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.
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Data Strategy or Strategery? How Businesses Are Combatting Amazon and the Economic Downturn
The need for an effective data strategy has never been stronger. Faced with years of increasing competitive pressure from diversified businesses like Amazon, and now an unprecedented economic downturn, more businesses are looking to emulate what has allowed Target and Best Buy to successfully fight back. Strengthened by their existing data strategies that helped build stronger and more informed customer relationships before Covid-19 hit, they are now doubling down on their data strategies to take advantage of new opportunities while their competitors struggle to adapt.
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As brands fight to bounce back, with little patience for outdated technology or allowing opportunities to be missed, they will start to look to a new breed of ESPs to not just help them survive, but to thrive.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.
How to Improve Your Offer Strategy, Easy First Steps
Offer strategy and associated tactics are an often overlooked opportunity for marketers to improve their existing programs. By encouraging specific customer behaviors that support a marketer’s overarching strategies and goals, marketers will find success financially and in improving the customer experience.
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.
Top Customer Acquisition Challenges and What to Do About Them
I have never met a marketer who felt their acquisition sources were performing as well as they could. After hearing from hundreds of marketers about their acquisition programs, they almost always have the same three key roadblocks to improving their acquisition performance. With modern technology’s ability to manage and action Big Data, and consumer experienceContinue reading “Top Customer Acquisition Challenges and What to Do About Them”
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