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The Competitive Advantage of Using a Best-of-Breed POS Tracking Software
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August 18, 2020 | Blog
Can We Please Get Back to Work? Yes, Yes We Can!
Americans are getting back to work, earning, and, you guessed it, we want to spend. Now’s the time to start (or restart) or accelerate your point-of-sale (POS) marketing engine.
July 13, 2020 | Blog
The New Normal Shopper — Post COVID-19
To address shoppers’ fragmentation, measuring your POS initiatives effectivity and efficiency — i.e., your POS Campaigns’ ROI — is critical. Knowing the impact of your fragmented POS programs is difficult, perhaps impossible, without a system that can track your POS from ordering to placement to ROI.
April 24, 2020 | Blog
Guest Blog: What Is Shopper Marketing? An Alternative Shopper Marketing Definition
Shopper marketing is the process of understanding shoppers and using that understanding to develop a marketing mix which influences shopper behavior in such a way as to positively impact consumption of the brand and or category
April 10, 2020 | Blog
WSJ: Coronavirus Closed the Bars. America Stocked the Liquor Cabinet.
In today’s blog, we take you “behind the paywall” to share some interesting data about beer, wine and spirits sales.
January 31, 2020 | Blog
11 Alcohol Trends to Watch in the Year Ahead — And the Value of Monitoring Analytics
Beverage-alcohol industry analytics are increasingly being used to identify and forecast market trends for 2020. Distributors, as they formulate their POS marketing initiatives, can greatly benefit from an understanding of an increasingly dynamic market.
December 6, 2019 | Blog
3 Observations About Winning at-Retail in Today’s Changing Market
To make sure your advertising is most effective, it's important for your branding to be as unique as your brand itself. You can no longer rely on the “price sells” approach and focus your POS on telling the shopper yours is the least expensive fill-in-the-blank beer.
October 11, 2019 | POS Performance
Three Strategies for Standing Out in an Increasingly Crowded Retail Environment
If you’re selling beer, wine, and spirits, you know the retail landscape at all but the smallest of retail stores is already crowded and getting more so every day. Here are three approaches beverage-alcohol wholesalers working with retailers can adapt to stand out in a crowded market.
September 13, 2019 | Custom POS Software
The Challenges of Marketing Craft
Craft Beer has been under-served by POS. Now is the time to start serving up POS marketing as a fortification against a maturing and increasingly competitive market for craft beer.
July 12, 2019 | POS Performance
The Growing Importance of POS to the Beverage-Alcohol Distribution Business
As a wholesale distributor (WD) of the hundreds of thousands of BA products available to the American shopper, what is your most effective tool to gain and retain market share? The answer heard most often is POS (Point of Sale) advertising.
June 10, 2019 | POS Tracking Software
Why We’re Proud of MenuTrak — And Why Distributors Need to Track and Report Their Retail Marketing Spending
In the past twelve months, four top US beer, wine, and spirits distributors - OnTrak customers - spent, in aggregate, over $5,224,000 on menus and POS programs, and were able to recover over $4,694,000 (90%) from their suppliers because they were “in compliance” with the data/reporting requirements of their various suppliers (breweries, distilleries, and wineries.)
