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NetDespatch
The changing face of retail
In the highly competitive world of online retail, getting your message in front of the right audience in a way that makes you stand out from the crowd is essential. Never more so than for NetDespatch, an innovative parcel data management platform delivering advanced technology to both retailers and carrier companies. To keep stories fresh and topical, NetDespatch has worked with C8 over a five year period to create awareness and drive enquiries. Every year since being appointed, C8 has come up with innovative ideas for annual research studies that capture headlines and gain traction with the media.
The Challenge
In the fast-paced world of online retail there is an abiding assumption that, if customers want something, they want it as fast as humanly – or technologically – possible. The result is that delivery speed continues to be the key battleground for online retailers. NetDespatch helps organisations by automating the whole shipping process to ensure that parcels fly out the door. The platform enables carriers to provide their business customers with solutions to seamlessly integrate ecommerce websites, sales order processing and warehouse systems at point of despatch. A simple message but one that needed to stand the test of time.
The Campaign
C8’s campaign brings topical issues to the fore via research for discussion and debate. C8 has devised issues-based research around topics such as: preparing for peak Christmas deliveries, the aggravation consumers experience around the returns process and meeting and exceeding customer expectations. This year, C8 worked with NetDespatch and IMRG to deliver its “Valuing of Home Delivery Review Report”. C8 suggested this partnership because, despite all the developments the industry has made since the first IMRG review published in 2006, there is still much to do to keep up with shopper’s expectations – driven by technology and retail innovation. C8 helped NetDespatch draft root cause analysis for the report as well as authoritative commentary and observations.
The Results
C8 has achieved regular coverage in all NetDespatch’s target media over the years such as Internet Retailing, Tamebay, Retail Technology Review, and the IMRG.
In particular the IMRG report, ‘The Value of Home Delivery’, was launched to all the major high street retailers in September 2018.
“Time and again, year after year, C8 comes up with creative ideas for us to get our message out to the market in an authoritative and meaningful way. This year, C8 suggested that we partner with IMRG and approached the association with a view to us jointly producing the Home Delivery Report which was a great initiative and has created awareness for us among retailers and carriers.”
