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7 best CRMs for retail businesses in 2025

Hubspot Marketing

Retail businesses face unique challenges in today's competitive marketplace. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system designed for retail can streamline these complex workflows, improve customer satisfaction, and drive revenue growth. Table of Contents What is a CRM for retail? Retail accounted for 23.5%

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How to balance customer experience and returns in ecommerce

Martech

Retailers must find the right balance between keeping customers satisfied and protecting their bottom line, making returns a key factor for building customer loyalty. 35% will only shop from retailers with generous return policies. trillion in 2024 to $8 trillion by 2027. 60% of returns are due to fit or quality issues.

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Social Proof Backfire: The Marketing Mistake Costing You Conversions

Hubspot Marketing

In the early 2000s, communications professor Bob Hornik wanted to see if anti-drug ads worked. The UK's largest retail bank made the same mistake. To encourage saving, Nationwide, the UK's largest retail bank, advertised how "11.5 At the time, most ads used shock and fear tactics to persuade kids.

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8 Inclusive Ecommerce Website Examples That Drive Growth

Hubspot Marketing

When they see themselves represented in the models you use, in your customer testimonials, or even imagery of your team, they receive a signal from you that communicates “people like me belong here.” Image Source Retailer Farm Rio takes a similar approach. Savage X Fenty puts women of all sizes front and center.

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4 tips for helping your email marketing team stay organized

Martech

Once, in my retail email career, my boss caught me off guard with a metrics question during a meeting at the height of the holiday season. These short, focused catch-up meetings were a holiday season fixture in my retail days, too. In my work for a global big-box retailer, our holiday email program was insane. What went well?

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How genAI can fill the trust gap for brands

Martech

Nearly three-quarters want to know upfront if they’re communicating with AI. We encourage retailers [when they’re using an AI agent] to clearly call out that this is AI and how to pull the ‘rip cord’ if [customers] need to go and talk to a real person,” said Michael Affronti, SVP & GM, Commerce Cloud at Salesforce.

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5 tactics to build customers’ trust

SmartBrief - Marketing

From retail to finance to enter tainment, every industry has benefited from personalization, fostering deeper engagement and significantly boosting satisfaction rates. IVAs can automate this process for retailers by interacting with customers in real time and asking about their style preferences and favorite brands during their first visit.

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