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…
When it comes to order tracking, consumers tend to check the order status 4.7 times per order. Most webshops leave that service to couriers like DHL, Fedex, Royal Mail, PostNL, DPD, Deutsche Post, or Parcelhub and just pass on the track & trace code to their customers. It takes a few moments to realize that, at an average number of…
TL;DR Brands need customer loyalty programs because they need to manage the - increasingly important - customer experience, grow differentiators in times of fast changing brand preferences and collect and use data to be able to deliver personal relevant experiences. The best method by far to collect that data is a customer loyalty program. Marketers can actually manage Customer Experience…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
The craft of making good beer requires dedication, knowledge, skills, precision and hygiene. No wonder that the VEMT development team felt like that was a good task for them, so we teamed up with the wonderful people of The TeamBrouwerij in Amsterdam to make that happen. In the heart of Amsterdam's red light district in Mata Hari, the team learned…
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…
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…
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 coming Saturday where they will…