How to Engage and Support Customers in Uncertain Times

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically impacting every facet of our lives. We’re worried about what it means for ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities. After talking with many of our customers, I’ve seen that marketers are carrying the added stress of keeping their programs performing when people are: Staying home—not shopping in stores, not ...
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How Engaging a Community Can Drive Customer Acquisition

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Headspace is an online company specializing in meditation, and it has a clear mission: to improve the health and happiness of the world. That’s a tall order, even for a company that already has subscribers in 190 countries and has been using traditional customer acquisition strategies to successfully engage them.  To fulfill this mission, Headspace ...
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7 Pitfalls of Marketplace-Based Verification and How to Avoid Them

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Affiliate-based marketing is popular, and it’s easy to see why. In exchange for a commission, affiliates promote brand offers. It’s a win-win, right? The answer is “It depends.”  When it comes to delivering personalized offers to consumer communities such as students, teachers, healthcare workers, or the military, the affiliate-centric marketplace verification model can be a ...
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Why You Need to Protect a Personalized Offer

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Consumers want to be recognized and rewarded by brands they trust. Personalized offers to consumer communities, such as teachers, students, seniors, or the military, deliver this experience but only if the offers are truly exclusive. When a brand doesn’t verify that customers are eligible for an offer, it risks losing money, time, and—most importantly—the regard ...
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7 Personalized Promotions You Should Run in 2020

A military man in front of a laptop with his son, smiling about the personalized offer he just received.
At a time when customer acquisition costs are rising and consumers are worried about how brands are using their data, savvy marketers are finding a fresh way to deliver personalized promotions: identity marketing.  Identity marketing is a privacy-friendly approach to personalization that feels authentic because it recognizes people’s deep sense of belonging to a consumer ...
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Why Your Segmentation Strategy is Costing You Money

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Consumers crave a genuine connection with the companies they shop with. In fact, 91% of consumers report they are more likely to shop with brands that provide relevant offers, which is why marketers provide them. But there’s a problem: using traditional segmentation strategies to deliver personalized marketing is failing.  Consumers don’t like the insidious approaches brands ...
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5 Steps to Creating Personalized Marketing for Consumer Communities

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Current approaches to personalized marketing are falling short, and both brands and consumers are searching for a new way to build mutually satisfying relationships. Brands are responding by implementing new approaches to personalization that give consumers control of their data. This move is restoring trust in the brand-consumer relationship and helping brands leverage the social ...
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How to Create Personalized Marketing in the Wake of CCPA

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Marketers are constantly leveraging consumer data to create targeted marketing. But today’s consumers highly value their privacy and will punish brands that don’t protect their personal information. More than 4 in 5 consumers say they will do business elsewhere if they don’t trust that a company is responsibly handling their data. The California Consumer Privacy ...
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SheerID Expands Vision to Balance Personalization and Privacy

A female teacher at a chalkboard, a young woman walking on campus, and a soldier holding the hand of his toddler daughter--all members of a high value consumer tribe brands should target with personalized offers.
A message from Jake Weatherly, CEO of SheerID Today we announced that SheerID received a $64 million minority investment from CVC Growth Partners. It’s a big moment for SheerID and our customers. It’s also a milestone that excites me as the company’s CEO and underscores our inflection point in the industry.  Together with our recent ...
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The Importance of Customer Verification for Personalized Marketing

A man and woman verifying a personalized offer on their cell phones, underscoring the importance of customer verification for brands.
Identity marketing is a rapidly emerging form of personalized marketing that many brands are beginning to use. It involves using personalized offers to engage consumer communities like students or teachers, based on their deep-seated identity attributes; however, most marketers don’t understand the importance of customer verification to make this form of personalization succeed. How Identity ...
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