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The primary objective for marketers should be to establish an emotional connection with customers — to create connections rather than focus on conversions. Achieving this level of intimacy demands an elaborate and strategic sequence of activity and behavior to drive customer engagement at every opportunity. Though hospitality marketers have been working hard, doing more with less, now they can have the ability to connect with customers in a new and innovative way.

The next steps to forging strong and lucrative D2C relationships involves taking that new data from consumers and creating a single view of the customer, in order to extract a meaningful single source of insight. Yet, even when the data is collected, meaningful communications created and sent — brands still must continue to be innovative to meet the new and ever changing expectations of customers.

It has never been more difficult, nor more important to stay one step ahead of evolving consumer habits. As we finally emerge from the global pandemic, in which digital transformations ensued in weeks rather than years, we appear to be on the precipice of a global recession. There’s little doubt that marketers have another challenging year ahead as they try to grow revenue and build lasting relationships with their customers set against constricted consumer spending. 

Think it can’t be done? See how loyalty programs and better personalization can be used to keep your customers coming back. It’s more cost-effective than identifying new audiences and helps maintain your brand image and profit margins which can be eroded by steep discounting. 

Think it can’t be done? See how loyalty programs and better personalization can be used to keep your customers coming back. It’s more cost-effective than identifying new audiences and helps maintain your brand image and profit margins which can be eroded by steep discounting.