Avoiding the Shopper-Marketing Pitfalls 2 days ago Original link
A PMA study (covered extensively in Promo, AdWeek and MarketingDaily) shows that more than 60% of those surveyed are currently practicing shopper marketing, focused solely on the point of purchase...
Personalized Marketing Lags Potential 5 days ago Original link
The CMO Council recently issued a report called "The Power of Personalization" (covered by RetailWire, BrandWeek, Direct, MarketingDaily and the Center for Media Research). The study showed that m...
Retail AMP Word Cloud 5 days ago Original link
A special treat for today - Wordle is a cool little app that lets you generate "word clouds" from text that you provide. It creates an initial version based on word frequency which you can then tw...
Marketing Storytelling Pays Dividends 9 days ago Original link
With consumers ignoring more and more sales messages, marketers must consider moving from interruption-based overt advertising to storytelling in order to differentiate themselves. The Chief Marke...
Rewards Don’t Buy Loyalty 11 days ago Original link
The premise of a recent white paper from Allegiance (covered by Promo) is that while reward programs may drive some repeat business, developing truly loyal customers requires much more than specia...