Category Archives: Personalization

How to Integrate Customer Voice into Web Experiences via Customer Service

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz is known for involving team members in the decision-making process at his company. When employees have a stake in authorship, they also feel a stake in the outcome, goes the theory….

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

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…

An Effective Email Marketing Campaign for AirTran Airways: Sending Birthday E-Mails

It’s not the first email you’d expect from an airline, but when AirTran Airways started sending happy birthday emails to its customers, the company stumbled upon a surprisingly effective email marketing campaign. “You might think…

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

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…

Internet Retailers Gather as eTail West 2011 Kicks Off!

We’re very excited to be here in Palm Desert for the eTail West conference where industry professionals are gathering to talk about all the hottest topics facing internet retailers today. A packed four days awaits…