Published in Total Retail Do you know how many emails are sent every day around the world?I ask people that all the time and I get some surprising answers. I’ve heard 10 million, 100 million and up to a billion. The answer is that in 2024, people around the world will send 350 billion emails […]
Did Santa bring us an AI calamity?
Now that the holidays have passed, we can confront the present and future of AI. The future is bright. The present, for some uses, is dismal. You may choose to disagree and, like me, you probably received dozens of prediction emails for 2024 announcing that if 2023 was the year we discovered AI, 2024 will […]
DTC Wine Sales Are Falling: What Are You Going To Do About It?
(This article is directed to the wine industry but the principles apply to almost any product where customer relationships are important. Is there one where it’s not?) Report after report, blog after blog, and trend after trend are showing that Direct-To-Consumer wine sales have been falling both in volume and value. It’s not just DTC […]
American Eagle Brings its ‘Denim Domination’ to New York City’s High Line
Published in Total Retail In addition to offering an innovative digital platform and services, we’re marketers at heart. So, when I came across an unusual promotion on New York City’s Highline Park, I knew I had to look into it further. The High Line gets nearly 35,000 visitors a day. A good promotion there is […]
Separating winners from losers in the wine industry
If you read Mike Veseth’s “Theories of the Global Wine Glut “in last week’s Wine Economist and his followup to that article this week or looked at a lot of the recent sales data, you know there’s a problem. “The world is swimming wine” As Veseth points out, “Wine consumption fell during the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Customer Knowledge Is Not Valuable Unless It’s Actionable
Last week, Knowledge at Wharton (their business school’s newsletter) sent out a promotion for a book titled “The Customer Base Audit” by three esteemed college professors. The authors believe an audit is “the first step on the journey to customer centricity”. I can’t argue with that or many of the other points they make about how […]
Oomiji Expands Platform Integrations with MergeLink to Query Purchase Intent Data
Published in MarTech Oomiji, the first predictive, conversation-enabled customer data platform, announced the expansion of its offering to 100+ platform integrations by integrating with MergeLink. This latest addition to Oomiji enables other platform users to pull in specific data on customer interests, needs, perceptions and emotions and for Oomiji clients to pull in data such as past […]
The answers to 3 simple questions determine success
There is a lot that you would like to learn from your customers and there’s no shortage of data or ways to get it. But what you really need to know in order to succeed are the answers to the three questions above. In the past, I’ve asked many CEOs , “Why do your customers […]
Lessons We Can All Take From The Decline In DTC Wine Sales
5 Questions To Ask Consumers are buying more wine than a year ago. That’s the good news and if you don’t look past that, everything looks rosy. DTC sales are still well above pre-pandemic levels but scratch the surface a bit and there are some reasons to ask questions on how the industry is encouraging […]
Recommendations for Selecting Digital Marketing Platforms
Survey from Oomiji finds 25% of marketers want better platform integrations Companies selling digital marketing platforms have a long way to go before they satisfy their customers. Earlier this year, we sent out a survey about marketers’ level of satisfaction with their marketing platforms. Only 8% of U.S. marketers said they’re happy with their digital […]