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Future Commerce Podcast: eCommerce, DTC and Retail Strategy

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Our subscribers include leaders and decision-makers from the most storied and influential brands

Whatever your size, product offerings, or channel, sales and use tax compliance is an essential part of business operations. But with thousands of tax jurisdictions in the U.S., it’s the furthest thing from simple.
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Erin DaCruz
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Step By Step

A quarterly quick-start to get you up to speed on eCom’s most important concepts.

In 5 short episodes per season, we break down complex topics into bite-sized chunks that help you learn what you need to know to have the leading edge in your business.

Get a leg up and learn the ins-and-outs of the DTC and retail landscapes.
June 2, 2023
[STEP BY STEP] What Frameworks Should I use to Qualify Good Software for my Business?
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Infinite Shelf

How do you build brands, products, and services people can't live without?

Join hosts Ingrid Cordy and Kiri Masters as they explore how to bring together the right recipe of connection, relevance, emotional attachment, and (of course) profitability.

Not just another eCom or omnichannel podcast — one for human-centric retailers.
June 6, 2023
Old-school vs. New-school
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Our Latest Reports

Archetypes 2022

Archetypes is the inaugural printed collection of writings from Future Commerce. Archetypes is the story of Brands and the stories they tell. Find yourself in one of the 12 archetypes.
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Future Commerce
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Our Latest Reports

Visions Report 2022

VISIONS is a first-of-its-kind consumer and culture trends report, bringing together fifteen content creators, leaders, and artists for candid conversations around the future of commerce.
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Future Commerce is a retail media research startup focused on helping eCommerce businesses create strategic vision.

We create content for modern brand marketers to shape the future of their retail and DTC businesses.

1. Our mission

Future Commerce helps brands manifest vision and create goals which lead to future-altering impacts for their customers and for the world around them.

With our platform, we’re helping to elevate brands who are using their most powerful tool - commerce — to bring about the change they wish to see in the world.

Forget trying to predict the future. Shape your future.

2. The future of commerce is what you make it

We’re more than a podcast, newsletters, and reports. We are a collective of eCommerce operators who have helped to build digital commerce channels for some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

The future of your digital commerce channel depends on having the insights into trends, consumer confidence, sentiment analysis, and emerging psychographics of the customers your brand is trying to reach. We help to shape your worldview by providing you with stories from other retail brand builders.

3. The future commerce manifesto

Commerce connects people. Commerce is vital to our existence and to participate in community and society.

Therefore, people deserve to participate in society and community without the influence or control of systems and platforms that use subversive and manipulative techniques to persuade them. These techniques can be as overt as trustwashing (i.e. Greenwashing, Wokewashing) or can be as subversive as dark patterns (like confirm shaming). Consumers should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Consumers should have a reasonable expectation to choose to not be surveilled. Consumers should be treated as people, rather than purchases. Not all interactions must drive towards the sale. Not all marketing needs to build FOMO.

This is our mounting philosophy: Modern brands draw a line in the sand and play the long game. Customer lifetime value happens over the lifetime of the relationship with the customer, not the number that changes in Power BI or Google Analytics.

Demystifying Retail  Tax Compliance: 7 Common Challenges Retailers Face - And How to Solve Them

Demystifying Retail Tax Compliance: 7 Common Challenges Retailers Face - And How to Solve Them

Whatever your size, product offerings, or channel, sales and use tax compliance is an essential part of business operations. But with thousands of tax jurisdictions in the U.S., it’s the furthest thing from simple.