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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business Review

If your customer retention strategy relies on “buying” loyalty with rewards, rebates, or discounts, it is coming at a high cost. That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. Maslow sought to map the psychological needs of humans and their motivations.

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

The Great One's well-known words are often repeated in corporate corridors during discussions about understanding market trends. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark.