5 Things You Missed at Rendezvous 2014
nChannel got the full Rendezvous Experience this past week and we can’t stop talking about it!
Last week, we headed to beautiful Asheville, North Carolina for the Outdoor Industry Association’s (OIA) Rendezvous 2014, which is the event for leaders in the outdoor industry. We had the opportunity to learn from and network with some of the top names in the industry, over the event’s three jam-packed days. Here’s a quick recap of what happened, if you didn’t get a chance to make it this year. (more…)
What We’re Reading: Amazon Buy Box, REI’s Digital Experience, More Holiday Shoppers Online
The silly season is dangerously close! Are you ready? Here are a few articles that I thought would help you get in the right mindset to understand what it takes to win new customers and loyalty this holiday season.
4 Business Benefits of a Hub-Spoke Integration Architecture
One of the fundamental decisions we made, while building the nChannel platform, was to use a hub-spoke architecture. We did so, because the list of technology benefits was significant. And, we chose to pass those benefits on to our customers, in the form of business benefits. The bottom line: hub-spoke architecture is simply an optimal way to build complex technology platforms.
Let’s take a look at hub-spoke architecture and the key business benefits it can bring to your business:
- Reduces the liability of scaling your business.
- Increases your business’s ability to adapt.
- Creates a “big picture” window into your business’s successes and struggles.
- Maximizes the return on your technology investments.
Operation Holidays 2014: 5 Tips to Increase Your Online Sales
This holiday season should be a big one for retailers. Deloitte anticipates that total holiday sales will increase somewhere between 4.0% and 4.5% over 2013, for total sales of $981 to $986 billion. Another recent projection from eMarketer–even better news for e-retailers–projects eCommerce growth for November and December at 16.6% this year to $72.4 billion, up from their estimate of 15.3% last year.
In their Seventh Annual Online Retail Holiday Readiness Report, IBM provides key metrics to convince sellers to sell online this year. Average order value (AOV) and items per order both rose to record over the past year. AOV in 2013 was $122.46 in December, a 13% increase from 2011.
Multiple sources are reporting promising numbers for this holiday season. It’s not too early to start prepping for the most wonderful time of year. (more…)
What We’re Reading: Predictions for Retailers, Avoiding Delivery Issues This Holiday Season, A New Channel for Home Goods
The retail world is in a constant state of change. Just as soon as you think you’ve got it down, something new pops up. We’re constantly bombarded with predictions and proclamations about how retail is changing. We’re being inundated with (often conflicting) advice about how to do it right. It isn’t easy to see the forest through the trees, but that’s what we’re here for.
