The 7 Deadly Sins of Customer Acquisition

| Alon Tvina

Brand marketing is a battlefield. You’re multitasking around the clock to keep all your channels, campaigns and initiatives going, racing to hit deadlines while putting out fires, and working hard on customer acquisition. Here’s a rundown of the likely marketing sinkholes, and how to avoid them to improve acquisition. 

How to Steer Past Three Retention Roadblocks

| Denise DeSisto

Despite the evidence stressing the importance – and payoffs — of a concerted effort to retain customers, many organizations continue to spend a lopsided amount of time and resources on customer acquisition. In the process, they are overlooking rich pockets of revenue and predictably strong ROI from evolving customer relationships. Here are three common retention roadblocks marketers need to get past.

Building a Strong Loyalty Program with Emotional Bonds

| Samir Palnitkar

Today loyalty is a fusion of emotional engagement, trust and the ability to engage, meeting or exceeding customer expectations. Brand love reinforces trust, long-term relationships and faith in the future of a brand. See how leading brands like Sephora, Nike and TOMS have created emotional bonds that drive loyalty and CLV.

How to Beat Counterfeits and Police Your Brand

| Kathleen Egan

The risk of brand degradation is nothing new (fake Coach purse, anyone?). But brand degradation against price transparency, access to goods, manufacturing capabilities, dissolving of geographical boundaries and shipping innovations, and you’ll see the risk has increased dramatically. Here is what you should do as brand degradation gets worse.