2017 is coming to a close and with that, it’s important to take a look back and see what happened in the digital commerce space. By looking at the trends & strategies that occurred this past year, you can leverage and identify opportunities for 2018. By not doing this, you risk starting 2018 behind. Don’t Miss Out—Join 3 ecommerce experts in our round-table round-up as they dive into the trends, strategies, and news that occurred in 2017 and how that looks to affect 2018.
BrightonSEO 2023 session on Audiences that focuses on growing beyond the seed audiences and focusing on persona building. We dive into Google, Microsoft, facebook, and Amazon. We also go through an audit of ads and finish by looking at the consumer journey.
To help the channel embrace the cloud, Ingram Micro Cloud offers Cloud University as a benefit to its resellers. Ingram Micro Cloud University is filled with educational offerings and practical business knowledge designed to support resellers as they transition to the cloud. From Sales to Service Delivery, Marketing to Operations, Ingram Micro Cloud University will help lift your business to the cloud, with confidence and ease. Hosted by Microsoft, IDC and Ingram Micro.
It’s been a year in retail like no other.
The retail industry is in the midst of unprecedented disruption - the days of slow, strategic planning are part of a bygone era. There have been record store closings, aggressive new retail concepts, major retail acquisitions, restructuring and bankruptcies.
To survive and thrive, retailers are pushing the boundaries of technology - using data and intelligence in ways never before seen across the merchandising, planning, allocation, and fulfillment process. Review some of the major themes and shocking moments of 2017 with special guest Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director of Fung Global Retail & Technology, plus tips on how to succeed in 2018. The slides cover the following themes:
- A review of the major trends and key industry happenings in 2017
- Why retailers are afraid to tell customers that they know so much about them
- Ways in which optimizing inventories can be the key to serving your customers
- How to better understand customers and provide a better experience through advanced analytics
- Tips on how to succeed in 2018... and more
This presentation is from Affiliate Summit East 2018 (July 29 - July 31, 2018 in New York).
Session description: Influencer Marketing is the fastest-growing customer-acquisition channel producing quality content with built-in distribution. Empower your customers to become micro-influencers to drive sales.
2017 is coming to a close and with that, it’s important to take a look back and see what happened in the digital commerce space. By looking at the trends & strategies that occurred this past year, you can leverage and identify opportunities for 2018. By not doing this, you risk starting 2018 behind. Don’t Miss Out—Join 3 ecommerce experts in our round-table round-up as they dive into the trends, strategies, and news that occurred in 2017 and how that looks to affect 2018.
BrightonSEO 2023 session on Audiences that focuses on growing beyond the seed audiences and focusing on persona building. We dive into Google, Microsoft, facebook, and Amazon. We also go through an audit of ads and finish by looking at the consumer journey.
To help the channel embrace the cloud, Ingram Micro Cloud offers Cloud University as a benefit to its resellers. Ingram Micro Cloud University is filled with educational offerings and practical business knowledge designed to support resellers as they transition to the cloud. From Sales to Service Delivery, Marketing to Operations, Ingram Micro Cloud University will help lift your business to the cloud, with confidence and ease. Hosted by Microsoft, IDC and Ingram Micro.
It’s been a year in retail like no other.
The retail industry is in the midst of unprecedented disruption - the days of slow, strategic planning are part of a bygone era. There have been record store closings, aggressive new retail concepts, major retail acquisitions, restructuring and bankruptcies.
To survive and thrive, retailers are pushing the boundaries of technology - using data and intelligence in ways never before seen across the merchandising, planning, allocation, and fulfillment process. Review some of the major themes and shocking moments of 2017 with special guest Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director of Fung Global Retail & Technology, plus tips on how to succeed in 2018. The slides cover the following themes:
- A review of the major trends and key industry happenings in 2017
- Why retailers are afraid to tell customers that they know so much about them
- Ways in which optimizing inventories can be the key to serving your customers
- How to better understand customers and provide a better experience through advanced analytics
- Tips on how to succeed in 2018... and more
This presentation is from Affiliate Summit East 2018 (July 29 - July 31, 2018 in New York).
Session description: Influencer Marketing is the fastest-growing customer-acquisition channel producing quality content with built-in distribution. Empower your customers to become micro-influencers to drive sales.
Learn how effective inbound marketing is to businesses today.
