Gilt Founder Dishes on How to Score Designer Discounts<br />Gamification Co - The Museum of Jewish Heritage<br />Making Retail Fun Again: Lessons in Engagement from Gilt Groupe<br /><br />Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Gilt Groupe<br /><br />Interviewed by Divya Gugnani, Founder, Send the Trend<br /><br />Retail is changing. Today’s consumer is savvy, deal-centric and socially driven. Building engagement and keeping the experience fresh is more important than ever before. Few companies have been more successful at this than Gilt Groupe, the pioneer in luxury-driven social flash sales. For millions, Gilt made shopping fun again, bringing back surprise, delight, status and sociability with astonishing results. In this unprecedented, intimate discussion, Alexandra Wilkins, co-founder of Gilt, discusses the secrets of building fun and engagement into the retail experience, shares her vision for the future of millennial-driven shopping and how to build an industry-leading loyalty program without giving discounts or free merchandise.<br /><br />The Gamification Summit brings together top thought leaders in game mechanics and engagement science. Hear what works and what doesn't in this dynamic and fast-moving field through case studies, keynotes and panels delivered by experts such as Gabe Zichermann (Game-Based Marketing), James Gardner (Spigit), Jon Radoff (Disruptor Beam), Michael Wu (Lithium) and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (founder of Gilt Groupe). Learn how game mechanics and the new science of engagement are rewriting the rules of brand marketing, product design and customer acquisition and get your business in the game.
