C Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – September 18, 2020. Mouret joins the upscale American brand Oscar de la Renta as the second designer on board with Amazon’s newly launched Luxury Stores , which will offer Prime customers a “luxury shopping experience”. But now “all of my customers are on Amazon”, Mouret said. That is the reality.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Can awful airline customer service be overridden with AI and analytics? tnooz) After the debacles that occurred within domestic air travel in 2017, it’s clear airlines need to look carefully at their customer service tactics.

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Airlines Customer Service Loyalty Programs Chatbots 78

Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

The long break in spending habits due to Covid-19 will cause customers to re-evaluate their relationship with brands. This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. They don’t use the data that customers provide. Others have lost their jobs.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 24, 2020

Currency Alliance is offering fee-free exchanges of loyalty currencies, between travel and non-travel brands, for the next six months. Travel brands are suffering from Covid-19 more than most, with the grounding of aircraft, and very low occupancy for those hotels which have not yet closed.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. It does give pause for thought, however, that agile tech companies have proven more apt at filling these gaps: owning more of the customer journey, gathering more detailed data, and making more relevant and personalized offers.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

The customer experience is critical to every company’s long-term viability. This customer journey’s enhancement is a work in progress. Outsourcing is the greatest option, allowing companies to focus their approach on their customers. It is critical to have an optimized and tailored client journey for this to be positive.

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SurveySparrow

JANUARY 7, 2021

It’s a no brainer that covid-19 has brought major changes in every aspect of your customers’ life— purchasing behaviors, needs, and emotional mindset. Whatever situation your customer faced, the value of providing a great customer experience hasn’t changed a bit for businesses. So, what’s the wait?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction? CustomerThink) Customer Effort Score is a popular metric used to measure customer service satisfaction using one single question. by Martin Powton.

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Loyalty Programs Customer Service Effort Score Self Service 118

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

C Space

MAY 20, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – May 20, 2020. Facebook is also working to integrate loyalty programs. Recreational vehicles, or RVs, could be among the big winners for summer vacations this year, according to travel industry experts. What is their ability to travel without going through airports?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. The customer experience has evolved. Why hasn’t loyalty? Multi-serviced.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If 2020 has taught us anything it is that diversification (or luck from being in the right sector) can be a lifeline. It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Accelerating customer-centricity.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

Such a simple program quickly revealed invaluable insight into the customer and opened a whole new channel of communication across email, SMS and good old post! but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program. This can produce conflicting and confusing customer experiences.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52

Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Uncover the mountains of gold in your mid-long tail customers.

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