Alida

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The race towards customer-centricity is driving some the biggest trends in business technology. The customer relationship management (CRM) market, for instance, reached $26.3 The race towards customer-centricity is driving some the biggest trends in business technology. billion in 2015 —up 12 percent from the previous year.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. Loyalty personalization has been subsumed into a wider conversation about data actionability.

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Tricia Morris

MAY 31, 2016

Notes Dennis Snow, a 20-year Disney veteran and author of Lessons from the Mouse , “If you operate a contact center, the technology has to be great, but it still is about the experience. Buying customer loyalty doesn’t work anymore,” says Pombriant who notes that traditional loyalty programs may soon be a thing of the past.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This predictive capability can be instrumental in strategizing marketing campaigns, loyalty programs, and more. By leveraging advanced technologies, the Voice Carrier provides a reliable, high-quality voice communication channel, ensuring customers can always reach out and be heard.

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Alida

MARCH 27, 2018

With more than 200 leaders in insight, innovation, marketing and customer experience in attendance, the luxurious MO was the perfect location for the sold-out, informative event. Michael also revealed that MO’s new loyalty program, Fans of MO , was co-created with the viewpoints of the company’s most loyal customers.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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TechSee

JULY 23, 2019

Thanks to advances in technology, modern automated POS systems can now handle the entire end-to-end checkout process. A single POS terminal can manage functions including sales transactions, returns, inventory management, data analysis, CRM and loyalty programs, driving increased adoption of these devices across a wide range of industries.

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Kustomer

MAY 3, 2022

Instead, today’s consumer responds much more to authenticity, innovation and personalization. How can companies combine each of these strategies into one unique solution that garners the trust and loyalty of their audience? Great customer support is the fast track to gaining customer loyalty. The answer: hyper-personalization.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

AI is important, but still hard to harness – so it may still be years before anything truly significant is happening in loyalty with AI. I encourage you to keep experimenting because the constraint with AI is not the technology, but the lack of sufficient or clean data – two aspects covered by our Loyalty Imperatives.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

The ability to innovate with scant resources – and constantly leaning on others for help. The ability to bring together complementary fields of experience to create profitable solutions based on innovative business models and modern technology. Innovating with scant resources.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether. Enter: headless platforms.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

This article was written by James Lanyon, EVP, Strategy & Innovation ( james.lanyon@materialplus.io ) , and Sean Eidson, VP, Strategy & Innovation ( sean.eidson@materialplus.io ) at Material. Material works with some of the largest and most innovative restaurant brands. Technology is a means, not an end.

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PK

JULY 15, 2019

in The Forrester Wave : Loyalty Service Providers, Q3 2019 report. It’s the “ why ” that many companies still do not understand, and where most of the innovation in our research and analytics methods has occurred. 2 Loyalty = Outcome; Member Experience > “Loyalty Program”. 3 Value Takes Many Forms.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

The casual observer at last night’s ceremony (and the professional one alike) would have been struck by the many extraordinary, showpiece technological achievements which were made in the past year. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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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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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

Material works with some of the largest and most innovative restaurant brands. Starbucks with its mobile app, Pizza Hut with its top-rated loyalty program, Panera with its brand-defining digital customer experience, and Chick-fil-A with its outstanding omnichannel platform were some of the early leaders who have seen sustained success.

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SurveySensum

JUNE 29, 2023

Anticipating Future Needs Analyzing your customer needs and market trends helps you stay ahead and develop innovative products and strategies. And by personalizing experiences based on individual preferences, demographics, and behavior, you can enhance customer satisfaction, loyalty, and overall engagement.

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SurveySensum

JULY 10, 2023

Also, create a positive work environment where happy employees foster teamwork, innovation, and personal growth, going the extra mile to enhance customer satisfaction. By focusing on these key elements, businesses can elevate their online customer service, fostering satisfaction, trust, and loyalty among customers.

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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. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have. referring friends.

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West Monroe

JUNE 26, 2018

Over the past few years, water utilities have begun to embrace the importance of a unified customer experience strategy – one that involves technological transformation, employee engagement, and process improvements. Utilities are beneficiaries of ongoing technological transformation.

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Retently

MAY 9, 2024

Investing in customer-centric cultures, using data-driven insights for strategic decisions, creating impactful loyalty programs, and leveraging customer feedback for continuous improvement are essential strategies for successful long-term customer retention. Their needs change as new technologies emerge and market dynamics shift.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Second, if you’re already familiar with the economics, it provides a narrative framework for upskilling your own teams, to help everyone you work with understand what will drive success and failure in loyalty marketing. Unfortunately, many loyalty programs still resemble different guys in disparate fields with different cows.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology. Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 21, 2018

In brief: what we’d fully expected (and set out in our ‘ Top Loyalty Trends ’ blog several months ago) was large scale proliferation and diversification of loyalty marketing, as brands beyond established loyalty sectors discovered how better customer experience could deliver bigger ROI. Technological Innovation.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

We see innovation happening in service, and those officers have very senior titles and very broad responsibilities. I travel to Japan, to Europe, and I see this innovation happening across all segments across the globe. What successful and innovative strategies do you see in customer service, and what are the common mistakes?

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

The rapid evolution of the supply chain has allowed a few exciting technology companies to grow fast in recent years, unencumbered by irritants such as competitors, defined standards, and complex legacy priorities and business practices. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. . This phase won’t last.

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SurveySensum

JULY 10, 2023

Also, create a positive work environment where happy employees foster teamwork, innovation, and personal growth, going the extra mile to enhance customer satisfaction. By focusing on these key elements, businesses can elevate their online customer service, fostering satisfaction, trust, and loyalty among customers.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

These touchpoints are prioritized for analysis since they are a useful source of data for assessing the client journey and it works as follows: The Key role of Contact Centers The increased focus on digital channels and new communication technology allows for new methods to engage with clients. What makes the Omnichannel so unique?

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

We see innovation happening in service, and those officers have very senior titles and very broad responsibilities. I travel to Japan, to Europe, and I see this innovation happening across all segments across the globe. What successful and innovative strategies do you see in customer service, and what are the common mistakes?

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John Paul

JULY 17, 2018

Premier worldwide leader in loyalty solutions and brand hospitality to serve Asia Pacific clients across banking, luxury, technology, automotive, FMCG and hospitality sectors. A highly innovative digital self-service solution. Andrew Quake, CEO APAC John Paul. Andrew Quake shared: “ I am delighted to lead John Paul Asia Pacific.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Every CEO waxes lyrical about the importance of loyalty. And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint. It may not even be through conventional loyalty marketing.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Two types of businesses exist in this world — a business that takes initiative to solve problems, capture opportunities and innovate quickly or the other business that waits for things to break, opportunities to come to them and uses old, antiquated processes and technology. Which business would you rather be? Paul Greenberg.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. To be perfectly clear, this does not mean that any bank should cease to innovate around consumer-facing UX.

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