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How to Use Retail Bots for Sales and Customer Service

Hootsuite

Retail bots are reshaping social commerce, helping brands make big dollars selling their products and services on social media. Consumer spending via retail bots is predicted to hit $142 billion USD by 2024… a massive 4,971% increase from 2019’s $2.8 What is a retail bot? 9 ways retailers are using chatbots. billion USD.

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The Twilight renaissance: Why retailers need social media for trend forecasting

Sprout Social

More than half of these messages (54%) have a positive sentiment, 25% neutral and 21% have a negative sentiment (mainly held by skeptics of the trend’s longevity). 3 trend forecasting tips for retail brands. From there, you can dig into insights by sentiment, demographics, date and more.

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Surprising Insights from Big Lots’ Thriving Influencer Marketing Program

Ignite Social Media

In the ever-evolving world of retail marketing, it’s often the unexpected brands that deliver the most inspiring and effective influencer campaigns. The results have been extremely positive, with Josh noting that the influencer content has consistently outperformed their traditionally created social ads.

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‘Tis the season: Retailers can expect 32% more social messages this holiday season

Sprout Social

This prolonged and hyper-social holiday shopping season means it’s more important than ever for retailers to be ready for the influx of messages this time of year will bring. billion messages across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to find out how retailers fared in previous holiday shopping seasons and what brands can expect for 2018.

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The role of artificial intelligence in business in 2024

Sprout Social

NLP and sentiment analysis Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis enable businesses to understand and interpret human language, making them essential tools for analyzing customer feedback, social media content and other textual data while automating report generation.

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Role of artificial intelligence in marketing

Sprout Social

AI technologies like natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), sentiment analysis and others guide decision-making, so you stay ahead of competitors and are prepared for the challenges of a dynamic marketplace. This allows you to anticipate your customers’ next move and take strategic actions for intended results.

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A guide to content ideation & development

Sprout Social

Your content well is empty and it’s time to replenish it. The good news is that this is preventable if you set up and enforce a content ideation and development process. The goal is to never have a content pipeline that dries up. Content ideation stage. Here are some ways to work on your content ideation.

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