E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- December 27, 2019

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Is Privacy Possible in 2020?
How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy That Actually Works
Tech Firms Join Forces to Create Smart Home Connectivity Standard
Amazon Gives FedEx the Boot for Christmas
Just Wait Till Next Year

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Today's Story Highlights

Is Privacy Possible in 2020?
The California Consumer Protection Act goes into effect in 2020, and
other state and federal laws are on the horizon -- but is it possible
that these state laws will really provide us privacy? How many readers
take the time to read the privacy policy, or click agreement, when they
download a new version of an app on their smartphone or tablet? Probably
none. What are the consequences?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86432.html

How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy That Actually Works
Today's consumers live in a digital world, which means they can retrieve
all the information they desire at the touch of a button, putting them
in control. Added to this, they have become immune to traditional
outbound marketing methods -- such as billboards and television
advertisements -- and they expect brands and businesses to tailor their
messages based on customers' individual preferences.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86430.html

Tech Firms Join Forces to Create Smart Home Connectivity Standard
Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up on a new
Internet Protocol-based standard for smart home device connectivity.
Connected Home over IP will be an open source project. A working group
will define a specific set of IP-based networking technologies for
device certification. The goal is to enable communication across smart
home devices, mobile apps and cloud services.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86425.html

Amazon Gives FedEx the Boot for Christmas
Amazon third-party sellers will not be able to ship Prime customers'
orders using FedEx Ground and FedEx Home, as of Wednesday. "We have seen
a drop in the delivery performance of FedEx Ground and FedEx Home ship
methods for Seller Fulfilled Prime shipments," Amazon said. The
restriction is temporary, although no exact date has been set for
resuming FedEx Ground and FedEx Home for Prime orders.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86421.html

Just Wait Till Next Year
For the last 15 years I've written year end articles on where we've been
and where we're going in CRM and more broadly in tech. This year it
struck me that the major topics that were important in 2019 would be
equally important in 2020. In my mind there are several clusters of
things that have sticking power. For starters, platform will be a bigger
story than it already is.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86422.html

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