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1. How well do you know your customers? Or, more importantly, do your customers think you know them?

Yes, each one of my customers receive personalized communications based on their browsing and purchasing interaction history across all retail channels.

Sometimes, my customers receive personalized content based on their customer segmentation and cadence strategy.

No, all of our communications and marketing efforts are sent out with the same content to all customers without any personalization.

2. How often do you communicate with your customers other than to offer them a discount?

I communicate with my customers several times a week to inform them of new products/services, promotions, upcoming products and events.

Once a week or two weeks to provide them with a coupon.

I don’t communicate with my customers because they have opted out of all communications except regarding their recent purchase.

 

3. Do your customers only come to your store after you send them a coupon in the mail or by email?

No, my customers frequently visit my website and browse the store due to the robust marketing communications strategy of our cross channel retail business strategy.

I suspect this may be the case, and although margins are low, our topline sales would be even lower without this discount strategy.

Yes, our customers only visit our stores or website after we send out our 20% off coupon. More than half of our business is generated the week after we send out our monthly coupon.

 

4. Is your In-Store or Website, Direct-Mail, Catalog, Call Center, In Home, and other customer touchpoint incremental sales strategy robust and comprehensive or fragmented at best?

My incremental sales strategy is BEST IN CLASS. I use Incremental Sales Driver (ISD) by c4Analytics, LLC. It is the single most effective and sophisticated, robust multi-channel retailing program on the market.

My incremental sales strategy is very good. We employ several tactics in some of our retail channels to drive incremental items in the basket.

Some of our Top Sales Consultants do a great job but it is a fragmented effort dependent on the skill and experience level of the Sales Rep. We don’t have a very robust or consistent sales strategy.