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How to Use Retail Bots for Sales and Customer Service

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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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What Pinterest search trends reveal about the future of retail in a post-COVID world

Sprout Social

Retailers in particular have had to deal with a number of challenges, from navigating quarantine to keeping up with evolving consumer behaviors to resolving supply chain problems. While there is no roadmap for how to recover after a pandemic, consumer behaviors on social media give retailers a pretty good idea of what to expect post-COVID.

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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. This content, which Josh describes as “Bargains to Brag About,” resonates strongly with both existing and new Big Lots customers.

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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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Retailers and the rising trend of sustainability: what marketers need to know

Sprout Social

And while the retail industry has weathered significant change lately, sustainability is one trend that just keeps rising. And messages pertaining to sustainable fashion boast a whopping 95% positive sentiment. View this post on Instagram. ????Research

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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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