Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. And it makes you wonder, why do we call them “loyalty” programs if they don’t make customers loyal? Customer loyalty is a bit different.

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

Our previous blog post demonstrated the power of customer voice in an unsolicited book review from a technology industry guru. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. The rise of white-glove customer service.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Top-rated airlines like JetBlue have managed to combine reasonable prices with quality service and experience. Things are improving for the travel industry, but the biggest multipliers of customer satisfaction seem largely to be left behind.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. This actually is not true. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

When striving for the next level of Customer Experience, it is critical to understand how your customers make decisions. As Customer Experience Consultants, we see our clients presume that customer evaluations of an experience occur at the product level. This presumption is only partway true.

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

I’m standing at the front desk of a nice hotel in Baltimore. I told the hotel employee that perhaps my very recent booking was the problem. The primary reason I use hotels.com is for the rewards. It takes 10 hotel stays to earn a free hotel night. The number one thing customers want is help. I travel a lot.

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Service Untitled

JUNE 16, 2011

Entrepreneur magazine writer Micah Solomon stated there are several important elements retailers need to concentrate on in order to gain customer loyalty. A successful organization must anticipate customer wishes, provide fast service, and dedicate themselves to acknowledging each returning customer.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. The value can be immediate.

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ShepHyken

MAY 30, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. This is Where Rewards Programs Lose Most of Their Members by Jenn McMillen. Yet 44% of companies say they’re more keenly focused on customer acquisition and just 16% on retention. Here are three ways to adjust.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

As the winter slips away and the days start getting longer and warmer, your customers start thinking about summer. Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Actually, they do. Extra what?

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Find out how Conjoint/MaxDiff can help you use real-time feedback to develop the products and services your customers need both now, and as you emerge from the other side of the coronavirus crisis. It puts respondents through real-world experiences that are extremely familiar to them to gauge their interest in various product attributes.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 14, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Their rewards program provides 2 points for every dollar spent at Nordstrom’s and provides for 1 point when I use the card elsewhere. Homebuyer tax credit provides customer service opportunities The U.S.

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Inbenta

JUNE 30, 2021

Chatbots are one of the hottest current trends in customer service. No wonder why almost every business out there that deals with huge amounts of support requests has implemented or is considering the implementation of a chatbot or conversational platform to automate customer interactions. . Chatbot examples in the logistics industry.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

Loyalty had evolved into a fairly segregated marketing function, but many of this years’ entries were more comprehensive, loyalty-enabled marketing programs. As more holistic marketing initiatives, loyalty mechanics were harnessed to drive and measure engagement across channels, and across many more customer touchpoints.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 22, 2023

In today’s business world, customers’ expectations are higher than ever, with each interaction playing a vital role in shaping their overall perception of your brand. Delivering a standout customer experience (CX) is the key to outpacing your competition and fostering customer loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

But with so much riding on travel for your customer – the cost of bookings, the early-morning starts, the importance or the fun of their trip – it’s a sector primed like no other to stoke their rage when things go wrong. Customer Disservice! “On Since then, over 200 hotels that were not IHG have had my custom instead.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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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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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

What changes has your business made this year to improve the experience customers have with your brand? Last year, we saw incredible growth in Customer Experience (CX) investments and for good reason. Unfortunately, many businesses still struggle to deliver great, well-orchestrated experiences.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

There is a growing divide in customer experience delivered by brands whose digital transformations are progressing well, and those being left behind. Since customers are losing patience with brands that don’t recognize them as people, or enable consistent, multi-channel engagement, this priority remains over-arching in 2020.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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? Customers are interested in earning a meaningful amount of value, but the value they receive does not meet minimum expectations – so people quit. The answer is simple.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. offering your best hope of earning profitable customer loyalty. The origins of V1.0.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Looking beyond transactional rewards. Mastering customer data (finally). This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Customer-side, the greater control and flexibility around data, enabled by microservices, is experienced as more rapid deployment of features, accurate personalization, greater relevancy, and an improved perception of the brand. Redemption Catalog.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. Loyalty programs are essentially a value exchange.

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