PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

That move comes as Amazon has had trouble wooing some direct-to-consumer brands. Amazon wants “consumer goods companies to create brands exclusively for Amazon after finding that developing them on its own is too costly and time-consuming, according to people familiar with the strategy,” stated a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

And, in beauty retail, online hair and body care brands such as Ouai are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores like Ulta Beauty. iPhone app-enabled marketplaces such as Trainiac are letting consumers work one-on-one with a personal trainer. All this, Today in Data.

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The post Why KeyBank Changed Course with Its National Digital Brand appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights. The superregional transforms an online student loan refinance specialty into a healthcare banking engine by treating it as a digital startup.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Except for Macy’s and Nordstroms, all other brands did better (or less bad) on the internet channel versus the store channel. For many of these brands, balancing store versus online inventory must have been a big challenge. This customer satisfaction data highlights the need to get digital transformation right.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With athleisure brands like Lululemon doing better than expected numbers on the strength of “lockdown chic”— running shoes and yoga pants — trendlines continue to point to permanent digital shifts in how we do fitness. That’s left boutique yoga and bar-method studios scrambling to reinvent by shifting their courses online as well.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

One of the most recent experiments for direct-to-consumer eCommerce is taking place on Instagram , and, if successful, could forge a path for brands that want to sell directly to online consumers. This format created urgency and exclusivity for would-be shoppers — a key tactic for brands and retailers alike to increase conversion.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It can’t be easy for a brand that has literally made its name on the notion of brandless-ness, as a pure-play cosmetics supplier. The secret to what brandless offers, according to CEO Tina Sharkey, is the company’s elimination of what she calls the “brand tax.” But Brandless thinks it has a good handle on what customers really want.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, Inspire Brands is buying Dunkin’ for $11.3 That Its Brands Can Run on Dunkin’. After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3 After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

A powerful experience that Armoire didn’t invent, of course — Gwynnie Bee and Rent the Runway both offer similar services for professional women in terms of unlimited wardrobe rental. Armoire is a young brand, about three years old, and a little under half of its customer base comes from its hometown of Seattle.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

One of the more notable subscription success stories to emerge out of the pandemic is Peloton , the fitness brand known for its connected exercise bikes and, more recently, its subscription class offerings. The company saw revenues grow by 66 percent in the fiscal third quarter to $524.6 million, fueled by a surge in new subscribers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When the brand is a well-known luxury provider like Dolce Gabbana, it can charge whatever it wants for a T-shirt, since the customer is arguably not purchasing the shirt so much as the cache of the logo on it. The hoodies feature the brand’s unique hand stitching — which according to Madhappy means that no two hoodies are ever exactly alike.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Luxury brands are increasingly using chat app WeChat in China to reach customers and sell big-ticket items, according to a report by TechCrunch. Brands like Bulgari, Cartier and Louis Vuitton are on the platform and connecting with millions of customers. Part of the appeal is that customers can create relationships with brands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Everybody wants brand names, right? The upshot for the wholesale manufacturers behind those brands is, of course, that they are able to set their suggested retail prices a little bit (or, sometimes, a lot) higher than items bearing lesser-known labels. And that has become something of a problem for brick-and-mortar retailers.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The answer is yes, of course there are. I presented on this topic, along with my colleague Scott Albahary – Chief Strategist for Financial Services here at Perficient and Jim Marous – Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand , to approximately 500 financial services industry folks. Perficient: Digital Strategy Experts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

And though this market presents brands with a large audience of potential customers, will digitally native millennials tune in to a shopping network? There is, of course, the game show element in which each player has a chance to win a cash prize by guessing what percentage discount will cause a particular product to sell out.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

However, for SSENSE (pronounced essence), at its first retail location, the Canadian eCommerce brand turned physical retailer has opted for a slightly different flavor. That approach has followed the brand into its physical hub in Montreal, where buyers are likely to see streetwear-brands like A-COLD-WALL* alongside Givenchy wear.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are brands that claim to take the customer experience to the max — and then there are brands that redefine what exactly the max means. When one teenaged customer wrote to the brand to complain about his beloved Chubbies shorts, which had been pilfered from his locker by a local bully, Chubbies sprang into action.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In the early days of the Internet, brands and businesses knew they wanted to get online, but they just weren’t quite sure why, or how best to do it. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. Coming Customization.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

