The Importance of Customer Research

No, this is not a treatise to support the market research community. It is simply a bald statement of fact about the criticality of keeping in touch with your customer and ‘knowing’ them beyond the truths that transaction data reveals. Data analysis...
Auto Renewal of Membership? Boon or Bane

Auto Renewal of Membership? Boon or Bane

#loyaltymarketing #loyaltyprograms #autorenewal #customerconsent #transparency Auto-Renewal of loyalty (or subscription) program memberships. Good or bad? On the face of it – makes things simpler for the organisation and the member. The dissonance comes with...
Are Loyalty Points Really Dead?

Are Loyalty Points Really Dead?

FROM WISE MARKETER, BILL HANIFIN CLMP Points are dead”. These words were spoken by Pavel Los, Shell Global Loyalty Programme Manager during a presentation made recently at the Loyalty Surgery conference, held 16-17 October in London. His statements were shared...
Auto Renewal of Membership? Boon or Bane

Beyond Points….

Companies must move away from points and rewards Harvard Business Review report finds transactional loyalty wanting The need for companies to re-imagine their loyalty programmes has been confirmed by Harvard Business Review, which suggests that experiences are now...