SHOPPER MARKETING

Playbook & Toolkit

Follow this simple step-by-step playbook to develop a shopper marketing plan

that increases sales, builds shopper insights, and grows brand awareness.
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Framework 03

Maturity Model 04

Introduction 06

stage 1 Learn About Shopper 08

stage 2 Analyze Opportunities 11

stage 3 Strategic Planning 14

stage
4 Technology Selection 18

stage 5 Campaign Execution 21

stage
6 Measure Results 23

Conclusion 25

About This Playbook 26

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Framework
Click the buttons below to access all related
Leverage the framework below to quickly training, tools, templates, and other resources.
empower your organization’s shopper marketing strategy.

1 LEARN 2 ANALYZE 3 PLAN 4 TECHNOLOGY 5 EXECUTE 6 MEASURE

Best Practice Guide Maturity Assessment Profile Template Vendors Matrix Program Strategies Metrics Dashboard

Image Infographic Capabilities App Profile Interview Vendor Selection Tool Coupon Practices

Video Infographic Peer Benchmarks App Competition Tracking System RFP Contest Practices

Maturity Model Priortization Tool Insights Database Signage Practices

Roles Matrix Budget Template Journey Stages Mobile Practices

Business Case Strategy Workbook

Project Plan

Manager Job Description

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Maturity Model
STAGE 4 - World-Class
STAGE 3 - Mature
STAGE 2 - Progressive
Shopper
STAGE 1 - Undefined
Marketing Defined, integrated strategy for
Capabilities Defined, integrated strategy and
shopper marketing exists across the
organization, and campaigns are
Defined strategy and processes exist for processes exist for shopper marketing
tracked and measured by effectiveness
No defined strategy or process for integrated shopper marketing in pockets across the organization.
Strategic of engagement and conversion.
integrated shopper marketing. in the organization.
Integration

Shopper marketing is viewed as two Shopper marketing is recognized as

No distinction between brand-centric
Organizational
(marketing) activation or customer
Structure
team (sales) activation.
distinct approaches (Brand-centric vs.
Customer team) and budget and staff
resources are allocated accordingly via
integrated groups.
Shopper marketing is viewed as the
important for driving discovery, prefer-
key component in customer
ence, and loyalty. Senior management
engagement strategy, and it is the
has a long-term commitment and provides
primary focus for the marketing
required resources for growth.
organization.

Shopper marketing is taking an ad hoc
approach to technology. Some solutions
Tools & are in place for shopper insights, content
Platforms marketing, and social media, but they are
not integrated.
There is a platform that performs
specific shopper marketing functions
with coordinated tools, applications,
and workflows.
Some, but not all, shopper marketing
platforms are integrated (campaign
management, shopper insights,
analytics, content marketing, social
listening, CRM, marketing automation,
etc.)
There are comprehensive, end-to-end
systems integrated with all shopper
marketing related tools and platforms
with tight integration to enterprise
systems (CRM, ERP, etc.)

Decisions are made directly based on

Shopper and consumer behavior is not
Shopper tracked so decisions are made based
Insights
on assumptions not facts.
Shopper insights are separated from
Shopper insights are collected for indi- historical collection and analysis of
consumer insights across the marketing
vidual campaigns but are not
team. Teams are starting to understand
both shopper and consumer insights
robust enough to fully understand ROI and are directly connected to fore-
how behavior makes an impact on ROI.
impact. casting and measuring ROI impact
overall.
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Shopper
Maturity Model
Marketing
Capabilities STAGE 1 - Undefined STAGE 2 - Progressive STAGE 3 - Mature STAGE 4 - World-Class

Digital experiences are an after- Sophisticated and effective digital

Limited focus exists on creating digital
Digital experiences for shopper marketing.
Experiences Teams are focused on traditional
marketing approaches.
Sophisticated, high-impact digital expe-
thought and not the driving force experiences are delivered based on
riences are created based on detailed
behind shopper marketing initiatives.
journey mapping exercises and measuring
shopper expectations and stage in the
Experiences created do not have purchase process to understand the
success by incremental revenue growth.
largescale, positive brand impact. ROI of each campaign.

