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Why Confusing Inertia With Loyalty Will Eventually Kill Your Business

Beyond Philosophy

Surprisingly, it’s these same emotions that you have with brands to whom you feel loyalty. Most organizations don’t have a way of measuring loyalty, but they do have a way of measuring repeat business. If you want to distinguish, it is essential to measure additional behavior in addition to repeat business.

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5 Rules That Absolutely Build Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Often, firms treat loyalty as a behavioral phenomenon. Unfortunately, using buying behavior as the measure of loyalty does not distinguish loyal behavior from inertia or habit. It’s outstanding when customers buy from you, but loyalty is not behavior in which people engage. Airlines have this a bit, too.

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3 Actions to Take to Honor Customers as Assets

Customer Bliss

The idea of “customers as assets” gives you a simple way to measure whether you did or did not earn the right to customer-driven growth. The day after the store opened, she went over and registered Buddy, signed up for the loyalty program, and made an appointment for his first grooming.

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The Frontline Experience Gap

Horizon CX

An airline Gate Agent is asked by a passenger to check-in for a same-day, earlier flight. Success in training is measured by participation, not by a real increase in skills. SUPERVISOR: Has the customer enrolled in our loyalty program? The Gate Agent has never performed this task before and does not know how to do it.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

Currency Alliance

Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. I hate bashing the industry, but a great many loyalty programs still don’t even have this basic equation right. They don’t use the data that customers provide. It is making people more deliberate.

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9 Strategies to Improve Customer Retention Rate in 2023

SurveySensum

In contrast, Company B chose to focus on retaining its existing customer base by introducing loyalty programs. But there’s a vital step between wanting to retain customers and actually measuring your success – that’s where the Customer Retention Rate comes in. Now, you might be wondering why this matters.

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your Marketing with SMS Automation

SurveySensum

Automate Triggered Campaigns Automating triggered campaigns through SMS involves setting up messages based on specific customer actions, appointments, bookings, order confirmations, or loyalty program updates. Imagine a scenario where an airline sends an automated SMS with real-time flight updates: “Hello [Customer Name]!