Archive for category: Customer Experience

Jay Shaffer’s ‘One Thing’ is a Customer Service MUST!

Jay Shaffer’s ‘One Thing’ is a Customer Service MUST!

0 Kelly Hushin / February 8, 2012 2:33 pm

Jay Shaffer, Chief Marketing Officer, California Delicious, chose a ‘One Thing’ that will probably set a light bulb off for many of you as retailers, especially online retailer, also can’t live without it. What is it? Customer Service. And more [...]

Barnes & Noble’s 2 Questions to Ask about Loyalty Programs

Barnes & Noble’s 2 Questions to Ask about Loyalty Programs

0 Kelly Hushin / December 15, 2011 4:42 pm

The average American household today belongs to about 14 loyalty programs. FOURTEEN. Can you guess how many of those are active? On average: six. This is according to Marc Parrish, VP, Membership and Loyalty at Barnes & Noble. Amid such [...]

Barnes & Noble on ‘Loyalty Programs in a Noisy World’

Barnes & Noble on ‘Loyalty Programs in a Noisy World’

0 Kelly Hushin / August 10, 2011 4:37 pm

Loyalty programs aren’t exactly new. If you thought they were – consider this: in the 1950’s there were Raleigh cigarette coupons and Topps baseball cards. In the 1960’s S&H Green Stamps’ rewards catalog was the largest publication in the U.S. [...]

Gathering Priceless Customer Feedback: 8 Tips & Tricks

Gathering Priceless Customer Feedback: 8 Tips & Tricks

0 Kelly Hushin / March 30, 2011 4:43 pm

We bring you our second edition of weekly posts from our friends at Retail Online Integration. This time we discuss customer feedback – an invaluable asset as it often tells you something that can help improve your customers’ experience. Leave [...]

Focus on Customer Experience Not Channels

Focus on Customer Experience Not Channels

0 Kelly Hushin / March 16, 2011 1:18 pm

We’ve found another great blog written by an attendee to eTail West 2011. This time around, we talk customer experience – a hot topic for many of the online retailers at the conference. Wanda Cadigan first posted this on Cactus/blog, [...]

Swimwearboutique.com’s Strategies for Planning & Producing Oscar-worthy Video

Swimwearboutique.com’s Strategies for Planning & Producing Oscar-worthy Video

2 Kelly Hushin / March 8, 2011 11:03 am

When you start a presentation by posing the question, “Who here thinks that sex sells?” you’re likely to grab the audience’s attention. Which means you can then pose the next question, “Who thinks that video sells?” Both – unsurprisingly – [...]

Leveraging Offline Data for Online Customer Retention: Williams-Sonoma & Epsilon Comment

3 Kelly Hushin / February 24, 2011 1:27 pm

While we all want to understand how to better integrate our digital channels in our grand-plan marketing schemes – some of which may have been around for a while, i.e., catalogs – 2010 has taught us that direct marketing fundamentals [...]

Sprint’s actions this weekend have made me a customer for life!

0 Amol Tembe / February 22, 2011 12:10 pm

was, am and always will be a late adopter of technology. I was one of the last to get a mobile phone (or cell phone as they were more commonly called in 2000). But in November of 2000 I got the top of the line phone: The Motorola Talkabout. I got it at Sprint. I chose Sprint rather unscientifically. My brother had it, so I went with them.

3 Steps to Fostering Customer Engagement & Increasing Conversion Rates Online from Roy Hessel, EyeBuyDirect.com

3 Steps to Fostering Customer Engagement & Increasing Conversion Rates Online from Roy Hessel, EyeBuyDirect.com

0 Kelly Hushin / February 22, 2011 12:06 pm

For Roy Hessel, CEO, EyeBuyDirect.com, the biggest challenge when he launched the site, and perhaps still the biggest challenge, is what he calls the “product matching challenge.” “We want to show people the right product at the right time at [...]

A Massive Retailer Finally Becomes an e-Retailer: Welcome H&M

A Massive Retailer Finally Becomes an e-Retailer: Welcome H&M

0 Kelly Hushin / January 28, 2011 3:58 pm

This is kind of a big deal. H&M has become one of the largest budget fashion retailers in the world. That’s my opinion, of course, but judging by the fact that I see one in nearly every city and every [...]