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Report:Must-Have eCommerce Features

Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

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Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2012: US Online Grocers

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores

Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

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Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Websites Of Five Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers

Consumer electronics retailers in Australia face many challenges, but online retail is booming despite the relatively modest feature set provided by most Australian sites. To dig deeper, Forrester...

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Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2011: Marketing, Merchandising, And Customer Service

Despite the momentum in Australian online retail, the sector is still quite focused on the basics of customer engagement. When it comes to marketing, this means online retailers don't just prioritize...

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Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: European Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...

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Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2011: Luxury Fashion Brands

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Five European Luxury Fashion Brands

Forrester evaluated the transactional websites of five European luxury fashion brands — Burberry, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton — using our Website Functionality...

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Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2010: Marketing, Merchandising, And Customer Service

In "Online Retailing In Australia 2010," a Forrester study incorporating data collected in partnership with the Online Retailer Expo & Conference 2010, we found that, on the whole, Australian online...

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Report:Making Proactive Chat Work

Maximizing Sales And Service Requires Ongoing Refinement

Many online consumers want help from a live person while they are shopping online; in fact, 44% of online consumers say that having questions answered by a live person while in the middle of an...

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Report:Retailers Plan To Expand Online Customer Service Channels In 2010

But Disconnection Between Customer Service And Brand May Spell Trouble

As eCommerce sales operations mature, we find many online executives turning more attention to online customer service. Today, email is the most commonly offered online customer service channel on...

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Report:Trends 2010: European Retail eBusiness And Channel Strategy

Online Commerce Will Remain Resilient During The Coming Quarters

While the major markets in Western Europe are still emerging from the impact of the financial crisis, the Internet channel continues to gain awareness and traction among consumers. Retail eBusiness...

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Report:European Online Retail Customer Service Availability Is Still Immature

Retail eBusiness Customer Service And Support Benchmark, 2009

Forrester evaluated the accessibility and availability of online customer service and support among 42 leading European retail Web sites across six retail subsegments. Four sites received a passing...

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Report:Using Email Customer Service to Keep Customers On Your Web Site

eBusiness professionals should be focused on customers' multichannel experiences; why, then, is email customer service trapped in a silo? Email customer service habitually drives customers further...

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Report:When eCommerce Executives Should (And Shouldn't) Believe Vendor Case Studies

Decision-Makers Need To Distinguish Between Useful Data And Propaganda

Because of the preponderance of point solutions in the online retail world, eCommerce executives are bombarded with numerous vendor-authored case studies that claim to increase a client company's...

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Report:How To Improve Searchable Self-Service Online

eBusiness Professionals Must Focus On Site Search And FAQs To Deflect Call Center Calls

Searchable self-service and frequently asked questions (FAQs) are among the most commonly accessed customer service touchpoints, but there is a lot of room for improvement. Poor performance plaguing...

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Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2009: Merchandising And Web Optimization

The annual fielding of "The State of Retailing Online," a Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, asked retailers about their prioritization and success rates regarding more than 50 site...

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Report:Online Retail Customer Service Availability Needs Some Improvement

Retail eBusiness Customer Service And Support Benchmark, 2009

As part of a larger analysis of 90 Web sites, Forrester evaluated the accessibility and availability of online customer service and support among 30 leading retail Web sites. Retail sites scored the...

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Report:Using Channel Satisfaction Data To Build The Business Case For eBusiness

Forrester recently released a report showing the results of a survey of more than 4,500 US consumers and their level of satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person interactions across 12 different...

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Report:The Future Of The eCommerce Platform

Dropping The "E" In eCommerce

eCommerce has come into its own as a key channel for both direct-to-consumer and business-to-business (B2B), and platform solutions to enable them have followed suit. But eCommerce continues to...

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Report:Online Retail Checkout Best Practices

Customer Service Tactics For Meeting Customer Needs

Shopping cart abandonment continues to challenge eBusiness executives. The loss of sales opportunities attributable to a lack of contextual or accessible information is easily avoidable. To...

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Report:US Customer Service And Support Metrics, December 2008

Benchmarking Email Response Management Best Practices

Of the 84% of sites offering email as a customer support option, only 44% provided auto-acknowledgements, according to a recent JupiterResearch WebTrack. Moreover, 81% of sites responded to email...

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Report:How To Get Customers To Shop Online

How Consumers Research, Buy, And Get Service

Our research still shows that despite the adoption of online transactions, consumers prefer in-store experiences over the Web when it comes to researching, buying, and getting customer service. This...

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Report:Technographics Survey Highlights: North American Retail And Customer Service Online Survey, Q2 2007

This highlight deck reviews the key findings from the Q2 2007 Retail & Customer Service Online Survey. This survey covered questions given to US adults around their experience with purchasing...