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Local Marketing Activation Strategy

EV and The Customer Experience 

Purchasing an electric vehicle is more complicated than a traditional car purchase. Consumers do their research in order to make sure an EV will work for them. EV Box analyzed the obstacles to EV Adoption with consumers and found there were 3 main areas of concern: 47% of consumers are concerned with charging availability, 46% […]

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Local Marketing Activation Strategy

Leverage Google Vehicle Ads in Your Digital Strategy 

Zero-click search results for everyday shopping items drive traffic to the products people want, and this year at NADA, Google announced a product that helps dealers take advantage of this shopping behavior.  Google Vehicle Listing Ads (VLAs) give dealers the ability to market vehicles right on the search results page. These ads are highly visible […]

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Strategy

The Connection Between Behavioral Science and Customer Experience: Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of our behavioral science series! If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, check it out here for some helpful background information and context. As promised, we are exploring three more behavioral science concepts within the context of marketing and customer experience (CX). We’ll cover inertia, choice architecture, and choice overload, including […]

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Local Marketing Activation Strategy

Earn Leads Using Your In-Transit Vehicles 

Heading into the second quarter of 2022, after a few months of somewhat normalcy, we’re seeing the return of mandatory shutdowns in China and the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both of which cause more complications for an already stressed global supply chain, especially when it comes to car manufacturing. Here are our hottest […]

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CX + Loyalty Strategy

Assessment: Are You Meeting the Needs of Your Customers?

The path to meeting customer expectations and driving additive value through customer experience (CX) is a challenge even for the world’s most beloved brands. We often see brands struggling to understand their capabilities in relation to driving experiences, and where to prioritize. Evolution and change to customer experience are best undertaken incrementally. Realistic expectations of […]

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Strategy

The Connection Between Behavioral Science and Customer Experience: Part 1

Behavioral science concepts help to explain why people take certain actions in specific situations. Books like Nudge (R. Thaler & C. Sunstein) have made behavioral science more popular across business leaders, government agencies, and the general public. Many of the concepts have been used to try to help people make better life choices (e.g., pay […]

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CX + Loyalty Performance Marketing Strategy

Why A Customer-Centric Design Approach is Critical For Brand Success

Now more than ever, we as consumers, have a front-row seat to how certain brands are making strides to prioritize their customers first to reflect empathy and support in a time of uncertainty. And, to provide innovative new ways to connect, solve problems, and improve the overall customer experience.   Why does this matter? Because it’s critical for brands to differentiate, win, and retain customers as they prioritize the value provided […]

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CX + Loyalty Strategy

5 Loyalty Program Challenges — and How to Overcome Them

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in November, 2018, and has been updated for comprehensiveness and relevancy pertaining to the importance of customer experience in today’s loyalty program landscape.  – On average, a consumer belongs to 14.8 loyalty programs but is active in only about six or seven, according to The Loyalty Report 2019. Although gaining and retaining […]

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Strategy

Thinking Ahead: Building your Communication Playbook

We are living in a time of uncertainty, as both marketers and consumers, which has a bright side. There is so much opportunity to do right by customers and partners.   As parts of the country open back up, albeit in limited capacities and with varying public policies, we lean into the concept of playbooks to […]

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Performance Marketing Strategy

Get the Best Results From Your Web Analytics Platform With the 3 P’s

You can use the snazziest, feature-rich web analytics tool on the planet, but if the data behind the scenes isn’t accurate, your reporting results won’t be beneficial to the business. To ensure your data delivers the ultimate business value, revisit three basic principles essential to the strength of your web analytics framework: planning, partnership, and […]