Tomorrow's Loyalty Turns "Phygital"
The early days of e-commerce ushered in a debate that continues today: Is the future of retail brick-and-mortar stores or...
What if marketers could create a highly personalized communications plan for every individual in a database? What if the personalization was reflected across more than just content, but also cadence, preferred channel, layout, offers, and more? Further, what if a marketing plan could adapt in real-time to meet each customer’s evolving preferences and needs? That’s infinite personalization.
Continue ReadingThe early days of e-commerce ushered in a debate that continues today: Is the future of retail brick-and-mortar stores or...
A staggering 3.5 million emails are sent per second worldwide—many of them painstakingly designed by marketers to inspire...
According to Richard Branson, “Take care of your employees and they will take care of your business. It’s as simple as...
According to prevailing sentiment, customer service is dead. While baby boomers lament the loss of the personalized...
Conducting consumer research is a time-tested and effective way to inform loyalty program decisions. Moreover, qualitative...
Winning the Inbox: Intro The Lacek Group has years of well-established expertise in loyalty strategy development, engagement...
How to maximize search results for your brand’s loyalty program It’s a pretty safe bet that you’ve used a search engine as...
For the past two years, supply-chain issues have frustrated suppliers and consumers alike. In October 2021, Adobe reported...
Few events affected Americans’ shopping habits as swiftly and profoundly as COVID-19. In the earliest days of the global...
Retail therapy—that little jolt of happiness we experience when we make a purchase (or two or three) online or in-store—is...
Expectations for corporate social responsibility (CSR), like so many parts of our social fabric, are evolving. Amid changing...
Grab your free Big Gulp (or perhaps a free Starbucks Venti iced coffee), thanks to your membership rewards, and buckle up!...
Louder, please In the crowded marketplace of our fast-paced, distracted world, it’s imperative for your brand voice to...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL)—a purchasing option that’s more than simply a contemporary version of layaway—is trending with...
Financial models are only as good as the educated guesses that inform them. If the underlying assumptions are on target, an...
The crisis and stress of the pandemic created a widespread reconsideration of individual priorities. That shift in thinking...
As copyeditors, we live under a cloud of misconceptions about our work. So we (Lacek’s five copyeditors, a team that boasts...
And nurturing loyalty will help you build it. In today’s tumultuous world, trust is hard won. Overall consumer trust is...
Marketers need to recognize and adapt to the individual differences that define each customer. Understanding and addressing...
What if marketers could create a highly personalized communications plan for every individual in a database? What if the...
An estimated 20% to 70% of customer relationship management (CRM) projects either fail to improve company performance or...
While consumers prepare for a potential downturn, your brand could be finely tuning your loyalty program. Develop a plan to...
This white paper uncovers opportunities to create long-term relationships across health sectors through proven loyalty...
Let the Loyalty and CRM Experts Help You Get Ahead of Consumer Expectations Looking ahead to the new year, we’ve identified...
Gen Z: Setting Trends & Showing the Receipts A digitally native generation with the world available at its fingertips, Gen Z...
2020’s three largest forces—the pandemic, civil unrest, and divisive politics—continue to have far-reaching impacts on both...
Here’s the long version. A loyal customer isn’t a forever customer. Our global survey of more than 6,500 people shows that...
The future of loyalty is more human and more creative than ever. Why? Because the past year has accelerated changes in the...
Traditional annual performance reviews don’t cut it. Not only does no one like them—employee or supervisor—but they also...
Customer experience as a topic has dominated thought leadership in trade magazines, blogs, and consulting publications the...
New year, new opportunities. The pandemic isn’t over yet, but the end is in sight. Consider focusing on five pivotal trends...
Over the past couple of years, a surge of lawsuits has targeted business websites that weren’t compliant with the American...
No one knows with certainty how the retail landscape will shake out over the next several months. Despite that, our team of...
Do your loyalty program members clamor for surprise benefits? Or valuable basics like exclusive discounts? Today’s...
It’s common practice in the marketing communications world to use paid ads—social, video, display, and search—to generate...
The top five reasons loyalty programs fail, and what to do about them. The initial structure and design of a loyalty program...
Operationalizing marketing's bigger role in ag Ag business, like many B2B industries, is feeling the disruption from the...