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…
Tonight June 9th, Jeroen Nas will be presenting an insider view on innovation at the Pezy Group in Amsterdam: "Connect the dots". It is a meeting with several speakers, a panel discussion and partcipants from the audience about how innovation actually works, which lessons can be learned from the recent past and how you can translate innovation practice from one…
This is a response to an article by Arjan Haring in Medium (Experimentation is hard — really fucking hard) in which Arjan explains that Experimentation, rather than using many behavioral science theories, is his way forward. The reasons are that too many people have treated the various explanations, or maybe even: the discovery - of people's biases as a silver bullet to create…
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 the customers that show potential…
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 disruption". Accenture uses it to…
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 challenges. Not only should you…
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 dimension to the wearable technology…
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 might still be a little…
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 English in the Netherlands, it's…
VEMT, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has launched an omni-channel mobile loyalty app that interacts with all events during the customer journey and provides program members a complete interaction tool with timeline and customer support features. In the coming months, VEMT's current customers start rolling out the versatile app, bringing the usage quickly to several millions of users. The app…
Together with partner Luminis, VEMT organized a well visited webinar about Persuasion Marketing. The audience - mainly CRM marketers and CMO's from retail and travel organizations, participated in the webinar with questions and discussions. The webinar has been recorded and is available for you under here. The link will play the YouTube video directly in this page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoMHvpSbj9w
Update December 2015: Facebook just announced a social video service as well. We expect an acceleration in the Marketing Use of these types of tools in the coming 6 months. --- Did you already experience social streaming? For those who didn't try the 2 newest 'social streaming apps' yet, you should definitely give it a try. It is a high impact…