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Salesforce eCommerce Integration: Managing 3D Visuals Across Clouds

As customers walk into a retail store, they tend to hold products, see them from various angles, and try them out (depending on the category). When it comes to eCommerce, businesses usually rely on product images to sell, but that doesn’t go far enough to address today’s customer expectations. The good news is that you have options with Salesforce eCommerce integrations.
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Why You Should Add a 3D Product Customizer to Your WooCommerce Site

WooCommerce has become a popular choice for eCommerce because it’s a free, open-source eCommerce plugin for Wordpress. This means anyone can modify, audit, and extend the code. It is also user-friendly, as it doesn’t need you to be an expert in launching an online store.
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6 Basics of 3D and AR for eCommerce

Visual eCommerce has changed customer expectations about online shopping. It uses augmented reality (AR) and 3D visuals embedded on website pages and mobile apps to give customers a graphical, interactive representation of products.
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Threekit Launches Salesforce Visual Configurator for Salesforce CPQ

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How 4 Tech Leaders Are Using 3D and AR and What it Means for You

The use of Augmented Reality (AR) and the 3D visualization has shown an immense increase in the past year. Today, businesses are using these technologies to display their products on eCommerce sites as well as for marketing to consumers at large.
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Want to Win Over Gen Z Shoppers? Consider Virtual eCommerce

As Gen Zers enter the workforce and build their spending power, eCommerce companies must adopt a digital-first mindset if they want to reach this key demographic.
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5 Ways eComm Stores Can Win in the Age of Infinite Scrolling

With the availability of numerous eCommerce stores, online customers have a number of options to choose from. But what guides their decision-making when it comes to choosing the best store of them all? Can you guess?
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4 Ways to Reduce eCommerce Returns During COVID-19

In December of 2019, we made a commitment to help decrease product returns and challenged online retailers to take serious steps toward reducing their carbon emissions. Back in January, return rates were spiking and were predicted to increase throughout 2020. But then, everything changed in light of the pandemic. Returnly, whose platform managed returns for DTC brands, a 21% drop in eCommerce return rates in the weeks following mandated shutdowns across the country.
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How Visual CPQ Powers B2B Sales

Salesforce’s Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software streamlines B2B sales by making it easy to model deal scenarios and quickly provide leads with accurate quotes. Now this platform has a visual component that makes the whole process run even smoother: CPQ visualization software.
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4 Industries Using 3D Visuals to Boost Sales (+ Video Examples)

For many product salespeople, the pandemic has put a hard stop to on-site, face-to-face selling. Even as businesses begin to reopen and return to old processes, sales leaders should be aware of a powerful remote alternative that unlocks new selling opportunities: virtual sales through 3D content. A 3D product configurator equips salespeople with a powerful visualization tool that can often illustrate more than the actual product ever could.
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Why 3D and AR are the Future of Display Advertising

3D and Augmented Reality (AR) appear to be shifting the advertising landscape already. Just how significantly will only become clear in the upcoming months and years, however huge businesses are already using it to great effect, understanding that now is the time to deploy this comparatively new technology to produce new experiences for customers.
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What Apple’s Investment in Augmented Reality Means for Businesses

Let’s face it: Augmented reality (AR) is altering our day-to-day lives faster than anyone could have anticipated. According to an IDC report, global spending on AR is forecasted to accelerate from $12 billion last year to $72.8 billion in 2024. The IDC's Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide also demonstrates that global spending on AR devices and services will continue to grow strongly during the 2020 to 2024 projection period, attaining a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54%.
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