Customer Data

Retailers Can Learn From How Trump Won
January 13, 2017 at 10:36 am

Heather Fletcher, my colleague at Target Marketing (sister publication of Total Retail), wrote a very interesting article yesterday that examined how President-elect Trump won the election by leveraging some tried-and-true marketing strategies — namely, data modeling, multivariate testing and targeted social media marketing. (Click here to read the full article.) Heather's article got me to…

Amazon Ordered to Disclose Customers' Names
December 27, 2016 at 10:08 am

Last week, U.S. District Court Judge James Robart ordered Amazon.com to turn over the names of everyone who purchased specific WEN hair products. WEN hair products are at the center of a class-action lawsuit alleging their use leads to different adverse effects, like hair loss. The judge ordered the disclosures so that lawyers in the…

Customer Centricity and Profitability: The Equations Driving Success in ‘Year of Promotions’
December 1, 2016 at 12:17 pm

If records are made to be broken, then they served their purpose well during the Thanksgiving 2016 holiday shopping weekend. Cyber Monday sales reached an all-time high with $3.39 billion spent online — a 10.2 percent increase over 2015, according to Adobe Digital Insights. This marked the largest online sales day in history, narrowly surpassing…

Retail CMOs Feel the Heat, Look to Data 
November 15, 2016 at 8:00 am

The insights, control, decision making and results made possible by data analysis are truly impressive. Think of where a business would be if employees just performed duties without recording sales, payments or production activities, and couldn't monitor the analysis of these variables in income statements and reports. Good data, if accurate, is gold. Unfortunately, many marketing…

Fake Retail Apps Surging Before Holidays
November 8, 2016 at 10:57 am

Hundreds of fake retail and product apps have appeared in Apple’s App Store in recent weeks — just in time to deceive holiday shoppers. The counterfeiters have masqueraded as retail chains like Dollar Tree and Foot Locker, big department stores like Dillard’s and Nordstrom, online product bazaars like Zappos.com and Polyvore, and luxury-goods makers like Jimmy…

How Ulta Makes Omnichannel Beautiful
September 30, 2016 at 12:07 pm

In a struggling retail industry, Ulta Beauty is a bright spot. The cosmetics and beauty products retail chain reported sales increased 21 percent last year, profits were up 24.5 percent and it opened 100 new stores. That positive momentum has continued in 2016, with sales up 23 percent year to date, net income up 29…

Customer Experience Platform Drives BCBG's Online Business
September 26, 2016 at 12:09 pm

In episode 54 of Total Retail Talks, Nathan Dierks, director of web operations at BCBG Max Azria, discusses how the fashion retailer's use of a new customer experience platform from Qubit has helped it increase sales, average order values and customer loyalty.