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How to Identify Weaknesses in Your Customer Journey Map

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Say you fly on Southwest Airlines and don’t care for their A/B/C boarding scheme with no assigned seats. Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly explained in a 2006 blog post : Open seating has allowed us to build a highly efficient operation by keeping the time our aircraft are sitting at our gate to a minimum. Some call it a “ cattle call.”

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AI in loyalty marketing

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Legacy technology constraints can still impede progress, but most companies have modernized their tech stack sufficiently in the past three years, that even legacy systems are no longer a roadblock. During the past 5 years, many airline loyalty programs have proclaimed they intend to become lifestyle businesses.

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A Day in the Life of a Customer Service Agent

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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? An agent’s schedule can be brutal.

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8 loyalty trends for 2024: intelligent, data-led marketing

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The ability to target investment more precisely, with less wastage, and greater certainty of a positive customer experience, is steadily removing a lot of the uncertainty and risk around brands’ marketing ROI. And, since Currency Alliance is not in the data management business, I hope these trends are considered as unbiased.

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Loyalty rules, and the loyalty rules engine

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Historically, the rules engine module was embedded in a monolithic loyalty system, and the degree of flexibility in configuring accrual, redemption, or exchange rules depended very much on the technology vendor. This is how you can continually optimize value for the customer, and ROI for the business.

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

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A low-frequency business would be an airline (for most people), or brands selling occasional purchases such as refrigerators, cars, laptops, shoes, gala dresses, etc. On the other hand, 60-70% of customers may be motivated to redeem in the currency of a partnered airline or hotel. Consider the example of a retailer (i.e.,

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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

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the modest number of reward seats that an airline makes available on a flight, or the items curated in a redemption catalog). In short: it will increase loyalty engagement by enabling greater freedom and choice around redemptions; and, when dynamic value allocation is incorporated, will produce greater ROI.