Making a mint through mobile

In the past few years, mobile devices have transformed customer sales paths and the overall customer experience. Here are my top tips for making sure your mobile marketing delivers a decent return.

Off-the-wall marketing

There are many ways to make the most of digital marketing for your company, but often thinking outside the box. So what can you do to get your message out there and get noticed? Here are some things to consider.

How to do cross-device email marketing

According to research by IMRG, 48% of email is opened on a mobile device, so ensuring these messages display correctly on these devices is becoming mission critical for any size of business. Here we offer some tips on how to ‘do’ responsive emails and make the most of its impact.

Seven steps to better operations around marketplaces

Marketplaces are demanding, with high expectations to meet strict order fulfilment deadlines and a strong emphasis on communication and visibility. SMEs looking to begin trading online must make sure their backroom operations are integrated, efficient and agile in order to cope.

Sleeping with the ‘frenemy’

Getting customers to buy your goods is very much like a romance, especially if you want them to keep coming back for more. However, the online world is full of customers who are lazy and think they want a one night stand – and these people head for marketplaces. Marketplaces are your ‘frenemy’ – on the […]

Marketing for the marketplace

Marketplaces are an ideal way to attract customers to your products. But how do you stand out from the vat full of companies also selling what you sell and how do you use marketing to get consumers to find you again?

An introduction to marketplaces

Amazon, eBay, Rakuten… even Bubbles. The world of online marketplaces is a booming one and, for consumers at least, they are often the first point of contact for buying pretty much anything online – they are becoming the de facto online shopping search engines.

Nine ways to boost online sales on Play.com

As Rakuten Play.com shifts into being an online marketplace, Shingo Murakami, UK MD oputlines the top nine tips the company has for getting to most out of marketplace sites in general and Rakuten in particular.

Consumers ditch physical loyalty cards for mobile

Following the surge in smartphone usage across the country, consumers now have access to more loyalty schemes on mobile devices than they do in their physical wallets – and independent hairdressers are second only to electrical retailers in exploiting this shift.

Getting engaged: what technology should retailers use?

Engaging with consumers in your shop is becoming the glue in the omni-channel retailing proposition, but actually making it happen is proving hard to pin down – so what should you be thinking about?