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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…
VEMT offers free Customer Journey Optimization advice on E-day Coming Thursday, October 10, VEMT will be present at Emerce-day in Amsterdam. It'll be great. Werner Vogels of Amazon will speak, and Chris Wiggins, the famous Data Scientist from the New York Times. Secret tip from us is to listen to Pamela Pavliscak of the Pratt Institute. She'll be well worth…
With the VEMT Audience Builder, companies can create advanced segments to target, personalize and persuade customers. It uniquely offers selections based on relationships and allows marketers to directly execute more actions than any other Audience Builder in the market today. The Audience Builder is the newest addition to the most feature-rich Customer Experience Management platform: the VEMT CX & Loyalty…
"Investing in growth" That's how Deloitte presents their advice for retailers in 2019. While the market is at an inflection point of a switch between good years and maybe not-so-good years ahead, retailers that want to make a difference should focus on investing in their customers, with 'loyalty' as the main strategy to go for. We like the practical, yet…
For those who worried about ethics and influencing behavior, there's good news. Although it might be counter intuitive, being transparent by telling people that you want to influence their behavior does not impact the results. This interesting findings result from research by 5 scientists who have published their results in the Journal of Economic Psychology (for those who are interested…
Early 2016, we wrote an article about 'Changes in the Marketing department', which we see happening daily at our (potential) clients. It's time to update that article, because even more things are happening in today's Marketing Departments. Customer Experience (CX) is the new marketing battlefront. This is a quote from Gartner. We think it's by far the most important development for…
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…
In April, we moved to a new building, but now we are happy to move into an office custom created for us; just one floor down above the main entrance. The last bits are almost completed: all we need to finish are connectivity (very important!) and well, move our furniture and team in, and then we're ready to operate from…
VEMT is growing, and so is our need for office space. Therefore, we are happily looking forward to our new office space in Amsterdam in the area of Buitenveldert, just a few blocks away from the high rise buildings of the Amsterdam Zuid As. Easily connected by highway, metro and bus, our new office will serve as a new and…
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…
Our developer team works with a design pattern called Event Sourcing. It's cool stuff. As we have experienced, it's not that hard to understand.... at least not once you know, and that's only in hindsight. To make a start in Event Sourcing (and CQRS), we have learned that some developers first struggle to un-learn things they are used to, and…
"We want something unique! We like new features. We need to differentiate." Clients ask us to support them to be successful in influencing customer behavior. Of course, programs that successfully influence behavior and that represent a specific 'unique' brand, product or service will need to be unique too. Right? Wait a minute… is that actually true? We took a few…
In collaboration with our fantastic UK partner 'The Marketing Innovation Group', we have launched a GDPR Module for the VEMT Loyalty Marketing Cloud to address (potential) challenges that many of your clients have in dealing with this new European legislation. GDPR key requirements Single customer view The issue for most businesses is the inability to identify and consolidate the many…
Working with Clang means you choose to work with one of the market leading e-mail marketing platforms of these days. So you are serious about your digital marketing. Are you ready to consider making the next step and adding VEMT Loyalty to your Clang e-mail marketing? This combination refreshes your email marketing with addition of a Customer Loyalty program, considerably…
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…