CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Comparing WEX Fleet Cards and Other Leading Brands WEX, BP, Shell, and FleetCor are the leading brands behind business fleet gas savings programs. The typical incentive offered is a reduction of up to 10% on total fuel purchases, which can make a substantial impact for large fleets.

Transportation 52

Transportation Rewards Programs Report Financial 52

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. You don’t have to spend money educating them about your company and your offerings, and they’re less likely to shop around for a better deal.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Rewards Programs 138

Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. But even these leading travel brands can do better. The good news is that for a well-equipped brand, personalizing for unknown visitors is hardly an obstacle.

Travel 40

Travel Hospitality Customer Journeys Examples 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. How loyalty partners co-create value.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 59

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2015

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Amy Jackson, Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Consumer Marketing for TripIt from Concur while I was at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas back in March. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Social Media 110

Social Media Travel Rewards Programs Innovation 110

Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and reward programs with varied success.

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Tourism Travel Customer Service e-support 56

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Part of the solution is to take on some of the characteristics of a challenger bank – but that space is already crowded with lookalike competitors, and straying too far along this path may create branding problems for a venerable institution. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years.

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Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

ShepHyken

MAY 30, 2022

This is Where Rewards Programs Lose Most of Their Members by Jenn McMillen. CustomerThink) Considering the cost of attracting new customers ­– one estimate is seven times more than keeping existing ones – many companies would do better to focus on retaining their engaged enrollees.

Customer Service 13

Customer Service Rewards Programs Poor Customer Service Self Service 13

Inbenta

JUNE 30, 2021

Therefore, we’ve decided to list 9 chatbot examples across different verticals and business types to show best practices and simply cases where companies nailed the chatbot project. . Tourism, hospitality, and leisure companies have been extremely touched by the Covid pandemic, with thousands of canceled flights, hotel bookings, and more.

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Chatbots Examples Self Service Insurance 105

Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Across every industry, how you respond to the crisis and these seismic shifts in behavior will have a lasting impact on how your brand comes out the other side. Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home. Hospitality.

Hospitality 29

Hospitality Retail Rewards Programs Analysis 29

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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats. Travel brands have featured less heavily among the winners, this year, than ever before. The program is actually called, ‘ Voxi Drop ’.

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Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. 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 Economist, November 2018. 2018 saw a 14.2%

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. The loyalty program is not a barnacle that has been attached to the business. Therefore, we offer this fairly extensive summary of what most brands should be doing with their loyalty programs to maximize business impact this year.

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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. disconnects between company leadership and management. There is a growing divide in customer experience delivered by brands whose digital transformations are progressing well, and those being left behind.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

SurveySparrow

JUNE 22, 2023

In today’s business world, customers’ expectations are higher than ever, with each interaction playing a vital role in shaping their overall perception of your brand. Zappos Sector: Retail Zappos, an online shoe and clothing retailer, has built its brand on a foundation of exceptional customer service.

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Customer Journeys Examples Customer Experience e-support 52

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. Powerful consumer brands, meanwhile, are building their own coalitions. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Trust issues.

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Loyalty Consumers Brands Airlines 36

Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

The anecdotes revealed some interesting themes, and they should make for useful learnings for airline and hotel brands. During the past 20 years, I´ve stayed in hundreds of IHG hotels and amassed hundreds of thousands of loyalty points. Since then, over 200 hotels that were not IHG have had my custom instead.

Travel 40

Travel Course Customer Experience Airlines 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

To derive far greater profits from loyalty programs, brands should reappraise the way they issue loyalty rewards. It also means building more value into the loyalty program, through personalized offers and partnerships with complementary brands, that make your currency easier to earn, and more rewarding to burn.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

TechCrunch reports that brands such as Airbnb, Disney, and Twitter have seen a 75% reduction in development lead times by migrating to microservices[i]. This analogy must also be true of software companies that deliver loyalty program management systems. Today, no brand need submit themselves this risk. Points Bank.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. A winning program in the grocery sector.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52