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How to Keep Customers Loyal and Engaged: COVID-19 Edition

The COVID-19 outbreak has left many brands at an impasse, as normal daily life as we know it has halted for the foreseeable future. It’s understandable to feel worried, nervous, and frustrated when so much seems out of your control. Here’s the good…

23 Mar '20

Lindsay Bloom Loyalty Management

Pushing for Millennial Loyalty

No matter the industry, brands are shifting their marketing, engagement, and loyalty strategies to accommodate customer needs. On an entertaining front, they are also attempting to get customers to simply look in their general direction with catchy marketing campaigns. Whether it be a…

02 Mar '20

Micaela Kelly Hotels Loyalty Management Restaurants Retail

What’s Your Tax Refund Going To?

If you’re like me, this is your favorite time of the year. The hecticness of the holiday season has subsided, you’re still working towards resolutions that will fall to the sideline soon, the harsh winter has begun to let up AND TurboTax is…

25 Feb '20

Lindsay Bloom Customer Data Management Loyalty Management

Why Restaurants Need to be Digital First

The title of this blog post reads “Why Restaurants Need to be Digital First”. To explain the ‘why’ let’s take a quick look at what Chipotle did over the past year. In 2019, Chipotle doubled down on their digital initiatives, and their efforts…

21 Feb '20

Sam Langrock Loyalty Management Restaurants

The Power of Loyalty for Consumer Goods

Traditionally, consumer packaged goods brands have struggled to establish direct relationships with their customers and have had to piece together disparate data from different retail partners to try to understand customer preferences, lifetime value and marketing ROI. Loyalty programs are a powerful way…

13 Feb '20

Lindsay Bloom Consumer Goods Loyalty Management

Shifting with Customer Loyalty: From Rewards to Relationships

When you think of customer loyalty, what comes to mind? I’d think some responses would be a specific brand name, a punch card, being a frequent customer, earning points, feeling or being recognized, a favorite mobile app, the list goes on. There are…

31 Jan '20

Micaela Kelly Loyalty Management

What is a Customer Engagement Platform?

The martech ecosystem is complicated. It’s hard to decipher how one platform is different from another from a basic moniker alone. For example: SessionM is a customer engagement platform. What does that actually mean though? In this blog post, we’re lifting the mystique.…

29 Jan '20

Lindsay Bloom Customer Data Management Loyalty Management POS Offer Management

Three Ways to Supercharge Customer Engagement in 2020

If you were able to stop by the SessionM station in Mastercard’s booth at NRF, you may have noticed that our theme was ‘Supercharging Customer Engagement’, something a lot of brands are focusing on in 2020. For an industry that has been getting…

17 Jan '20

Micaela Kelly Loyalty Management Retail

These Pretzels are Making Me Thirsty!

“Are you living the life you chose? Are you living the life that chose you?” When I first heard this line from self-described ‘literate redneck’ rocker Jason Isbell, I was immediately struck by it. It’s not like it was a novel idea (living…

20 Nov '19

Patrick Reynolds Consumer Goods Loyalty Management

Cooking Up a Successful Customer Retention Strategy for Restaurants

Customer retention is critical for boosting profits and building a successful brand. According to the Harvard Business Review, acquiring a new customer is anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. With competition coming from all corners, customer…

11 Nov '19

Sam Langrock Customer Data Management Loyalty Management Restaurants

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