No, the only way you can get your hands on these “exclusive” bad boys is if you follow Warby Parker on Snapchat , where the brand shared a Snapchat story with its followers containing a URL taking users to a page where they could purchase the super-limited edition frames, according to TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

brands like apparel retailer Austin Reed, though, the weight of all that financial baggage is too much to crawl out from under. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Mars brand, which operates 13 stores across Maryland, will be selling off five of its locations and shuttering the remaining eight. For some U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. The company last year announced it would buy a 3 percent stake in Grubhub, and that it was teaming up with the company to provide delivery from two of its brands — Taco Bell and KFC.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

retail presence in recent decades, is reversing course and closing all its North American brick-and-mortar locations, according to numerous online news sources citing a company statement. Godiva, the maker of high-end chocolates that significantly expanded its U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

Dogs like bully sticks of course – but Meeker felt a lacking. And that enthusiasm for their first product pushed BarkBox to expand more than its user base in its early days; it’s also shifted its brand. And every day I thought about what I can do to make this enormous dog happy. BarkBox has since become Bark&Co.,

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is offering a course to help entrepreneurs better understand blockchain technology and cryptocurrency companies, according to a report by CNBC. Dixon said the free course is being offered with “no strings attached,” and that no companies will need to give up any equity stake to take part.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2018

CPG brands need to go to shoppers, rather than waiting around for shoppers to come to them. We see room for CPG brands to grow through: Home-sharing — Airbnb boasts roughly 5M home listings across 18K cities. CPG brands could sell products to Airbnb hosts at bulk rates or offer them free samples of new products to distribute.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course toward a future that is without precedent. 2019: Launch year of Empathy Wines, which was recently purchased by Constellation Brands. All this, Today in Data. Data: . 42%: Share of U.S.

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BankNXT

JANUARY 5, 2018

Personal branding, amongst other applicable topics, is going to be a consistent theme for both classes, but we are going to be making this a key component and emphasis for #FrebergSM (my advanced class). What are some tools I encourage my students to use for personal branding? Talkwalker. It’s a one stop shop!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

What brands and merchants want – particularly after 2020’s great digitization of consumers and the shift to omnichannel – is the ability to engage consumers where they are and on their terms, seamlessly and without friction, explained Tinsley. And the brand typically gets very little data out of the interaction.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. Broader payment flows is putting it mildly, of course. We want to be the partner of choice for the top FinTech brands worldwide, and with Accelerate, we invite the next generation of global entrepreneurs to join us.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

In fact, a pre-crisis PwC report showed that 14 percent of respondents said trust in a brand is the number one reason (other than price) why they shop at a retailer. Many online retail brands, especially in the fashion industry, have gone to discounts and promotions to accomplish that. Fake reviews can be devastating to a brand.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Sadek detailed how the subscription-based brand management software provider has both benefited and suffered from the pandemic’s impacts as well as how the company is strategizing to move forward. Founder and CEO Nadim Sadek said he had no idea that just months after the company raised $2.7

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Perficient

JUNE 7, 2023

Of course, one reason that deposits have left the banking system is that while the Federal Reserve raised rates throughout the four quarters shown above, banks have lagged in raising deposit rates. Uses social media and market sentiment analytics to assess market sentiment and generate prescriptive insights on threats to brand reputation.

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Perficient

JANUARY 11, 2021

The brands that can operate with speed and agility win in this environment. A mobile product runs its course until it no longer meets the needs of your business. . Top brands choose native mobile app solutions to offer the best experience and performance for users. The winners in this environment move fast.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

Non-interest-bearing accounts, of course, have much longer average lives, while CDs have much shorter average lives. As you set marketing plans and budgets, consider that just this simple act of outreach and branding increases the average life by about 2-4 months. This alone can have a material impact on retention and is inexpensive.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere. Private Label Pivot.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year will not only go down in history as “the year of the pandemic,” but for consumer packaged goods brands, it will also be known as “the year of direct to consumer.”. 1 reason cited involves loyalty to well-known brands. This suggests that D2C does well in areas where consumers have strong brand preferences.

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