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Ecommerce • 11 Min read

Ecommerce strategy for Black Friday & holiday season 2022

In this year's holiday season, online retailers are in for a ride, as the ecommerce sector is shaken by severe economic disruptions: war in Europe,…

Sophie Messner October 4, 2021 Sticky

Google Ads • 7 Min read

Responsive search ads vs. expanded text ads: What you need to know

Update: Expanded Text Ads have been sunset on 30 June 2022. From this date onwards it is only possible to create Responsive Search Ads in…

Birgit Wimmer September 10, 2021

Ecommerce • 4 Min read

5 strategies for data-driven pricing

Data-driven pricing is arguably the most critical aspect in online retail and crucial for the implementation of overall business strategies. Attractive prices directly influence conversion…

Ralph Mayr August 19, 2021

Google Shopping • 8 Min read

Google Shopping title optimisation best practices: Does Google follow its own rules?

Every Account Manager understands the importance of Google Shopping title optimisation. But turn to Google for instructions, and you’ll find dozens of articles usually offering…

Katherine Munro July 15, 2021

Data Science • 5 Min read

How pricing influences conversion rates: A case study

In a previous post, we discussed the importance of pricing and how pricing decisions directly impact retail businesses. Essentially, in the ecommerce era, customers have…

Florian Jungwirth May 6, 2021

Ecommerce • 5 Min read

How pricing decisions impact retail businesses

Retail pricing optimization in a nutshell Pricing decisions are among the most important decisions in ecommerce – and in retail in general, as proficient pricing…

Florian Jungwirth January 13, 2021

Google Ads • 5 Min read

Reboot your PPC strategy for 2021: what 2020 has taught us

2020 will be remembered as a watershed year. PPC probably won't play a big role in the history books, but that doesn't mean it won't…

Viswanath Sankaran December 29, 2020

Google Shopping • 7 Min read

9 best Google Shopping PPC automation tools for 2021

If you are planning to promote and market your products on Google, you must make the most of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. But managing PPC campaigns…

Mark Haupt December 22, 2020

Innovation • 6 Min read

Innovation leads to change – change leads to success

Reinventing innovation at smec and how constant change is the only way moving forward Those of you, who are familiar with our blog articles revolving…

Georg Hofstadler December 21, 2020

Analytics • 6 Min read

2020 Black Friday performance report for Google Shopping

2020 has been a year of generation-defining disruption – and with major disruption comes both loss and opportunity. For retailers, challenges in the face of…

Michael Ryan December 15, 2020

Data Security • 4 Min read

Browser data protection in 2021 is complicated

How advanced is data protection in 2021? Does your modern browser respect privacy and therefore not forward any personal data to unknown third parties without…

Christian Gorbach December 9, 2020

Analytics • 3 Min read

Google Analytics 4: cross-channel measurement, privacy & more

Officially presented on 14 October 2020 and available to all ever since: Google Analytics 4 – a new kind of property introducing the next evolutionary…

Michael Gruber December 2, 2020

Ecommerce strategy for Black Friday & holiday season 2022

Responsive search ads vs. expanded text ads: What you need to know

5 strategies for data-driven pricing

Google Shopping title optimisation best practices: Does Google follow its own rules?

How pricing influences conversion rates: A case study

How pricing decisions impact retail businesses

Reboot your PPC strategy for 2021: what 2020 has taught us

9 best Google Shopping PPC automation tools for 2021

Innovation leads to change – change leads to success

2020 Black Friday performance report for Google Shopping

Google Analytics 4: cross-channel measurement, privacy & more

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