The omni-channel experience is fully

All shopper marketing related chan- Plans for an integrated omni-channel Some aspects of the omnichannel
Omni-Channel integrated from brick and mortar stores
nels and systems are not integrated customer journey are in progress customer journey integrated but not all
Customer to ecommerce with real-time instore
into a cohesive experience as data but channels and systems remain systems and data are synchronized.
inventories and instore pickup from
Journey exist in silos. disconnected.
online orders.

Enterprise-wide dashboard with visual

representation of shopper acquisition
Analytics are in place to monitor and Shopper marketing has a dashboard to
and engagement by behavior, expe-
track basic shopper marketing metrics monitor performance across retail part-
Metrics & No defined metrics are collected or
such as sales lift and the percentage of ners and report on shopper engage-
rience, brand reach, etc. via in-depth
Measurement reported on. shopper and consumer insight collec-
shoppers who saw a specific program. ment metrics by campaign.
tion and analysis across all efforts,
channels and campaigns.

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Introduction

Getting to Know Shopper Marketing How to Use This Playbook

In an economy surrounded by brands, retailers and never ending This playbook consists of six stages, each with a description, steps,
shopping opportunities, Shopper Marketing is an essential tool and action items. Action items include using our premium tools and
that brings brands and retailers together under a singular goal: templates. Our intention with this playbook is to help you:
increasing sales.

From brand-led programs where the manufacturer works with

numerous retailers under a unified campaign, to retailer-led Understand shopper marketing and identify the
programs where brands join a retailer’s existing planned special, audience and partners you should focus on
such as a back to school sale, Shopper Marketing is all about the
partnership between the manufacturers that produce the brands
people consume, and the retailers that sell these products to Evaluate and select the technology that will be the
shoppers in their stores. backbone of your shopper marketing strategy

This playbook will take you through the six stages of an effective
Shopper Marketing program, providing you with best practices to
empower any effort, and a toolkit to enable immediate practical Plan and craft a strategy to increase sales, build
application of this knowledge. Although this playbook is meant to shopper insights and grow brand awareness
be applied from beginning to end, in the sequence provided, it is
possible that you may already be working on a Shopper Marketing
program and some of these steps may not be necessary.

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Introduction

Outputs from This Playbook

Stage 1 - Learn About Shopper
Best Practice Guide, Image Infographic, Video
Infographic, Maturity Model, Roles Matrix

Stage 2 - Analyze Opportunities

Capabilities App, Peer Benchmarks App, Priortization
Tool, Budget Template, Business Case

Stage 3 - Strategic Planning

Profile Template, Profile Interview, Competition Tracking,
Insights Database, Journey Stages, Strategy Workbook

Stage 4 - Technology Selection

Vendors Matrix, Vendor Selection Tool, System RFP

Stage 5 - Campaign Execution

Program Strategies, Coupon Practices, Contest Practices,
Signage Practices, Mobile Practices

Stage 6 - Measure Results

Metrics Dashboard

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STAGE 1

Learn About Shopper

Discover how Shopper Marketing works, review the overall best practices, and understand how
to evaluate roles and maturity of a Shopper Marketing program.

STEP 1: Discover Shopper Marketing Best Practices

STEP 2: Understand Shopper Marketing Maturity
STEP 3: Evaluate the Roles Required for Success
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Learn About
Shopper

STEP 1 STEP 2
Discover Shopper Marketing Best Practices Understand Shopper Marketing Maturity

Action Item Action Item

Read The Definitive Shopper Marketing Guide to discover Look at the Shopper Marketing Maturity Model to see what
a distilled best practice approach to Shopper Marketing that shopper marketing looks like in both its most unrefined and
will superpower your strategy and lead your organization in world-class levels of execution.
the direction of success.

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There are some critical components in any shopper marketing

program that showcase how sophisticated the operations, tech-
nology and strategy really are.
Ensure you feel comfortable with the concepts behind the
unique sections that make shopper marketing what it is.

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Learn About
Shopper

STEP 3
Evaluate the Roles Required for Success

Action Item

Review the Shopper Marketing Roles Matrix to quickly

understand the team required to effectively execute a
shopper marketing program.

VIEW RESOURCE

Whether you are looking to add responsibilities to your existing

sales and marketing team, or looking for a dedicated team of
human resources focused on shopper marketing, it is important
to understand the roles and responsibilities required within a
shopper marketing program.

