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04-2024_Pricing-News: Dubai Chocolate – the hype in small luxury for everyday life
/in News / Insights/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofDie Dubai-Schokolade hat in den letzten Monaten einen beispiellosen Hype erlebt. Warum zahlen Konsumenten ein Vielfaches für das Produkt? Und was lernen wir daraus?
WIGGI-App: locandis wins the German Brand Award
/in Unkategorisiert/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofWith the WIGGI App, the company locandis won the German Brand Award in the category “Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation // Brand Communication – Digital Solution and Apps” on June 9, 2022. The WIGGI-App, successfully implemented for Android and iOS with the C J Wigger KG for the hagebaumarkt Neumünster 1, enables a direct digital dialogue with every customer in the hagebaumarkt. This offers many exciting opportunities to interact directly with customers via an app and gain valuable insights into customer behavior.
The WIGGI App: Location-based Marketing and digital customer card for the hagebaumarkt
In the current tension between online trade and stationary trade, it is becoming increasingly important to digitalize the shopping experience. In order to meet customer expectations and strengthen the attractiveness of stationary trade in the long term, the physical shopping experience must be digitally accompanied. The independent jury of the German Brand Award has now awarded the excellent brand leadership of the company specialized in solutions around Locationbased Marketing and Digital Customer Cards.
Link:
Complete press information
https://www.locandis.de/locandis-gewinnt-den-german-brand-award/
Instore Navigation: Expert Survey Results Report
/in Unkategorisiert/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofAn expert survey on the topic of Instore Navigation was conducted as part of the ERDF-funded DeepNav project by the PFH Private University of Göttingen. The results are now available.
Background: In contrast to online retail, digitization in stationary retail is progressing more slowly. This raises the question of a consistent implementation of accompanying digital communication concepts with the customer on site, especially for stationary store concepts. Instore Navigation, controlled by company-specific apps on smartphones, offers a range of options to practically support customers and improve the shopping experience, such as by facilitating product search.
Among other things, it was examined what contribution Instore Navigation makes in large-scale stationary retail to establish a digital customer dialogue on site. Can this generate exciting insights for retail? What role do app-based customer cards play, with which customers can be delivered promotional information directly at the shelf via push messages? How is this topic area assessed by experts, from the perspective of the companies?
The study basically shows two things: retail is at most at the beginning of a digitization of the customer experience in the stores, but there are also very concrete considerations visible on how to integrate Instore Navigation into this digitization process.
The study was created by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Riekhof, Professor of International Marketing at the PFH Private University of Göttingen, supported by the PFH graduates Mathieu Grüneklee and Leon Reutel.
Here you can read the results:
Further links:
Internet World Business reports on Location based Marketing, Instore Navigation and locandis
/in News / Insights, Unkategorisiert/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofThe digital trends specialized magazine “Internet World Business” now focuses on stationary trade and its increasing digitization. The magazine reports on topics such as Instore Navigation, Location based Marketing and the company locandis specialized in this. locandis-CEO Hans-Christian Riekhof comments on the successful Instore-Navigation project for a hardware store.
Location based Couponing, digital customer cards, Location based Marketing
Shopping behavior has not only changed since the establishment of e-commerce. From specialized retailers to large department stores, from outlets to huge shopping malls on the green field, the industry has been in constant motion for over 200 years.
Currently, the magazine writes, the digitization of the stationary Point of Sale (POS) is the next driver of development. Especially thanks to the smartphone and its technical possibilities. This now allows a link between classic and online retail to be realized. Customers can thus be offered new and better on-site shopping experiences. In addition to Instore Navigation, Digital Shop Windows, Virtual Fitting for digital trying on of outfits, new payment processes such as Self-Checkouts at store checkouts are mentioned. Also further possibilities like additional product information via smartphone, upselling offers etc.
Hagebaumarkt – How locandis enables better orientation in the hardware store with Beacons
Technologies like Beacons and QR codes do great things. The smartphone is the game changer, the magazine states. It shows examples of already successfully implemented digital concepts in stationary retail.
Hans-Christian Riekhof was also interviewed, who as CEO co-manages the fortunes of locandis. A Hamburg-based company that specializes in such digital technologies. He gives insight into the successful Instore-Navigation project for a Hagebaumarkt. With Beacon technology, customers of the hardware store are conveniently guided to their searched products via app.
Further links
The article in the “Internet World Business” (pdf)
Website of the company locandis
More about Location-based Marketing (LbM)
The magazine
The “Internet World Business” is a monthly B2B trade magazine based in Ulm and Munich. It is aimed at readers with a connection to digital trade. The main topics are e-commerce, online marketing, webshop systems, online payment processing, logistics, social media marketing, studies and trends around the internet, internet law and reports from the internet economy.
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