It’s holiday season again and you can profit from that. As a retailer or as a brand. The holiday season is a great opportunity to grow and expand your loyalty program and to profit from the investments that you have already made in it. Everyone, from low frequency shoppers to brand advocates, is excited to buy in these months and…
"We want something unique! We like new features. We need to differentiate." Clients ask us to support them to be successful in influencing customer behavior. Of course, programs that successfully influence behavior and that represent a specific 'unique' brand, product or service will need to be unique too. Right? Wait a minute… is that actually true? We took a few…
In collaboration with our fantastic UK partner 'The Marketing Innovation Group', we have launched a GDPR Module for the VEMT Loyalty Marketing Cloud to address (potential) challenges that many of your clients have in dealing with this new European legislation. GDPR key requirements Single customer view The issue for most businesses is the inability to identify and consolidate the many…
MS Mode is famous for continuously improving on their Customer Loyalty Program. After version 1 was replaced with a much more extensive version 2 in early 2016, already now, making use of technology improvements, better insights and a new organizational context, version 3 was launched. The MS Mode Management acknowledges the commercial and business value of customer data so, in the…
Although it is clear that companies don't start loyalty programs without pursuing a goal, there are surprising little companies that express those goals in measurable KPI's or loyalty metrics, and that monitor those consistently. At first sight, that is remarkable: why would you invest in a serious program without checking what it delivers? When you go a bit deeper, you start…
Great news! CrowdReviews, the 'unbiased, community driven and transparent' buyers guide has rated VEMT nr 1 in the category of Customer Loyalty Software. This category includes an extensive 129 international products, all delivering support for customer loyalty programs. Of course, VEMT is quite proud to be listed nr. one, especially because the rating is based on client reviews, rather than…
This month, Gartner published a new Customer Journey Model which they baptized - very practically - the "Buy/Own/Advocate Customer Experience Journey". As soon as you see the graphic representation of this journey, the reason for its name becomes clear: it has three cycles, which are marked with the names 'Buy', 'Own' and 'Advocate'. For many reasons, this is a nice update to…
Dunkin' Brands, which is Dunkin' Donuts mother company, experienced a nearly 2 percent share price increase August 22 after it revealed that its DD Perks loyalty program has reached the milestone of 5 million members. All these clients have signed up for DD Perks, which is a classic loyalty program rewarding customers for purchases and allowing them privileges to order ahead and bypass…
Tomorrow night at 21:00 CET, the Dutch Interview Show "Top Names", part of the digital platform "Fast Moving Targets" will be featuring VEMT CEO Jeroen Nas. Journalists Erwin Blom and Roeland Stekelenburg (Stekel) will talk freely about media, technology, trends and persuasion marketing. Due to the live interaction options with the audience, it would be great if you would watch…
Wow. Millions of members of the MS Mode Member Club, spread over 6 European Countries, buying at over 425 stores and in a great webshop for every country: they have a new member club as from this morning 6 AM. Will these members notice that, you wonder? Yes, they will. It starts with a great kick-off event coming Saturday where they will…
Loyalty Marketing is about rewarding behavior to influence behavior. Contrary to what most people – and that includes marketers – think, rewards do not (should not) only be points or discounts. Rewards often can be status (and most often is called gamification in that case), privileges or service. These three overlap. Providing content is an important part of that, because…
At which customers is your loyalty program focused at? The loyal ones? Hmm, think again. There’s more to it than that. Even though you should put big efforts in keeping those loyal customers and use their advocacy power to generate new customers, in terms of turnover growth this group is already at its max. It’s the customers that show potential…
Last week, just like Altimeter did, Accenture published their report about new technology trends for 2016. As always, it's well worth a read for any marketer, even if it would be just to check if last years plans don't require an update. Predictable disruption This year, I found a phrase that I really like: "predictable disruption". Accenture uses it to…
VEMT, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has launched an omni-channel mobile loyalty app that interacts with all events during the customer journey and provides program members a complete interaction tool with timeline and customer support features. In the coming months, VEMT's current customers start rolling out the versatile app, bringing the usage quickly to several millions of users. The app…
Update December 2015: Facebook just announced a social video service as well. We expect an acceleration in the Marketing Use of these types of tools in the coming 6 months. --- Did you already experience social streaming? For those who didn't try the 2 newest 'social streaming apps' yet, you should definitely give it a try. It is a high impact…