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Why Instagram’s New Shopping Icon Is Changing Ecommerce Forever

Perficient

Here’s why: Traditionally users weren’t able to purchase items through social media platforms. Social influencers could promote brands through their channels and direct users to “swipe up” or click a link in their bio to purchase. 70% of people will trust a recommendation from someone they don’t know.

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FUEL CYCLE Fuels B2C Relationships

PYMNTS

. — as if they were on a social network. The data collected through these online communities gives brands the insights they need to make real-time decisions that serve the commerce king: the customer. According to Forrester, brands face a 50 percent higher revenue risk in 2017. PYMNTS: Why was the company founded?

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Are Paper Catalogs Really Having A Moment?

PYMNTS

The 100-page catalog would arrive near the end of October for kids to look through and create wish lists before December — filling, perhaps, the void left by Toys R Us when it went out of business (in part because of competition from Amazon and other online retailers). Online retail accounted for 53.7 billion in 2007.

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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Rate Hikes, Dollar Stores And EpiPens

PYMNTS

One minute, you can have the hottest product or store on the block — think Aéropostale about a decade ago — and the next, no one wants to buy the product any longer, the brand is now suddenly considered uncool and nobody’s shopping there any longer ( think Aéropostale today ).

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Warby of X: Tommy John Steps Up The Men’s Underwear Game

PYMNTS

Not surprising, considering underwear weren’t really at the top of the list for what most men considered important products to upgrade or focus on — for years, men have pretty much just continued to wear the same styles and brands they always have. Now we’ve really taken up this online-first approach, but we’ve never been online-only.

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FinovateSpring 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

From their web site: The original idea for BeSmartee was founded in 2007 during the onset of the mortgage crisis. Omnichannel campaigns online. Showing how a banker could build an online offer in real time. She manages all digital and social media efforts on behalf of agency clients.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing.

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