Matt Heinz, the principle of Heinz marketing guides you through the best practices in creating a loyalty scheme. Let’s say you’re building a loyalty incentives program for your product. Everybody has great ideas abo...
It is no wonder that very few companies enjoy customer loyalty nowadays. Consumers are skeptical of company promises. A “new” product is not really “new.” A great-looking item on an info-commercial works much differentl...
Fredrik Abildtrup, CEO of TeleFaction guides you through techniques that can be implemented by looking at customer experience in a whole new light. It is said that you need to be more conservative in the times of a crisis. This...
Author and Consultant Elisabeth Goodman looks at how you can achieve customer and employee loyalty by taking an intelligent approach to your organisational resources. As Stephen R. Covey, Bob Whitman and Breck England point out...
It has been approximately 40 years since marketing professor and guru Dr. Philip Kotler coined the concept of the four P’s of marketing – product, price, place, and promotion. While still valid today, Kotler’s original fo...
Author and Speaker Mark Holmes ask us if customer loyalty is increasing, and looks at how you can keep existing business, or create new sales opportunities. During these uncertain times, is it possible that some of your custome...
Analysis writer Christina Pomoni looks at how the strategy of Total Quality Management can help organizations change the way they do business for the better. In the competitive market environment of today, organizations need to...
Financial turmoil, economic crisis, credit crunch – haven’t we heard enough? The CEO of TeleFaction looks at ways you can find ways of keeping your customers. It is evident, however,that in these times customers are more ca...
If you’re finding it a challenge to create profits, you might appreciate knowing that you’re not alone. Profits in this Great Recession are elusive for other businesspeople, too. A case in point: 50 percent of the memb...
Daniel Alcorn looks at 5 statistics you should consider before creating your next marketing strategy. When revenues decline, business owners are forced to reduce expenses. However, the challenge is to make sure that your cost...
By Jay Gronlund Does word-of-mouth marketing make much sense for B2B situations, and if so, how could companies effectively apply this? The internet has traumatized traditional marketing and is causing every manager in B2C, as ...
The science of harnessing customer loyalty and satisfaction is getting very trendy in business. And perhaps nothing has been more responsible for driving excitement than Net Promoter. Developed by Fred Reichheld, Net Promoter...
According the results from a recent survey completed by Greenfield Online, bad customer service seems to pose a big problem – over $338.5 billion a year. The survey was carried out in 16 countries across the globe, with nearl...
As marketing professionals, we spend way too much of our time trying to sell our ideas to top management. Meetings often turn into boardroom battles between management and marketing.On many occasions we have lost these battles....
The value of establishing and tracking customer loyalty and engagement is that they provide some effective leading indicators into how your customers are going to behave. A survey by SAS and Peppers & Rogers Group polled 15...
Author Myra Golden looks at a case study of how you can still win back customers after things go wrong – by using the power of customer service. Yesterday afternoon I dropped off a prescription for my daughter at my neigh...
It has been found that it is impossible to keep a foundation of loyal customers without a foundation of loyal employees. The best employees prefer to work for companies that provide the type of exceptional value that creates cu...