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Key Trends To Watch Out For The Digital First Holiday Season 2020

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  This holiday season, 30% of global retail sales will be through  digital channels . Are you ready to make the most of it? The evident effects of COVID-19 on consumer behavior have pushed retail models   to integrate more online channels. In the new normal, most customers are engaging with  three to five  channels during buying journeys. On top of that,  reports  suggest that the paradigm shift towards online shopping is a permanent one that will remain even after stores reopen. As a result, this year’s holiday season is going to be one of the most challenging for retailers. And the road to meet new customer expectations is via digitalization. Retailers need to elevate  digital experiences  across channels with consistent information dissemination, on-demand customer support, and timely issue resolution. Significant scaling and refining of digitalization approaches throughout their value chain can remodel operations and stream revenue. By bl...

Why Data Remains the Secret Sauce for Retailers to Attain Big Dollar Growth?

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With the advent of the internet and the popularity of smart, always-connected devices, the retail industry has experienced quite a revolution. The vast amount of data available online has enabled customers to research, compare, and make more informed purchase decisions. At the same time, major advances in data analytics have made it possible for retailers and brands to uncover and interpret customer behavior patterns, both online and in-store. As retailing swings between the binary of outright customer loyalty and excessive cart abandonment, it’s not difficult to understand that success hinges on more than just customer impulse. Brands overly obsessing over high growth must realize that at the core of a highly personalized and contextualized retail experience, lies data – consistent, correct, complete, and appealing data. A myriad of decisions, both big and small, have to be made every day to ensure success in the retail space. From de-listing a particular product and adjusting staffin...

The Myths and Realities of Digital Experience Platforms

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Technology adoption often leaves businesses perplexed. Be it large enterprises or SMBs, they constantly shuttle between long spells of contemplation and urges to be the first in their market segment to adopt a trend. Many times implementing technologies before really understanding how they coincide with their organizational goals, owing to competitive forces or by falling prey to good marketing spin, ends them up in a precarious situation. In recent times, digital experience platforms (DXPs) have created quite a stir among businesses. On the one hand, there’s a nonstop race to transform their customer experience (CX) journey, in which, DXPs play a major role (validated by a PWC report which says, 86% of customers are ready to pay more for a brand that has a better CX strategy). On the other hand, as promising as these numbers may sound, a lack of judgment which clouds the route to creating top-notch customer experiences might dent the ROI plans of a company. To get to the bott...