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The need for retail technology and change is vital. But what exactly should you invest in? Celerant published this list of the most important retail technology and strategies for 2022. While not everything in this list will pertain to your business, we hope you find it useful, and encourage you to revisit as you consider new technology.
Consumers are shopping on websites and mobile apps more than ever before. If your business is not online- eCommerce, 3rd-party marketplace (Amazon, Walmart, Facebook Market, etc.); or have a mobile app… what are you waiting for? If you already these, when was the last time you gave them a ‘facelift’?
Update your Google My Business profile if you have a physical store. This makes it easy for customers to get your store hours, phone number, reviews, directions and more when ‘Googling’ for you.
It’s not easy running a single store, nonetheless a store, website, mobile app, Amazon, etc. The key to multi-channel success is integration. Stop wasting time with multiple systems and run your entire business from a single ‘source of truth’. One way it to integrate solutions from multiple vendors; however, it’s way more advantageous to leverage a unified solution from ONE vendor! Here are some the benefits (and this is just scratching the surface):
Order fulfilment significantly affects consumer behavior and provides opportunities to increase online sales. Many retailers optimize fulfillment when their average daily orders, or the cost to fulfill those orders, increases. By understanding the aspects of fulfillment that drive purchase and repurchase, you can implement fulfillment strategies to increase sales and customer loyalty. The following questions can be used to determine which fulfillment methods to implement, and which processes (within each method) to optimize:
Celerant’s Fulfillment Methods: Celerant offers technology to support ‘Buy Online, Pickup In-Store’ (BOPIS), curbside pickup, local delivery and shipping, same day fulfillment and drop shipping. With often one opportunity to keep a customer’s business, Celerant’s fulfillment methods (built-in and customized) enable both the accuracy and speed that customers demand, ensuring orders contain the correct items and quantity, are sent to the right address with proper formatting; and delivered as fast and affordably as possible.
Watch Video: Streamline Delivery with Curbside Pickup Apps
Branded shipping notifications have as much as 85% open rates? That’s HUGE and a great opportunity to market and sell upsell items.
Offering finance options to customers is a great way to help them get the products they need NOW, and increase revenue for your business NOW. While most customers use credit cards at retail stores, many prefer financing for big-ticket items. It’s equally important your financing options are flexible, rewarding, and seamless for both the customer and your business. Celerant provides multiple options for retailers to offer integrated financing in-store and online:
Retailers sure send a lot of emails, and the goal is simple… get more consumers to visit and purchase on your website and brick-and-mortar location(s). So why aren’t retailers more successful with this? More importantly, what can be done to improve your marketing efforts?
It’s really important to integrate digital marketing with your retail system(s). Since not all marketing platforms are created equal, we will focus solely on Celerant’s digital marketing technologies. In addition to social media and SEO services, Celerant provides integrated email marketing, SMS text message marketing, and clienteling. All these systems tap directly into the retail software back office, where it can leverage real-time customer/sales data from all retail channels. By leveraging this data, our clients can automatically segment their customers, and send automated messages that are personalized for each segment. That way, they receive the right message at the right time, increasing the chances they will click and turn into a sale.
Try A/B testing to experiment with changes to the subject line and email content. Then compare the difference and use the version that results in higher open/conversion rates.
With today’s supply chain upside down, it’s important to build better relationships with your vendors, and broaden your product line by adding new vendors with related products. By integrating your retail software with your vendors, you can automate processes for both in-store and online. Of course, this is dependent on the capabilities of both your vendors and retail software.
Which vendors does your retail software integrate with?Celerant partners with vendors across multiple industries- gift shops, bikes, ski/snowboard, books, outdoors, hobby, hardware and paint, pet supply, Army/Navy surplus, uniforms, pharmacy and more. Through our vendor integrations, you can sell more in-store and online with less effort.
Celerant integrates with multiple data exchange programs. Through these programs, retailers share sales data, anonymously, in exchange for analytics highlighting what’s selling vs. not selling. Our clients leverage this data to know which products/brands to purchase, set pricing, and promo more strategically.
Let Celerant Help! Celerant enables retailer to manage their store, online sales and digital marketing within a single software platform.
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