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While the retail industry has made great strides in understanding the online journeys of consumers, it has been difficult to observe and analyze their whereabouts and movements offline. Advanced location intelligence enables marketers to observe consumer journeys to within meters, whether indoors or outdoors, as they move around ever-changing environments, such as stores, malls, restaurants, residential addresses, landmarks, and places of interest. This eBook explores how retailers are starting to launch more targeted campaigns by using location to understand consumer behavior. Find out why location intelligence can bring a wide range of benefits to the entire retail industry: data-driven audience segmentation, real-time location targeting, reduced ad-spend, enhanced campaign attribution, and more.

To succeed in this new era of customer service, retailers must figure out how to personalize the way they connect with customers. Find out why personalizing your support strategy is crucial for your business — and how to do it.

How can brands create relevant, authentic advertising experiences with real-world location intelligence? Innovative brands and marketers are looking for data sets and services that contextualize consumer movements and habits in the world around them. Understanding location and its connection to customer behavior is key to increasing the effectiveness of retail campaigns and diving deeper into audience behavioral patterns. HERE enables relevant and authentic experiences through real-time location intelligence. As the world’s leading location platform*, HERE also shares its insights into the future of reaching customers on their mobile devices as they travel. *Souce: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes

While the retail industry has made great stri des in understanding the online journeys of consumers, it has been difficult to observe and analyze their wh ereabouts and movements offline . Advanced location intelligence enables marketers to observe consumer journeys to within meters, whether indoors or outdoors, as they move ar ound ever - changing environments, such as stores, malls, restaurants, residential addresses, landmarks, and places of interest. This eBook explores how retailers are starting to launch more targeted campaigns by using location to understand consumer behavior. Find out why location intelligence ca n bring a wide range of benefits to the entire retail industry : data - driven audience segmentation, real - time location targeting, reduced ad - spend, enhanced campaign attribution, and more.

As rising consumer expectations ramp up reputational risk, retailers need to keep up to date with regulatory developments. This report provides a comprehensive overview. Read the report to find out: • what customers care about that could affect your reputation • which regulations you must comply with to manage reputational and financial risk • why brand and reputation is a top concern for UK CEOs.

Find out why cyber security must be embedded into commercial strategy. With focused insight on the economics of trust for financial services, automotive, mobile and retail organisations. Read the report to understand: • how consumer expectations are shifting on the topic of digital trust • how well the priorities of consumers and security executives align • what it takes for consumers to stay with a brand when things go wrong.

In order to give their commercial customers the best prices and most flexible purchasing options possible, Floor & Decor offers lines of credit through their preferred credit provider, CIT. To fully leverage and scale this partnership, Floor & Decor needed a way to quickly check credit availability in their retail stores on demand. It also needed to generate invoices to send to their commercial customers while providing assignment notices to CIT.

Retailers worldwide are finding success in the cloud. Check out this blog to learn how smarter back-office technology can help you better attract, engage, and retain your workforce.

Your customers crave and deserve a stellar customer service experience. Learn three ways to deliver personalized support and earn lifelong brand loyalty.

The digital age has forever changed customer expectations. By unifying customer data and tracking interactions, Kustomer gives retailers the power to better understand customers and deliver great experiences wherever they happen to engage.

UNTUCKit wanted to ensure their stellar shopping experience was supported across every customer touchpoint, especially support. But the growing UNTUCKit team was spread across multiple platforms, without visibility into customer history or lifetime value. Learn how Kustomer enabled them to deliver exceptional service while increasing agent efficiency by 25%.

As the first managed services partner for Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace can help you accelerate innovation and cost savings within your retail organisation. With over 2.5 million hours of experience managing over 8000+ ecommerce websites, let us look after the intensive day-to-day operations of the cloud, so that you can focus on achieving your core business objectives. This paper explores: • Customer Voices: a look at three customers experiences working and thriving with GCP cloud • Shopping trends and forecasts for 2019 • What’s on offer with Rackspace and our Fanatical Experience™

Retailers who can identify their customers and deliver hyperpersonalized engagement on any channel are the ones thriving in this new age of retail. As the old model of inventory-led retail becomes obsolete, forward-thinking marketers deliver a new generation of shopping experiences with a common focus: the individual consumer. In our Personalization Handbook for Retail Marketers, we’ll provide a toolset of proven strategies and technologies to help marketers leverage personalization for longterm wins such as increased customer loyalty, spending frequency and lifetime value. Starting things off, we’ll discuss why hyper-personalization is the only constant in today’s rapidly changing retail landscape.

