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...
Omnichannel Shopper Marketing Mind Map And 5 Ways To Use It
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 ...
Why Managing Coupon Spend Should Be Shopper Marketers’ Strategic Priority
The vast majority of CPG marketing teams use shopper incentives in the forms of coupons and rebates to enhance their shopper marketing campaigns.
Marketing Leaders, #HireUkrainians
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.
How to Calculate Shopper Marketing ROI
Return on Investment, or ROI, is a metric that CPG marketers hear about a lot. However, despite its ubiquity, its definition is often inconsistent or unclear. Let’s demystify the ROI
8 Features of a Great Shopper Marketing Plan
The discipline of CPG marketing has become more technical, complex, and dynamic than ever. Expectations for shopper marketing plans have also evolved.
8 U.S. Laws Shopper Marketers Should Know
There has always been tension between Marketing and Legal. Working with corporate lawyers can be frustrating. They seem to say no to so many of our great ideas; they poke holes in our creative and copy; they scrutinize our packaging design and...
5 Ways Marketing Planning Software Pays For Itself
Buying software has always been a complex process in a CPG enterprise. In my almost nine years of selling B2B productivity software, I found the hardest part of closing the deal is not getting my foot in the door to do an initial exploratory call or...
Why Marketing Ops should be your next career move
Shopper marketing has always been an ambiguous place in terms of career planning. Unlike in traditional brand, sales or finance roles, shopper marketing almost never has a clear career path paved in front of them. This is unfortunate because the...
Three New Rules for CPG Brand-Building
With shopping behavior expanding online through eCommerce buying and digital influence on in-store purchasing, brand building requires new rules to play and win.