After more than 15 years in Consumer Packaged Goods industry, I became a software entrepreneur. Today, I design and sell Shopperations, a web-based, collaborative planning software for Marketers on both CPG and Retail sides, to enable transparency, accountability and stronger Shopper Marketing promotional analytics. I am passionate about all things Retail and Shopper Marketing, love reading about Neuroscience progress as it relates to shopper research, and care about process improvement and marketing automation technology.
It's never been easy to explain to the industry outsiders what shopper marketers do all day long. The CPG industry is vast and omnipresent, but its marketing's inner workings are complex and hard to grasp. It takes a good year or two for the...
The world of shopper marketing is dynamic and getting more technical and complex by the day. To help us make sense of it all, many of us seek opinions and advice from industry experts and thought leaders.
Marketing operations, or MOPS for short, is a promising career in the CPG space. About a year ago, I wrote why shopper marketers are perfect candidates for emerging marketing ops roles. One of my clients reached out recently and asked for a deep...
Omnichannel shopper marketing is a dynamic, constantly evolving discipline. It sits in between and overlaps with brand management, sales, e-commerce and media teams. This makes shopper marketing very diverse and full of nuances and gray areas.
Do you struggle with actualizing your shopper marketing events? You do? Well, you should feel good, at least you are trying. When we engage with CPG clients, we find that actualization is often such a huge pain that some organizations don’t even...
The omnichannel shopper marketing job is a tough one (I wrote about it at length in this post), and it’s getting more complex and technical each year. This shifting playing field got to a point where shopper marketers have a hard time explaining ...
Shoppperations is a software-as-a-serivice, subscription-based application, which means that it is used by multiple companies. While the software looks the same for all clients when it’s freshly deployed out of the box, later, it is meticulously...
In the midst of the pandemic, we witnessed a remarkable surge in digital experiences, ranging from the explosive rise of grocery e-commerce, rapid adoption of teleconferencing, mainstream adoption of remote work and online collaboration,
I have been living in the United States for more than 22 years, but I never lost connection with my home country of Ukraine. It has been my favorite place to hire since I started my company in 2014.
