User instructions & product documents are an essential component of many categories of consumer products. You bring home a new product, maybe a TV, Printer, a bed or even a frozen food product. Think of the amount of content that accompanies these products including the in-box documents. Bundles of paper and tiny typeface instructions accompanying […]
The advantages of extended packaging are many. Here are two most important ones. Extended packaging could very well be the future of mobile marketing. Since consumers depend on their mobile devices for a lot of different things – actively shopping, browsing, reading reviews and comparing prices – brands need to step up their efforts to […]
Ever since McDonald’s unveiled its new packaging, featuring QR codes, there has been much talk about whether there’s anything remarkable about this move. The fast food giant’s QR codes will lead people who scan them to information about the nutritional value of the food that they have just bought. In most discussions about McDonald’s new […]
The Five Golden Rules of QR Code Marketing
Experts have been predicting the death of QR codes for quite some time now. The complaints usually range from QR codes’ perceived ugliness to their severely limited usage, as well as the fact that they can be easily generated and can, therefore, be used by just about anyone. As with any other technological tool, the […]
Building customer engagement is all about interaction and accessibility. Traditional modes of such engagement would of course require a great deal of physical interaction as well as lots of time, money and energy put into making such interaction possible. With the use of technology, however, customer engagement efforts can be enhanced by using a few […]
The modern retailer or vendor is often seen as a faceless entity which provides a uniformly good, but mostly impersonal service to all its customers. Perhaps it’s this perception that makes most consumers nostalgic for the days of Mom & Pop stores when the consumer-retailer relationship was a little more personal. Service might have been […]