| | Editor's Pick November 30, 2021 | | Belly Up to the Bar With First-Ever Digital Booze Card | | Consumers have a strong appetite for gift cards and gifting alcohol. But until now they could not do both with a branded gift card. The market had none. Beverage alcohol e-commerce platform company has announced the first-ever alcohol branded gift cards with major liquor brands. | | Report Finds US Workers Lagging in Digital Skills | | One-third of U.S. workers lack digital skills, with 13 percent having no digital skills and 18 percent having, at best, limited digital skills, noted a new report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. In essence, one in six working-age Americans are unable to use email, web search, or other basic online tools. | | A D V E R T I S E M E N T | | 365 Threat Monitor: scan all emails as they reach your user mailboxes to detect ransomware, phishing, and spam. Get real-time phone alerts and security breach updates & delete threats instantly. | | How Merchants Can Better Battle Chargebacks and Fraud | | Cash flow concerns and fraud are going to be a menace to both retailers and consumers this holiday shopping season. One of the biggest shopping headaches this year will be a much earlier start to the chargeback cycles. Accertify VP Jeff Wixted discusses various precautions retailers can implement and tools they need to mitigate the impact of the expected fraud and chargeback volume increases. | | The Great Sales Methodology Debate, Solved | | Sales managers and their managers have had to make peace with the reality that they might not be able to get reps to use technology. But methodology alone or with technology is a more-or-less lost cause. Fortunately, the technology has improved consistently over the last two decades. Even more fortunately, the leading SFA company was founded by a sales guy. | | Inflation, Cybersecurity Chief Concerns This Holiday Shopping Season | | Online shoppers and e-commerce website operators face greater chances of becoming victims of cyber hacks as 2021 draws to a close. A list of technical and logistical problems stretching across multiple industries gives both shoppers and retailers reason to double efforts to avoid being hacked this year. | | Marketers Underestimate Word of Mouth, Overestimate Influencers: Report | | New research uncovers significant differences between marketer assumptions and what consumers actually say influences their brand awareness and purchase decisions. | | TRENDING ON ECT NEWS NETWORK | | Future-Proofing Retail Ops in the Era of Supply Chain Chaos The E-Commerce Times engaged Mark Delaney, retail industry consultant at Zebra Technologies, in a wide-ranging conversation about today's supply chain disruptions and evolving consumer shopping habits. Read more www.ecommercetimes.com | | | | | | Holidays Fuel Surge of Mobile, Online Phishing Scams 'Tis the season to go phishing. Nothing brings out digital bandits like the holidays, and this year is no exception. Read more www.technewsworld.com | | | | | | Zoho's Surround Strategy Surround strategy is the antithesis of rip and replace. Rather than replacement, a business can move parts of its workload from some workhorse system, say ERP, to Zoho -- where things like pre-built reports and Zia, an AI-based digital assistant... Read more www.crmbuyer.com | | | | | | Enterprise Linux, MSFT Replacements, Fuzzy Linux Solutions Tired of going online to access the Microsoft Office suite on your Linux computer? Learn about two new alternative office suites you can run with full compatibility from your Linux hard drive. Read more linuxinsider.com | | | | | | Get the day's top e-business and technology news from ECT News Network delivered to your inbox as stories break. Sign up today. | | We welcome your feedback. To share your thoughts or ideas, please use our online form. | | This newsletter was sent in response to your request on an ECT News Network website. To update your settings, or to receive other newsletters from ECT News Network: Manage My Subscriptions. | | To advertise in this newsletter or elsewhere on ECT News Network, please call our sales department (818) 461-9700 or follow these links:
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