Sentences we hear often. Perhaps yours too.
These five situations come up again and again in conversations with brands. Every one of them can be solved. For each, we show you the lever we build, evidence that it holds, and what the topic means for everyone at the table.
// 01 · Situation“The marketplace knows our customers. We do not.”
Sales are running, but the relationship belongs to someone else. The marketplace knows the addresses, the buying behaviour, the next need. Your brand gets the order, not the customer. Anyone planning the next collection, the next launch or the next programme is flying blind.
A direct channel that brings the relationship home: your own shop as the home of the brand, a customer profile that combines purchases, preferences and touchpoints, and marketplaces as what they should be. One channel among several, not the owner of your customers.
// 02 · Situation“New customers get more expensive every year.”
Advertising costs rise, tracking gets harder, and the next new customer costs more than the last. Growth through acquisition alone has become the most expensive strategy for brands. The lever sits with those who have already bought: repeat purchase, basket value, recommendation.
Retention as a system instead of a hope: a loyalty programme that fits your brand, personalisation that speaks to existing customers more relevantly than any ad, and email journeys that turn the first purchase into the second. All connected to shop and customer profile.
// 03 · Situation“The brand grows faster than the shop.”
The next campaign is ready, the drop is planned, the collection is finished. And then everything waits for the shop release cycle. For brands, speed is brand management. A launch that comes too late is a launch that does not happen.
A storefront the team runs itself: campaign pages, drops and promotions without a developer ticket, content and assortments in the hands of marketing. The platform takes care of operations, your energy goes into the brand.
// 04 · Situation“Every channel tells our brand differently.”
The shop shows different images than the marketplace, the data sheet contradicts the product page, and the agency hunts for assets by email. More channels mean more versions of the truth. For a brand that is not a tidiness problem. It is an identity problem.
A product and brand foundation: PIM for product data, DAM for images and assets, one workflow for approvals. Every channel pulls from the same source, every change takes effect everywhere. Maintain once, brand everywhere.
// 05 · Situation“Selling internationally is a project here.”
The brand works across borders, the systems do not. New markets today mean a new shop, a new agency, a new budget, a new risk. Meanwhile cross-border online trade grows faster than the domestic market, and whoever waits leaves it to the marketplaces.
Internationalisation as configuration instead of a project: languages, currencies, prices and taxes per market from one system, local payment methods included. A new market then becomes a decision, not an annual programme.
Five situations.
Five individual perspectives at the table.
Digital projects at brands rarely fail on the concept. They fail because stakeholders and decision-makers ask many different questions and need different answers. Our Stakeholder Briefing gives you all five perspectives on each of these situations. So you can not only propose the topic internally, but drive it and argue for it.
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Projects we speak from.
The five situations above come from projects, not from papers. We show a selection publicly and the rest in conversation.