OTT for niche segmentation
By Dan Goikhman Standard cable TV has been the long time programme viewing giant in the Canadian market. Then Netflix was introduced in 2010, providing over-the-top (OTT) viewing and the whole game changed. Viewers across the country liked the comfort and easy access of OTT services and subscriptions have been …
Marketing in 2019: same, but different
By Debbie Major Do you really know what your client customer’s needs? Do you know what is keeping them up at night? What does your client look like? What is your customer’s avatar: male, female, young adult, senior or child? Where do they hang out? Where did they go to …
Making payments painless
By Mia Huntington Marketing agencies can be the lifeblood of their clients’ businesses. You help tell your clients’ stories and elevate their brands. Your services are strategic, and your ideas facilitate the creative process: well worth the time invested. But what’s not worth the time investment is collecting payments, though …
Effectively marketing pop-up retail spaces
By Linda Farha Pop-up stores are one of the hottest retail trends as they provide high-demand goods on-demand with minimal footprints. At the same time, they are retail real estate market disruptors, requiring landlords to be agile, flexible and equally critically highly knowledgeable about their potential tenants’ business and be …
E-commerce is dead. Long live digital commerce!
By Jeff Guthrie It’s time to finally say goodbye to e-commerce. It has evolved into something more advanced and complex, namely digital commerce, and businesses need to make sure they’re keeping up pace or they risk falling short of their customers’ expectations. To most consumers (and marketers), e-commerce implied there …
Attention retailers: unleash the power of your data
By Lia Grimberg In today’s world of discerning consumers, vast amounts of data, proliferation and increased accessibility to artificial intelligence (AI), having a “me too” loyalty programme with a mass communication approach is no longer cutting through the competitive clutter. At the same time, unfortunately, too many Canadian retail loyalty …
Specialized service: the future of contact centres
By Matthew Clare In our data-driven world the need for more effective automation and personalized customer experiences is greater than ever I am, and improvement of the indicators of intermediateafter the nica and care, the inefficient andagirà within 5-10 minutesking insufficient by itself to check the cholesterol. Theresponsibility – carries …
Filling the CX gap
By Jonathan Eisenzopf Enterprises are finding themselves in a constant state of digital transformation. They’re looking for the best ways to meet the needs of their customers in the channels that are most meaningful to them at any given time. Many executives will say that, as a result of these …
Chat before you bot
By Marie-Louise St-Jacques and Eric Dauphinais Technology has never evolved at such a rapid pace. Newly implemented solutions can become obsolete or dated in an instant. The panic of being left behind has many companies adopting new technologies for the sake of newness, with little thought as to why these …
L’Oréal Canada is launching the first Canadian edition of the Women in Digital program
MONTREAL–L’Oréal Canada is launching the first Canadian edition of the Women in Digital program, in partnership with URelles and Campus InfoPresse. The program focusses on encouraging and promoting women entrepreneurs in technology by providing funding opportunities and support. The program arose out of the observation that women entrepreneurs are underrepresented …