The Growth Machine

Category: e-commerce

  • Buyer Behavior Helps B2B Marketers Guide The Buyer’s Journey

    Originally published by: Forrester | on 2012-10-04 13:28:20 by Lori Wizdo Today’s buyers control their journey through the buying cycle much more than today’s vendors control the selling cycle. Although it varies greatly with product complexity and market maturity, today’s buyers might be anywhere from two-thirds to 90% of the way through their journey before…

  • eCommerce vs Digital Landscape OR eCommerce Within Digital Landscape?

    In an ever evolving and highly complex digital landscape, nothing is a simple straight line let alone the consumer journey or even the consumer’s final destination that has gone way beyond the traditional conversion or selling point. As a matter of fact, you may argue that the real journey or the true battle for the…

  • The “Mobile” Impact on Retail | Lowe’s In-Store App Battle With An Experience Assault

    May the best experience win. As retailers evolve their strategies for handling the super-informed, smartphone-wielding consumer, the best defense is a good offense. Trying to thwart the new consumer look-up habit with store-only inventory or universal pricing seems to me a defensive response that drips desperation and in some measure, scapegoating. Much like the music…

  • Google Wallet with NFC

    Originally published by: robgonda.com on 2012-05-25 16:27:05 by Rob Gonda Google officially rolled out its Google Wallet mobile payment system Monday. Is still in its infancy, but the system already shows a lot of promise. It uses a technology called NFC (Near Field Communication) to securely send your payments digitally. The only phone in the…

  • myYearbook/MeetMe Leverage Mobile Virtual Currency As ‘Payment Platform In Your Pocket’

    A year after cutting a deal to acquire the meetup network myYearbook, Quepasa will roll out a rebranding of the merged companies as MeetMe. The project will start in July at myYearbook.com. Citing comScore metrics, the combined companies say they are among the 40 most-trafficked sites online. myYearbook in particular saw a 40% rise in…