Here’s the reality for retail marketers today: personalization is no longer an option. It’s the key to keeping your customers engaged – and spending. Brands that get it right stand to gain a lot. Those who don’t, lose. Consider some of the major retailers that have failed in recent years.

In retail, technology continues to change the rules of engagement. Consumers are more demanding than ever and getting them to notice your brand amid all the noise in the market is an even greater challenge. Read this report to discover: • the top trends reshaping retail in 2019 • how leading retailers are taking up the challenge • 10 top lessons for every retailer.

Everything changes. We are in a period of significant shifts in companies—even entire industries—demonstrated in rankings, like the Fortune Global 500. For the last century, these periods of volatility have been driven by a combination of technological change and capital expansion.1 There is obvious competition between direct, traditional market segments, but digital disruption also opens up the ability to compete and gain revenue in new areas. For example, a movie streaming service like Netflix also launches a community around the software it created to run its services, or an online retailer like Amazon also innovates with public cloud management. Innovation requires more than a slick customer user interface (UI). There has to be a foundation of technology, processes, and culture that allow an organization to be flexible, to build on its existing knowledge, and to incorporate new ideas. At a strategic level, today’s software is expected to deliver on a multitude of new and different

The Spice House has a long history of pioneering how spices are sold. Since 1957, its flagship brick-and-mortar location has been a go-to hub for grabbing a cup of coffee and taking in the full spice experience—smelling, grinding, tasting, touching, and talkin’ spices and their backstories with the owners. Today, The Spice House sells more than 400 spices, blends, rubs, and extracts across several retail locations and the ecommerce store. See how Drip ecommerce CRM helps The Spice House bring a great instore experience to their online space.

eCommerce offers consumers new ways to interact with traditional retailers, resulting in changed consumer preferences – 63% of customers today would switch brands for a better connected experience, and 75% want personalized offers based on purchase history. Traditional retailers need to consider how to build a new digital retail platform strategy within their business models to engage with consumers and help maintain their competitive edge. Read this whitepaper to learn: A 4-step strategy for retailers to build a retail digital platform strategy with APIs. The role APIs can play in optimizing consumer journey personalization and creating new revenue channels. How a leading fast food company created a unified consumer experience by adopting a platform-based business model.

The recent economic downturn has created some formidable challenges for the retail banking industry. Fraud and identify theft are on the rise, costing banks big money and raising customer concerns about security.

The response to possible bank card fraud is one of the most important factors affecting the relationship that customers have with their bank. For customer-centric financial institutions who issue millions of bank cards, any instance of possible fraud is both a business risk to be managed and an opportunity to strengthen customer relationships.

Register today to view to the webcast Proactive Notifications for Financial Services: Using Automated Customer Communications to Manage Risk and Retain Customers.

The Pro's and Con's of Frequency for online retailers. There is a happy medium for the frequency of an email newsletter or special promotions. The more you mail in the short term, the more revenue you will see, but what are the long term effects?

Business Intelligence helps retailers, warehouse staff, customer services agents, and your value chain realize new innovations, improve margins, and propel profits to new heights. Learn how Ace Hardware, Food Lion, and others leverage our software.

Sports apparel retailer Fanzz uses iPad kiosks to accept in-store orders on their website, increasing the number of sales on their site and keeping more in-store customers.

Small and midsize retailers around the world are seeing their businesses transform in a variety of ways. These firms, typically with fewer than 1,000 employees, have been transforming themselves as customers seek new types of engagement and as suppliers expect higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness. New business models and new competitors are changing the way retailers do business. Rather than simply react to new threats, successful retailers are leveraging technology in new ways to sharpen business practices, improve agility, and better serve customers while strengthening the role of retailers in the supply chain. Through digital transformation including the effective engagement of the internet of things (IoT) to track inventory, the opportunity to maintain and gain competitive advantage can be significant.