According to a COLLOQUY study today’s avid social media users want to be surprised and delighted. They love, for example, receiving personalized deals that are relevant to them. Just be mindful of the “creepy factor.” Consumers of all stripes don’t enjoy feeling like they’re being stalked. Marketers can do their parts by making their messages highly relevant and interesting to their audiences. And acting like a real PERSON – that means being mindful of personal privacy and not continually trying to sell them, but it also means listening to them and understanding the true dynamics of a conversation.
Loyalty program
According to the research survey,[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””] 62% of U.S. consumers join retail brand loyalty programs to get discounts but only 36% have received a reward or promotion from the program[/inlinetweet] that actually made them come back to the brand. One reason might be the fact that, according to the survey results, 81% of brand loyalty program members don’t understand the benefits they’re supposed to get with the program or how the program works at all.