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Top five: holiday retail trends to the fore

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s top five social media must-know news stories feature important retail trends for the run up to the holidays. Google My Business, Snapchat, blended retail, Facebook and Google Assistant all feature. Google My Business rolls out new feature. — SS. — SS. Facebook and Macy’s team up.

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Pinterest leads Facebook in retail customer aquisition

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In terms of online shopping audiences, Facebook is much larger than Pinterest by a ratio of almost four to one, however the study found that Pinterest provides a better experience for shopping discovery, purchase consideration, and deeper engagement with retailer content. The ROI of Social Media for Retail Websites. Related articles.

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Top Five: social networks push new shopping features

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Top Five: social networks push new shopping features. Facebook introduces new shopping features. Facebook's new store sales optimization brings the power of machine learning to help retailers show ads to the people who are most likely to make an in store purchase. Sherrilynne Starkie. followers . Listly by Sherrilynne Starkie.

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Top five: New features tools and services from the ‘Big Three’ (plus Pinterest)

Sherrilynne Starkie

I’m bringing back the weekly top five that was such a popular feature on this blog many years ago. Top five: New features tools and services from the ‘Big Three’ (plus Pinterest). Top five: New features tools and services from the ‘Big Three’ (plus Pinterest). Sherrilynne Starkie. followers . Listly by Sherrilynne Starkie.

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Online ads: the benefits of retargeting

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I was really impressed with the website of that Canadian retail giant, The Bay. Advertisers find retargeting highly effective and excellent value for money with some online retailers seeing shopping cart abandonment reduced by 40 per cent, according to econsultancy.com. Featured Headline Marketing' via CrunchBase.

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Top five: Women rule content marketing!

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Instagram, which has more than a billion users, is introducing new features to eliminate fake accounts and to reduce hacking. Facebook is introducing a cool new feature, 3D posts, and some big brands are already using it. The new feature allows brands to give their audience an intimate, immersive experience.

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Facebook Pages are getting mobile friendly

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Facebook has just announced that business pages are getting a whole lot more mobile friendly thanks to new features and functions designed with hand-held devices in mind. The social network will be soon introducing new sections to Pages, so different types of businesses can feature prominently the most relevant content. billion people.

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