When Pets at Home launched its loyalty club, it assigned data-driven marketing agency Go Inspire to manage customer communications, customer engagement and differentiation from competitors. It displayed impressive numbers with customer retention and brand loyalty, including a 5% increase in ROI over six weeks. Matt Lawrenson, senior group marketing executive of Go Inspire Insight and Andy Wood, chairman of Go Inspire Insight shared the secrets of their success.
Toni Sekinah: What does winning the Customer/CRM Success award mean to you and your team?
Go Inspire: We are immensely proud of how the Go Inspire Insight team and Pets at Home work together. We truly are partners and we all work extremely hard to get to this point consistently. This is lovely recognition for all that hard work.
TS: What advice would you give to other organisations aiming to implement a successful loyalty programme?
GI: We could write a book on this.
Be true to your values – do not offer something you can’t commit to.
Be clear on the proposition for the customers and ensure they get regular value, whether that value is offers, special events, recognition and treats, and so on.
Ensure all levels of the business are behind it. Do not go for a technical solution for the sake of it. Get your Single Customer View database right – this is critical. Get this wrong and you’ll go nowhere fast. It’s not as easy as buying “out of the box” – the nuances of deduplication takes years to experience, and we’re still coming across different scenarios after 20 years.
Always test in pilot mode, and then after full launch, and continually trial new ideas and offers and keep control groups to measure so you can prove the effect.
Be inquisitive and always do analysis to keep your finger on the pulse on customer spend patterns and hunt down anything that looks unusual. You may well find someone else has made a pricing/ranging decision that was not communicated that has had an unexpected effect on certain customers.
And finally, don’t be afraid of failure; there is no such thing. Even setbacks give you valuable information to improve. The only failure is to ignore the evidence of analysis.
T S: Where did the idea come from to enable customers to donate the cash value of points to charity?
GI: That was all Pets at Home. This bit of genius was already decided on before we were bought in pre-launch. I have never seen a charity angle be welded into the spirit of the business, the programme and the customers so successfully. No other programme comes close in our view.
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