Search Results for: loyalty

  • Stay Awhile

    Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. is meeting its customers’ actual needs through virtual customer service. Launched last winter, the Starwood Preferred

  • Shoppers Log On

    Focus group research shows that Web sites are creating brand loyalty and taking business from print catalogsWeb sites have already established brand loyalty

  • Vacation Romance

    With a new customer database system and highly personalized communications, Thomson Holidays is aiming to make its customer relationships last a lot longer

  • Lighting Up Loyalty

    Think Marlboro. Think rugged cowboys. Think big, blue, open skies. Think Unlimited magazine.The brand’s corporate parent, Philip Morris USA, is one of

  • Are You One-to-One – or Wan-to-One?

    As this issue of DIRECT goes to press, the second issue of our new sister publication, 1to1, is also getting ready to go to the printer.Shameless Plug

  • A Solid Foundation: Chicago’s WTTW gets personal with planned givers

    There’s an old blackout sketch at Chicago’s famed Second City Theater. A smiling, congenial host asks viewers to please donate to Channel 11, the city’s

  • Thank Q Very Much

    Do you own pets?””How much land do you own?” “Do you farm crops or livestock?”It’s not an awkward rural first date but rather the beginning of another

  • Sticky Stuff: Web sites use a variety of techniques to keep customers

    The journey to customer retention on the Web is still mostly uncharted territory. Those who have taken the role of electronic Lewis and Clarks say in

  • A Thorough Examination

    At Toshiba America Medical Systems, several departments are part of its diagnostic medical equipment and service sales efforts, including field reps,

  • LINKING THE MARKETING-SALES LOOP

    Business-to-business marketers are always looking for ways to demonstrate our value, explain the contribution of our activities and justify budgets. Just