Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 23, 2018

And while most of us agree it’s vital to have and show empathy with customers, many rarely go beyond that in really capturing the touchpoints to understand emotions. Don’t reserve empathy for one set of customers or only the big touchpoints. Each touchpoint leads to an emotion. October 9-12, 2018 | Austin, TX.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Loyalty Programs Contact Center 110

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The Economist, November 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. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. Points are perceived by customers as a kind of currency; underperforming loyalty brands, equally, prioritize this purely transactional insight.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Last December, a McKinsey report said that 2018 represented… “…a tipping point from thinking, talking about, and planning for future mobility to implementing it.…when Enter: loyalty marketing. In 3-5 years’ time, the market leaders will have emerged, so now is the moment to include loyalty mechanics to get the upper-hand.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Airlines 56

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

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]. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years. Rewards value rose 15% in Q3 2018 alone[vi].

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. Today, practically all these higher-spending customers are already enrolled in ‘no-brainer’ loyalty coalitions. delivering more loyalty value so customers accelerate their path to rewards – keeping them engaged with your brand.

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Loyalty Brands Loyalty Programs Airlines 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago.

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ProProfs Chat

JUNE 21, 2019

Building customer loyalty implies you can sell multiple products and services to the same customer over a period of time. eMarketer states In a November 2018 – Retail TouchPoints survey, retailers’ spending on acquisition and retention weren’t radically different on the surface. Understand Customer Retention.

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