Business News
Casper Opens First Permanent Store
Plus, Levi's wants lasers to rip your jeans, and Circle acquires Poloniex.
By Venturer
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Business Ideas
5 Strategies to Keep Your Retail Brand From Suffering the Same Fate as Those Big Box Stores
Start by collecting data on your customers. Just recognize that they will expect that data to be used to enhance their purchasing experience.
Business Ideas
4 Online Marketing Tactics Brick-and-Mortar Stores Can Leverage to Thrive
Online ads and social media are simply new ways to build the loyal customer base successful stores have always needed.
Business News
Cyber Monday 2017: Everything You Need to Know
Let's jump in, and see what we can get out of this day of blowout bargains online.
Marketing
Close the Sale: Turning Small Business Browsers Into Buyers
Small Business Saturday will be the busiest day of the year for many independent businesses, with millions of shoppers expected to participate in the nationwide occasion on November 25. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're all buying.
Business News
3 Eras in the Evolution of Brick-and-Mortar Retail to a Digital Future With a Happy Ending
The goal is to make life a bit easier for customers, however they purchase from you.
Business News
Swedish Brand Ikea Launches Modern, Affordable Pet Line
The question is who is going to assemble it?
Business Ideas
Podcast: When PowerPoints Weren’t Working, This Lowe’s Exec Passed Out Comic Books Instead
Learn why Lowe's employs a behavioral scientist to run its innovation lab.
By Linda Lacina
Business Ideas
This Entrepreneur Discovered a Multimillion-Dollar Business Idea When He Got Stranded in the Gobi Desert
Matt Scanlan, co-founder and CEO of Naadam Cashmere, takes us on his wild journey from an unemployed tourist in Mongolia to the head of a multimillion-dollar company.
By Alan Taylor
Building a Business
Big-box Stores Are Failing. Here’s How Small Businesses Can Scoop up Their Sales.
Steps for small businesses to not only gain but retain customers from large retailers
Marketing
Capitalize on Back-to-School Shopping With These 3 Marketing Tips
If you want to be found ahead of your competitors, you've got some marketing homework to do.
Building a Business
July Is Just Early Enough to Start Planning for Holiday Selling
Children think Christmas will never come. Retailers know it will be here soon.
Thought Leaders
He Owns the Oldest Hat Store In America and Knows How Tough Entrepreneurship Really Is
Paul Wasserman's Henry the Hatter has thrived for generations in Detroit. He knows everything there is to know about ups and downs.
By Phil La Duke
Building a Business
During a Time of Disruption, Entrepreneurs Should Seize Opportunities
Never stop asking yourself what will help propel your firm to the next level. Then determine what it will take to get there.
Building a Business
How Real-World Retailers Can Better Compete With Ecommerce
Researchers found that shops can appeal to certain types of customers better than any website ever could.
By Rose Leadem
Business Ideas
These 2 Graphs Explain the Retail ‘Apocalypse’
Brick-and-mortar stores can't beat the convenience of online shopping, and they shouldn't try. Customers come through their doors for something else.
Business Operations & Logistics
How Small Business Owners Can Save Time and Money on Ground Shipping
Instead of eating into profits using expensive air delivery services, how can retailers send cargo more cost effectively?
Building a Business
5 Rules for Staying Ahead in the Ecommerce Race
Starting with a winning formula from inception goes a long way in guaranteeing long-term sustainability.
By Ricky Joshi
Tech
Mobile Fraud a Blind Spot for Ecommerce Merchants
Dangers loom as merchants are scrambling to meet the demands of the threat posed by mobile fraud.
Thought Leaders
Why Warren Buffet Might be Wrong About Retail
Developers are bringing people back to brick-and-mortar shops by giving them something real: a memorable experience as part of a community.
Marketing
How to Reach ‘Buy Online, Pick Up in Store’ Shoppers
There are a number of benefits to this shipping method, including more rapid and more cost-effective fulfillment.
By Aaron Agius
Business Ideas
5 Ways You Can Prosper From Today’s Fierce Competition Among Online Retailers
Bonus cash back, "payoffs for patience" and bulk purchases are ways your business or household can benefit.
Building a Business
How Retailers Are Thriving Despite the Supposed Death of Their Industry
To frame it as a battle between brick-and-mortar and ecommerce is to miss the point.
Business Branding
4 Industry Trends Every Fashion Designer Should Know
Should you create your own brand or work within an established company?
Business Ideas
How to Survive as a Brick-and-Mortar Retail Store
Can you keep a traditional retail store alive when everyone is buying online?
By Jim Joseph
Business Ideas
How Small-Business Owners Can Avoid Sears’s Fatal Mistake
Sears had the chance to beat Amazon at its own game. Instead, it closed stores and retrenched.
By Ben Judah
Marketing
Product, Price, Placement, Promotion: Can Your Business Survive Without Them?
Service as a Solution can differentiate businesses facing barriers.