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Also... GoDaddy's Bob Parsons; Ecom chart; Industry IQ; Webinar U Can't read this email? [View it in your browser.](   [Practical Ecommerce Merchant]( Jan. 10, 2024 Today's sponsor: [Loqate GBG logo](   [Omnichannel Retail Will Accelerate in 2024]( [Retail prognosticators have long predicted the convergence of physical and online selling. From the first book sold on Amazon in 1995, there has been a slow blurring of the lines, so to speak, towards multichannel and omnichannel.]( [Occasionally the change has been abrupt. The pandemic]( [Omnichannel Retail]( [drove demand for buy-online, pick-up in-store services. That triggered the rapid development of software connecting online ordering with brick-and-mortar locations. Post covid, the demand has waned, yet the infrastructure and software remain, representing an omnichannel leap.]( [Here’s why omnichannel retailing will accelerate in 2024.]( [Customer Experience]( [In 2024, the first significant merging of ecommerce and physical retail could be immersive customer experiences.]( [Augmented reality fitting rooms, interactive displays, and in-store robots are now live in real shopping applications, explained Aron Bohlig, a managing partner at ComCap, an investment bank, in an email. Read article >](   A Message from Loqate [10 UX Tips for the Perfect Checkout Flow]( [Loqate GBG logo]( [Your checkout process is the last hurdle to turn visitors into customers. Download Loqate's guide for 10 essential checkout tips to convert today's mobile, web-savvy shoppers. Learn pointers for reducing friction, verifying info, mobile optimization, guest checkouts, and more. Get the guide >](   [AI Is Transforming Online Video]( [New tools are crazy advanced, mimicking a user's speech, voice, and lip movements. Read article >](   [Q&A: Ecommerce Employment in 2024]( ["It's like Baskin-Robbins. There are 31 flavors of available candidates — interim, permanent part-time, full-time, per-project, onside, remote, partial remote, and fractional." Read article >](   From the Archive: October 2005 [GoDaddy’s Bob Parsons: We’re Only Seeing the Tip of the Iceberg]( [Bob Parsons takes risks, not something your average CPA tends to do easily. But then Parsons isn’t your average CPA, although he has a degree in accounting and worked as one for several companies.]( [Read article >](   📊 Ecommerce Chart [AI impact, per investors]   [🎙 'Ecommerce Conversations' Podcast](