Marketing

Playing Games With Your Customers: Gamifying the Shopping Experience
March 27, 2024 at 3:59 pm

Acquiring new customers can cost up to 5x more than retaining existing ones. This puts more responsibility on retailers to find a sustainable way to create a positive, personalized relationship that maintains engagement and inspires repeat purchases. One way to do that? Gamify the customer experience. Put simply, gamification adds gaming elements to non-gaming scenarios.โ€ฆ

5 Challenges Facing Retail Mediaย 
March 27, 2024 at 9:04 am

Only 41 percent of retailers find the current process for selling and buying retail media efficient. This insight has prompted discussions on how to continue its development, whatโ€™s working well, and where the major pain points exist. To succeed, retailers must address five critical challenges halting progress on retail mediaโ€™s potential: 1. Internal Politics andโ€ฆ

ThirdLove's Co-Founder Shares the Brand's Customer Acquisition and Retention Approach
March 25, 2024 at 4:36 pm

In episode 445 of Total Retail Talks, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews David Spector, co-founder and chairman of ThirdLove, a women's intimates and lifestyle brand. Listen in as Spector shares the genesis of the company (0:45), his professional background prior to co-founding the company (4:20), his current role at the business (6:10), and how ThirdLove approachesโ€ฆ

Retail Leaders Weigh in on the FTCโ€™s Proposed Updates to the Green Guides
March 25, 2024 at 8:19 am

The Federal Trade Commission (โ€œFTCโ€) is set to release an updated version of its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims this year. These โ€œGreen Guidesโ€ โ€” which haven't been updated in over a decade โ€” do not have the force of law but provide marketers with guidance on how to make properly substantiatedโ€ฆ

Tailor Brand Actions to 4 Shopper Types to Drive Purchases
March 21, 2024 at 11:38 am

When making key decisions about brand positioning and activation opportunities, brand leaders must pay close attention to the factors that influence audience buying behaviors. Brand leaders must leverage shopper mindsets to create powerful brand strategies, from messaging to channel strategy. In a Gartner survey, over 2,000 U.S. consumers were asked about traits that described theโ€ฆ

How Celebrus Enables 'The Lifeblood of a Business': Accurate Digital Reporting
March 6, 2024 at 6:08 pm

In episode 40 of Total Retail Tech Insights, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Maigari Jinkiri, vice president of business development at Celebrus, a customer data and fraud prevention solution. Listen in as Jinkiri provides an overview of the business and how it works with retailers (0:45), his professional background that led him to recently join Celebrusโ€ฆ

Cross-Channel Marketing for Retailers: Whatโ€™s Working and Whatโ€™s Not
March 6, 2024 at 10:12 am

Cross-channel marketing should attract new customers and deepen relationships with the ones you already have. As a marketer in the retail industry, your cross-channel marketing campaigns should create a cohesive, consistent customer experience that feels relevant and seamless. The question is, do you have the right technology and tools to achieve that? MoEngage surveyed moreโ€ฆ

Step Into the Future of Retail Media: Key Tenets to Scaling a Creative Workflow
March 5, 2024 at 10:28 am

Want to build your own retail media empire? Or at least figure out a way to manage your advertisers seamlessly to keep your stress low and your ability to scale high? Retail media is growing fast. To make the most of that momentum, your advertisers have specific, evolving expectations about what working with you willโ€ฆ

How Anthropologie is Marketing to the Next Generation of Consumers
March 4, 2024 at 4:39 pm

In episode 442 of Total Retail Talks, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Elizabeth Preis, global chief marketing officer at Anthropologie, a unique, full-style lifestyle brand in the URBN brands portfolio. Listen in as Preis discusses the evolution of Anthropologie's marketing approach over the past few years (0:55), customer overlap between the brand's physical and digital channelsโ€ฆ