by Victoria Vessella Follow @v_vessellaSeptember 21, 2016 Retail audits are a critical component of a company’s overall retail execution strategy. They allow merchandisers to capture vital field data that affects the health of your business, such as retailer compliance, stock levels, and competitor activity. Moreover, managers are able to use data accumulated over time to … Continue reading Retail Audits: How To Reap Their Rewards
by Nicole Blanckenberg Follow @https://twitter.com/StoreYaComSeptember 6, 2016 Your biggest competitor has lowered their prices, you are concerned about sales and you’re tempted to reduce your prices to match theirs… But responding to price wars could do more harm to your long-term sales strategies than good.Before reducing your prices to match theirs, there are a lot … Continue reading What to Do If Your Competitors Reduce their Price
by Jack Loechner, Staff Writer @mp_research, September 2, 2016 The struggle to optimize the marketing mix across channels has recently been called the biggest challenge facing marketers, according to a newly-released study from Millward Brown Digital (MBD,) and summarized by Marketing Charts. The Millward Brown study says that this continues to be a monumental struggle, … Continue reading Marketers Not Confident With Their Ad Channel Mix
Facebook wants to make mobile ad links load faster, so it will start pre-loading them and push advertisers to make them load even quicker. Tim Peterson on August 31, 2016 Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook has sent out a warning to advertisers: Cut down the time it takes to load your webpages, or we’ll cut the … Continue reading Facebook pressures advertisers to cut mobile page load speeds or it’ll cut their reach
by Jacob Maslow Follow @jakemaslowAugust 25, 2016 Business owners regularly have most of their net worth invested in their businesses. While it’s vital as an entrepreneur to believe in your business and to have ‘skin in the game’, it is a very risky approach to money management having the almost all your capital invested in … Continue reading 5 Ways Business Owners Can Grow Their Wealth Outside Of Their Business
by Anton Eliasson Follow @antoneliassonAugust 20, 2016 As a marketer, you probably A/B test most things. The color of your buttons, call to actions, Facebook ads, your socks, your cereal… you get it. One of the golden rules of marketers today is to A/B test everything. You wouldn’t run a multi-thousand dollar online campaign without … Continue reading How This Business Decreased Their CPI With 450%
Columnist Katy Keim says it’s about time marketers use customer data to know more, see more and do more. Katy Keim on August 16, 2016 We think we know our customers. We think we understand what motivates, drives and excites them. We think that, thanks to all this “big data” we have at our … Continue reading The best marketers know more about their customers
by Larisa Bedgood Follow @https://twitter.com/DataMentorsAugust 8, 2016 Ecommerce sales continue to grow, generating over $ 300 billion in sales in the US alone last year. However, online shopping is generally an impersonal experience with lower levels of engagement as compared to the in-store experience. Unlike walking into a brick-and-mortar retail location where a shopper can … Continue reading Only 1 in Every 4 Retail Customers Complete Their Online Purchase – How to Improve Conversions
Marketers on the forefront of live video tell what they’ve learned about content creation, production details and managing comments. Amy Gesenhues on July 28, 2016 at 9:30 am For brands and agencies wanting more engagement and wider exposure, live video is where it’s at – but producing a live broadcast that gets real results isn’t … Continue reading How to go live: Brands & agencies share their top tips for live video broadcasts
Speed now means more than getting your product to market first. Columnist Scott Vaughan discusses our rapidly changing industry and how marketers can use speed to take advantage of it. Scott Vaughan on July 27, 2016 You traditionally don’t think of speed and marketing as being tightly linked. Today, speed is becoming a hot … Continue reading 3 ways marketers can use speed to their advantage
