Matt Ellsworth

Matt is the Director of Marketing at Wiser Solutions, a retail analytics provider with an emphasis on data quality, data accuracy, and holistic in-store and online solutions.

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Brand Management

How to Convert Unauthorized Sellers into Authorized Sellers—Or Stop Them in Their Tracks

Control is incredibly important for retail brands. You need to control your brand image, your products, your resale channels, and

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Shelf Intelligence

Super Bowl LIII: Battle of the In-Store Displays

To say that Super Bowl activities have become bigger than the game itself is an understatement. In 2019, NRF found

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Store Operations

4 B&M Sales Operations Problems Driving Pros Crazy—and How to Fix Them

It’s the daily challenges that motivate us, make us work harder and inspire us to develop new and innovative solutions

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Shopper Insights

Survey Fatigue? Why Crowdsourcing Is a Smart Solution

Few voices are as important—and loud—as consumers. They are, after all, the lifeblood of any brand or retailer. Nearly every

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Brand Management

Do MAP Violations Increase During the Holidays? 

Are retailers more likely to break MAP around the holidays? This was the question we at Wiser asked ourselves before

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Brand Management

What to Do If Major Retailers Violate MAP

The easiest way to prevent future MAP violations is to stop distribution to that retailer. However, this tactic doesn’t work so well

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Retail Execution

Why You Need to Monitor Merchandising Compliance

In-store merchandising compliance. It sounds so simple, yet anyone who oversees brick-and-mortar retail knows that getting merchandising from idea to

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Shelf Intelligence

How Scorecards Can Improve Your In-Store Merchandising Compliance 

How do you currently measure in-store display and merchandising compliance?  Depending on the size of your brand, this may vary –

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Price Management

No Price Wars: How to Compete Without Racing to the Bottom

Are there winners at the end of price wars? Not really. Some people may feel that lower prices are better

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Price Management

Loopholes in MAP: How and When it’s OK to Let Prices Drop

In speaking with brands attempting to control online pricing with MAP monitoring and enforcing strategies, we hear that they have

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