Deep Dive: Turning the Catalog Into a Living Sales Channel
EPISODE #Special Edition
Summary
Featuring: Bogdan Mile, Chief Product Officer at Flipsnack and creator of Catology
The product catalog is one of commerce’s oldest tools, but in wholesale, it remains surprisingly central to how business gets done. Buyers still use catalogs to evaluate assortments, compare pricing and decide what to stock. The problem is that traditional catalogs were built for a much slower world, leaving sales teams working with static PDFs, outdated product information and little visibility into what happens after a catalog reaches the buyer.
In this special Retail Remix Deep Dive, host Kate Robertson sits down with Bogdan Mile, Chief Product Officer at Flipsnack and creator of Catology, to explore how the wholesale catalog is evolving into a dynamic, data-driven sales channel. They discuss why connecting catalogs directly to product data can transform how they’re created and managed, how live catalogs can give sales teams greater visibility into buyer behavior and what happens when catalogs become personalized, interactive parts of the B2B buying relationship.
Key Takeaways
- Why the catalog remains central to wholesale buying even as the rest of commerce becomes increasingly digital
- How static PDFs and disconnected product data create outdated information, manual work and friction for buyers and sales teams
- Why connecting catalogs directly to product data can turn months of production into a faster, more flexible process
- How live catalogs can give sales teams visibility into buyer behavior while allowing customers to act directly within the experience
- What the next generation of catalogs could look like as personalization, AI and buyer behavior increasingly shape assortments in real time
Related Links
- Learn more about Flipsnack and Catalogy
- Explore Flipsnack’s catalog maker
- Get more retail industry insights from Retail TouchPoints
- Subscribe and catch up on all episodes of Retail Remix
Summary
Featuring: Bogdan Mile, Chief Product Officer at Flipsnack and creator of Catology
The product catalog is one of commerce’s oldest tools, but in wholesale, it remains surprisingly central to how business gets done. Buyers still use catalogs to evaluate assortments, compare pricing and decide what to stock. The problem is that traditional catalogs were built for a much slower world, leaving sales teams working with static PDFs, outdated product information and little visibility into what happens after a catalog reaches the buyer.
In this special Retail Remix Deep Dive, host Kate Robertson sits down with Bogdan Mile, Chief Product Officer at Flipsnack and creator of Catology, to explore how the wholesale catalog is evolving into a dynamic, data-driven sales channel. They discuss why connecting catalogs directly to product data can transform how they’re created and managed, how live catalogs can give sales teams greater visibility into buyer behavior and what happens when catalogs become personalized, interactive parts of the B2B buying relationship.
Key Takeaways
- Why the catalog remains central to wholesale buying even as the rest of commerce becomes increasingly digital
- How static PDFs and disconnected product data create outdated information, manual work and friction for buyers and sales teams
- Why connecting catalogs directly to product data can turn months of production into a faster, more flexible process
- How live catalogs can give sales teams visibility into buyer behavior while allowing customers to act directly within the experience
- What the next generation of catalogs could look like as personalization, AI and buyer behavior increasingly shape assortments in real time
Related Links
- Learn more about Flipsnack and Catalogy
- Explore Flipsnack’s catalog maker
- Get more retail industry insights from Retail TouchPoints
- Subscribe and catch up on all episodes of Retail Remix