Included in this slideshare are important inbound marketing statistics and trends covering leads, cost effectiveness, conversion rates, types of content, marketing channels, ROI, and more compared to outbound marketing.
Interested in learning more, check out 10 Powerful Charts Comparing Inbound Marketing VS Outbound Marketing here - https://www.tag-ad.com/inbound-marketing-vs-outbound-marketing-10-powerful-charts/
Hampton Roads AMA - 2017 Trends in Digital MarketingGrant Simmons
A quick review of likely digital marketing trends, including; The Multi-screen Consumer, Mobile First, User-Centric Experiences, Augmented Reality & Voice Search | Grant Simmons - Homes.com
2017, The Year of Amazon...What Exactly Happened?Tinuiti
A lot can happen in a year – especially on Amazon.com. We’ve outlined noteworthy changes, trends & need-to-knows that occurred on the Marketplace in 2017. With these in mind, we’ll be discussing their potential impact on 2018 and focusing on how Amazon sellers and vendors alike can put their best foot forward this upcoming year.
Don’t Miss Out—Join 3 of the leading industry experts as we delve into trends, innovations & strategies we believe will be essential in shaping the Amazon Marketplace in 2018.
Demand Generation in a Changing B2B Environment, By Will ManningWill Manning
Demand generation strategies need to reflect the changing B2B buyer environment. It's not just about the product. You need to understand the buyer persona.
Do you need to build bridges across different areas of the organization to win? Do you need to empower buying teams with disruptive content? Do you need to simplify the content reduce the buyers' feelings of being overwhelmed?
View this presentation and take a look a deep look your content strategy to be sure it aligns with your buyer's profile.
Identifying for Growth Online - Ricky at GS1UKDaytodayebay
In this presentation Ricky talks the developments of adding product identifiers to marketplace listings, as well as the customer behaviours and digital trends that are driving this.
Angela Leavitt of Mojo Marketing presented a webinar for Barracuda partners on January 25, 2018. This presentation covers planning for buyer personas, lead generation, content, social media and more. Included is a link to free downloads, including a marketing plan and budget template.
Create your never-ending marketing idea engine for A/B testing and personaliz...Chris Goward
The era of Gut-Instinct Marketing is long past. To grow your business, today, you must prove that your ideas work first, and implement second. But...once you’ve picked off the low-hanging fruit, how do you continue to have an endless stream of ideas to test and prove?
The answer lies in the most important piece of the growth puzzle: a proven process that delivers both tested results and insights for further testing. In this session, optimization thought-leader, Chris Goward, will show you proven methods that successful optimization programs use to generate and prioritize an endless stream of great test ideas.
Building a content marketing powerhouse - Adobe Summit 2017 Las VegasAndy Betts
Building a content marketing powerhouse
Peter Krmpotic - Group Product Manager, Adobe
Andy Betts - Executive and CMO Advisor - VP of Content and Communications, Executive and CMO Advisor
Learn what you need to know about content marketing and how it is revolutionizing not only the marketing department but the entire organization. With the explosion of marketing channels and the customers' growing demand for personalized content, marketers face an increasingly complex challenge of delivering personalized and contextually relevant experiences across the customer journey.
This session focus on:
What is content marketing and how can your customers benefit from it
Tips and tricks on ways to overcome today's challenges around people, processes, and technology
What an ideal solution looks like
This session is for all content marketers regardless of industry.
Last year the hottest products of the holiday season were fidget spinners, Hatchimals, and the Nintendo NES. All were sold out by November, leaving customers disappointed and retailers with revenue on the table. Each year, merchandisers are plagued with the dilemma of balancing out of stock and overstock.
Retailers like Toys”R”Us are launching their own online marketplace to offer their customers more products with an endless aisle to keep their customers happy. While the year-long value is clear, during the Holiday season the marketplace model truly shines.
In this webinar, participants will find out:
- Sucharita’s perspective on how marketplaces, including Amazon.com, are dominating online retail, especially during the holidays
- How merchandiser and eCommerce leaders can use the marketplace model to quickly add products to their assortment for a better holiday offering
- Best Buy Canada’s strategy to complement their owned and drop-ship inventory with marketplace categories and products
Customer Success is reshaping the business landscape in Israel. It provides a sustainable path forward for recurring revenue companies to grow predictably over the long-term.
