A DAY IN A LIFE

Creating a compelling customer experience with an omnichannel strategy “I read the news today, oh boy…” and once again the industry is talking about omnichannel strategies for land-based and online casinos as a way to improve the player experience. The basic idea is straightforward enough. Players no longer think in channels the way operators do. […]

International VIP Play: A Business Few Casinos Really Understand

Bombay’s retrenchment in Tallinn has value for one reason only: it exposes a mistake the industry keeps making. The public facts are serious enough. The group is cutting more than half its staff, and management has admitted that daily table games and parts of the gaming operation were not economically justified. Once a casino starts […]

Digital Is Not Marketing: The Structural Mistake Casinos Keep Making

Over the last ten years, I’ve observed numerous land-based casino operators attempt to transition into the digital space, and many have encountered significant challenges. It’s not that their products are flawed. It’s not that there’s a lack of market potential. It’s not that customers are uninterested in engaging. The challenges they face are rooted in […]

The Automation of Marketing

Abstract Today, the average campaign response rate is less than 1 percent and with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), traditional marketing is wading into troubled waters because the waves of strategic campaigns, the retargeting, the real-time media buying, and personalized emailing are not moving the marketing needle as they used to. The robotization of […]

Marketing Imperatives for 2022 and Beyond

2021 was an exciting and turbulent year for businesses and the gaming industry was no exception. With multiple closures of casinos, inhumane layoffs, and then the Great Resignation, the agility of casino management has been sorely tested. Online gaming revenues, particularly in markets such as the United States, have increased manifold in the last twelve […]

Capacity Planning in Marketing

Know Your Limitations In his article What Is a Constraint in Marketing?[1], John DuBois claims, “A constraint limits or holds back the possible success of an operational strategy. The theory of constraints, an organizational change method focused on process improvement, contends that every organization must face at least one constraint, or weak link in the […]