After interning at Right On Interactive for the past four months, I have really come to understand the major differences between selling to another business versus selling directly to the customer. The way customer relationships are grown and nurtured truly varies depending on whether you’re dealing with an organization or an individual. With ROI being a business that sells to a […]
Tag Archives: brand loyalty
Competitive pressures force marketers to launch sophisticated campaigns to generate, nurture and convert leads. However, many marketers ignore or underestimate the need to create a positive buzz. Creating a positive buzz means a favorable word of mouth opinion. This, more often than not, requires being nice and doing the obvious: providing awesome customer service! Providing […]
Email marketing is just one aspect of lifecycle marketing. It is a simple way to communicate with all your potential and current customers, while still having it feel as though you are personally talking to them. One of the most convenient things about email marketing is that your message can be forwarded by your audience to one person […]
Customer Lifecycle Marketing, Customer Relationship Management
How Indy Tech Companies are Building Customer Relationships
Uber. A word that has been established in the minds of travelers whether they are traveling from the suburbs to downtown, or to the airport. It has taken Indianapolis by storm. Uber is an app that you download on your phone, allowing you to connect with a driver in minutes. The driver will then pick you […]
Customer Lifecycle Marketing, Customer Loyalty Marketing, Customer Relationship Management
Building Personal Customer Relationships to Drive Brand Loyalty
When I logged onto Facebook last night, the first story that appeared at the top of my newsfeed was a video of a thrilled toddler followed by a mother’s caption which read: “I cannot say enough great things about Schneider Chiropractic Center […] the fabulous staff there always go the extra mile […] and give extra special […]
Customer Loyalty Marketing, Marketing, Social Media
Social Media Engagement that Drives Customer Loyalty
Here’s a startling fact, even though customers require a response, 5 in 6 requests made by consumers on social media go unanswered by brands (Sprout Social). “So what?” and “who cares?” may be what you’re thinking. Social media is a tool for broadcasting your brand message and should not be used as a customer service tool, […]
Do you care more about getting new business or retaining existing customers? If you are every marketing professional I have ever consulted with, your answer is immediately and unequivocally – BOTH! But how can we, as marketers, attract and create loyal customers simultaneously? Customer brand loyalty and brand referrals are at an all time low. […]
Let’s be honest, as marketers, we crave data. In a world where we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day, we still seem to look at our own databases and come to the conclusion that it’s “not enough.” For B2B marketers in particular, it’s in the details. Personal details about customers are crucial for marketing […]
When I first started working in marketing technology, I engaged with clients via telephone, email, online and face-to-face meetings. That’s how they preferred to communicate with us, so that’s how we made ourselves available to them. Nowadays, customers have the ability to complain about your products and services via Twitter and Facebook. They want to spend less time on […]
Does brand loyalty exist online? I mean, sure it does, in some manner, but is loyalty less effective when your audience has access to the endless information, accurate or not, about your brand online? In the race for manufacturers and brands to undercut costs online, consumers have become more accustomed to the real-world value of […]