Retail TouchPoints

Oracle Announces Two Customer Wins

In anticipation of the Oracle Crosstalk  annual user group conference, set to kick off this week in Chicago, Oracle has released customer announcements from Coldwater Creek and Furniture Row. Coldwater…

BodyMedia Sees 16% Conversion Rate With Social Referral Programs

Word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing is playing a pivotal role in cross-channel marketing programs, largely due to the continual rise of social media. In fact, these peer-to-peer conversations can help increase marketing…

Design Within Reach Streamlines Sales Process With Salesforce

Design Within Reach (DWR), a retailer selling furniture online and through a contract sales force, has been using Salesforce.com to enable employees to connect and collaborate, and will soon be…

WirelessWERX Unveils New Foot Traffic Analytics Company

WirelessWERX, a location technologies company, has introduced iInside, a new subsidiary focused on delivering comprehensive indoor analytics. The iInside solution taps indoor location data integration and traffic visualization tools to…

Guthy|Renker Re-Launches E-commerce Sites Across Europe

Companies producing numerous brands internationally are challenged to ensure online brand shopping experiences are consistent across markets but still are tailored to geographical trends and preferences, such as language, currencies,…

Curalate Study Reveals Most Motivating Pinterest Images

Images are a great way to tell a story behind a brand and can impact consumers’ social actions on content curation web sites such as Pinterest. A Curalate research study…

Delsey Adopts TXT PLM To Facilitate International Expansion

Delsey, a luxury luggage brand with more than 6,000 stores worldwide, is implementing Product Lifecyle Management (PLM) technology from TXT to help streamline design and product planning processes. Sylvie Maillard,…

Thank Heavens For Gift Cards By Fatima D. Lora, Assistant Editor There was a time when friends and family members would bring one another to their favorite stores and invite…

DICK’s Sporting Goods Turns Social Data Into Actionable Insights

For many retailers, collecting and analyzing the variety of data being generated across channels still is a constant struggle. Consumers’ increasing use of social networks to share perspectives and sentiments…