ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Improving Customer Experience with a Customer Centric Culture by Mansi Bhatia. CustomerThink) Customer experience (CX) has gained a newfound glory in today’s industrial landscape. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: ‘Loyalty is dead.’

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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. in 2017[vii]. Actually, they do.

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Tricia Morris

MAY 31, 2016

Customer expectations are changing, and to be successful, brands’ delivery on customer experience must too. Customer expectations are changing, and to be successful, brands’ delivery on customer experience must too. Each step in the process should be analyzed through the lens of the customer, not the organization.”.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management. Listen to your customers.

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ProProfs Chat

MAY 6, 2020

Did you know that 67% of people worldwide believe that customer service as a whole is improving? One of the top reasons why customers have higher expectations from their preferred brands to offer the best service experience! This definitely gives you the motivation to focus more on creating a delightful experience for your customers.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Indeed they have changed customers’ expectations of brands greatly. Every industry now has to be conscious of the heightened, personalized demands of the modern consumer, including the loyalty industry. This is the challenge facing loyalty marketers today; and, will continue well into the future. Re-engaging the 80%.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Of all the statistics to emerge from the 2017 Bond Brand Loyalty Report , the most shocking was probably that there are an estimated $100bn in loyalty points that are left unredeemed by members in North America. We do recognize that historically, loyalty programs liked to have a modest to high percentage of points expire.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In 2017, legislation in the European Union reduced the interchange fee from 2-2.5% Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Customer acquisition and retention can be expensive. down to 0.3%

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Companies focus on getting new customers, but retaining them is a whole different story – and more difficult to achieve! what customers want, . The best way to do this is by reading customer retention statistics, and that’s what we have carefully curated in this blog. Why Customers Leave? Very few will say yes.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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.”. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces.

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The Future of Customer Experience Calls Urgently for a Significant Shift Lynn Hunsaker. The future of customer experience (CX) is sure to be influenced by artificial intelligence, digitalization, the sharing economy, generational preferences, cross-pollinated expectations and much more. Here’s why: CXM Status Quo.

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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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BirdEye

JULY 14, 2023

Customer reviews are essential to garnering interest in your service or product, but convincing customers to leave them is challenging. Unless they had a very positive or negative experience, customers are unlikely to provide feedback — unless you make it worth their while. How do you get authentic customer reviews?

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. 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. You can watch the Loyalty Debate in full here.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

This can only be done by owning the customer relationship. To get there, restaurants need to embrace change as a constant and then optimize, roadmap, and even blow some things up in order to respond faster and exceed customer needs. Material works with some of the largest and most innovative restaurant brands.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

This can only be done by owning the customer relationship. To get there, restaurants need to embrace change as a constant and then optimize, roadmap, and even blow some things up in order to respond faster and exceed customer needs. Material works with some of the largest and most innovative restaurant brands.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

when the automotive and mobility industries shifted from a driver- or owner-focused value proposition to a customer-centered one; and when micromobility started to scale up.” [i]. Independent of market positioning, unique customer insight will become the primary competitive advantage. Enter: loyalty marketing.

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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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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Coalition programs are gaining steam because, managed, correctly, they solve the biggest problem in loyalty marketing: engaging your long- and mid-tail customers, rather than just 20-25% of the most frequent.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Headless loyalty systems are API-first loyalty platforms that enable any customer-facing platform to integrate loyalty marketing functionality into their Customer Experience (CX) via API. In most cases, these compromises also led to frustration among customers and inefficiency in business operations.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. Value, that is, to a minority of highly-frequent, high-spending customers.

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