Customer Data

How Glossier Uses Data Year-Round to Win the Golden Quarter
May 17, 2023 at 11:55 am

The crucial “Golden Quarter” holiday season used to start with Black Friday/Cyber Monday. It now starts much sooner as retailers kick off holiday promotions in October. Top D2C brands start even earlier in the year and use their data to prepare for holiday traffic. Beauty brand Glossier started working with automated data movement leader Fivetran…

How Psychographic Data Can Help Brands Understand Advertising Disengagement
May 8, 2023 at 2:57 pm

Current economic factors mean marketers must use their shrinking budgets wisely. Yet brand marketers continue to waste about 25 percent of these precious dollars because they’re not effectively using the correct data or insights to best understand their customers and unengaged audiences. The Most Prominent Mistakes Marketers Are Making “The definition of insanity is doing…

Will Customer Data Make or Break Your Holiday Season?
May 3, 2023 at 11:55 am

It may seem early to think about the retail holiday season, but now is the perfect time to start planning for the busiest time of year. Despite concerns about rising interest rates and inflation, the National Retail Federation (NRF) reports that U.S. retail sales grew 5.3 percent during the 2022 holiday season. Many experts anticipate…

Retail Media: Mistakes and Misconceptions (and How to Avoid Them)
April 27, 2023 at 11:38 am

If it seems like retail media is at the top of every retailer’s tech wish list recently, it’s because it is … or at least it should be. As advertising trends shift from in-store to digital, and customers rely more on their smartphones to inform their purchasing decisions, retailers need to focus on tools and…

Providing Personalized Experiences While Ensuring Data Privacy
April 25, 2023 at 9:17 am

Personalized customer experience (CX) has become one of the key differentiators for retailers, and today’s digital-savvy customers expect retailers to provide a seamless CX both offline and online. In fact, 82 percent of customers are even willing to share their personal information for personalized experiences. However, customers have also become conscious of how their data…

3 Common Data Strategy Mistakes Retailers Are Making
April 13, 2023 at 7:50 am

Change and disruption is rife in retail. Gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage means delivering timely and relevant customer experiences at every touchpoint. In fact, 70 percent of consumers spend more with companies that offer fluid, personalized and seamless customer experiences. Yet despite most retailers being data rich, data strategy mistakes are making them insight…

Key Digital Investments for Retailers in 2023
April 10, 2023 at 2:49 pm

Modern retail brands need flexibility, scalability, and the ability to tailor solutions to their needs. There’s a lot of pressure to exceed customer expectations, expand into new channels and new markets, and grow business, and after several years of COVID-influenced upheaval and facing the headwinds of an uncertain global economy, those pressures are amplified. Out-of-the-box…

5 Steps Retailers Can Take to Set Up a Successful Media Network
April 6, 2023 at 7:13 pm

Retailers have some of the richest first-party data sets, with deep attributes and an acute understanding of consumers. Brands increasingly want to tap into these consumer insights, and retailers are moving fast to ensure they can meet the demand. This has led to the rise of the retail media network (RMN), which allows retailers to…