Category Archives: Part 7: Communicating with the Customer

This sub-category encompasses establishing and maintaining a retail image, and promotional strategy.

The World’s Booming Dynamo of Online Shopping: Asia-Pacific

Even with a population representing only 5 percent of the people worldwide, North American consumers have always led the way with the highest regional market share of global online shopping. However, as eMarketer reports, in 2013, Asia-Pacific consumers will begin … Continue reading

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E-Scores: A New Way of Mapping (Secretly) Consumers’ Buying Traits

Depending on your perspective — as a retail business or as a shopper — there is good/bad news about the latest technological advances being used to track shopping behavior. There is now an incredible amount of in-depth information being gathered (unbeknownst to … Continue reading

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Multichannel Merchant’s 2012-2013 Outlook for Catalogs

Multichannel Merchant’s 2012-13 Catalog Outlook Report, sponsored by Ripon Printers, can “help evaluate, benchmark, and plan” a catalog strategy and its related tactics.  Click the image to access the 5-page report.    

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