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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 10-11-2021

ShepHyken

Are Hotel Loyalty and Rewards Programs Enough to Keep Customers Loyal to the Brand? This particular learning opportunity is in the form of an article that discusses hotel loyalty and rewards programs. There are some interesting stats and facts that prove how important some of these programs are.

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To Get Loyal Customers, Start with Loyal Employees

Beyond Philosophy

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit.

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How to create loyal customers and brand evangelists in the travel and hospitality industry

Up Your Service

For airlines, hotels, resorts and other companies in the travel and hospitality industry, this presents new challenges in terms of managing their reputation. Personalization and memorization deal with the fact that airlines or hotel brands should already know something about who I am and what I like.”.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-30-2022

ShepHyken

This is Where Rewards Programs Lose Most of Their Members by Jenn McMillen. My Comment: If you have a rewards program, is it working? Here you will find some interesting stats and findings about why rewards programs fizzle out, the mistakes companies/brands make, and more.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. Start small, think big.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v].

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Credit cards offer extra customer.

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Their rewards program provides 2 points for every dollar spent at Nordstrom’s and provides for 1 point when I use the card elsewhere. I can also convert points to miles on many different airlines, and use the points and redeem them at various hotels and Hertz car rentals.