You want your customers to love your brand, regardless of how they shop. In-store? Online? Who cares, as long as they keep coming back!
In reality, it’s not a question of whether to prioritize in-store or online shopping; it’s all about creating a magnetic shopping experience. Most shoppers are using both channels on a regular basis, as well as mobile and social media. You need to be sure that wherever they go, they’ll have the best possible shopping experience.
It can be tough to separate fast-burning fads from meaningful trends that deserve your attention. But while “phygital retail” might sound like a punchy buzzword invented by marketers, it accurately represents a new—and better—way to build a retail business.
Millennials aren’t kids anymore. The majority have entered the workforce, built careers, and pursued milestones such as marriage, home ownership, and starting a family. As a result, today’s millennials are a major force in retail, accounting for 30 percent of all retail sales in the United States.
For shoppers, the holiday season is best described as joyful chaos. We all love a good family gathering and an excuse to overindulge in food and fun, but these festivities also tend to bring a flurry of shopping and rushed decision-making.
Your customers are feeling the pressure to buy the right gifts and deliver a flawless holiday celebration. To do it, they need your help.
Data can tell you a lot about your online customers: what products they view, which purchases they make, and what their wildest hopes and dreams are. (Okay, we’re not quite there ... yet.) But many brands are flying blind when it comes to understanding their brick-and-mortar customers.
This doesn’t have to be the case. With a few changes to your physical store, you can start gathering data similar to the kind your online store automatically provides, which will allow you to create personalized marketing for in-store customers.
Every retailer counts on strong sales during the holiday shopping season. But small businesses can’t always count on a major advertising budget to compete with the retail giants like Amazon.
However, whether you have one store or 100, you can delight shoppers by giving them a memorable shopping experience and personalized service.
Imagine a customer named Mary walks by your retail store on her way to work. She doesn’t have time to stop and shop, but a jacket in your storefront window catches her eye.
With so many online shopping options and so much social media out there, it’s easy to get distracted and forget just how important brick and mortar is to your business. With all that constant competition for attention, it takes more than the old retail playbook to attract visitors to your physical store. You’ve got to consistently reach out and experiment to keep growing.
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) selling isn’t easy. It requires a lot of hard work in the marketing and messaging department and an uncompromising customer focus. Without the convenience of traditional distribution channels, DTC brands have to start from scratch. However, DTC continues to be a popular business model for new retail startups because it offers a number of unique advantages:
