Monetizing Your Screens the Right Way
In part one of our series on how to effectively use the display screens on your property, we covered what kind of content you should play. Today, we’re offering innovative ways to monetize your network.
PSA on Gas Prices
Turn on a TV or open a newspaper these days, and you’ll likely see a story about the record high price of gas in the U.S. As a convenience store owner, you’re probably all too aware of the increasing prices, but it’s important to make sure your customers understand where the increase is coming from. Continue reading “PSA on Gas Prices”
How to Improve the Customer Journey
It’s easy for retailers to get caught up in their own interests and sometimes lose focus on what’s important. How can I get the customer to buy more? How do I increase customer footfalls and retention? How do I make the most out of each customer? All valid questions, but if your focus is on issues like these, you’re losing sight of the fact that your customer is your biggest advocate.
Think about the customer journey in terms of what you can give the customer and what you can take away from the customer to make their experience better. Focusing on this improves the customer experience, which should have a direct effect on answering the questions we already spelled out.
3 Tips for Creating Cohesion Among Multiple Platforms
C-stores are managing an ever-growing set of marketing platforms as technology expands, and there are more opportunities to reach customers in new ways. With the utilization of many shopper marketing vehicles, cohesion becomes critical. Everything from the fonts and colors that you use to the images and messages in your materials, your brand presence needs to be cohesive.
Mismatched design creates cognitive dissonance. For example, if you use warm colors in videos and neutrals throughout your store design, it makes it difficult for customers to ingest information because they are distracted by the fact that it isn’t flowing or matching. This lack of cohesion prevents customers from mentally connecting the messages. Make sure brand attributes, colors and more are unified to get the most out of your digital merchandising. Your merchandising messages should feel like they belong together, regardless of where customers are experiencing them.
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The Importance of Infotainment for Customer Engagement
Customer engagement decreases every time someone interacts with a platform that doesn’t engage or pique interest in some way. People have a natural tendency to tune out advertising or sounds and images they’ve seen or heard repeatedly. It’s why parents don’t pull their hair out when they hear a crying baby after the first month. In other words, if your content is repetitive or boring, no one is going to pay attention to it, and therefore, your message won’t get the views it needs to be valuable.
Convenience store retailers need to leverage infotainment or they might as well put up a blank screen. Infotainment means different things to different people, but here is what the experts at Shep have learned.
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