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The four trends defining online retail in 2024

Inside Retail

Customer retention With both consumers and retailers feeling the pinch of increasing costs, customer retention will be a key theme of 2024. The competitive landscape is overflowing, making customer acquisition more expensive. Customer retention efforts are six to seven times more cost-effective.

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Smarter data: Reach high-propensity shoppers and deliver optimal digital impact

Inside Retail

Cost-effective advertising – targeting a high-propensity audience is a cost-effective way to advertise because you can use data from previous purchases and interactions with the category or segment to create targeted campaigns and lookalike audiences that are more likely to result in conversions.

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Driving demand with data: a recovery roadmap for retailers

Inside Retail

Shoppers are using a multi-channel approach to satisfy their needs – and this seismic shift, from both a consumer as well as a marketing perspective, has seen a huge increase in competition across every marketing channel in the customer journey. . Leveraging data for advertising. Flexibility, diversification and control.

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What investors want: The four e-commerce metrics that matter most

Inside Retail

Know your Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS). Advertising through platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Google Ads has been the formula to success for many online retailers. Ideally, you want a fairly steady advertising spend, while your overall revenue has grown at a faster rate. No metric is an island.

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Welcome to the new customer experience

Inside Retail

While 88 per cent of retail marketers share integrated tech stacks with advertising teams, this alignment alone is not enough. A unified front has to span the entire customer journey. In this regard, retailers are re-evaluating and revolutionising their value propositions for higher customer retention.

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CommBank helps unlock opportunities for businesses

Inside Retail

The group had a five-year strategy to build customer numbers but within those two weeks they hit 50 percent above that five-year target. That figure may have been an anomaly created by the pandemic but it’s been an opportunity for the group to focus on customer retention. It’s a terrific vehicle for us.

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“It’s simple”: Ex-Burberry exec on why you should listen to customers

Inside Retail

Customers, not profits, need to be at the centre of a retailer’s business if they hope to succeed. Most retailers tend to focus on the top of the funnel: on their return on advertising. Instead, you need to focus on improving the lifetime value of your customers.”. Customers are for life, not just for Christmas.