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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

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This means that loyalty programs are now a more important channel for customer acquisition and retention than ever before. Customer frequency is partly determined by the nature of your business. On the other hand, 60-70% of customers may be motivated to redeem in the currency of a partnered airline or hotel.

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How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism?

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The Qubit Future of Travel Report 2016 shows that investing in customer satisfaction can be equally as important as competing on price points. Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and reward programs with varied success. The post How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism?

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

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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.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

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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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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. How can we call that success? A little more context.

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It’s (almost) never 1%: how to price loyalty rewards

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Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Too many brands still only reward customers with points when making a purchase. The points may be worth about.8

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

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I recently had dinner with the Strategic Partnerships Manager for one of the 10 largest airlines in the world and he confessed that they have customer data in three separate systems that each generate customer communications, but do not share data with each other. Redemption Catalog.

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