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The days of brands competing solely on the basis of price and prestige are gone. Today, the real way to the heart of consumers is through the customer experience (CX). We’ve all heard about the value of the customer experience, but only the most successful businesses realize just how important the customer experience is to the bottom line. It’sRead more

Think of Artificial Intelligence not as something to replace humans, but automating and augmenting our cognitive skills. From repetitive and mundane tasks to predictive analytics across multiple industries, AI has the intelligence of human thought but at a much larger scale. Depending on the type of AI in use, it can even go beyond humanRead more

When it comes to the customer lifecycle, a lot of marketers and businesses are still only thinking in the linear – find an audience, look to attract them, sell a product/service, and done. But this misses a far bigger picture in the journey. While getting leads and conversions is important, it’s just one facet ofRead more

When it comes to loyalty and/or affinity programs, many businesses and brands are still missing the mark. Too many go for short-term thinking, and offer discount after discount to get customers into their stores, and this can hurt them in the long term. With new programs from Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons, updated programs fromRead more

Social influencers, and influencer marketing in general, are once again under the microscope as media publications share articles that are split into two trains of thought. The first is that social influence is the worst thing to happen to marketing, while the second states that influence marketing is a key business strategy in 2019. So which viewpointRead more

One of the questions we hear a lot is can B2B influence marketing be as successful as B2C influence marketing? Especially in the telecom industry – can B2B influence marketing be used effectively there? Marketers in this industry have mastered various consumer models for their B2C strategy, but B2B marketing remains a challenge. Three yearsRead more

In a stunning about turn, Mark Zuckerberg published a privacy manifesto that essentially changes Facebook as we know it. By moving to end-to-end encrypted messaging, the public newsfeed that everyone has been using for the last 10+ years has basically been side-stepped. While Zuckerberg states that “public Facebook” will continue in some form, he sees private,Read more

As both Nike and Gillette have shown in recent months, cause marketing is becoming an increasingly core part of a brand’s marketing strategy. From societal and political issues and more, businesses aren’t afraid to take a definitive stand when it comes to potentially controversial topics. But does this have an impact on the brand’s perceptionRead more

With Disney’s streaming service about to launch, and other platforms either already in the streaming game or about to enter it, how much of a threat is this to Netflix, and what does it means for users of online streaming services? Will the likes of the video game crash of the 80’s, and the musicRead more

Fast food chain Wendy’s is facing major backlash and calls for a boycott on social media at the moment, due to their refusal to join the Fair Food Program, that offers human rights and protection from abuse for farm workers in the fast food supply chain. As the calls for Wendy’s to join the programRead more