Author Archives: Doug Wick

Location Analytics: A New Discipline Where the Digital and Physical Worlds Meet

Location Analytics: A New Discipline Where the Digital and Physical Worlds Meet

For people tasked with deepening their brands’ understanding of the customer, perhaps no developing field holds more promise over the next decade than Location Analytics. Driven by the combination of …Continue reading »

Mobile Customer Service: Getting to the Right Level of “Whelming”

Mobile Customer Service: Getting to the Right Level of “Whelming”

Over the past decade, many businesses have become much more focused on customer satisfaction. This has been driven by recent insights into the economic power of loyalty (it costs a …Continue reading »

Location and Mobile in “Real Time”

Location and Mobile in “Real Time”

The mobile device is such a personal communication medium that device users have a higher bar for how personalized mobile marketing is. They lose patience quickly when an offer misses …Continue reading »

Your App’s Location Awareness: Micro or Macro?

Your App’s Location Awareness: Micro or Macro?

There is little disagreement among those involved with mobile at major retailers that making their apps location-aware represents a huge opportunity. Because mobile phones travel everywhere with their owners and …Continue reading »

Your App is a Wallflower

Shortly after I joined Digby, I went through the top 100 retailers (by revenue) and downloaded every iPhone app I could get my hands on (incidentally, 54 of the 100 …Continue reading »

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