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Six key questions to audit a loyalty program

Personally, I feel there is a significant difference between making more customers satisfied and making customers more satisfied. The best way of increase profits is in making several customer segments much more than just satisfied. A customer satisfaction rating alone is not the right measure for pointing out customer loyalty towards your business. […]

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15 Marketing Tips for Finding New Customers

These fifteen tips are really quite simple yet are so often missed. Pass the tips on. Better yet, put them in practice and be ready to handle the endless stream of new customers. All companies fear instability and the possibility of a severe market downturn. However it is during these periods when the best companies show something better than simple survival skills. Downturn separates out the bad and mediocre, as a result leaving fewer companies standing in good stead to carve up the market when things get good again. So let’s talk about a new and different way to seek new and different customers.

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10 Simple Tips for Avoiding Marketing Mistakes in the Future

Marketing challenges are actually quite common among businesses of all sizes. In today’s competitive business world, many small and mid-sized companies lose sight of the marketing practices that made them successful in the first place. And even the large, established companies tend to let their good marketing practices slide sometimes. These tips are always in our minds, it’s not rocket science. Make sure you print this out and stick it over your computer. […]

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Stimulate Loyalty – Power of networks, data and convergence

Tips for maximizing on evolutionary trends to stimulate loyalty.

Most important lesson for managers is that loyalty schemes have a life cycle. Although they may be an effective sales strategy when introduced into a market, over time they lose their effectiveness as saturation occurs and customers become habituated to the loyalty schemes. Attitudinal loyalty seems to last longer than behavioural loyalty, but as behavioural loyalty is the only form that translates to dollars; this is not good news for business. However, the solution is to scrap the tired old loyalty scheme and come up with some innovative untried initiative that will capture the imagination of customers and stimulate both attitudinal and behavioural loyalty.
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Marketing Trends for 2010

Accommodating these trends will require a paradigm change on the parts of some companies. But whether a brand does something about it or not, the future is where it’s going to spend the rest of its life. How long that life is up to the brand, determined by how it responds to today’s reality.

This year is poised to be an exciting year for marketers; trends that have been taking shape over the course of the past decade are creating new opportunities for business owners. […]

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Viral Marketing… to do or not to do

Viral marketing, buzz marketing – whatever you want to call it, is certainly here and here to stay, and it seems to be working. But before you jump in with everyone else, think long and hard about what you want to achieve, who you are targeting, and how you are going to use this new gang of groupies. […]