When it comes to order tracking, consumers tend to check the order status 4.7 times per order. Most webshops leave that service to couriers like DHL, Fedex, Royal Mail, PostNL, DPD, Deutsche Post, or Parcelhub and just pass on the track & trace code to their customers. It takes a few moments to realize that, at an average number of…
Now there is an impressive extension to 'regular' traveler loyalty programs as issued by airlines, hotels and travel organizations: The Maldives are the first country in the world to launch its own hospitality loyalty program. It's called the 'Maldives Border Miles' program and it will have 3 tiers: Aida (Bronze), Antara (Silver) and Abaarana (Gold), all names coming from Divehi,…
In a new report, Deloitte Digital mentions that 'Innovative Rewards' are one of the "6 emerging digital trends in the post-Covid world". They mention that: 'stimulating social behavior to provide tangible and relevant offers to your customers by developing deep and rich consumer insights to truly understand the desired customer value exchange'. Unfortunately, they don't explain (yet) what this is…
TL;DR Brands need customer loyalty programs because they need to manage the - increasingly important - customer experience, grow differentiators in times of fast changing brand preferences and collect and use data to be able to deliver personal relevant experiences. The best method by far to collect that data is a customer loyalty program. Marketers can actually manage Customer Experience…
Marketers are confronted with amazing challenges during the growing Covid-19 or Corona Crisis. Recent developments in Europe and the US, following those in Asia, indicate that a global economic crisis is a real risk. Learning lessons from previous crises in how Customer Relationships can make or break a company, VEMT has created this mini-course for marketers. To support all marketers…
Brand Personality: there's no Marketing Conference without a guru talking about what you can do to develop the most impressive Brand Personality for your company. But does Brand Personality really deliver a higher customer loyalty? Does it deliver more revenue? While both academic marketing literature and many popularized marketing books describe a whole range of benefits of creating a strong…
This week, Alibaba managed to grow revenue with 25% compared to an already ecstatic last year’s Single’s day buying fest. An amazing achievement that every retailer wants to copy. One of the ways Alibaba manages to grow returning visits and revenue can inspire you to copy a part of that success: ‘Commerce going Content’. Alibaba seems to surf on a…
It just came to our attention that a growing group of companies in the US starts to 'celebrate' Rewards Points Day. South-West Airlines being one of them, this group of companies wants to increase consumers (well... members) that they have unused points in their loyalty account that represent actual value, and they'd better use that value before it expires. A…
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…
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…
He is mentioned as one of the most influential economists of this time: Uri Gneezy. Today he was in Amsterdam and Arjan Haring from The Control Group had seduced him to share his knowledge with a curious audience of behavioral scientists, CRM and E-commerce managers, finance professionals and at least one Personal Trainer (more about that later). Gneezy has an important…
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…
One of the blogs we like to read most is Scott Brinkers's Chief Marketing Technology or Chief Martec. It's a neverending source of inspiring analysis about what's going on in Marketing Technology and Marketing itself. Today, we got inspired by something that Scott poste about a new research done by DataXu. They have created a quantitative study on the state of marketing technology…