- Reward my loyalty - show me that you care, don't tell
- Be transparent what you are doing and let me see what is going on in your channels. Please be consistent
- Offer me some help and advice don't just sell
Prosumer - who is that?
I want apps from brands that tell me what kind of stuff I like and then pings me notifications of what is in stock and where. What others are saying and what is the price in other stores.
As real income declines for the past 4 years why not help the prosumer to find the best offers?
Prosumers are savvy - people are taking more control for customer reviews - are more informed. Future Foundation
Jim Murphy, Future Foundation
Traditional marketing and pricing is dead. Conventional marketing discourse, circumvented. Brands will turn back into products. Consumers are becoming more savvy. They will find there own way to find the best for themselves.
Proactive pursuer negotiation
- Increased planning and impulse purchase is seen as a weakness
- Smarter then you, "knowledge in my palm"
- Plotting my won journey
Prosumer:
- 74% compare price
- 44% spend more time choosing
- 70% would use real time price monitoring
Journey through many
Typically today 54% will use more than 2 channels to check before buying, 30% use more than 3 channels before buying (Oracle CRM 2012)
Mortar stores in a way become just a shop window. Research online, come and check in the store and complete the purchase most likely online again - if cheaper.
Some more facts:
- 87% if with enabled web phone will decide what to buy
- 54% if the value retail sales will be influenced by web
- 50% of consumers will purchase within
Important to know that it's not a niche and the number of customers dramatically grows. The potential for total movie: give them speed, accuracy, security and value added.
Fine for me, compare real time, locate using GPS, see, feel, touch, share; order, pay
Exceptional experience
Media markt is helping me to understand how technology will work at home… example. Dulux - how will it work at my home. Easy to understand technical guys.
Prorsumers are not demanding the purchase - they want end to end experience
technology to empower them. Hence special attention is needed to be paid to online experience.
Oracle CRM 2012 says that customers:
89% will swop provider in case of bad experience
86% will pay to 25% more if good experience
27% will post online about bad experience.
Online experience
60% will not visit again in case it was not a positive experience
40% will visit another company that offers similar service
25% will share poor experience
21% less likely to make a purchase
Can not close the eyes to one of the channels
Russel March, Group Strategy Officer RAPP
- mobile will be critical
- understanding the time and device that is used by consumer
- understand the state of mind and how they choose to interact with your brand
Experience is from dream-explore-locate-experience and we are not in control of it. Which partners can we involve to ensure that we affect the journey?
Tim Greenhaigh, Chief Creative officer, Fitch
Fulfilling the needs drives loyalty - understanding consumer
There is no line - it blurred and disappeared. When I share info about myself I expect that I ma guided where I want. It is all about "me".
All touch points. Prorsumers do not differentiate between the store and online, for them it is one and all.
75% agree that the economic situation has caused them to reevaluate which brand stye value
Combating show rooming is the first step (best Buy)
- 2 minute miracles (you tube)
- exclusive products
- walk out working initiatives
- geek squad guide
- Price matching online gives the store an instant advantage
Getting it right in, out, and on
The high street and online will blue
Beyond 2020 some brands will use their estate simply as the last touch pint for customers who have already shopped
- final approval
- alterations
- pick up
Touch will remain important
- online will become more sensory (St. Louis, Tesco)
Prorsumers are inherently disloyal. Traditional rewards based programs don't spark their imagination or get participate din
New more interesting models are emerging based on what people think is interesting and differentiating - information, knowledge and contact, access
Low frequency category
The death of loyalty: nectar (too complicated), boots (how much shampoo I need?), avios (I do not fly at 5:30)
80% collect points int he store
30% redeem points
Loyalty is redefined by social media:
- 40% to receive discounts and promotions
- 39% to show support fro the company to others
- 37% to receive freebies (consumer futures 2020)
New ways of doing it
- waitrose (shopping preferences reflected in the offer and free coffee)
- Zappos (personal emotional connections)
- Reward zone (members onl specials)
Powerful communities of interest
- Barclaycard
- Forrester Groundswell award
Gamifying loyalty - Goodman shoestore. The shoe of the day - keeping engagement
Data is everywhere
- every interaction pops to collect
- likes and presences, products and chanlles
- actions speak loaders
- we have to have systems to read this information
Gloomy future says prices will be further pressured, so for success the discussion should be shifted to price + additional future. Europe is resigned to dull future. The meaning of value is changing: dominant code to emergent code (friendly) its about price worth
Orange Rockcorps - rewards for social work
KIva - loans that change lives - small businesses looking to attract funding
Accessible, empowering - 111 when it is less urgent then 999
Zopa - house sale website. Average prices, reports on crime, reports on schools
Human and experiential - planning for people, hockey auction (master card)
insider, unfinished - MUJI, Chrome beta - never fully finished
Price becomes dictated by the customer - BAG that com (collect people and then negotiate)
Tomorrow starts today
- technology empowered decisions
- own journey dream to dress
- be the same for me everywhere
- access and information
- guaranteed value
- redefine the category