GNC Mines Gold Card Data To Engage, Retain Customers
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Each GNC “mySource” brochure “is based on the things that the customers told us mattered most,” says CEO Mike Archbold. Gold Card data are “an enormously rich asset in terms of understanding who the customers are,” says consultant Peter Miles-Prouten.
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