Retail MarketingB2C MarketingConsumer Promotions and Rewards
What retail brands are doing for the new year
With 2023 underway, many brands are catering to the fresh start a new year brings with major deals, tailored products and celebratory marketing. Brands are displaying their new year promotions front and center, showing their deals in bold, big letters with eye-catching graphics to match.
Jan 6, 2023
Retail MarketingHoliday Marketing
How nine brands amplified efforts around Giving Tuesday
After days of great deals ahead of the gift-giving season comes Giving Tuesday , which has been encouraging people to give back to their communities and favorite charities since 2012. It uses the same consumer psychology that's behind the days just before it: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.
Dec 4, 2020
Retail MarketingHoliday MarketingConsumer Psychology
Retail brands are replicating Amazon Prime Day
Another Amazon Prime Day has come and gone, but some marketers in retail have figured out how to replicate the same feelings around their own branded events.
Oct 15, 2020
Retail Marketing
Innovative Promotions for Shopper Marketers
According to Quirk’s Marketing Review , “Just a few years ago, [shopper marketing] was a little-understood task driven by promotions or channel marketing and focused primarily on trade. Today, 77% of CPG companies and retailers have a dedicated shopper marketing function, and there is an increasing view that shopper insights are strategically essential." The discipline is growing because CPG brands are beginning to understand its critical and central role in growing revenue.
Apr 13, 2017
Retail MarketingEmail MarketingHoliday Marketing
Innovating Holiday Marketing
It's beginning to look a lot like...Christmas? Wait, a minute. It's August. But while consumers are thinking about back-to-school, many retailers already have their holiday plans locked and loaded.
Oct 3, 2016
Retail Marketing
How Promotions Can Help Merchandisers
Gamification and promotions are an increasingly popular strategy used by almost every industry to achieve a number of important brand goals. But how many promotions can be tailored to achieve specific brand merchandising goals? Brand merchandising goals might include:
Oct 20, 2015
Retail MarketingQuikly
How Pet Supplies Plus Drives In-Store Revenue
Once or twice a month, we like to highlight one of the campaigns we're running so that brands who are considering a Quikly can see how it works in real time. What better way to see how it all goes down than to play along with a live campaign? Play along with the Pet Supplies Plus Quikly campaign here .
Oct 8, 2015
Retail MarketingQuikly
Jo-Ann Stores Quikly Campaign--Still Time to Play Along!
Once or twice a month, we like to highlight one of the campaigns we're running so that brands who are considering a Quikly can see how it works in real time. What better way to see how it all goes down than to play along with a live campaign? Play along with the Jo-Ann campaign here .
Sep 24, 2015
Retail MarketingConsumer Promotions and Rewards
Discounts: Best Practices & Tools
Promotions are everywhere these days — every kind of business is using some form of discounting all year round. Even the companies who say they don't discount do it every now and then. If you add your name to the email list of any luxury or high-end retailer who says they never discount, you will see that even they do it on occasion to liquidate inventory.
Aug 27, 2015
Retail Marketing
Quikly for Sole Society
Once or twice a month, we like to highlight one of the campaigns we're running so that brands considering a Quikly can see how it works in real time. Brands choose Quikly because Quikly promotions deliver immediate ROI in the form of new (and demographically relevant customers), increased revenue, and huge boosts to engagement, all while increasing loyalty and customer satisfaction.What better way to see how it all works than to play along with a live campaign?
Jul 23, 2015
Retail MarketingConsumer PsychologyUrgency Marketing
Prime Day: Lessons Learned
Based on the intensity of Amazon's marketing push, who wasn't excited about Prime Day? I've spent my career speaking and writing about how marketers can leverage customer psychology to increase revenue, leads, and customer acquisition, and I've built a business around it. Prime Day seemed like it might be super-sizing the concept.
Jul 16, 2015
Retail MarketingConsumer PsychologyUrgency Marketing
Every Retailer Can Have an Amazon “Prime Day”
Have you heard about the upcoming Amazon Prime Day ? Amazon's latest genius marketing move, on Wednesday July 15th, the company will offer all sorts of special deals only to Prime members. It's being billed as “bigger than black friday” and “one of the biggest deal extravaganzas in the world.” Believe it or not, any retailer can do this kind of promotion.
Jul 10, 2015