Tag Archives: data insight

May 14th, 2012

Social curation – has Pinterest got what it takes?

Social network Pinterest is getting a lot of media attention at present. It’s probably here to stay, not because it offers something radically different but because it is very user-friendly. The most complicated thing is downloading the ‘pin’, and once you have that on your links it is dead easy to identify the things you like.
Any business that has… read more

April 13th, 2012

Social search and personalization: a turning point for brands

With Google’s privacy changes implemented on March 1st and pending changes such as the EU cookie law, there are a lot of people trying to explain how privacy and personalization works for users, and for many, the noise only complicates things further.  To cut a long story short though, it’s a golden opportunity for your brand and you can’t afford… read more

March 30th, 2012

Multichannel, omnichannel and the rise of customer power

This month I attended the British Retail Consortium Multichannel Conference and the Retail Week Conference. They may have taken me out of the office for three solid days, but they gave me the opportunity to hear the thoughts of both high street stalwarts and online retail innovators.
On both occasions I had the pleasure of hearing Ishan Patel from Aurora… read more

March 22nd, 2012

How tablets are changing our online behaviour

With the advent of mobile phones, the search market evolved. With the subsequent advent of the iPad and the continually expanding tablet market, we’re seeing the search market evolve further in reaction. Retailers and recipients of searches by tablet users are able to identify very different trends in customer behaviour and purchases in users on traditional platforms, and those using… read more