Thought Leadership

Men Are Boosting the Beauty Industry

By 2022, the men’s personal care market will grow by $166 billion, which means marketers should already be thinking about the unique ways in which men want to engage and be engaged by brands in this category. 

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Technology: Advancing the Practice of Pharmacy

Delivery of additional clinical services by pharmacies is increasing as more and more patients look to their neighborhood drug store to provide them easily accessible primary care. With all that pharmacists must currently contend, is this new level of patient engagement sustainable?

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A Primer for Brands and Retailers about BERT – Google’s New Intuitive Search

In October, 2019, Google rolled out their most important search functionality update in five years – Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers or, as it’s better known, BERT.

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Pursuing Personalization That Drives Real Incrementality

As crucial as personalization is to successfully activating shoppers, the idea of achieving individual engagement at a scale sufficient to drive true incrementality can be daunting for many marketers. At its core, personalization is simply delivering on the promise of a comfortable, valuable interaction between seller and buyer;

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There’s Still Room For Success In Traditional Grocery Retail

A recent article from CNN Business offered an assessment of retailer performance in the highly competitive retail grocery space that was an excellent start to the conversation. However, it didn’t go as far as it could have in speaking to the opportunity that exists for properly-equipped grocers (of every size) to prosper – even in the face of growing business pressures. 

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Why Instagram Hiding Likes Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Measure Success

With Instagram rolling out hiding likes in the United States, brand marketers are getting anxious about employing social influencer marketing to maximum benefit – and being able to accurately quantify the success of their online engagement efforts through this platform.

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Helping Retailers Battle Another Amazon-initiated Food Fight

Amazon is at it again; shaking up grocery retail. The retail juggernaut’s October announcement that all Prime members would be eligible for free grocery delivery is their latest disruption.

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What Marketers Need to Know About Chatbots

Over the past several years artificial intelligence and machine learning have transformed chatbot technology, providing marketers with the ability to tap into new opportunities for consumer engagement.

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Retail Appetite Grows As Plant-based Protein Market Beefs Up

As the plant-based protein market continues its explosive growth, more and more products like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burgers are clamoring for retail distribution. Driven by increased consumer demand for healthier, more sustainable food options, the expansion shows no signs of slowing.

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