That’s a wrap! Season one of Conversations With CommerceNext: A Retail and DTC Podcast may be over, but there are tons of lessons that we’ll take with us into 2022. Industry experts from every type of brand and retailer regaled us with their experiences and best tips for career success.
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The holidays may have just started rolling by, but for those of us in retail and ecommerce, we’ve been immersed in holiday planning for months. Our marketing community may run the gamut in company size, strategy and category, but everyone gets to participate in the hecticness and rush of holiday. To help support marketers, we talked holiday shopping trends 2021 in this webinar, “The Holiday Gifting Playbook: A Consumer Perspective on 2021 Holidays.”
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CommerceNext IRL brought the return of our ecommerce and marketing conference for retail and direct-to-consumer brands. It was an amazing two days of reconnecting, networking and most importantly, sharing all things marketing and ecommerce. ICYMI, we recapped some of the key themes below.
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In a time of rising acquisition costs and lower ROI, it appears it’s time we all embrace alternatives to paid search and social like partner marketing. Read the recap to learn the benefits, challenges and best practices when it comes to partner marketing.
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Now is the perfect time to invest in customer experience, while ecommerce sales are at an all time high. In our latest webinar, Post Holiday Battle Plan: Growth Strategies for 2021 and Beyond, David Bolotsky (CEO and Founder, Uncommon Goods), Rebecca Traverzo (VP Marketing, ThirdLove), Bill Bass (CMO, FULLBEAUTY Brands) and Meghan Stabler (VP Product Marketing, BigCommerce outline three essential investment areas to attract and keep more customers in this online ecommerce boom.
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Recognizing the importance of sharing valuable resources with the CommerceNext community to help them understand the impact of COVID-19 on digital retail, we worked with WITHIN to make their COVID-19 Retail Pulse available. Leveraging first-party ecommerce data from its roster of 75 clients, WITHIN’s index tracks trends in ecommerce revenue, digital media ad spend, and conversion rate relative to the pre-COVID benchmark period.
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With Facebook and Google maintaining their seemingly permanent residency as the cornerstones of the digital marketers’ playbook, and Amazon a persistent and credible threat, the desperate search for scaled subsidies that enable revenue to grow faster than expenses and the operating leverage this dynamic yields has reached a palpable level of urgency. For some has become a matter of survival. So where are retail marketers finding the answers?
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Improvements in data and tracking for ecommerce-based brands has created a competitive marketplace for catching the hearts and attention of lifetime customers. Getting a new customer into the customer acquisition funnel can feel like half the battle. Joe Yakuel, Founder and CEO of Agency Within, teamed up with CEO of Trade Coffee Mike Lackman at CommerceNext 2019 to talk about the value of personalization as a full-funnel strategy for customer acquisition, from awareness to all the way down to purchase.
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In the digital age, the foundations of search, social and video lay the groundwork for much of how consumers interact with the brands they love and discover daily. This year’s CommerceNext included a panel with executives from startups, subscription services, DTC brands and solution providers to compare how these leaders achieved the new and noteworthy in their efforts to grow commerce.
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Denise Incandela, Head of Fashion for Walmart.com sat down with Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Sarah Nassauer to talk about her team’s efforts to expand beyond the realm of basics and establish Walmart as a fashion destination as well as a catch-all for your day to day needs. By overhauling their digital channels to create a more editorial and explorative customer experience, the team at Walmart develops a customer acquisition strategy fueled by testing new brands and partners.
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