The new shopping dynamics have also cast a spotlight on the inadequacies of many brands’ online customer experience and the ineffectiveness of generic retention programs. In many cases, brand-customer relationships proved to be based more on habit than true loyalty or brand affinity. Until marketers create a more relevant experience where, when, and how customers want it, they will struggle to get customers to return to their brands, and will leave the door open for lower priced and easier to find brands to build relationships with their former customers.
Category Archives: Email Marketing
Email Marketers Buckle Up!
As brands fight to bounce back, with little patience for outdated technology or allowing opportunities to be missed, they will start to look to a new breed of ESPs to not just help them survive, but to thrive. It is just what marketers need.
Apocalypse Chow? How Innovation is Providing Hope for the Restaurant Industry
There are few industries that have been devastated by Covid-19 as much as the restaurant industry and it very well may be a harbinger for sweeping changes across many other industries. Innovators in the space are finding creative ways to reduce the impact and build their brands in anticipation of an unshackling of pent up consumer demand, but the industry will never be the same again.
Upgrade Your Marketing Communications with These 3 Attributes
Marketers are always looking for a competitive edge, the next new thing that will improve customer engagement, or just a better way to execute existing communication programs. To that end, we’ve outline three data attributes that nearly all B2C and B2B marketers can employ for targeting (or exclusion), content, and reporting purposes. Each of these has proven to be effective at improving communication performance and the customer experience, while reducing attrition.
Adding to Your Marketing Tool Kit: The Basics for Effective Testing
To help you approach testing from an objective and technical perspective we have put together a framework and sample size calculator. Together these should help you create more credible tests that get at the heart of what you are trying to accomplish with testing and produce better insights.
Moving Beyond Vanity Email Metrics
One of the most frustrating things to see is a marketer who knows they should be creating more relevant, personalized communications, but continues to serve up one-size fits all communications. There are often good reasons for this, but it perpetuates the challenges that keep them from getting to segmented or 1-to-1 communications, which in today’s era of Big Data and real time technology are realistic options for all marketers.
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