3 Ways Retailers Can Gather, Harness and Effectively Use Zero-Party Data

Use zero-party data to your advantage.
This piece originally appeared as a TotalRetail post. Much of the conversation about how marketers can collect, harness and effectively use zero-party data focuses on brands, which struggle to gather it, or information consumers proactively provide, because businesses rarely maintain direct relationships with customers at scale. Retailers face an entirely different challenge: an abundance of ...
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Making Loyal Customers Out of Holiday Shoppers

Retain holiday shoppers all year round.
The original version of this piece appeared as a Multichannel Merchant post. Holiday shoppers opening their wallets online this year looks promising, but how many of them will become loyal customers when the frenzy ends? Black Friday’s ecommerce sales blew past the modest early projections for retailers, edging out in-store sales in year-over-year growth for the season’s ...
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How to Attract More In-Store Shoppers with Community-Based Offers

In a time when every other business article starts with “economic uncertainty,” it’s hard to feel confident about the future of retail. Whether or not the “uncertainty” actually results in a down economy, there is no doubt that consumer spending is volatile and trending downward as consumers worry about the future. And, this likely is ...
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How ASICS Drives Double-Digit Growth with Zero-Party Data

Over the last fifteen years, personalized marketing has been built on stalking consumers. Third-party cookies, third-party lists, and third-party data were the norm—even though we marketers knew this unverified information was imperfect and intrusive.  Today, the landscape of data collection for personalization in marketing is shifting quickly. Thanks to increasing regulatory scrutiny and a long-overdue ...
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How to Run a Successful Identity Marketing Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes campaigns are a great way for marketers to generate leads. According to an analysis by Wishpond, contest email CTRs are 5.5% higher than other emails, and contest landing page conversions are 7.3% higher than typical landing pages. When your sweepstakes is also an identity marketing campaign, you can see even greater success. Why You ...
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3 Customer Acquisition Strategies for Post-Pandemic Retail

Sai Koppala, CMO at SheerID, shares strategies to help retailers create a stronger connection with customers. This article originally appeared here. COVID has forced consumers online, and that's where they'll stay even after the pandemic is over. More consumers have gravitated in even greater numbers than anticipated to purchase online. According to the U.S. Census ...
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Why Brands Should Consider The Role Of Identity When It Comes To Customer Loyalty

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The pandemic has marketers witnessing consumers adopting new digital behaviors and brands embracing e-commerce on a new level, forcing them to rethink how to earn consumer loyalty. Many brands have struggled with being present during this crisis, but those who continued to lean in and look for new strategies, have not only found success but ...
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What Financial Marketers Can Learn From Retail

The case studies of the future will look back at the pandemic as a time when businesses were forced to adapt to customer needs more swiftly than ever before, and no industry has demonstrated this more nimbly than retail. As shoppers moved online, retailers quickly found ways to give customers a more personalized experience that ...
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Adweek Webinar Highlights How Rothy’s Used Its Current Customers to Acquire New Ones

Acquiring customers is especially difficult right now. For Rothy’s, a direct-to-consumer shoe company with a whole-brand approach to sustainability, that’s no different. When the economy took a turn and consumer spending began to drop, many brands made a knee-jerk reaction, running promotions and super-sales. Not Rothy’s, though. They didn’t want to dilute their brand’s perceived ...
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4 Key Takeaways from Adweek Elevate: Commerce

Adweek recently wrapped Elevate: Commerce. The virtual event offers six sessions focused on how marketers can effectively respond to the most pressing issues they face in today’s rapidly evolving economy, particularly in the wake of the coronavirus health crisis. Here are four great pieces of advice we took away: 01 Prioritize the Health of Customer ...
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