Thought Leadership
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What is attention currency and why is it important?
The average person sees or hears between 4,000 and 10,000 marketing messages every day. A customer’s attention has become one of a marketer’s most valuable commodities. Learn how to build credible engagement and real attention currency with your customers.
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The power of purple shirts
Automotive OEMs have an abundance of channel data, from sales to staffing to certification. But knowing what to do with that data can be challenging. Learn how to maximize qualitative insights to drive dealer performance.
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4 ways to motivate your channel sales
By building the proper groundwork, along with giving the proper time and attention, you can maximize your indirect channel sales partners’ output.
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5 key channel marketing trends
For manufacturing companies, sales partners and distributors are the lifeblood for their products and solutions. Supporting them with training, communications, rewards, recognition and analytics is vital to the relationship. Over the past few years, organizations have evolved their strategies and support to make sure their message and solutions reach the right people.
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5 recommendations for supporting customer advocates
Customer advocacy is the premier indicator of true customer loyalty. What your best customers say about you and what information they share with others is extremely valuable. So, what can you do to encourage and facilitate greater customer advocacy about your brand, products or services?
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5 ways gifting can inspire your customers and employees
Surprising and delighting customers and employees can elevate your brand. So can the packaging.
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5-point plan to increase enrollment in customer loyalty programs
If your business has a customer loyalty program or if you’re thinking of starting one, you will need an effective enrollment campaign to get it launched and growing.
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Connecting gamification to business results
Beyond the inherent engagement that gamification and performance-based recognition bring to your organization’s programs, one major advantage of using gamification is the incredible amount of data that can be generated naturally within the program.
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Authentic recognition in an artificial world
There’s something very authentic and real about the connection created by every individual recognition moment. But with artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly growing and evolving, how do you make sure recognition stays authentic? We don’t expect AI to write evocative, meaningful and celebratory content. But we do expect it to assist in creating something detailed, accurate and relevant.