The Promoboxx Blog

Veronica Cano, Marketing Partnerships Manager at OluKai, sat down with Promoboxx to talk about how they prioritize their retailer network and their passion for Hawaiian culture in their products and marketing campaigns. We chatted with Veronica, who has been with the company for over four years, to better understand the key trends she is seeing […]

Amazon recently introduced Amazon Spark, a social community centered around product discovery and purchase, with people who share similar interests. Influenced by Instagram and Pinterest, this officially marks Amazon’s entry into the world of social content marketing. Amazon wants to make it easy for consumers to shop products that often involve a considered buying process, […]

The Aligned Conference was started in 2014 to fill a major gap in the marketing conference circuit.  Promoboxx employees were looking for a conference to attend where brands could come together and brainstorm on how they approached the retail marketing channel. We were surprised to find that there wasn’t a single current event that fit […]

You and your team work hard to put together creative marketing campaigns. Retailers will actively choose which marketing campaigns they participate in, so as a brand, how can you tailor your content to drive higher engagement with your independent retailers? To think about the answers to these questions, start by evaluating how retailers are currently […]

A strong social media strategy connects a brand with their consumers, and a key way to do this is through creating inspirational content. Your brand has built a great following over time, but how do you remain relevant and engage your top social media influencers, while also connecting with new potential consumers? The answer seems simple […]

Are you responsible for marketing initiatives with your local retailers and driving more sales through this channel? Discover and learn from other brand and retail marketers at the one and only Aligned Conference, now in its fourth year. If you attended last year you know what a great experience it can be, opening up the possibility […]

Today Amazon announced the death of the pure-play e-Commerce business model. Amazon will acquire Whole Foods Market for $42 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $13.7 billion, according to the Amazon press release. It also confirms what we’ve known at Promoboxx for a long time. With over 12,000 active retailer locations partnering […]

Aligned is the only conference that brings together digital trade and retail marketers across all industries to share marketing strategies that empower their local retailers. At last year’s event, attendees learned from, collaborated with, and networked with today’s most iconic brands on retailer marketing and reaching local customers, incentivizing retailer performance, and much more. [Related […]

Consumers that view a thematic message across multiple channels increase their intent to purchase by 90% and improve their perception of that brand by 68% (Source: IAB). Brand consistency is very important to consumers today. Customers are more likely to recognize a brand if all of the messaging they see surrounding that brand and its […]

The team at Salomon wants to make sure that their consumers aren’t forgetting about the importance of getting outside and having fun, and their specialty retailers help them tell this story. Salomon looks for authenticity in everything they do, and they strive to relay this through maintaining a omni-channel experience, whether the consumer is in-store or […]

For many brand and retail marketers, achieving marketing alignment and sales through their local retail channel are difficult challenges. Traditionally, co-op advertising programs have tried to align the national-to-local message between brands and retailers, but have failed. Why? Marketing budget dollars go unspent, digital program offerings are weak, retailers have to take time away from […]

Christopher Degenaars, Cadence Cyclery’s Marketing Manager, sat down with the Promoboxx team this week to share his thoughts on building a community, his team’s focus on in-store events, and what he loves about Promoboxx. Since the fall of last year, Chris and the Cadence Cyclery team have used the Promoboxx platform to promote Specialized Bicycle […]