This half-day event brings innovative Customer Success professionals together to learn how their businesses should think about retention, renewals, and delivering customer outcomes.
With speakers from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Cloudinary, Sisense, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, you'll hear from local Customer Success leaders as well as Gainsight's executive team.
Talk from the Marketing Loves Sales 2017 conference.
This story is about how your Product Marketing team loves your SEO team and the SEO team loves them right back. Your product marketing team gets along great with your SEO team and they never have contradictory recommendations. Product launches come off swimmingly and on time. Every piece of content created immediately ranks on page 1.
Unfortunately, this love story is fiction. In reality, your product marketing teams and your SEO team are often at odds. They frustrate each other, they come to contradictory conclusions, and this conflict isn’t doing your marketing efforts any favors. I really don’t want to dwell on these troubles, but if you’ll indulge me for a bit, I promise, I’ll provide you with a way that you can heal this relationship.
Noah Brimhall, Director of SEO & CRO at Obility
Discover how to generate demand for your products and services to increase your sales. Learn the demand generation process and content strategy that aligns with lead generation and the buyers journey to effectively increase revenue for your business.
Luxury textiles launching at the summer marketsChris Schultz
The summer trade show season for luxury purveyors kicks off in Atlanta today with the opening of the AmericasMart’s Gift & Home Furnishings Market.
The newest in luxury textiles – across bedding, accessories and area rugs – are coming to the Atlanta market, July 10-16, and again to Las Vegas Market July 29 to August 2 and NY Now Aug. 12 to 15.
Here is a sampling of what some of the key designers and brands are launching this summer for this fall and spring 2019.
Learn how effective inbound marketing is to businesses today.
Included in this slideshare are important inbound marketing statistics and trends covering leads, cost effectiveness, conversion rates, types of content, marketing channels, ROI, and more compared to outbound marketing.
Interested in learning more, check out 10 Powerful Charts Comparing Inbound Marketing VS Outbound Marketing here - https://www.tag-ad.com/inbound-marketing-vs-outbound-marketing-10-powerful-charts/
Hampton Roads AMA - 2017 Trends in Digital MarketingGrant Simmons
A quick review of likely digital marketing trends, including; The Multi-screen Consumer, Mobile First, User-Centric Experiences, Augmented Reality & Voice Search | Grant Simmons - Homes.com
2017, The Year of Amazon...What Exactly Happened?Tinuiti
A lot can happen in a year – especially on Amazon.com. We’ve outlined noteworthy changes, trends & need-to-knows that occurred on the Marketplace in 2017. With these in mind, we’ll be discussing their potential impact on 2018 and focusing on how Amazon sellers and vendors alike can put their best foot forward this upcoming year.
Don’t Miss Out—Join 3 of the leading industry experts as we delve into trends, innovations & strategies we believe will be essential in shaping the Amazon Marketplace in 2018.
Demand Generation in a Changing B2B Environment, By Will ManningWill Manning
Demand generation strategies need to reflect the changing B2B buyer environment. It's not just about the product. You need to understand the buyer persona.
Do you need to build bridges across different areas of the organization to win? Do you need to empower buying teams with disruptive content? Do you need to simplify the content reduce the buyers' feelings of being overwhelmed?
View this presentation and take a look a deep look your content strategy to be sure it aligns with your buyer's profile.
Identifying for Growth Online - Ricky at GS1UKDaytodayebay
In this presentation Ricky talks the developments of adding product identifiers to marketplace listings, as well as the customer behaviours and digital trends that are driving this.
Angela Leavitt of Mojo Marketing presented a webinar for Barracuda partners on January 25, 2018. This presentation covers planning for buyer personas, lead generation, content, social media and more. Included is a link to free downloads, including a marketing plan and budget template.
Create your never-ending marketing idea engine for A/B testing and personaliz...Chris Goward
The era of Gut-Instinct Marketing is long past. To grow your business, today, you must prove that your ideas work first, and implement second. But...once you’ve picked off the low-hanging fruit, how do you continue to have an endless stream of ideas to test and prove?
The answer lies in the most important piece of the growth puzzle: a proven process that delivers both tested results and insights for further testing. In this session, optimization thought-leader, Chris Goward, will show you proven methods that successful optimization programs use to generate and prioritize an endless stream of great test ideas.
