It's been two weeks since the US-based corporate office workers had a mass migration to work from home format. We are still collectively adjusting to this new reality. It can be quite challenging and disorienting at first, but with time, I believe...
Get In Front Of (Re)planning Crisis
The COVID-19 coronavirus is the “black swan” event of this decade, perhaps of our entire generation. It will undoubtedly change the CPG and retail industries in ways yet unknown.
Cart Before Horse: Why You Are Not Ready For Marketing Analytics
Are you obsessing about marketing ROI and advanced analytics methods? Do you aspire to optimize your marketing spend? Join the club – or, perhaps, hold on to those club dues for a minute.
"Tinder" For CPG Marketers & Vendors
We are going to be at the GroceryShop conference next week. It is a massive production where retailers, traditional CPGs, product and tech startups, investors, agencies, consultants and media vendors mingle, network and share their capabilities....
Introducing Shopperations Marketing Briefs
Have you ever wondered which one of the 14 versions of your marketing brief is the 'real' one?
Is your team using briefs inconsistently or relies on multiple versions of the brief template?
Are you having trouble finding the brief documents for many...
7 MarTech Conference Insights for CPG Marketers
When I worked in the CPG space, I thought I knew something about MarTech. MarTech startups popped up right and left, some of them pitched business to us, others made news because they were acquired by our retail customers or our media partners. But...
How Many-to-Many Budget-Event Flow Drives Marketers Crazy
One of our newest clients called us in a panic recently. Apparently, one of his company's brand VPs is putting enormous pressure on him and his team to demonstrate where every single dollar they put into shopper marketing and e-commerce budget has...
5 Reasons to Shake Up Your Shopper Marketing Operations, Now
We recently conducted a survey which shows that the tools and systems used by the majority of our respondents are almost three decades old!
7 Must-Have Shopper Marketing Reports
Shopper marketers serve many internal and external clients, each with unique needs and business questions. As a result, shopper marketing practitioners constantly chase the latest information, often creating custom one-off reports and presentations,...
Low Shopper Marketing Productivity is YOUR problem, not IT’s
Think of your workload and what needs to be accomplished in your work day. Now take that work day and cut it in half…
That’s the state of productivity in the CPG and retail marketing world.