Retailers are facing another wave of disruption triggered by digital technologies. Find out which retailers are leading the way and why, if you haven’t already, you need to start including them in your plans.
Technological advancements are having a huge effect on data management and insight that can be gained from careful data analysis – delving ever deeper into big data to enhance and perfect the customer experience. Nicolas Finet takes a look down the year ahead, examining the evidence and thoughts of field experts, and makes a few considered predictions.
Victoria Greene says voice assistants and chatbots are much more than just the latest gadgets, they are changing the way we consume – and that’s an issue those who are currently evaluating their e-commerce strategy need to be aware of especially. Here, she takes a look at the latest trends affecting those who are selling online and offers her own strategies for success in the year ahead.
The arrival of the digital age has flummoxed many marketers – some of whom still call decade-old technology (such as smartphones) new tech. Three-quarters of the web’s sites are inactive, full of graveyard content, and there’s a deluge of data as yet unprocessed. Get with it and pick up the pace, says author Minter Dial; don’t let your business get left behind. Look to the future . . .
5G networks are projected to cover a third of the world’s population within the next decade – and the impact on the mobile industry and its customers will be profound: The new generation of technology will usher in a new era of global connectivity, with networks adapting to applications and performance being tailored to the needs of the user. Are you ready?
Imagine making advertising appear magical to viewers. Imagine being able to hyper-scale ads – make them the size of skyscrapers. Important digital out-of-home technologies are developing; emerging tech trends marketers should be watching closely.
As a result of new and emerging technologies, today we have access to unprecedented levels of data. It’s helping us to understand and predict human behaviour in ways we’ve never experienced before. As such, the potential to personalise, customise and enhance the customer journey is huge. And yet . . . that data gold mine has no value without effective and intelligent analytics, warns Rachit Khare.
Having spent their best years connected to the internet, most baby boomers are big consumers of digital media to entertain and inform them and many are now interested in smart homes. So, if you want to do business with boomers, you had better take a fresh view about what value you provide and how you engage with them.
Today, marketers have more than 120 different ways to communicate with their customers and prospects through a vast array of digital and analogue channels, which all purport to add value to the customer relationship. So, we should use them all – right? Er . . . wrong!