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Holiday Shopping Tips for YOU!!

Every year, I offer a list of holiday shopping tips intended to help shoppers avoid being ripped off or overspending their budget. Click here to read this year’s tips: Holiday Shopping Tips for Consumers December 12  

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The Importance of Digital Tools During the Shopping Process: A Global Study

As eMarketer reports: “Consumers have different expectations and preferences for customer service depending on where they are in the purchase journey and the types of questions they have. A 2012 global customer experience study sponsored by Capgemini found that social media … Continue reading

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Daily Deal Promotions Not Working for Small Retailers

As we’ve written about before, daily deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial often do not achieve the intended results for retailers — namely, to offer a deeply-discounted deal through a Web site coupon that gets people to visit a … Continue reading

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