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Brand Engagement The Consumer Way
The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...
Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions
Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...
The hope of greater margins and more control may drive a consumer goods company to embrace direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. But while those are sound reasons to sell directly, they sell the value of...

Marketers Must Look Beyond Incremental Sales And Margins To Assess The Full Impact Of A Direct Sales Channel
Every product category has a set of competitors that have a branded route to the customer — such as The Body Shop in cosmetics, Gap in apparel, and Apple in consumer electronics — while...