Key steps for making your retail business digital ready

The transition is no longer a choice, considering that customer experience and competitive standing depends on how quickly you can embrace modernisation. Before you...

How To Inspire Your Content Team To Have Better Ideas

Manager, marketer, or entrepreneur, one of the most challenging prospects you will face as you navigate the tricky terrain of creating engaging content, is...

What Is SEO? Search Engine Optimisation Without The Jargon

Every brand under the sun has a website (including your competitors). If you want to truly reach your customers and bring in more revenue,...

19 Best Deal Websites & Online Shopping Platforms for Deep Discounts

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, total U.S. retail e-commerce sales topped $209 billion in the third quarter of 2020, an all-time...

Ranking: Top 30 growth retailers led by Gymshark, Boohoo and Farfetch

PROMOTIONAL RESEARCH Dominated by retailers, our latest Top 30 Growth Retailers ranking is critical reading in the run-up to Christmas as shoppers increasingly migrate online. As...

With private brands, Amazon plays the long game

Contrary to recent reports, competitors probably shouldn't count on the idea that the e-retailer's private and exclusive labels are struggling. In addition to...

Personal Branding Trends That Actually Work on Social Media

If you think social media is the vehicle you need to get to terms with your goals, whether it’s securing a job, establishing a...

Instagram Reels to have a shopping feature soon

Instagram Reels will soon be adding a shopping feature in India. The new feature was announced in October as something the company had in the...

Which Social Platform Is Best For Your Business: Twitter Or Instagram?

Since its inception, social media has been an empowering, free marketing tool for businesses. It paved the way for personal, one-to-one interactions with brands,...

Amazon, Walmart dominate shopping app downloads in 2020: report

Dive Brief: Amazon, Walmart and Wish were the top three most downloaded shopping apps in the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report by Apptopia. Amazon...

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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

Dive Brief: 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 ......