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Welcome to Retailing 2.0

[LA Times, June, 2010] Today’s consumer is a multichannel shopper and consequently demands the same conveniences the web offers when shopping in-store. With the latest trend coined “Retailing 2.0,” traditional brick and mortar stores are changing the way they do business to better meet the needs of shoppers while also remaining competitive with Internet retailers [...]

Is Your Loyalty Program Up to Par for Today’s Consumer?

[SmartMoney, June, 2010] In a time of both  lingering recession and more choices for consumers’ precious dollars than ever before, retailers are being forced to think differently about how to achieve brand loyalty. According to a new study by comScore, the percentage of brand loyal shoppers has steadily declined across all categories over the past [...]

Retailers Reap Rewards From Online Coupons

[Compete, June 8, 2010] Savvy consumers have long looked to coupons for additional savings, but a recent study shows that online coupons can have a significant impact on a retailer’s bottom line. According to a recent “Online Shopper Intelligence” survey conducted by Compete, one-third of online shoppers generally use coupon sites while shopping online. What [...]

Fostering Customer Loyalty Through Social Currency

[Fast Company, May, 2010] How many Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and YouTube subscribers does your company have? If your organization is like most, these numbers continue to increase but what are you doing about it? A new study by Vivaldi Partners and Lightspeed Research analyzed more than 60 companies to determine how these social audiences [...]

Sears and Kmart Target Budget Minded Holiday Shoppers With New Christmas Club Card

Sears and Kmart create a blended frequent shopper and gift card program, the Christmas Club card. The Christmas Club is a great example of how retailers can creatively respond to consumers resistance to rely on credit cards to finance purchases. In addition, it provides a branded “savings” account the enables a retailer to lock in [...]

Retailers Improve Online Customer Experience

The current economic climate finds the retail sector battling to sustain their business under intense financial pressure. Consumers have so much choice available to them that retailers must make sure they offer customers the choice of shopping via multiple channels so they can buy goods in the preferred way. Retailers like Lands’ End, Abercrombie & [...]

How to Audit Your Loyalty Marketing Strategies

Consumers have so many choices in the world and generally edit their possibilities and maintain their own manageable menu of brands they trust. These brands are said to be in the “inner circle”. The inner circle is like your favorites or bookmark list on your computer. In our age of information and global competition, companies [...]

What’s Next for Loyalty Programs?

Customer Insight Group is dedicated to helping organizations realize the greatest value from their customer base. We provide resources that deliver relevant information on the latest thought leadership regarding loyalty marketing. We want to share with you 30 exciting ideas for loyalty marketing rewards – compelling enough to gain exposure to capture your customers’ attention [...]

Loyalty Programs Excel with Right Mix of Program Benefits

With more than 19 years of experience in developing and enhancing customer loyalty programs, we know how important it is to use a customer-centric approach to align and deliver value that is meaningful, timely and mutually beneficial to the customer and ultimately the company as well. When developing the benefit strategy for your loyalty program [...]