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Online Retailers Should Care More About the Post-Purchase Experience

Harvard Business Review

With the rise of new technologies like the internet and mobile, there are additional critical junctures for increasing the buying likelihood, including at the research stage. 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

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. Especially when the purchase is something we really care about, we’re willing to pay extra for a trusted advisor helping us make the right choice.

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