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CRM

  • Voice Of Customer Data Worth Collecting And Analyzing Despite Challenges

    Analyzing customer opinions can provide valuable insights. This knowledge, however, is not easily gained. Knowing how to collect this information without biasing it, and aggregating qualitative — non-numeric — data can be daunting. Chris Cottle, executive vice president of marketing and products for Allegiance, offers thoughts on best practices in aggregating and using customer opinions.

  • Mobile Email Recipients Not Saving Messages to Read Later on Desktop: Surveys

    All marketers know that mobile devices enable consumers to check email whenever and where ever they want. But what they might not be considering is that once consumers read an email on their tablet or phone, they’re necessarily not saving it to follow-up on later on their desktop.

  • Customer Loyalty: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

    Loyalty efforts traditionally provide rich amounts of data on a member’s transactions. Transaction data, however, only reveals what a loyalty program member is currently buying. Transaction data rarely provides insight on what else the member could be buying, the reasons behind the purchase or what differentiates this customer from others.

  • Mobile, Social Data Transforming Marketing for the Holidays—And Beyond

    Almost every CMO went into Black Friday and CyberMonday with one thought in mind: shoppers are more price-sensitive than ever before. But what actually happened on Black Friday and CyberMonday radically shifted the conversation. Consumers spent like mad—online and on mobile devices.

  • Retail/CPG Brands Market Beyond Store Walls

    At one time, the terms most frequently heard when instore marketers convened were most likely shelf talkers and But two October conferences in Chicago

  • Holiday Email Watch: Gymboree Builds Synergy, But Fisher-Price is Slow

    My home’s halls haven’t quite been decked yet, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my email inbox. Here’s a quick look at some of the offers that have come my way this week. While none are particularly naughty, some are a lot nicer than …

  • Reminder Emails Boost 1-800-Flowers Sales

    1-800-Flowers is making heavy use of email reminders to encourage blooms as gifts for every occasion.

  • Marketers Increase Email Use On Black Friday

    Black Friday saw many brick and mortar retailers promoting themselves primarily through email, although pure-play online marketers weren’t shy about using email to cash in on consumers’ post-Thanksgiving shopping urges, either.

  • New Database Helps Las Vegas Sands Focus on Profitability

    The Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s new data system places a stronger focus on the full spectrum of visitors’ activity, and therefore their total profitability.

    Traditionally, casino patrons are ranked and marketed to based on what they spend, either during a single trip or in aggregate. But this doesn’t allow for subtleties such as their rate of play, how the value of comped rooms mitigates their worth to the property, or other activities which might change how they are valued.

  • Email Tricks and Treats

    One of the best parts of Halloween was always dumping out the Trick or Treat bag at the end of the night, to see what kind of haul you got. I did the same with my inbox this morning. Here’s what I found. The Natick Collection sent an email invite to …