It’s 2019 and social media is evolving way beyond social purposes alone. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have taken giant strides toward implementing a seamless eCommerce experience into its functionalities. From discovery to conversion, commerce can now be facilitated from your favorite social media channels, across devices and countless supportive apps. Social media and other digital platforms have entirely Read more…
Annex Cloud’s SFRA integration on SFCC allows customers to build sites faster with a full library of core site capabilities developed with industry best practices. Hundreds of out-of-the-box features include cart, checkout, homepage, product detail pages, and more. This partnership with SFCC allows brands and manufacturers to hone the digital experience, optimize their CTAs, and better retain customers. “We Read more…
We are very excited this week as our team has been named finalists in two categories for the Customer Loyalty Awards! We will find out if we bring home the gold May 22nd at the Loyalty Expo in Charlotte, NC. A special congratulations to Sugarfina for being named a finalist for the CX Strategy Award, which highlights the industry’s most Read more…
Are you looking to implement a new customer loyalty program within your business or improve your existing customer loyalty program? You may be scratching your head at how industry-leading companies like Costco, Verizon and Sephora can maintain outrageously high customer retention rates while simultaneously keeping customer satisfaction high. There may seem to be a great mystery behind these organizations’ successes. Read more…
It is becoming increasingly difficult to reach customers through ecommerce. Consumers are being bombarded by messaging across every conceivable channel. Even the smallest and most distant competitors can challenge your business with fewer barriers to enter the marketplace. To make matters worse, consumer trust in brands and institutions is at an all-time low. In such a difficult landscape, it is Read more…
In this age of information overload, 82% of customers are making purchase decisions based on recommendations from their friends and family. While brands and retailers have many different ways of earning these recommendations, many are finding the benefits of referral marketing by tapping into their customers’ networks. By offering customers incentives for referring your brand and products to their friends, Read more…
We all love a good loyalty program. Who doesn’t want a perk for frequenting your favorite coffee shop or beauty bar? The problem is that a lot of businesses tend to think that their loyalty programs need to only exist in the B2C world but that simply isn’t true. It appears like B2C gets all the fun stuff but Read more…
What do brands like Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, and Gucci all have in common? They all have die-hard brand loyal fans. But why? A recent study conducted by Ello Media in the UK concluded that 3 in 5 people feel loyalty towards a particular fashion brand. With 60% of people indicating loyalty to brands, it is clear that customer loyalty Read more…
When you think of mass retail powerhouses, behemoths like Walmart, Amazon, and Target tend to be top of mind, ubiquitously associated with everything from groceries, apparel, beauty and home goods. One name that might not pop up as readily? Kroger. Kroger is arguably America’s most underrated grocery store with an estimated 2,764 stores nationwide. Reporting $121.2 billion in sales at Read more…
Which sales channels have you found to drive sales for your brand? While of course we love the use of social media for conversions, refer-a-friend is still such a reliable and useful channel to optimize among your marketing strategy. Referral marketing is the best way to expand your marketing team without having to go through a hiring process and costs Read more…
It’s a daunting task. You read review after review, compare features, check pricing, customization, integrations, the list goes on… We get it, choosing a customer loyalty program is overwhelming! Does it bring your company real return? Does it configure to your unique business model? Can it integrate with your ecommerce platform? All of these are valid questions. That is Read more…
We all know how the traditional rewards program model, right? A customer buys something and the retailer offers incentives like loyalty points or additional products. This is known as the transactional, or rational model of customer loyalty. Though it’s a very successful strategy, it really only considers consumers who are loyal for the reason of logical transactions. It doesn’t Read more…
Are you investing time in your Questions and Answers? Unfortunately many in retail overlook it, but let us tell you why they’re wrong. The best ecommerce brands use every channel possible when it comes to communicating with their customers. That’s because in order to compete with the Amazons and Walmarts of the world, businesses must leverage their user generated Read more…
It’s a daunting task. You read review after review, compare features, check pricing, customization, integrations, the list goes on… We get it, choosing a customer loyalty program is overwhelming! Does it bring your company real return? Does it configure to your unique business model? Can it integrate with your ecommerce platform? All of these are valid questions. That is Read more…
Whether it’s photos of restaurant dishes or product reviews on Amazon; customers are evangelizing and advertising for brands all the time, for free. User generated content represents the innumerable ways in which a customer interacts with your brand. Implementing a strong user generated content strategy helps your company build credibility with existing and potential customers which translates to conversions. Read more…
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