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STAGE 2

Analyze Opportunities
Assess your existing Shopper Marketing maturity and determine strategic partnerships worth
pursuing, while assessing budgets and building the business case.

STEP 1: Assessing Your Shopper Maturity

STEP 2: Determine Strategic Partnerships
STEP 3: Define the Budget for Your Program
STEP 4: Build the Business Case for Shopper
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Analyze
Opportunities

STEP 1 STEP 2
Assessing Your Shopper Maturity Determine Strategic Partnerships

Action Item Action Item

Fill out the Shopper Marketing Maturity Assessment for an Use the interactive Shopper Marketing Partnership Prioriti-
interactive chart that will visually show you where you stand zation Tool to understand which partners will be the best fit
with your current shopper marketing maturity. for your company.

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It’s a great idea to benchmark your current maturity with shopper
marketing, so you can leverage your strengths and focus on
growing any deficiencies.
By doing regular benchmarks you can track your team’s prog-
ress and be aware of what areas need your attention as your
program grows.
Shopper marketing is all about the partnership between
brands and retailers.
Building these relationships is at the heart of what you are
looking to achieve, and is where the rubber hits the road with
any shopper marketing program.

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Analyze
Opportunities

STEP 3 STEP 4
Define the Budget for Your Program Build the Business Case for Shopper

Action Item Action Item

Leverage the Shopper Marketing Budget Template to get a Leverage the Shopper Marketing Business Case template
visual idea on current spending, and to keep your program for a slide presentation you can use to convince leadership
on track while it grows. to approve your ideas.

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Without allocated resources, your shopper marketing program
will never get off the ground.
Ensure a budget is established to plan expenses required to
plan and execute your program.
Now that you know more about what shopper marketing is, how
it works and why it’s so powerful, you will need to share these
discoveries with leadership in your company to get approval to
continue with the shopper marketing program.

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STAGE 3

Strategic Planning
Plan your objectives and the metrics to measure their success, and begin gathering insights
about your shoppers and competition to build shopper profiles.

STEP 1: Build a Profile that Represents Your Shopper

STEP 2: Begin Gathering Insights About Shoppers
STEP 3: Build Your Shopper Journey Stages
STEP 4: Plan Your Objectives and Metrics
STEP 5: Complete and Present Your Plan
STEP 6: Hire Resources to Manage the Program
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Strategic
Planning

STEP 1 STEP 2
Build a Profile that Represents Your Shopper Begin Gathering Insights About Shoppers

Action Item Action Item

Once you have collected enough info about your ideal shop- Fill out the Shopper Marketing Insights Database with any
per(s), use the Shopper Marketing Profile Template to build existing insights you have, and use it as a place to store
specific profiles your team can utilize. on-going discoveries about your shopper(s).

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Every marketing effort starts with the ideal buyer, and in the
case of shopper marketing, your ideal shopper or consumer.
Ensure that you have a detailed profile for each shopper, so you
can tailor your marketing programs to their specific situation.
Helpful Hint – Leverage the Shopper Marketing Profile
Interview Questions template to get the questions you should
consider asking anyone involved in a survey to research your
ideal shoppers.
Insights about shopper behavior are critical to the success
of any shopper marketing program. It is critical that you and
your team collect and analyze insights on a regular basis to
empower decisions you make about how to attract shoppers
to your program.
Helpful Hint – Watch your competition to discover insights from
their existing programs using the Shopper Marketing Competi-
tion Tracking tool.

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Strategic
Planning

STEP 3 STEP 4
Build Your Shopper Journey Stages Plan Your Objectives and Metrics

Action Item Action Item

Utilize the Shopper Marketing Journey Stages Template Utilize the Shopper Marketing Strategy Workbook to help
to lay out the behaviors and insights for each stage of the plan the high level execution-related objectives and KPI’s for
non-linear shopping journey to plan your campaigns. your shopper marketing program.

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Although most shopper marketing strategy has been centered Before starting any marketing program, it’s important to have a
on a linear approach, the truth is that shoppers often travel solid plan with specific objectives, performance indicators and
between stages and steps in a non-linear fashion, moving back timeframe to ensure the program is focused on specific results.
and forth as they make their decisions.
That said, it’s important to understand the stages shoppers
can travel between to build the best campaigns suited to their
non-linear activity and behaviors.

