The rise of omni-channel retail: definition and 5 tips | Tips & practices | Blogs | Selligent | Interactive Marketing Solutions | Marketing software Consumers increasingly embrace digital technologies and devices in all stages of their buying journey. Digital is integrated with off-line shopping behaviour and retailers are being advised they should look at omni-channel retailing. In his recent blog post on Econsultancy, Darren Hitchcock defines omni-channel retailing as "an integrated sales experience that melds the advantages of physical stores with the information-rich experience of online shopping". While omni-channel retailing is still relatively new for most retailers, it gets more attention as consumer behaviour keeps changing and retailers gain a single customer view, integrating customer and shopping data with behavioural profiling, preferences, etc. There are many tactics and ways to provide a more integrated shopping experience. 5 omni-channel retailing trends and ideas 1) Making use of social media Peer-to-peer communication is one of the most effective ways to sell something. 2) Integrating customer reviews
How to make your link building profitable Wil Reynolds told us at MozCon that we as SEOs are the ‘ugly fish of marketing’. The room laughed as we mocked those fancy traditional marketers… Wil likened us SEOs to those fish that eat shit off the bottom of the tank all day and still thrive.. The fact remains though that traditional marketers are eating our lunches and laughing at us ‘SEOs’ because we are perhaps not really doing ourselves any favours. Before you stop reading… this post isn’t another one that harps on about ditching SEO as a job title for “inbound” or “content marketing”. But, I digress. My aim with this post is to illustrate potential ways to make your link building more profitable. #1 – Be realistic but consider the bigger picture I hate pie in the sky blog posts – the ones that you can get drunk on the kool-aid of a fancy technique and then as soon as you finish reading you just alt tab back to the spreadsheet window you had open to carry on sifting through guest blogging opportunities. I want to be realistic.
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YouScan - Блог Inside Search SWOT Analysis for Ecommerce Companies How to conduct a SWOT analysis — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats — is something many MBA students learn. Unfortunately, businesses frequently treat SWOT analysis like geometry — one of those things you have to learn but will never use again. But SWOT analysis offers a concrete, real-world audit of a company and a scan of its relative standing within an industry. While strengths and weaknesses are internal, they are measured on a comparative benchmark. Opportunities and threats are external — your opportunity is usually at the expense of another company in your industry. The Basics The objectives of a SWOT analysis are to build on your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. A SWOT analysis takes a good deal of time. Ecommerce merchants should compare their businesses against both other online sellers and brick-and-mortar retailers. Markets change quickly and competitors may neutralize what was once an opportunity. Strengths What makes your business unique? Opportunities
One Race, Every Medalist Ever - Interactive Graphic Sources: "The Complete Book of the Olympics" by David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky, International Olympic Committee; Amateur Athletic Assocation; Photographs: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times, Getty Images, International Olympic Committee By KEVIN QUEALY and GRAHAM ROBERTS Usain Bolt vs. 116 years of Olympic sprinters Based on the athletes’ average speeds, if every Olympic medalist raced each other, Usain Bolt (the London version) would win, with a wide distribution of Olympians behind him. Below, where each sprinter would be when Bolt finishes his race. Usain Bolt2012 Meters behind 2012 Bolt Medals by country This chart includes medals for the United States and Australia in the "Intermediary" Games of 1906, which the I.O.C. does not formally recognize. Notable winners of the 100-meter sprint Archie Hahn United States The “Milwaukee Meteor” also won the 50-meter dash and the 200-meter dash in 1904. Jesse Owens Jim Hines Carl Lewis
Aiuto! La rete vendita pensa che i contatti “inbound” siano una rottura! Credo di aver avuto questa conversazione almeno 50 volte all’anno: “Mark, noi amiamo l’ “inbound marketing”. Abbiamo completamente ristrutturato il nostro marketing per allinearlo al modo in cui i potenziali clienti acquistano e stiamo ricevendo un numero di contatti 10 volte superiore al passato. E’ fantastico, ma la mia rete vendita non fa altro che lamentarsi di questi contatti. Dicono che rompono! "Pubblichiamo un articolo scrittto da Mark Roberge di HubSpot e gentilmente tradotto da Maria Angela Martoriello di Rossato Group". Ecco quello che succede: il vostro venditore tipo ha affinato per anni, se non per decenni, le sue abilità nell’attirare contatti “outbound”. I “problemi” che la vostra rete vendita sottolinea sono in realtà soltanto segni che evidenziano il modo in cui i contatti “inbound” agiscono, pensano e chiudono affari a differenza dei contatti “outbound”. Suggerimento #1: Non acquistare una lista di aziende nel tuo mercato target. Suggerimento #2: Non chiamare “in alto”
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