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Can You Be Too Omnichannel? Finding the Balance in Your Marketing Efforts

| Craig Witt

In the marketing world, the term omnichannel is pervasive and meant to describe efforts by companies to diversify and broaden the tools, channels and platforms they use to reach their audiences. After all, digitally-connected consumers today are using email, social media, websites and a wide variety of media formats to communicate with each other and stay in touch with the brands and businesses they care about.

Nike Revamps Its Loyalty Program

| Daniela Forte

Nike customers using the Nike Plus mobile app are not only loyal but are big spenders, laying down 40% more than other customers, leading it to test some extra perks. Here are some of the perks Nike customers benefit from.

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Loyalty Losers No More – 5 Ways to Save Loyalty Programs in 2019

| Jay Radia

The challenges of loyalty program acquisition and adoption reflect the overall challenges of a burgeoning ecommerce market. Consumers demand more convenience, more rewards and more meaningful engagement – this applies equally to loyalty programs as it does to your store’s overall value proposition. Here are five ways to break the challenges retailers face with their loyalty programs.

Improving Your Sales Funnel in the Next Three Years

| Rilind Elezaj

The sales funnel is the main tool showing where you lose customers and what stage of the customer relationship is the most problematic. It also shows what things should be changed in order to increase revenue. Here are several ways retailers can utilize the sales funnel for their business in the next three years.

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Are You Customer Obsessed? Putting Customers at the Heart of Your Business

| Daniela Forte

Putting customers at the heart of everything you do is vital to business success, requiring customer obsession driven by insights and engagement to create a virtuous cycle. In the latest MCM CommerceChat podcast, Ross Kramer, CEO of email marketing automation company Listrak, talks about customer obsession based on its research conducted with Forrester in late 2018.