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Strategic
Planning

STEP 5 STEP 6
Complete and Present Your Plan Hire Resources to Manage the Program

Action Item Action Item

Modify and then present your Shopper Marketing Project Utilize the Shopper Marketing Manager Job Description for
Plan to senior leadership to get the resources allocated to your needs and post it online to find someone who can help
execute your program. manage your shopper marketing program.

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Getting approval on your initial plan, from leadership within
your company, is an important step that will both help build your
team’s confidence on the work ahead, and secure the resources
required to bring the program to life.
In most cases, you will need at least one dedicated human
resource managing your shopper marketing program.
Building a dedicated team will ensure the best results, but your
program may need to start by assigning tasks to your existing
sales and marketing teams to save budget.

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STAGE 4

Technology Selection
Evaluate technology solutions that enable your team to bring
your Shopper Marketing program to life.

STEP 1: Discover Shopper Marketing Vendors

STEP 2: Determine the Best Vendor(s)
STEP 3: Build an Integrated Shopper System
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Technology
Selection

STEP 1 STEP 2
Discover Shopper Marketing Vendors Determine the Best Vendor(s)

Action Item Action Item

Review the Shopper Marketing Vendors Matrix to find tech- Use our interactive Shopper Marketing Vendor Selection
nology solutions that suit your needs. Tool to discover the best vendor(s) for your program based
on what matters most to your company.

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Evaluate shopper marketing technology solutions that enable
your team to bring your Shopper Marketing program to life.
These technologies can bring incredible insights, or provide a
competitive unique way to present your program to your ideal
shopper(s).
More often than not, there are multiple vendors you may be
interested in pursuing for your shopper marketing program.
It’s important to score these vendors based on what your
company needs most to find the perfect fit.

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Technology
Selection

STEP 3
Build an Integrated Shopper System

Action Item

Use our Shopper Marketing System RFP to discover the

best vendor(s) with the skillset required to integrate all of your
systems together into a single Shopper Marketing system.

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Your CRM, Marketing Automation, Loyalty Card, Customer

Service and other systems will need to be integrated into a
single Omni channel.
Using an RFP template will help you get the ball rolling on
finding the right partners to bring this system to life.

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STAGE 5

Campaign Execution
Prepare and launch campaigns that are based on existing best practices.

STEP 1: Review Main Strategies, Tactics & Trends

STEP 2: Launch Campaigns Based on Best Practices
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Campaign
Execution

STEP 1 STEP 2
Review Main Strategies, Tactics & Trends Launch Campaigns Based on Best Practices

Action Item Action Item

Review the Shopper Marketing Program Strategies Leverage the Coupon Best Practices, Contest Best Prac-
template for suggestions on the most widely used tactics, tices, Digital/Traditional Signage and Retail Mobile Best
trends and channels for a shopper marketing program. Practices checklists to ensure best practices are followed
for your campaigns

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It’s always helpful to constantly review the different approaches
you can make in any shopper marketing program, both as
you build your campaigns, and also to help improve existing
campaigns.
During any shopper marketing program, ensure you are lever-
aging best practices for any specific campaign approach to
maximize your chances for success.
At its core, if a shopper marketing program gathers insights and
builds a relationship, it’s already valuable even before direct ROI.

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STAGE 6

Measure Results
Measure the results of your campaigns to determine return on investment (ROI).

STEP 1: Measure the Results of Your Campaigns

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Results

STEP 1
Measure the Results of Your Campaigns

Action Item

Use the Shopper Marketing Metrics Dashboard to track

key metrics in your campaigns, so they can be easily and
visually shared with senior leadership.

VIEW RESOURCE

The final step in any shopper marketing program is ongoing.

You will need to carefully measure the results of your campaigns
over time to prove revenue impact, and leverage insights gath-
ered for future campaigns.

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Conclusion
At the end of any business process, it’s always a good idea to review it
and identify areas for improvement.

Demand Metric has the tools and expertise to help you build an effective
Shopper Marketing plan:
Creating or auditing your Shopper Marketing plans
Assisting with using any of the tools referenced in this playbook
Providing hands-on marketing assistance to accelerate achieving
your marketing department’s goals.

To learn more, contact Demand Metric: info@demandmetric.com

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