Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

We use awareness, consideration, evaluation, conversion as the phases of the journey and connect to relevant touchpoints/marketing mixes. John Lewis, LATAM Airlines, Nestlé, Barclays and British Gas each had 6. What is the best or most common way to determine the health of your customer touchpoints?

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Management Touchpoint Banking 120

Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But here’s the thing: customer service agents are the touchpoint between brand and customer, and if they’re not given the tools to work efficiently, they’re unlikely to make customers happy and keep them coming back. Why efficient agents = big ROI. Why might customer service agents be unhappy? But what does that really mean?

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Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Airlines 136

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. In legacy banking loyalty models, these customers are instead prone to disloyalty in exchange for tiny rewards, and likely to be of very poor lifetime value (LTV) to your business.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Loyalty Marketing Airlines Loyalty Programs 52

ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Customer experience (CX) — defined as “the cumulative impact of all interactions and experiences between your business and the customer, at every touchpoint across the entire customer journey, and viewed entirely from your customer’s perspective” — has become one of today’s most important business benchmarks. Where: London, UK.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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Loyalty Trends Data Marketing 59

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

The Summit provides a space for us to learn best practices from each other and about new technologies from sponsoring vendors.” – Michelle Buckley, Director of Operations, Customer Relations/Rapid Rewards, Southwest Airlines. SVP, Global Loyalty & Partnerships, Wydham Hotels & Resorts. VP, Client Services, Boston Red Sox.

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Customer Service Strategies Meeting Strategy Customer Service 40

Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home. Tailoring packages for maximum ROI - hospitality offerings usually involve a matrix of different features and services, and so it’s essential to understand how consumers respond to different combinations.

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ECXO

APRIL 13, 2023

Experiences rooted in great design and emotional connections, which drive adoption, loyalty and advocacy. Service culture – there is a strong service culture, with a high level of emphasis placed on hospitality and customer service in industries such as hotels and airlines. How does CX maturity stack up? Different, but the same.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales. Evolution of businesses’ CX functions.

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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Airlines 59

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. 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. Rationalizing loyalty ROI vs other marketing channels.

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Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Banking 52

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Ecommerce Touchpoint 52

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Ecommerce Touchpoint 52

Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years. In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Resources Airlines 52

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 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. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

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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). A little more context.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

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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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Travel 52

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

QuestionPro Audience

AUGUST 28, 2017

We will walk you through customer journey mapping and best practices and present alongside a case study with Emirates Airlines. Customer Experience is a blend of a company’s rational performance and the emotions evoked in all the interactions with the customer, across all touchpoints. We usually start off with a single touchpoint.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Airlines Metrics 150

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating? The answer is simple.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This challenge – the give-and-take of marketplaces – now firmly belongs on the agenda of loyalty strategy meetings. First, it gives marketers a basic grounding in economics which can directly impact on your loyalty strategy, complete with real-world examples of brands putting the theory into practice. This is a good thing.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels Travel 45

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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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Loyalty Programs 45

Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Forrester defines customer journey analytics is “an analytics practice that combines quantitative and qualitative data to analyze customer behaviors and motivations across touchpoints and over time to optimize customer interactions and predict future behavior.”. Uncover behavioral segments.

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Customer Journeys Analytics How To Touchpoint 90

Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

Filling these gaps will have quick value and drive customer loyalty. For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. Measure ROI across interactions. Measuring ROI is another place where customer journey orchestration can help.

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ROI Hotels Customer Journeys Retail 76

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center. Nobody granted those loans on a whim.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Touchpoint 52

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Find ordinary interaction touchpoints and make them memorable with the help of technology. Colleen Barrett, Southwest Airlines, President Emeritus: “To earn the respect (and eventually love) of your customers, you first have to respect those customers. Ultimately, great service can drive sales and customer loyalty.” .

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? The first step is to integrate customer data available to you from different touchpoints. Data Integration.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. The reason I’m writing this article is that many loyalty teams have, historically, not executed brilliantly.

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Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Touchpoint 52

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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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It is the key predictor for gauging customer retention and loyalty. How can you increase your customer base, revenue, and customer loyalty ? Are you capturing feedback at all the relevant touchpoints/customer interactions handled by multiple teams? Understanding customer feedback at individual touchpoints won’t help you.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Strategy Effort Score 52

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It is the key predictor for gauging customer retention and loyalty. How can you increase your customer base, revenue, and customer loyalty ? Are you capturing feedback at all the relevant touchpoints/customer interactions handled by multiple teams? Understanding customer feedback at individual touchpoints won’t help you.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Strategy Effort Score 52

Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Astute has specific CRM solutions for the industries such as the restaurant industry (McDonalds, Domino’s, and Buffalo Wild Wings use this CRM), the airline industry (serving British Airways and Aer Lingus), the CPG – or consumer packed goods — industry (McCormick and Co., Bush Brothers and Company, and Land O’Lakes use this CRM), and more.

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