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Composable Commerce; what should I know and do?

Composable Commerce is a hot topic. It is seen by many as the future of eCommerce. This article describes what it is and what to do next.   TL;DR ; summary With Composable Commerce, digital teams of brands and retailers select and assemble "best-of-breed" commerce solutions with the goal to better handle the fast changing business requirements and technology changes.…

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Loyalty Metrics

Loyalty Program Metrics: Enrollment Score

Program Metrics: How to Measure Program Impact? In each program (either Loyalty and/or CX Program), you'd want to score what your program performance is. Ideally, you relate performance to your goals and how well you achieve those. There are also some generic KPI's for program's that can inspire you to monitor and optimize performance. In a short series of articles,…

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CXM Key Principles VEMT

7 Key Principles in Customer Experience Management Marketing

The priority of Customer Experience Management (CXM) is fast growing and marketers are learning quickly on how to deal with this perspective. To support this learning process, VEMT summarizes our field-practices and formulates 7 key principles that marketers should use to apply, learn about and teach others about Customer Experience Management. CXM is a culture, not a project It should…

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Huge growth loyalty due to pandemic economy

Huge growth in loyalty in the 2020 pandemic economy

The pandemic economy has led to a strongly increased awareness and a strong reactivation of loyalty and retention programs by marketers globally. We see that 2 trends reinforced each other, leading to a significant higher demand of loyalty and customer experience management expertise and tools. Trend 1: Renewed priority of current customers A renewed consideration of the importance of existing…

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Maldives Border Miles

Maldives is the world’s first country to offer a traveler loyalty program

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,…

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VEMT offers a free mini-Course: Customer Relationships in Times of Crisis

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…

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Rewards Points day: 10/10

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…

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MS Mode launches next version of Customer Loyalty Program

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…

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What are the best Loyalty Metrics to use?

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…

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Doing experiments with Sinan Aral

For some, "doing experiments" sounds abstract (or even a bit weird), but when you're in Marketing (or any other behavioral science for that matter), you should know that doing experiments should be the basis for many of your decisions. Testing scenarios, hypothesis and/or strategies in a scientific way provides companies a data driven decision making process where 'guesswork' and gut…

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Marketing now fully embraces technology

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…

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Content Marketing Hacks for Loyalty Marketing

Smart Hacks: Create Content for Loyalty Marketing

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…

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State of Marketing 2016

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…

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