Building a content marketing powerhouse - Adobe Summit 2017 Las VegasAndy Betts
Building a content marketing powerhouse
Peter Krmpotic - Group Product Manager, Adobe
Andy Betts - Executive and CMO Advisor - VP of Content and Communications, Executive and CMO Advisor
Learn what you need to know about content marketing and how it is revolutionizing not only the marketing department but the entire organization. With the explosion of marketing channels and the customers' growing demand for personalized content, marketers face an increasingly complex challenge of delivering personalized and contextually relevant experiences across the customer journey.
This session focus on:
What is content marketing and how can your customers benefit from it
Tips and tricks on ways to overcome today's challenges around people, processes, and technology
What an ideal solution looks like
This session is for all content marketers regardless of industry.
Last year the hottest products of the holiday season were fidget spinners, Hatchimals, and the Nintendo NES. All were sold out by November, leaving customers disappointed and retailers with revenue on the table. Each year, merchandisers are plagued with the dilemma of balancing out of stock and overstock.
Retailers like Toys”R”Us are launching their own online marketplace to offer their customers more products with an endless aisle to keep their customers happy. While the year-long value is clear, during the Holiday season the marketplace model truly shines.
In this webinar, participants will find out:
- Sucharita’s perspective on how marketplaces, including Amazon.com, are dominating online retail, especially during the holidays
- How merchandiser and eCommerce leaders can use the marketplace model to quickly add products to their assortment for a better holiday offering
- Best Buy Canada’s strategy to complement their owned and drop-ship inventory with marketplace categories and products
Customer Success is reshaping the business landscape in Israel. It provides a sustainable path forward for recurring revenue companies to grow predictably over the long-term.
This half-day event brings innovative Customer Success professionals together to learn how their businesses should think about retention, renewals, and delivering customer outcomes.
With speakers from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Cloudinary, Sisense, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, you'll hear from local Customer Success leaders as well as Gainsight's executive team.
Talk from the Marketing Loves Sales 2017 conference.
This story is about how your Product Marketing team loves your SEO team and the SEO team loves them right back. Your product marketing team gets along great with your SEO team and they never have contradictory recommendations. Product launches come off swimmingly and on time. Every piece of content created immediately ranks on page 1.
Unfortunately, this love story is fiction. In reality, your product marketing teams and your SEO team are often at odds. They frustrate each other, they come to contradictory conclusions, and this conflict isn’t doing your marketing efforts any favors. I really don’t want to dwell on these troubles, but if you’ll indulge me for a bit, I promise, I’ll provide you with a way that you can heal this relationship.
Noah Brimhall, Director of SEO & CRO at Obility
Discover how to generate demand for your products and services to increase your sales. Learn the demand generation process and content strategy that aligns with lead generation and the buyers journey to effectively increase revenue for your business.
Luxury textiles launching at the summer marketsChris Schultz
The summer trade show season for luxury purveyors kicks off in Atlanta today with the opening of the AmericasMart’s Gift & Home Furnishings Market.
The newest in luxury textiles – across bedding, accessories and area rugs – are coming to the Atlanta market, July 10-16, and again to Las Vegas Market July 29 to August 2 and NY Now Aug. 12 to 15.
Here is a sampling of what some of the key designers and brands are launching this summer for this fall and spring 2019.
One Kings Lane Makes Its Mark on Long IslandChris Schultz
Two months ago, online home retailer One Kings Lane tested brick-and-mortar retailing with a pop-up shop here in Southampton, and all indications are that the experiment has been fruitful.
Greeting Card Association Celebrates the Best in the Industry with LOUIE AwardChris Schultz
The Greeting Card Association (GCA) announced the winners of the 2017 International Greeting Card Awards Competition, the “LOUIE Awards,” at a Gala Sunday evening during the National Stationery Show (NSS). GDA Editor in Chief, Lenise Willis, helped to present.
Phil Johnston of Marcus Thomas LLC speaks at our Better Sleep Council Panel Discussion: What Do Shorter Replacement Cycles and Changing Consumer Behaviors Mean for the Industry?
Managing Editor Anne-Marie Earl’s nursery will make its debut as the backdrop of Gift and Decorative Accessories' June magazine cover, its first-ever original photoshoot. Our lead feature for the June issue is on baby giftables, so we knew we wanted a cover that would set the tone. Lucky for us, we have a Pinterest-driven modern mom on our staff who didn’t mind us invading her personal space.