Tag: Ecommerce

How eCommerce businesses can deal with disruption in 2023 and beyond

Across the world, ecommerce businesses are increasingly focused on navigating the downturn. How they plan for and respond to the situation will determine how well they emerge from it. The winners will continue to grow, despite the increased uncertainties they face. Whereas, the too-cautious will...

Putting the ‘eco’ into eCommerce with zero-party data

Sustainability is not just a desirability – it’s now a necessity. Businesses are scouring for ways to reduce their carbon output drastically. With eCommerce, using advanced customer data platforms (CDPs) to collect and manage zero-party data can be the key...

It’s time to challenge the monopoly and start a customer-focused revolution in e-commerce

It’s a given that the pandemic has been good for the tech giants. The entire GAFAM group, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft have seen profits continue to surge. Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft made $57bn of profits in the last...

FedEx Partners Up for Better CX

The lockdown has changed consumers shopping habits. Online purchasing is here to stay, and shipping companies found themselves in an urge to meet consumers needs and expectations. Now more than ever, businesses have to know their customer’s habits and attitudes, so...

UK Retailers Lead the Way in Omnichannel Marketing, Have Yet to Utilise the Full Potential

New data collected from an omnichannel marketing automation platform, dotdigital, reveals the UK leads the way in omnichannel marketing, as 31 percent is scored by UK retailers against key success market, compared to the global benchmark of just 18 percent. Despite...

Brands Should Focus on Delivering a ‘Human’ Experience in the Brave New World

The uncertainty surrounding the fallout from lockdown and consumers’ changed behaviour makes the task of forecasting the future a difficult one for brands. While commentators obsess about the performance of channels and the extent to which ecommerce is replacing bricks...

Five Ways eCommerce Retailers Use Automation to Improve CX

With some countries facing COVID-19’s second wave and a lockdown lurking around the corner, many businesses are still unable to return to normal, while eCommerce retailers which saw a spike in recent years were able to thrive and teach us...

Black Friday is Changing – and so Should Your Ecommerce Approach

It might seem counterintuitive to suggest that major retail periods like Black Friday and Cyber Monday would boil down to anything other than price for consumers. But as competition between brands gets tougher and tougher year-on-year, and sales periods start...

Reputation in a Noisy World of Endless Choice

The rise of online retail continues to gather pace and consumers are rapidly migrating their spending habits away from brick and mortar to shopping through digital devices. ONS data shows that ecommerce market size reached £137.38bn last year, with 82...

Five Steps to Starting Your Ecommerce Business in the UAE

Whether you’re buying for personal consumption or business through the internet, online shopping is now a big part of our everyday lives. This fact is going to evolve even more so in the coming years with the upsurge of ecommerce...