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    Go Think!
    Redefining the Retail Market
    Go Think!

    Galen Walters, CEO, Go Think!Galen Walters, CEO
    Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Go Think! is a retail marketing and business consulting firm that specializes in personalized, digital shopper engagement. Led by an experienced retail marketing and technology team, Go Think! enables retailers to personally engage with their shoppers through an omni-commerce, digital platform powered by robust analytics. We spoke with CEO, Galen Walters, about Go Think!’s principles and vision, and the value they bring to their clients.

    A brief story on how Go Think! began.

    I left Adplex in 2007, the company I founded 26 years earlier, and developed RelationShopTM as an integrated digital platform to bring together loyalty systems, POS data, and other retailer data points into a common client facing website. This enabled retailers to offer real-time customer interaction like click-to-account offers from fully-automated digital campaigns. In 2016, we re-engineered our analytics offering through a partnership with Manthan, a leader in prescriptive and predictive analytics powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Today, RelationShopTM is the only comprehensive, omni-commerce shopper platform that offers 1-1 personalized customer engagement for shoppers with robust analytics driving actionable insights and automated promotions for retailers. We are about collapsing time-to-market, enhancing relevancy, and improving marketers ROI.

    Give us an overview of the current challenges prevailing in the retail space.

    There is increasing pressure on CIOs to mirror the customer experiences that companies like Amazon and Walmart are offering. Since Amazon purchased Whole Foods a year ago, there’s been an eruption of acquisitions and startups offering new technology to retailers. Customers are demanding more convenience and retailers are testing and rolling out new options in the hopes they satisfy and retain shoppers whether they are shopping in the stores or online.

    So, how does Go Think! aids retailers?

    We use a custom approach to help clients understand where they are today, and where they need to be down the road, since every retailer is unique and at a different point on their digital journey. If they don’t have a roadmap, we work with them to develop an in-depth digital strategy. Then we work on the phases to deliver the components needed to create a more seamless, personalized digital customer experience for their shoppers.

    Go Think! provides RelationShopTM—the only fully personalized, end-to-end, digital web, and mobile solution with robust analytics and E-marketing customized for retail

    Take us through your solutions portfolio.

    Our personalized digital shopper engagement platform, RelationShopTM is the foundation. It serves as a hub for all digital shopper engagement activities such as web, mobile, email, push and texts. RelationShopTM displays the shopper’s loyalty dashboard to check points and rewards in real-time, click-to account digital coupons, shoppable weekly ads, a full ecommerce option as well as “Scan and Go” checkout.

    Our analytics solution drives personalization and recommendations for the platform and it also provides retailers easy access to hundreds of pre-built algorithms. Using AI and machine learning (ML), we have streamlined and automated so the work that used to take weeks, now takes minutes.

    Give us a case study that elucidates the overall capabilities of your firm.

    One retailer was able to replace seven different systems after we completed integration of the entire RelationShopTM platform. They are seeing growth in both sales and profits by using the analytics and insights to inform promotions and drive customer response.

    Future of Go Think!

    It’s a fascinating time to be in this market. With the proliferation of AI, analytics, ML, E-commerce, and Scan and Go technologies from new start-up companies are popping up every month.

    Go Think!, approaches clients differently. We don’t just sell technology, we offer retail experts that assist retailers in understanding how to use the tools in order to drive sales, transactions, basket size, and achieve consistent ROI.