As every retailer offering a loyalty programme knows, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Truth Customer Academy shares how to consider the value exchange you’re really offering with your loyalty programme, and get the most out of your investment.
For FMCG brands, in-store demonstrations can be a powerful part of the marketing mix. A well-planned and executed campaign can make sales soar and build retail confidence in your brand. On the flip side, a poorly run campaign can waste marketing budget and negatively affect your brand and your relationship with the stores. So, what do you need to do to make sure your in-store campaigns get great results and deliver strong ROI?
Businesses can now easily direct consumers from Instagram straight to its site with the launch of Instagram Shopping. The updates to the popular app now open more opportunities for retailers to connect with online followers.
Three to seven seconds… that’s the amount of time a consumer first engages with a product on the shelf, the amount of time a product has to appeal and be chosen by the buyer. As a result, how a product’s packaging looks and feels is a vital part on the path to purchase.
KFC has continued to roll out retail goods in time, and specifically for, Christmas. The company’s newest campaign features a bath bomb, a candle and a selection of Christmas ornaments for purchase.
After battling requests for a line of shoes made for kids, Allbirds has given the punters what they desire and launched a limited edition children’s footwear range called Smallbirds. And in the spirit of creative overachieving, co-founder Joey Zwillinger has written a children’s picture book about a sheep called Sadie Shaves the Day that will be given out for free with each purchase of a pair of shoes.
Superette has long been a top player in social media. The clothing retailer has a social reach of nearly 100,000. The Register spoke to Superette owner James Rigden about the importance of reaching out to your consumer via different platforms.
Pak’nSave has celebrated its birthday by bringing out Stickman’s super hero alter ego in a ‘Super Birthday Deals’ campaign via FCB, featuring a SnapChat lens.
FlexiGroup is targeting millennials with its new Oxipay product that fulfils their desire to manage their money without racking up long-term debt.
Traditional layby payments can take up unnecessary time for both retailers and consumers. NZ Retail speaks to FlexiGroup – New Zealand chief executive, Chris Lamers, about the upcoming launch of Oxipay. Oxipay is about giving your customers the freedom to buy what you want now and split the payments over four easily managed payments.
What do napkins, chicken wings, malls and wine corks have in common? Millennials are being blamed for the death of all those things.
In-store signage might not seem too important in the great big marketing scheme. Yet digital signage is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, with the potential for marketers to provide more agile and relevant messaging for consumers.
Every year, StopPress asks players in the local industry for their reflections on the marketing year that was. Here’s what Steve Bayliss, group general manager of marketing at Foodstuffs, has to say.
It’s time to tick off those to-do lists according to Warehouse Stationery, which in a new brand proposition by 99 is showing off the capabilities of its products. It’s hope is to build consumers’ emotional connection to the brand and create context for a product range that extends well beyond traditional stationery.
An ethical fashion rating app was launched yesterday, dubbed Good On You, which is free for Kiwis to download and provides a way for consumers to see how fashion brands in New Zealand stack up in regard to ethical practices.
The craft beer scene has exploded in New Zealand, so much so that maybe it’s not such a ‘scene’ anymore. We chat to Deep Creek Brewery’s Jared Machlachlan about his brewery’s move to sell canned craft beer in Foodstuffs’ supermarkets.
Juanita Neville-Te Rito from The Retail Collective uses New Zealand examples to see how social media can be used as a tool to drive awareness or vistiation to a store and says retailers shouldn’t tie themselves up in knots about it.
“It’s a crisis. They’re all sold out,” exclaims a desperate Marcus Lush in a Tweet. And he isn’t the only one struggling with this issue. Denizens across the SuperCity are battling to cope with what has turned out to be a very balmy, sweaty summer.
Nielsen has released its figures for the top ten advertisers in the calendar year for 2015, and it’s again a lineup of the usual suspects, with the nation’s major retailers taking seven of the positions on the list. And while the figures are still high, there was a clear year-on-year drop in the overall contribution of nation’s biggest advertisers.
Showerheads, chopsticks, condoms and a vast array of other Star Wars-related products have hit the shelves recently in an effort to tap into the hype around the new film. And while many of them border on the ridiculous, data from cloud-based point-of-sale company Vend has found that New Zealand retailers who are selling Star Wars-related products and memorabilia have seen a 430 percent increase in December sales so far, compared to 2014.
Here’s a psychic skeptics will struggle to debunk: IBM has developed an app that trawls customer conversations on the internet to help retailers and shoppers to understand which products will be popular. And it has already picked which items will be hot commodities for Christmas 2015.
It’s happening, the robots are preparing for world domination. Well, not really, but they are beginning to take our jobs. Here’s a few examples of robots who have made it to the shop floor as retail assistants.
While e-commerce only contributes a small percentage of sales to the overall revenue of the retail industry, Ogilvy managing director Paul Manning argues the influence of digital can’t be emphasised enough. With shoppable content, personalisation and real-time customer service becoming increasingly common, digital touchpoints often serve as important links to the final purchase—and this is only set to become more prominent as the industry evolves.
While most retail advertising released today features little more than price, product and sale shouted through every available megaphone, there are also some examples of retailers returning to a more creative approach when it comes to their advertising. And the most recent example of this is the new Farmers brand ad. PLUS: should marketers focus on the emotional or the rational? Should they be doing more brand or retail ads?
The persuasive arts are often jokingly referred to as the colouring-in department. But the appeal is obviously not limited to marketers and agency folk, because adult colouring books are going gangbusters in New Zealand and around the world.
We already know you just can’t beat the Mad Butcher’s meat. Now he’s teamed up with Dick Smith to show you just can’t beat their “mad” consumer electronics deals.
As Mary Meeker’s presentation showed, modern consumers have become accustomed to getting what they want, when they want it—and modern businesses are using technology to cater to that need. Young Male Entrepreneur of the Year, law student and New Zealand representative in business strategy, Jesse Medcalf, gives a personal account of why retailers that don’t keep up to date with technology might fall out of favour with millennials.
Roy Morgan may have shut the doors of its New Zealand office, but it’s still checking up on Kiwi brands for its New Zealand Customer Satisfaction awards. And New World, Care Chemist, Max, Robert Harris Café, Noel Leeming, Kathmandu and Powershop have all celebrated their first wins.
Maybelline has released a new campaign called ‘Love your face’ that uses YouTube’s interactive technology with the aim of making it easier for consumers to find foundation that matches their skintypes. The campaign was created by agency .99 in partnership with Maybelline New York and comes at a time when the makeup brand is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Kiwi retailer Paper Plus and its agency FCB have enlisted the help of a goofy-looking alien character to bring excitement and imagination into the in-store experience. FCB’s general manager of retail Kamran Kazalbash and head of planning David Thomason talk us through the rebranding journey.