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Millennials Who Drink Enjoy Social Proof & Social Sharing

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  While a millennial might drink alone, they are more apt to share the experience with the whole world! Of millennials who drink wine, according to the Wine Market Council, over 50% talk about it on Facebook, and more than a 1/3 share on Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. Instagram picture share is free advertising for brands and venues. They are just digitally social about their experiences with beer and spirits.  Millennials are eager to know and are influenced by what their peers and experts say about alcohol products. About 60 percent consider wine reviews “extremely” or “very” important, compared to about 20 percent of baby boomers. They are changing how we talk about and buy things.  Although Millennials are value-conscious, they use coupons and look for good deals. But, that doesn’t mean they don’t seek quality. They also equate price with quality. In short, mass media doesn’t have the same impact because they don’t believe it. Due to their connectedness to communitie...

Customer Journeys to Drive Emotion Engagement

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Precise Data and Creative Strategies Ignite Emotion It’s easy to get lost in the linguistic maze of marketing jargon. Terms like data, strategy, analytics, and more tell superficial stories. Explanations often lack the context that helps people understand the conversation. This can lead to a breakdown in communication between marketing and stakeholders – ultimately resulting in subpar campaign executions, lackluster customer engagement and poor conversions. Let’s take a closer look at how to use exact data and creative strategies to develop customer journeys that ignite emotion.  First, let’s look at two examples of emotions that can be ignited. An emotion being positive or negative does not necessarily determine whether the outcome will be positive or negative. Upset This can happen at any point in the customer journey. An experience that upsets a potential customer can keep them from becoming a buyer. That potential customer could be lost forever. The same is true with customers ...

CX is still king – but what CX means is changing.

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  In 2021, customers can find out almost everything they want to know about a brand without ever receiving any marketing content. What we have learned this last year is that CX is still king. In fact, the global pandemic changed what CX means. It forced businesses to listen to constantly evolving demands and become resilient providers of new experiences in order to gain a competitive edge. Contactless delivery became the norm and customers wouldn’t settle for anything less. Gone were the days when deliveries would be with held because the recipient didn’t sign. Contactless experiences were no longer a bonus, they were a requirement for a large portion of the world. When you consider that  80%  of consumers will switch to another company after just one poor customer experience, 2021 maybe you most important year in business, ever. Marketing alone no longer builds brands, experiences do. As customer values change, businesses need to be active listeners and quick implementer...

5 Things Customers Expect from Your Marketing Program

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  When it comes to creating a conversion-centric customer experience for your brand, there’s no room for error – especially when so many people have grown accustomed to working, shopping, and connecting via digital mediums. Today’s consumers are smarter, more connected, and more used to digital marketing tactics than ever before. With Forrester predicting that only 25% of brands will see significant advances in customer experience, marketers are faced with an important question: what do your customers want from your brand? These are our top five recommendations to consider when building a data-driven customer experience. What your customers want: Hyper-Personalization:  If you think personalization just means using your customer’s name, it’s time to up your data game. Data insights give you what you need to develop individual profiles for each client and begin utilizing the kinds of personalized messaging consumers have grown to expect. A Relationship with Your Brand:  Bu...

What is Omnichannel Customer Engagement?

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  Omnichannel customer engagement is a worthy pursuit for companies. It gives a company the ability to deliver a personal and contextual experience to each customer. It synchronizes the marketing from multiple channels within a single journey while managing the customer life cycle. An omnichannel retail strategy is an approach to sales and marketing that provides shoppers with a fully integrated experience by fusing user experiences. It blends mobile-browsing to brick-and-mortar and everything in between. An  omnichannel engagement platform  takes in every customer interaction and their overall experience of your product and brand. For example, a customer engagement platform should enable the customer to do the following and more: • Browse an in-store product, scan it with your app, and then add it to their virtual shopping cart to purchase later in a different size. • A shopper browses your online store, searches further on social sites like Instagram, Facebook, and...

Ways to improve inventory control for small businesses

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Inventory management and control are integral components of your company’s success, so you must evaluate them on a regular basis to ensure you’re on the right track. How’s your stock working out for you? Do you often run out of your best-selling items? Do you occasionally lose money on excess stock that you have to mark down or that spoils? All of these are important inventory management questions to ask yourself. Inventory Management Solution The Basics of Inventory Management: Where to Focus To properly manage your inventory, you must track your stock in real-time to ensure that you have the right products in the right quantities at the right times. Managing your inventory correctly ensures that you maximize sales and avoid tying up funds in excess stock; In other words, both  too much  and  too little  inventory can make or break your business. It all comes down to demand and trends. Here are some more things to consider: Order Points  – Calcul...