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How to Generate Sales Leads with LinkedIn (Organic & Ad Strategies)
Want to get qualified leads flowing into your business around the clock?
Spoiler alert: you need to step up your LinkedIn game.
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Is This the Perfect Formula for Visual Merchandising?
Gifts & Decorative Accessories recently shared a visual merchandising webinar between the nonprofit group Heart on Main Street, which offers financial aid, mentorship, and education to retailers, and...
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Sunshine Contacts is an invite-only address book app from Marissa Mayer’s...
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has just revealed her first major product since stepping down back in 2017: a new contact management application for...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
Walmart launches voice-activated grocery shopping
Walmart has partnered with Google to allow customers to voice order groceries from their Google Assistant enabled devices including Google Home, iPhones and Android...
Has Omnichannel Retailing Made Malls More Relevant?
A study from Coresight Research found traffic at U.S. shopping malls has strongly recovered to surpass pre-Covid levels. The research firm believes brands within malls are...
Walmart gamifies store associate training with Spark City
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Walmart has started using Spark City, a simulation-style training game in the form of a mobile app, to assist in training its store...
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Under Armour faces investigation into accounting practices
Under Armour is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department over its accounting practices, particularly around whether the retailer...
Amazon’s marketplace business is growing once again
Third-party seller services and overall marketplace growth helped fuel Amazon’s third-quarter earnings.
This past quarter, Amazon’s online stores business grew 7% year-over-year to $57.2 billion....
Urban Outfitters announces disappointing holiday sales, group CEO departure
Urban Outfitters, Inc. reported total company net sales for the two months ended December 31, 2020, decreased 8.4 percent over the same period last...
What’s different about Levi’s
The brand has defined American denim since the 19th century by remaining a pioneer. Now Wall Street will have a say in its...
The government just blocked another razor startup from getting acquired
The Federal Trade Commission announced it would sue to block Proctor & Gamble’s purchase of razor and body care company Billie on December 8th, citing P&G’s...
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Walmart overtaking Amazon? Not so fast
Purchase frequency and even Prime membership at Amazon is declining, while Walmart is on the rise, according to a consumer study from retail analytics...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......
