Entries Tagged ‘Customer Engagement’:

How The Zappos Culture Drives Loyalty

When you’re selling hammers, every prospect looks like a nail. You’ve heard the expression before. The loyalty version of this is that many suppliers think every solution has to be currency based because that’s what they are selling.
I can hear the groans now, but don’t worry. I’m an advocate of data-driven marketing strategies that are [...]

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Zavee Cuts Through the Email Jungle

Coming up with brilliant product development and loyalty marketing strategy is the foundation for business success but diligent pursuit of flawless execution makes an idea come to life.
Just the other day, I received an email from Zavee.com which got my attention. Not only did the subject line “Top 5 Mystery Merchants of the Month” stand [...]

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Welcome to Marketing 2012: the Relationship Era

There’s a fascinating article titled “The Dawn of the Relationship Era in Marketing” that recently appeared in AdAge magazine. It’s written by David Rogers and Bob Garfield, the latter the same guy who caused a stir a few years ago with the essay “The Chaos Scenario” which (semi-correctly) predicted “the end of advertising as we [...]

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Badgeville Webinar will Highlight Evolution of Gamification

The loyalty marketing landscape is changing – quickly and dramatically. Social Loyalty is a new concept to be understood and embraced.
Millennial marketing is a focus of Social Loyalty and I occasionally see posts about whether Generation Y (Millennials) can or will give their loyalty over a sustainable time period to any brand. Based on our [...]

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Borders Last Chapter Official – Barnes & Noble Writes a Sequel

I’m a former Borders customer and past member of the now defunct company’s Rewards Perks program. While I freely admit to moving a lot of my business to Amazon over the years, I was sorry to see Borders go.
Maybe it’s nostalgia, but every once in a while I like to walk [...]

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The Enigma that is Twitter

Of all the social media communications channels I invest in, Twitter is the most enigmatic to me.
I use it and find value in posts from both followers and those I follow. At the same time, I encounter quizzical looks from friends who think I am somehow child-like and time-wasting to be spending time writing updates [...]

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American Airlines Spikes My QR Curiosity

What do you do when you have a solution in your hand in search of a problem?
If you’re the creator of the solution, you sell, sell, sell, crafting magnificent stories describing the power of your solution to change lives and create profits. That approach is mandated by fiduciary responsibility to those investors who brought your [...]

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Brand Building is a Race of Truth

Cycling commentators like to quip that the individual time trial is a “race of truth”. In other words there’s no place to hide as the man and machine face off against the clock.
The winner of the most recent edition of the Tour de France was decided on the final day in such a race, as [...]

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Making Sense of Social Couponing – Part 2

Attending the National Restaurant Association show recently, I solidified some perspectives on social couponing and collective buying schemes in a post here. The buzz from domestic restaurant marketers over how best to leverage collective buying sites such as Groupon, Living Social, Facebook Deals, and the myriad of copycats that have emerged over the past 3 [...]

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Everyone is Tweeting, But is Anyone Listening?

In the midst of the 23rd Annual Card Forum last week, I received a tweet that pointedly asked “Everyone is Tweeting, But is Anyone Listening?”
It came from my friend Jill McBride, who is well versed in the loyalty marketing business, and runs a well respected public relations firm based in Cincinnati. We had both noticed [...]

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