Published: August 25, 2016
International markets saw a 16 percent increase in Chinese outbound travelers, but closer to home, in Greater China, there was a 7 percent decline in tourism for the first half of 2016, according to the China Outboard Tourism Research Institute.
Published: August 25, 2016
LVMH-owned beauty retailer Sephora’s exemplary mobile gifting experience is a result of the brand’s mastery of customer-facing strategies such as discoverability, wide range of payment options and quick delivery, according to a new report from Retail Systems Research.
Published: August 25, 2016
Not only do chat bots help businesses personally answer large volumes of common questions, they also enable companies to meet consumers’ growing preferences to solve problems via messaging versus waiting on hold to talk with a company representative.
Published: August 25, 2016
You do not want your users to think about using your app, just to use it. The part of our brain that controls habit has nothing to do with conscious thought. How can apps tap into its power?
Published: August 24, 2016
Department store chain Bloomingdale’s is heading back to school with hotel Lotte New York Palace with a room package that gives back.
Published: August 24, 2016
Millennials are the future consumers of all brands, now commanding an estimated $1.3 trillion in annual consumer spending. As brands target the largest generation of all time, the luxury industry still lags behind.
Published: August 24, 2016
How can brands and retailers get influence marketing right as consumers gain even more control of the dialogue with marketers? Find out the key trends that are driving influencer marketing with best-practice tips and pointers in this free webinar on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 at 2 p.m. ET.
Published: August 24, 2016
Luxury automakers have typically dominated the top spots in customer satisfaction rankings, but mass-market brands are catching up.
Published: August 23, 2016
Social media provides retailers with a toolkit for enhancing, influencing and personalizing the consumer journey, but 81 percent of retail marketers feel their methods need to improve, according to a new report by Boston Retail Partners.
Published: August 23, 2016
Marketers need to make branding a strategic priority in their programmatic buying programs to address how storytelling today is cross-channel, according to a new report from Forrester Research.