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“SMS Marketing 101: Marketing that gets a response” via BRA Supporting Vendor Partner Podium

by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Associate Members, Educational Opportunity, Internet, Resources, Retail Strategy

Want to reach your potential customers in real-time? Want the edge on your competitors? It’s time to think about SMS. This step-by-step guide will walk you through everything you need to know to begin within minutes.  Take a look and start reading! Here is the...

“Postmates looks to solve local retail’s last mile” by Tom Ryan of Retail Wire

by admin | Nov 2, 2020 | Internet, Resources, Retail Strategy

Postmates, the Uber-owned on-demand delivery platform, has introduced a new service supporting the last-mile needs of local retailers. Under the program, Shop, local retailers create a virtual storefront on Postmates’ app, where they’ll be able to...

“FREE DROP SHIP COMMERCE FROM EXCHANGE COLLECTIVE”

by admin | Mar 20, 2020 | Associate Members, Corona Virus, Industry, Internet, News, Resources, Retail Strategy

BRA Supporting Vendor Partner, Exchange Collective, is here to help our BRA Retail Members BELOW IS A MESSAGE FROM OUR FRIENDS AT THE EXCHANGE COLLECTIVE. With retailers having to shut down, Exchange Collective wants to help be a part of a proactive solution to...

“Never Mind the Internet. Here’s What’s Killing Malls. Yes, the internet has changed the way we shop. But taken together, other factors have caused greater harm to traditional retail stores, an economist says.” by Austan Goolsbee in The New York Times

by admin | Feb 16, 2020 | Industry, Internet, Retail Strategy, Statistics

By Austan Goolsbee  Published Feb. 13, 2020 It has been a tough decade for brick-and-mortar retailers, and matters seem only to be getting worse. Despite a strong consumer economy, physical retailers closed more than 9,000 stores in 2019 — more than the total in 2018,...

“HOW SHOULD BRANDS BE RELEASING THEIR VIDEOS?” by ALEXIS CASTRO via JENKEM MAG

by admin | Oct 17, 2019 | Internet, Skateboard

Without a doubt, the biggest and most popular skate media partner today is Thrasher, which boasts the highest following of any skateboarding outlet at over 5 million Instagram followers and over 2 million YouTube subscribers. This wasn’t always the case, but...

5 SEO Tips You Can Do Right Now

by admin | Jun 10, 2019 | Internet, Resources

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, might seem like an impossible-to-crack code. Yet SEO is incredibly important if you want your business to be found online. If your website is optimized for search engines, Google, Yahoo, and Bing will view it as a good source and...