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FuturistU > Innovation & Change > Infectious Messaging > Module 3 / 4

Well Packaged Stories

Instructor: Jeremy Gutsche
Recall that with a cultural connection, you are not speaking to your customers, you are speaking with them, and that’s empowering. The most powerful way to speak with your customers is to tie your message to a story or a lifestyle.

This module uncovers various tactics and examples illustrating how to do just that. How can you articulate or visualize your message in a way that truly resonates?
Workshop Questions:
1. How could your product or service better communicate cultural purpose?
2. What truly differentiates your brand from competitors? Do your customers know that as well as you do?
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Green Loyalty
F&B brands encourage sustainable consumption with eco-friendly rewards systems
Trend - In response to global sustainability concerns, brands are designing new loyalty programs to encourage and reward shoppers for making environmentally friendly choices. These programs typically offer discounts on eco-friendly products, rewards points, or donations to environmental causes.
Workshop Question - How can your brand align its reward systems with environmental and social issues?
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Wallet Loyalty
Brands are launching loyalty programs available on Apple and Google Wallet
Trend - Wallet loyalty programs are gaining prominence as consumers show increasing reluctance to download multiple apps for brand engagements. Brands are offering loyalty cards through Apple Wallet and Google Wallet as a seamless way to integrate loyalty cards directly into consumer smartphones.
Workshop Question - How can your brand provide a seamless and convenient experience for your customers?
6.1
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Sustainable Passport
Brands adopt digital product passports to encourage eco-friendly practices
Trend - Brands are debuting digital records that provide information about a product throughout its lifecycle. These records include details about the product's lifespan, from production to recycling guidelines, and help consumers understand the sustainability of the product to inform purchasing decisions.
Workshop Question - What measures can your brand take to guarantee the responsible and ethical disposal of its products?
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Mobile AI
Retailers are using AI to add unique features to their mobile retail apps
Trend - Retailers are launching mobile apps with AI-powered features designed to replace their existing apps. These apps offer recommendations, conversational support, image search, and features unique to certain retailers. These brands aim to improve customer retention while reducing ordering friction.
Workshop Question - How could your brand improve its customer satisfaction rates through AI features?
7.2
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AI Stylist
Artificial intelligence is used to provide fashion recommendations to shoppers
Trend - Shopping brands are utilizing artificial intelligence to provide personalized recommendations, answer queries, offer product information, and enhance the shopping experience for customers. These assistants can be integrated into e-commerce websites, mobile apps, or messaging platforms.
Workshop Question - How can your brand enhance the pre and post-purchase process for its customers?
7.3
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Transparent Retail
Sustainable retailers highlight their initiatives and impact in-store
Trend - Sustainable stores and eco-friendly in-store initiatives are making the impact of their products clearer to their customers. These brands are using receipts, labels and displays to highlight production and sourcing processes--catering to the growing demand for transparency from businesses.
Workshop Question - How can your brand create trust with its customers via in-store experiences or initiatives?
6.2
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Consumer Marketplace
Brands are launching first-party storefronts to connect consumers to others
Trend - Brands across multiple industries are launching consumer-to-business-to-consumer (C2B2C) storefronts. C2B2C offers consumers discounts on products and enables consumers to sell unwanted products while the business handles transactions and verifies the quality of listed items.
Workshop Question - How might your brand benefit from connecting its consumers via an online marketplace or forum?
6.2
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Multifunctional Deodorizing
Cosmetic brands release full-body deodorizing products
Trend - Brands are expanding the use of the standard deodorant with formulas that can be used to neutralize odors anywhere on the body. These products come in a variety of formulations--from creams and powders to washes--and promise to control odor and sweating in any area they're applied.
Workshop Question - How could your brand create added value in competitive markets?
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Senior Retail
Retailers are making shopping more convenient for elderly demographics
Trend - As accessibility becomes a priority for more brands, some are offering initiatives that assist elderly shoppers in-store. In-store assistance, accessible environments and senior-specific shopping zones are all prioritizing convenience for elderly consumers.
Workshop Question - How could your brand better adapt to the needs of consumers who require accessible solutions?
5.9
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SMS Commerce
Brands are integrating shopping services into mobile SMS applications
Trend - Retailers are seamlessly integrating text message shopping services into their business models. This allows customers to browse, purchase, and pay for products directly through a text message rather than using a mobile storefront application or website. This reduces online order friction.
Workshop Question - How could your brand benefit from leveraging older, more familiar technology for accessibility?
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