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Online Retailers Should Care More About the Post-Purchase Experience

Harvard Business Review

Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. For example, Sephora offers in-store customers the ability to get online makeup tutorials at stations called the “Beauty Workshop.”

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Make Customers Want to Buy Offline

Harvard Business Review

Showrooming , once a worry primarily for consumer electronics retailers, is expanding into markets we might have thought exempt. Backcountry.com and Zappos, for example, are excellent online retailers, but they haven’t displaced REI or the local shoe store, because people value that hands-on expertise.

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