Archive for category: Featured

The Customer Experience Battle: What Else Can You Offer?

The Customer Experience Battle: What Else Can You Offer?

0 etailblog / May 9, 2012 4:11 pm

According to the 2012 American Express Global Customer Service Barometer, three in five customers believe that businesses have not increased their focus on customer service. Nearly one in three people surveyed felt that businesses were doing less than they had [...]

How Customer Reviews Put Local Businesses on the Map

How Customer Reviews Put Local Businesses on the Map

0 Kelly Hushin / May 8, 2012 1:16 pm

Can’t get enough of infographics? They’re just so handy! Here’s one from Milo (which compiled research from a study done by SearchEngineLand.com and one by eMarketer.com) on how consumers are looking for and finding local small businesses, as well as the impact [...]

Ecommerce Financial Tips from 2 Retail Pros – Wayfair & The Moret Group

Ecommerce Financial Tips from 2 Retail Pros – Wayfair & The Moret Group

0 Kelly Hushin / May 8, 2012 10:36 am

If your CEO, CMO, CFO (pick a C) hasn’t breathed the term ROI down your neck more times than you can count, we want to know where you’re working! But really, s/he has good reason to – at the end [...]

Why Focus on Customer Loyalty? Here’s Why…

Why Focus on Customer Loyalty? Here’s Why…

0 etailblog / May 7, 2012 2:18 pm

Retaining existing customers is always cheaper than recruiting new ones. According to Chris Wagner, VP of Marketing for InfoCision Management Corporation, retention is six to 10 times cheaper than recruiting. But don’t confuse what a loyalty strategy is all about. [...]

Facebook’s Big, Bad, IPO

Facebook’s Big, Bad, IPO

0 Kelly Hushin / May 4, 2012 4:12 pm

When Facebook goes public, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be richer than Microsoft Corp.’s Steve Ballmer and Russian steel billionaire Vladimir Lisin, both twice his age. This is according to an article in the Washington Post, one of an array of [...]

Why Your Email Marketing is in a Rut

Why Your Email Marketing is in a Rut

1 Kelly Hushin / May 4, 2012 12:01 pm

Do customers see your emails in their inbox and automatically hit “delete”? Or maybe they aren’t seeing your email at all? If you’re starting to see the ROI for your email marketing campaign take a tumble, it might be time [...]

CoffeeforLess.com’s ‘One Thing’ is Simple – and Crucial

CoffeeforLess.com’s ‘One Thing’ is Simple – and Crucial

0 Kelly Hushin / May 3, 2012 11:47 am

I typically put a ban on the answer “analytics” for our ‘One Thing’ Q&A’s. But I must make an exception for Zachary Ciperski, VP of Marketing at CoffeeforLess.com. Why? Because he was actually one of the first ones to answer [...]

The Risks of Staying In or Out of the Cloud

The Risks of Staying In or Out of the Cloud

0 etailblog / May 2, 2012 12:59 pm

A recent Forrester Consulting survey found that 81 percent of CIOs plan to develop strategies for cloud transitions within the coming year. Are the risks of cloud computing worth the potential improvements to the bottom line? The answer, overwhelmingly, is [...]

Mother’s Day is A-Coming… Tips for a Bit-O Last Minute Marketing

Mother’s Day is A-Coming… Tips for a Bit-O Last Minute Marketing

0 Kelly Hushin / May 1, 2012 3:50 pm

Mother’s Day is a holiday made for online shopping. While many of us may not live with our mums, we can surely still think of them and send them something special – particularly when our favorite retailers keep making it [...]

The Next Big Thing in E-Commerce Will Be…

The Next Big Thing in E-Commerce Will Be…

0 Kelly Hushin / May 1, 2012 12:39 pm

It’s the job of digital marketers to figure out where their industry is going and how customers will respond to the changing digital world. If not us, who will? That’s why it’s so important to get together and talk about [...]