There’s been a lot of hype around audio apps recently, and Clubhouse specifically. This week I want to look at the opportunities that Audio Apps present for consumer and market research. I wrote extensively about Clubhouse in this post “How Does Clubhouse Work?” if you want to get up to speed on what it’s all about. You can also check out this Youtube video if you prefer to … [Read more...]
One year, big changes
This past Friday I hosted a one-year reunion of the Virtual Happy Hour group I started this time last year. We met weekly at 4pm on Fridays for 16 weeks during 2020. I dissolved the sessions in July because I thought they had served their initial purpose – to check in with a global group of folks on how they were adapting, share some laughter and connection, and allow us to … [Read more...]
Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has been happening for some time, but it has been undeniably accelerated by Covid. Many businesses are worried because they’ve seen digital disruption before, and this latest disruption brought on by the pandemic, is arguably bigger than anything we’ve ever seen in our lifetime. In the earlier days, digital transformation disrupted music distribution … [Read more...]
Reevaluating the Customer Journey in 2021
The customer journey impacts virtually every angle of your business, and it’s been disrupted in a major way by the pandemic. What, where, when, how and why we buy were all challenged in 2020. E-Commerce, delivery services, omni channel, remote work, and do-it-yourself exploded. Curb-side pick-up became a thing, touchless payment became the norm, and if it could be digitized and … [Read more...]
10 Marketing Trends for 2021
As we all learned last year, predicting the future can be challenging, if not impossible. Every January I take a look at trends to be mindful of for the coming year. My five 2020 predictions were tracking well until March, and then the world tossed us a new playbook. Remarkably however, several of them actually held up quite well - including my wildcard suggestion to buy … [Read more...]
