailer ATG Stores, the company said on Dec. 29. Lowe's spokesperson Karen Cobb said the acquisition closed yesterday afternoon but declined to disclose terms.
More than 18% of Christmas Day online traffic was initiated on a mobile device, an 8.4% increase year-over-year, according to an IBM report. Transactions completed on mobile devices also grew, from 5.3% in 2010 to 14.4% in 2011. Christmas Day online sales rose by 16.4% compared with last year's sales figures.
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What's in our mailbox this month: fitness postcards from Retro Fitness, American Woman Fitness Centers, Union's United Taekwondo Academy, and Bally Total Fitness. (We're totally pumped.)
Social data can improve a brand's bottom line and customer relationships. Just ask brands Infiniti and Diamond Nexus.
Here are three must-have data sets that every marketer should include in his or her email strategy.
