Research

New Retailer Research Unveiled: GSN Digital Solutions that Increase Customer Spend @ FMI Booth 1459

Share Even a small increase in customer spend can mean huge overall annual sales increase.  GSN’s integrated suite of digital shopper planning and savings solutions will increase your customer spend an annual sales.  And we can prove it: GSN has the ability to analyze the effectiveness of digital shopper planning online by looking at web [...]

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Retailers, You’re Investing in a Website, but Does it Generate Sales and ROI?

Share Your website should be a sales and profit center, not just an expense.  The reality is that very few grocery websites have proven positive ROI’s.  GSN is the expert in digital consumer and shopper behavior for the grocery channel.  With a shopper insight data base of more than 35 million loyalty card households, we [...]

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Grocery Shopping Network vs. Yahoo! Consumer Direct

Share David Scott Carlick, Director, Grocery Shopping Network                                                                                 Because GSN offers a combination of broad advertising reach and measurable ROI for companies who want to advertise products sold in grocery stores, the network is often compared to Yahoo! Consumer Direct. This paper analyzes the similarities and differences.  Yahoo! Consumer Direct is a broad and powerful [...]

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Online Advertising Delivers Offline Sales

Share Driving incremental sales lifts. Vic Tortorici, Senior Vice President Sales, Grocery Shopping Network   This white paper discusses the ability of the Grocery Shopping website to deliver sales increases at their brick and mortar retailers. GSN provides CPGs a network of grocery store websites. Recently many articles have been written on the subject of Online [...]

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Contextuhavioral

Share Notes on contextual and behavioral.   David Scott Carlick, Director, Grocery Shopping Network                                                                                  This white paper discusses the nature of the Grocery Shopping website in terms of contextual and behavioral media buying objectives. Much ado has been made about targeting, and about the two main tools, Contextual and Behavioral. The following chart depicts the nature [...]

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Wooing Women: It’s A Head Game – MEDIAPOST

Share At GSN, our data proves over and over that the grocery shoppers in the family – mainly women, but guys shop too, so get over your prejudices – enjoy the power of computers to research their purchases and plan their shopping trips.  Maria Reitan, a noted expert on marketing to women, has written a [...]

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Reality in a digital world of ‘proxies’

Share David Scott Carlick, Director, Grocery Shopping Network                                                                                  This white paper discusses the nature of the Grocery Shopping Network in terms of the targets of many media buys.  In conversations with GSN’s advertisers and prospects, we have uncovered an interesting ‘reality’ gap. The brand media buy is designed to reach prospects in order to influence [...]

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