Coming off a successful CommerceNext conference earlier this summer where attendance grew 122% to nearly 1,000 industry leaders and whose Net Promoter Score ranked as exceptional for conferences, CommerceNext is expanding its offering of events and programs in 2020 for marketing leaders at retail and direct to consumer (DTC) brands.
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We’re working hard to kick off planning for 2020; in the meantime, we’d like to share what the media had to say about this year’s ecommerce conference. Catch up on what you missed and refresh on the sessions you saw this summer, and stay tuned for announcements about CommerceNext 2020 coming next month!
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Customer acquisition and retention in both online and physical environments is something Sarmad Saghir, VP of Acquisition for Adore Me (a sleepwear and activewear company offering a monthly lingerie subscription service), knows a thing or two about. He joins Marc Raco and guest hosts Joe Yakuel (Agency Within) and Catherine Schepis (American Fashion Podcast, and Lean Canvas Advisory).
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We’re still 78 days away from this year's ecommerce conference and we’re busting at the seams! Due to an overwhelming response from retail and DTC brands, we’ve worked with the Hyatt to open up 100 more passes in anticipation of more than 800 attendees. This retail and ecommerce conference for next level customer acquisition is scheduled for July 31 and August 1, 2019, in the heart of New York City. This is the first year we will be hosting at the Grand Hyatt for a full two-day experience with almost double the content.
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Even before the rise of the internet and smartphones, Estée Lauder, the founder of Estée Lauder Companies, knew the importance and complexities of telling stories to connect and capture an audience. At the 2018 CommerceNext conference, Tricia Nichols, Senior Vice President of Customer Marketing at Estée Lauder, shared how her team successfully harnesses the art of micro-storytelling to capture an audience, share brand values and create customer loyalty. The goal of micro-storytelling is fostering brand bonding—the building of rational and emotional bonds between customer and brand as a part of the customer experience.
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On Day two of this year’s ecommerce conference, Micky Onvural (CEO, Bonobos), Ben Harrell (CMO, Priceline), and Kieran Luke (GM Credentials, General Assembly/GA) break it all down in their session, “The Ingredients of a Successful Marketing Team.” Why this panel topic? These ecommerce marketing leaders see team curation as both an art and a science.
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Attribution is one of marketing’s biggest headaches. It’s also an absolute necessity for measuring incrementality and managing ROI. With so many differing opinions on how best to handle attribution, retailers often find themselves struggling for real answers amongst the noise. With multi-touch attribution, models can be difficult to build out and maintain, often requiring a data science team or specialized partners. Some retailers have defaulted to last-click attribution, which has it’s pitfalls given it’s bias towards lower-funnel marketing tactics. Then, there’s the question of which metric should be used for optimizing media? Should it be return on ad spend (RoAS), cost per aquisition (CPA) or profitability? And, how do you ensure you’re capturing customer engagement and purchase across devices and channels?
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The first of many can’t-miss speakers we’ll announce for our ecommerce conference in the coming months, we’re thrilled to share our first two keynotes for CommerceNext 2019 with Joe Megibow, CEO of Purple and Laura Joukovski, Chief Media Officer of TechStyle confirmed to take the stage.
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. According to HubSpot, 87% of people say there are more ads today than two years ago. To learn how leading brands are breaking through the noise, we sat down with Naomi Jacobs of Qurate Retail Group, Bree Casart of West Elm, Mark Chou of Away and Tomer Tagrin of Yatpo at last year’s CommerceNext conference to learn more about their tricks of the trade.
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New York, NY, October 18, 2018 — CommerceNext, the conference for next level customer acquisition, is scheduled for July 31 and August 1, 2019, in New York. The 2019 conference moves to the Grand Hyatt and is expanding to two full days. CommerceNext is an annual ecommerce conference that brings together the best minds in retail, and ecommerce digital marketing, and customer acquisition. It’s initial summit in July 2018 in NYC brought together more than 400 attendees and 60 speakers such as Carrie Ask, EVP and President, Global Retail, Levi’s; Vijay Talwar, President, Digital, Foot Locker; and Aaron Sanandres, Co-founder and CEO, UNTUCKit.
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