Brian Solis explores some of the biggest technology trends and possible twists on the horizon for 2015 and 2016.
Topics include cyber security, mobile payments, drones, bitcoin, social media, digital, omnichannel, attribution, cx, music, movies, Hollywood
7. Social Media 1.0 is Dead
Social Media becomes part of a
digitally transformed ecosystem
Real-time and content marketing becomes more
sophisticated and portable
Social becomes key hub for shaping
customer experiences
Social connects the Zero Moment of Truth and the
Ultimate Moment of Truth
8. The Future of Search and SEM Also Lies Outside of
Google
More than 88% of consumers are influenced
by other consumers’ online comments.
Source: Econsultancy.com
13. Chinese Innovation is Going to Disrupt the US from
the Outside In and the Inside Out
14. The Internet of Things is a Hot and Beautiful Mess
Until It Becomes the Internet of Everything
www.theconnectivist.com
By 2020, the number of devices connected to the Internet
is expected to exceed 40 billion.
27. Mobile Payments Early Today, but Will Soon Skyrocket
In late 2013, just 6% of US adults said they had made a payment in a store by scanning
or tapping their smartphone at a payment terminal. It will go up to 8% this year. Apple's
introduction of the Apple Pay will be the key factor that will drive this percentage up.
28. Mobile Payments are Already Gaining Traction
Nearly 15% of Starbucks customers
already pay with their phones
60% of consumers use their
smartphones to pay because of
loyalty benefits.
29. The Sharing Economy is Really About Renting or
Borrowing. Everything Will Become “On-Demand”
“Technology has made renting things (even in real time) as simple as it
made buying things a decade ago" – Fred Wilson
32. Your Privacy is Gone: It Was Traded for Security and
Also Better Customer Experiences
33. Big Data & Beacons: Connecting online,
in-app, and in-store experiences
• Footfall, visits online, visits through apps
• Regency and frequency of visits, behaviors and transactions
• Brand affinities
• Favorite products
• Demographics
• Location
• Loyalty program utilization
• Service quality, queue and abandonment
• Capacity planning and resource utilization
Beacons provide businesses with endless opportunities to collect massive amounts of
untapped data, such as the number of beacon hits and customer dwell time at a particular
location within a specified time and date range, busiest hours throughout the day or week,
number of people who walk by a location each day, etc. Retailers can then make
improvements to products, staff allocation in various departments and services, and so on.
34. • Webrooming more common than showrooming (69% to
46% respectively), according to Harris poll
• Millennials prefer webrooming
• Amazon remains #1 destination for both showrooming
and webrooming
• Emerging connected in-store experiences link online
and offline, leveraging both
35. Mass Personalization and Full Funnel Marketing Suites
Reset Vendor Landscape and Change How Brands “Think”
New adtech companies will focus on strategy + programmatic
context, content AND ads
Optimized mobile affiliate tracking capabilities
Publishers will offer in-house capabilities for behaviorally
programmatic targeting of premium advertising
Omni-Channel finally becomes mainstream in 2015
36. Brands must think like their customers to create seamless omni-channel
shopping experiences that keep customers engaged at all stages.
According to a Harris poll in the U.S., 69% of people webroom, while only 46% showroom. Some of the primary reasons for this have been offline retailers understanding the importance of omni-channel selling, resulting in the adoption of an ecommerce storefront, in addition to a focus on providing a better in-store customer experience. Whether that's through tactics like knowledgable sales staff, in-store pick-ups of online orders, in-store Wi-Fi, or smartphone discounts nudging shoppers to buy in-store, webrooming is creating waves in retail.
Showrooming was once seen as an existential threat to bricks-and-mortar retailers, but it turns out the reverse dynamic is more popular. Reverse showrooming is actually more common than showrooming. In the U.S., 69% of people reverse showroom, while 46% showroom, according to a Harris poll.
And showrooming isn't the territory of the young, as many might assume. In fact, the data shows that millennials too prefer to reverse showroom. For electronics, shoes, sports equipment, and cosmetics, more millennials say they prefer to reverse showroom, rather than research in store and then buy online.
Amazon remains the No. 1 place where showroomers end up making their purchases, but it's an even more popular destination for reverse showroomers who ultimately buy elsewhere. Social media has also become a major referral source for bricks-and-mortar chains, not just e-commerce sites.
But only recently have traditional retailers begun to capitalize on reverse showrooming. Offline retailers have realized they have a lot to offer, as long as they can integrate offline and digital, and beat e-commerce competitors on convenience. They're using tactics like knowledgeable sales staff, in-store pick-up of online orders, in-store Wi-Fi, and smartphone discounts that nudge showroomers to buy in-store.
New initiatives for the connected in-store experience keep popping up: tablets and mobile phones used as register systems, robotic arms that deliver clothing into dressing rooms, and beacon hardware, which powers in-store maps and automatic hands-free payments.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/reverse-showrooming-bricks-and-mortar-retailers-fight-back-2-2014-2#ixzz3J3XDSgki
http://www.shopify.com/blog/14513673-consumers-are-showrooming-and-webrooming-your-business-heres-what-that-means-and-what-you-can-do-about-it