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How Subscription Strategies can Supercharge Loyalty Programs

Retail TouchPoints

Loyalty programs are a common (and undeniably effective) tool for retailers to gather data and build customer lifetime value, but perhaps they’ve become a little too common. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What are some of the basics to creating an effective loyalty program, particularly one that has a paid or subscription component?

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Amazon Rolls Out Grocery Delivery Subscription Nationwide

Retail TouchPoints

cities, Amazon is making its grocery delivery subscription available to all Prime members in the U.S. The subscription also includes one-hour delivery windows at no extra cost, unlimited 30 -minute pickup on orders of any size and priority access to Recurring Reservations for a weekly grocery order. Following a pilot in three U.S.

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First Look: New Research Unpacks the Differences Between Subscriptions and Memberships

Retail TouchPoints

The terms “membership” and “subscription” are often used interchangeably in retail. However, new research from CI&T , developed in partnership with Retail TouchPoints , reveals that most consumers ( 64% ) believe there is a distinct difference between these two types of programs.

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Subscription Hardware Puts The Channel At Risk

Forrester eCommerce

Subscription-based hardware is the emerging model that every hardware vendor is promising to customers, partners, and investors. where subscription-based […] There are several scenarios such as new technology, short-term projects, test-before-you-buy, and infrastructure bundled with managed services, etc.,

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5 Tips for Maintaining Subscription Momentum

Retail TouchPoints

subscription ecommerce sales will continue to see double-digit growth over the coming years, swelling from $33.48 That’s a good sign for CPG brands, which are capable of making the most seamless transition to subscriptions: deodorant, toothpaste, diapers and even smoothie packets quickly become part of consumers’ routines.

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FastSpring Support and Subscription Management Continue to Impress SocialBee

FastSpring

However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities. An actively involved leadership team that gets to know customers personally. For most customers and most use cases, things just worked.

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7 Ways Brands are Transforming Customers Into Members with Subscriptions

Retail TouchPoints

Subscriptions originally emerged as a way of creating recurring revenue models for retailers and brands. Today, subscriptions are an entire economy — the next phase of which will be defined by transforming regular customers into loyal members. Let Customers ‘Set it and Forget it’: The Recurring Products Model.