

Strategy Report: Bridge to Value - Finance and Marketing Can Build Common Bridges

Is this new generation of rewards and incentives for non-purchase behavior here to stay? Loyalty marketing is entering a new generation of “engagement strategies” that reward customers for a myriad of word-of-mouth activities, healthy behaviors, ecologically-responsible activities, and much more. The Practitioner’s Perspective: Bursting Bubbles - Discovering New Worlds of Loyalty Re-explore eight truisms that deserve crystal clarity. Other good ideas quickly prove themselves to be not-so-good practices. Sometimes it can take years for a good idea to become a best practice, and even more years before it is recognized as such. Add the health care bill, mix in the wisdom of loyalty marketers, and suddenly the metaphor of an apple a day resurfaces.Īnniversary Report: 20th Anniversary Retrospective - Loyalty Truisms and Falseisms Stick tactics didn’t deliver enough immediate “what’s in it for me” to make a noticeable impact. Coverage in the latest edition also includes:Īfter years of wielding only the “stick” (fear, uncertainty and punishing fees) to drive healthier behavior, the nation is waking up to the effectiveness of offering the “carrot” to motivate consumers. “Companies are using loyalty tactics to help reduce health care costs, prevent chronic disease, and encourage healthy behavior change.”ĬOLLOQUY magazine, published by LoyaltyOne, explores critical best practices, innovations, trends, opinion and strategies in relationship, dialogue and database marketing. “The health care industry is no exception,” said Hlavinka. The principles and best practices of loyalty marketing have helped companies across industries drive behavior shifts toward a wide variety of goals, from customer acquisition and retention to increased sales and data gathering. Stay relevant if you want consumers to stay motivated Strike a balance between hard and soft benefitsĥ. Understand your objectives if you want to offer the right benefitsģ. Short-term incentives can mean long-term payoffsĢ. Some tried-and-true loyalty tactics that COLLOQUY says will soon be driving the health care “carrot” renaissance:ġ.

We see that loyalty marketing tactics are becoming an important tool in the health care reform,” said COLLOQUY Managing Partner Kelly Hlavinka. Starting in 2011, the law authorized grants totaling $200 million over five years for small companies that start wellness programs. “With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there is a new support of the use of incentives and rewards by health and wellness programs. I left the room feeling content and puzzled at the same time, thinking, maybe there is no “right” way to pray? We need to cultivate our own way of praying, then to discover yet again that God was holding us all the while.CINCINNATI (July 19, 2010) - In its most recent issue, COLLOQUY magazine, the voice of loyalty marketing since 1990, poses the question of the “carrot” and the “stick”: Should health care use a positive approach that offers incentives to encourage pro-health behavior, or punish consumers for bad health habits? Striking the balance between the apophatic and kataphatic, he suggested how our “knowing feelings” can be the locus of God’s such action, inspiring many questions of old and new. He offered stories of how God touches us even before we start trusting and loving God. Gioia pointed to the firsthand experience we have and asked us to explore what is actually happening in us when we are praying. I think we read the great doctors and saints, because through their minds we want to know about God and what our relationship with God can be. Gioia invites us to encounter Augustine afresh, by actually listening to what he says.

We so often hear the comments about Augustine, even before we actually read the text, but Dr. In his Theological Epistemology of Augustine’s De Trinitate (2008) he took the readers through the forest of Augustine’s writing.
