Tim Allen_Make me Love your Brand, Not Tolerate It!
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Make Me Love Your Brand, Not Tolerate It TIM ALLEN
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Make Me Love Your Brand, Not Tolerate It
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a bit of
history
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Gain 100 customers
Lose 97 customers
3 new customers!
WOOHOO!
Something had to
change
I learnt to make customers
feel cared about
I learnt that customers are
people
“Give each person who walks through the door an
experience”
My old boss
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More than just
getting customers through the door
getting our customers to
love us
Average gym usage is
less than once a week
we
doubled
that
We reduced the number of those cancelling
memberships
Make Me Love Your Brand, Not Tolerate It
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I hate…
SHOPPING
More so I hate…
SUPERMARKET
SHOPPING
You're being bombarded by every psychological tactic available to make
you spend more.BBC Watchdog
@tallen1985http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/supermarket_psychology.shtml
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Two for just £3.00
Normal Price £1.88
• £1.88 – Strawberries• £1.88 – Strawberries
• £3.76 Total
SAVING 76p!!!
OR
I JUST SPENT £1.22 MORE THAN PLANNED
ON STRAWBERRIES I PROBABLY WON’T EAT
Items the store really wants you to buy at eye level
Placing items to target kids at their eye level
Queue mazes
No one is forcing anything into my basket
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I still have choices
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Sneaking Items Into The Basket
PIXMANIA
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Inflate the cost of my basket
I probably won’t feel valued as a potential long term
customer
Upsell the benefits
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I’d probably buy it
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Your brand is not what you sell, but how you sell it.
Opt In vs Opt Out
People are
LAZY@tallen1985Tim Allen
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They have my permission
but they didn’t ask for it
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This might get you more email addresses
Before you run to your…
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We should make everyone opt out… our mailing list
will be 6 times bigger
What you didn’t say to your boss
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STOP
check yourself
are you focusing on the
right metric
NUMBER of email list subscribers?
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Subscribers that don’t engage are less valuable
than those that do
be transparent and easy to understand
stop worrying about email addresses
think about the
people
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focus on
who’s opening your emails
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Gmail open rates have dropped 20%
@tallen1985https://litmus.com/blog/48-of-emails-are-opened-on-mobile-gmail-opens-down-20-since-tabs
Tricking Customers To Spend More Money
2010
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September 2013
have they changed their ways?
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Tricking Me
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WON’T make me love you
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and will probably grab the wrong type of attention
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Times are
CHANGING
when people only tolerate your brand you
are at risk
November 2013
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@tallen1985http://moz.com/blog/having-a-captcha-is-killing-your-conversion-rate
If Ryanair are shifting then surely this is a signal..
To Conclude
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Why do brands engage in this
trickery?
Short term focus
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Focusing on individual transactions
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remember
Consumers are becoming more savvy and cynical
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Be the brand giving better experiences
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Not the one waiting to be outdone
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Think about people instead of one off
transactions
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Focus on better metrics
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Email open rates
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Conversion rates
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