Tension: Hotel loyalty programs have achieved record membership growth while simultaneously eroding the very loyalty they ...

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The Venezuela raid isn’t about what the headlines say it’s about. Here’s what they’re not telling you. On January 3rd, the ...

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Tension: We pride ourselves on rational consumer choices while loyalty programs exploit our psychological aversion to waste.

Tension: Companies rebrand to signal transformation, but surface changes often conceal unchanged systemic practices beneath ...

In 2014, Experian Marketing Services released research identifying six distinct deal-seeking consumer segments. The ...

Tension: Every email signup represents an exchange where customers offer attention in return for value, yet most ...

The 2015 data revealed something marketers spent the next ten years trying to complicate: people want to hear from brands ...

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To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. You’ve finally done it. After months or maybe years of being pushed around, you’ve found your voice and stood up to ...

Tension: We expect friendships to end with clear reasons or dramatic fallouts, yet the relationships that shaped us often dissolve quietly, leaving us searching for an explanation that never comes.