Author: NasAdmin
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Tomorrow streaming live: Interview in Top Names with Jeroen Nas
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…
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VEMT Launches one of the Largest Fashion Loyalty Programs in Europe
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…
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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…
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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…
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VEMT in top 100 Red Herring Europe
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.
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By reversing their loyalty program, Starbucks is creating new segments
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…
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The 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape has arrived (and VEMT is included)
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…
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Predictable disruption: Marketing Departments will change completely
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…
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Juice Brothers bringing ‘juice’ to the Amsterdam Office
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…
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Shopping Insights; a tool for Retailers
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…
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Overview 2015 and outlook 2016
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…
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Another international team expansion at VEMT
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…
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Wearable technology: fitbit for cows
Friday afternoon news: We’re not sure yet how this wearable technology invention would be usable for marketers ;-), as we described in this article, but this new and exciting product definitely is a sign that wearable technology is taking off in many different ways. Dutch start up Connecterra invented ‘the FitBit for cows’ and provides another…
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Marketers using Wearable Technology: Getting close to the heart
by Jeroen Nas, December 2015 Wearable technology is growing fast and provides great opportunities for Persuasion Marketing. How close can you get to your customers? And do your customers like that? And who might be in between? What should you take into account? In a world that hypes about personalized marketing, one development…
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The Language of Empathy
VEMT has a very international team with employees coming from 4 different continents. Working from our HQ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, there’s a constant dilemma of learning the Dutch language to them. On one hand, it’s great to learn something new and it definitely improves each individual’s position in Dutch society, on the other hand: everybody speaks…