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Tonight June 9th, Jeroen Nas will be presenting an insider view on innovation at the Pezy Group in Amsterdam: "Connect the dots". It is a meeting with several speakers, a panel discussion and partcipants from the audience about how innovation actually works, which lessons can be learned from the recent past and how you can translate innovation practice from one…
Last night, broadcasted live from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the interview with Jeroen Nas was a talk around Persuasion Marketing, Loyalty Marketing, technology, retail and some backgrounds on how VEMT arrived to where we are today. The Dutch journalists Erwin Blom (@erwblo) and Roeland Stekelenburg (@stekel) talked with Jeroen for about 30 minutes, touching these topics in a relaxed atmosphere in…
This is a response to an article by Arjan Haring in Medium (Experimentation is hard — really fucking hard) in which Arjan explains that Experimentation, rather than using many behavioral science theories, is his way forward. The reasons are that too many people have treated the various explanations, or maybe even: the discovery - of people's biases as a silver bullet to create…
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…
An impressive report (71 pages) was issued by SalesForce this week about the 'State of Marketing'. It's well worth a read, but for those of you who don't have that time, we'd like to summarize the most important findings. It basically comes down that Marketing today is all about customer engagement and experience. The 2016 State of Marketing report is based on the…
We already knew we are hot, but now it starts to be recognized by a growing amount of experts. This week, we were informed that VEMT is included in the Top 100 Red Herring Europe, a list of best start up companies in Europe. Great news and a recognition that our clients choose the right thing.
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…
It took longer than expected this year: the publication of the new Marketing Technology Landscape. When you look at the complete picture (find it here in PDF), you understand why that is so: the Marketing Technology Landscape has grown immensely and counts now 3874 marketing technology companies on one slide, which is a 87% growth compared to last year. The sector…
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…
Today, the Dutch energy company that supplies our office decided to do some maintenance in the street where our office is located. Great work, other than that we had to be disconnected from the grid for several hours. As a technology company, that's about the worst message you can receive, but it was a great opportunity to test our emergency…
Only with US data at the moment, Google recently announced a potentially important tool for Retailers. It’s called ‘Shopping Insights’ (what else?) and it could well be an important step for retailers to become more data driven. Here’s what it means to you: The Context of Shopping Insights As a retailer, you are facing serious challenges. Not only should you…
2015 has been a great year for VEMT. We have been growing in turnover, team size and customer base. Now, we have members in our database spread over 10 countries and Terabytes of data about their buying behavior, preferences and (business) relationships. Data (and with that: data science) starts to be our core competence; no longer just in theory, but…
VEMT is happy to announce that we have expanded our team again. This time we welcome Daniela from Bulgaria and Jevgenijs from Latvia. Both will be working from the VEMT Amsterdam HQ where they will add their team spirit, knowledge and experience to the rest of the team. This way, we will extend our support in Bulgarian, Latvian and Russian as…