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Coupon Fatigue & Promo Codes in eCommerce – Time to Rethink Your Views

By |2017-04-22T16:34:41+00:00April 21st, 2016|Ecommerce|

It’s 2015. eCommerce in its various forms is now almost 20 years old. Marketing and incentive techniques for attracting and converting consumers to sale across industries have evolved. Perhaps almost as ubiquitous as the leaderboards and banners used to convey incentives & promos are the infamous promo/discount/coupon codes themselves. A promo code is not necessarily the same thing as a coupon or discount code and the distinction between the two is critical to understand, whether you lead companies engaged in direct response eCommerce, invest in them, or are part of the marketing and eCommerce working groups within companies that use promo tools in their work to meet sell through, margin and related business objectives. Promo codes which require the end user to enter into a [...]

Are there SOME things you still don’t buy online?

By |2016-04-21T21:20:22+00:00April 21st, 2016|Ecommerce|

So it's true. We all proclaim to embrace the universality of shopping for anything online, but as humans, we have reserved the right to simply 'not go there' for certain types of shopping needs. For many, that no-go for online shopping threshold can be clothing (if I can't try it on before I buy, it will be a PITA process of returns and trying to make off the rack clothing fit a non-standard body); for others, it is perishable food products (why should I buy this cake, produce or other specialty grocery item from 2000 miles away that will need dry ice shipping and may arrive squashed from rough handling? Personally, I have overcome the objections of others as well as my own reservations & [...]