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In our past articles (click here and here), we took QR codes for granted wherever we found them and focused on their underlying technology, shared tips on how to get them right and suggested a few goals for after they scanned correctly. For a quick recap, QR codes enable smartphone users to visit websites and landing pages, download … Read more
We always recommend short or prefilled forms on B2B websites to reduce friction and thereby boost conversion for various CTAs like whitepaper download, webinar registration, request for quote, and so on. We’re now happy to propose another type of call-to-action that’s even more frictionless: Social sharing. By avoiding forms altogether, social sharing can bolster website … Read more
What data breach? Are you talking about the one that happened at Heartland in 2009? Or, maybe the Fidelity one from 2011? Again, no? Oh, you’re referring to the latest one that led to the arrests in New York of several people who fraudulently withdrew $45M from several ATMs. By now, it should be obvious what’s … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: Retail Bank Sees Strong Uplift In Online Customer Acquisition CRO boosts conversion of website visitors to customers Kotak Mahindra Bank is one of the fastest growing and most admired financial institutions in India. Since its inception as a nonbanking financial company in 1985 and as a bank in 2003, the … Read more
In How Can Organized Retailers Respond To Showrooming?, I’d written about “showrooming”, the new shopping behavior in which consumers use a physical store as a showroom to touch and feel a product but ultimately buy it from an online competitor – often at a lower price. Although showrooming hasn’t yet become mainstream, it’s bound to gain … Read more
According to a Barron’s article titled The End of Cash?, the use of cash as a percentage of retail spending in the USA declined from 36% in 2002 to 29% in 2012. That works out to a CAGR of -19.5% per decade. Extrapolating these figures, cash usage should become 0% by 2202. That’s 190 years … Read more
We’re happy to announce that Computerworld has named our LBS app Location Based Task Reminder (LBTR360) as a Top 10 Android app in the to do list category. Click here to read the full Computerworld report. As explained in greater detail here, LBTR360 is a reusable, LBS mobile app framework using which we develop custom … Read more
An old friend of mine from my alma mater, IIT Bombay, who is now a tenured professor at North Carolina State University, was recently carrying out a sponsored study on supply chain dynamics in various parts of the world. In this context, he reached out to me a couple of months ago to seek my … Read more
How Long Can Malls Remain Open If Stores Inside Them Keep Closing Down? Short Answer: Forever. Now for the long version. As I highlighted in Retail Winners & Losers Amidst Skyrocketing Real Estate Costs, many stores are unable to survive on the face of skyrocketing real estate costs. Although this post focused largely on standalone … Read more
Over five years ago, I’d written a post titled Cheque Deposit Systems — Are They Really Worth It? During the next couple of years, I found this contraption to be down every other time I went to pay my credit card bill. My overall poor experience with this technology led me to conclude in a … Read more