Marketing

Amazon Gives Manchester-by-the-Sea Residents Free Year of Prime
May 2, 2017 at 10:50 am

Amazon.com is celebrating the streaming debut of its Oscar-winning film, "Manchester-by-the-Sea," by giving a free year of Prime membership to the residents of the Massachusetts fishing town the movie is named after. This week, the e-commerce giant will ship to every Manchester household a gift box with a code to enroll in Prime for freeโ€ฆ

2017 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report
April 28, 2017 at 12:57 pm

Amazon.com is celebrating the streaming debut of its Oscar-winning film, โ€œManchester-by-the-Sea,โ€ by giving a free year of Prime membership to the residents of the Massachusetts fishing town the movie is named after. This week, the e-commerce giant will ship to every Manchester household a gift box with a code to enroll in Prime for free [โ€ฆ]

Top Retail Execs on the Value of Mentors
April 25, 2017 at 11:50 am

The question below was included in the cover story of Total Retailโ€™s Winter issue, Top Women in Retail 2017. Among the questions asked, โ€œDo you have any mentors in the retail industry?โ€ Here are select answers to that question from some of this yearโ€™s honorees.

Best Buy Reorganizing its Marketing Department
April 25, 2017 at 11:03 am

Best Buy is reorganizing its marketing team in an effort to make it more streamlined and cost effective. Three of the companyโ€™s top marketing executives have left, and the retailer is folding marketing responsibilities into merchandising. Best Buy's former Chief Marketing Officer Greg Revelle and Mary Lou Kelley, president of e-commerce, have both left theโ€ฆ

Walker & Company's Unique Brand Proposition Meets its Customersโ€™ Needs
April 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm

In episode 89 of Total Retail Talks, recorded at the recent Total Retail Talks Live event in San Francisco, Total Retail's Editor-in-Chief Melissa Campanelli interviews Joanne Hsieh, chief operating officer at Walker & Company Brands, a company known for its health and beauty products for people of color. Hsieh discusses how Walker & Company hasโ€ฆ

The Choice of a New Generation
April 19, 2017 at 10:16 am

Recently, thereโ€™s been a spate of marketing campaigns by major corporations that have been negatively received on a global scale. Rather than sell a product or deliver a message, all theyโ€™ve succeeded in doing is illustrate just how much the dynamics of the relationship between brands and consumers have changed. Todayโ€™s consumers are all-seeing andโ€ฆ

5 E-Commerce Marketing Trends to Watch
April 14, 2017 at 11:42 am

Each new year brings new trends, behaviors, technologies and consumer demands. Most importantly, it brings new opportunities. To seize these opportunities, retailers and e-commerce professionals must not only remain one step ahead of their competitors, but their customers as well. Letโ€™s take a deeper look at some key trends shaping e-commerce marketing in 2017, andโ€ฆ

Kohl's Names Former Best Buy Exec its New CMO
April 12, 2017 at 12:32 pm

Kohlโ€™s announced this week that Greg Revelle has been named the companyโ€™s chief marketing officer. Revelle will be responsible for Kohlโ€™s marketing organization and overall marketing strategy, including the companyโ€™s focus on driving customer engagement through analytics, enhancing the loyalty platform, accelerating customer traffic and continuing to build Kohlโ€™s overall brand position. Prior to joiningโ€ฆ