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Shared value is the customer experience of the future: 5 key takeaways from the 2017 Asia Pacific Customer Intelligence Summit

Alida

On July 13 2017, over two hundred Vision Critical customers, insights, marketing and CX professionals gathered in Sydney for the Asia Pacific Customer Intelligence Summit, Vision Critical’s 7th annual customer summit. As predicted by Gartner , 89% of businesses will compete primarily on customer experience by 2017.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

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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Customer Experience Conferences and Events to Attend in 2017

ReviewTrackers

This is why more and more businesses are investing in customer experience, learning and applying industry best practices, and developing strategies in customer experience management. To help your leaders and managers in your organization become CX experts, we compiled a list of customer experience conferences and events to attend this 2017.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 28, 2017

ShepHyken

(Business Over Broadway) The tools and methods of artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics will play a major role in helping businesses better understand and manage the customer experience. The Future of Customer Loyalty Programs – Now and for the Holidays by Timi Garai. Well deserved, I might add!).

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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Implications of interchange fees for loyalty marketing

Currency Alliance

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. Of course, this has happened before in other jurisdictions. down to 0.3%

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The Experience Margin: Only CX can save retail brands

Currency Alliance

This has come at the cost of innovation, experimentation, and ultimately customer experience. Despite a successful 2017 holiday season [i] , commentators talk of a “retail apocalypse” and stories of store closures abound [ii]. People come to cafés” explained the manager, “to be seen and to meet people, not for the food.”.

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