According to break-out sessions, expo booth displays, and conversations happening in all corners, the issues that are resonating with retailers and brands in 2015 are how to address omni-channel challenges and ways to use data and tools more effectively to engage mobile consumers. Numbers Tell the Story Statistics shared during several of the breakout sessions […] Read the rest of this entry »

When I was a kid of single-digit age, things seemed easier: you had at best a dozen types of cereals in your local supermarket, instead of the 50+ brands you typically find nowadays. Bathroom gels, shower gels, shower creams, etc. hadn’t yet taken the world over by storm. You just had soap. (To this day […] Read the rest of this entry »

Barcodes let products and marketing tools speak for themselves, while ensuring that your information is communicated in a clear, consistent way—every time. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the “Mobile Insider Summit”, a Scanbuy-sponsored event hosted by MediaPost. Having attended at least three or four times previously, I was prepared for a few quality days of discussing the many virtues of the mobile ecosystem.  As expected, there was an impressive line-up of panels with speakers who […] Read the rest of this entry »

This week, Google, released research on mobile searches and the ensuing consumer behavior. For marketers seeking to tap into the potential of the mobile channel, this report (available here) has the merit of highlighting key paradigms underlying successful mobile engagement, namely: Context-driven: at home, vs. in-store, vs. on the go, etc. Action-oriented: “find more information”, […] Read the rest of this entry »

This year at Mobile World Congress, there was a sense that a new chapter was turned: smartphones penetration had shot past the 50% threshold and tablet penetration has reached 1 in 4 adults in the US. Android and iOS updates, which determine much of nowadays’ user experiences, were challenged by smaller but no less ambitious […] Read the rest of this entry »

In the long list of industries transformed by the slow but steady digitization of our societies, retail probably tops the charts. And now the mobile channel promises to complicate matters further. eMarketer’s latest mobile commerce projections (Jan 2013) gives us an idea of the volume of sales achieved directly through mobile devices. This time though, […] Read the rest of this entry »