Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. For some brands, issuing your own loyalty currency is certainly desirable.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

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. Delivering a standout customer experience (CX) is the key to outpacing your competition and fostering customer loyalty.

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Customer Journeys Examples Customer Experience e-support 52

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

With fuel cards, businesses can track fuel usage, set spending limits, and generate custom reports to better manage and control their fleet’s fuel expenses. Comparing WEX Fleet Cards and Other Leading Brands WEX, BP, Shell, and FleetCor are the leading brands behind business fleet gas savings programs.

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Transportation Rewards Programs Report Financial 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2015

Have you ever struggled with how you can listen better to your customers? 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. Thanks, @TripIt ! —

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Social Media Travel Rewards Programs Innovation 110

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. The value can be immediate.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 59

Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. But even these leading travel brands can do better. Forbes reported that Airlines have never risen above the bottom 20% of industries in terms of customer satisfaction ratings, even as J.D. This makes sense in some capacity.

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Travel Hospitality Customer Journeys Examples 40

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

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. And it makes you wonder, why do we call them “loyalty” programs if they don’t make customers loyal? Customer loyalty is a bit different.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Rewards Programs 137

Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

What changes has your business made this year to improve the experience customers have with your brand? Last year, we saw incredible growth in Customer Experience (CX) investments and for good reason. Most businesses struggle to connect all of the relevant data on their customer experience. Identify customer pain points.

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ROI Hotels Customer Journeys Retail 76

Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

As the winter slips away and the days start getting longer and warmer, your customers start thinking about summer. 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.

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Tourism Travel Customer Service e-support 56

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts 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). Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

When striving for the next level of Customer Experience, it is critical to understand how your customers make decisions. As Customer Experience Consultants, we see our clients presume that customer evaluations of an experience occur at the product level. However, you thought this particular hotel would wow you.

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Hotels Rewards Programs Retail Consulting 60

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. There is a growing divide in customer experience delivered by brands whose digital transformations are progressing well, and those being left behind. Brands embrace shared environmental goals with customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. Big brands mimicking strategies pioneered by upstart challengers. 2018 saw a 14.2%

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Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

But with so much riding on travel for your customer – the cost of bookings, the early-morning starts, the importance or the fun of their trip – it’s a sector primed like no other to stoke their rage when things go wrong. Customer Disservice! “On Since then, over 200 hotels that were not IHG have had my custom instead.

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Travel Course Customer Experience Airlines 40

ShepHyken

MAY 30, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. This is Where Rewards Programs Lose Most of Their Members by Jenn McMillen. Yet 44% of companies say they’re more keenly focused on customer acquisition and just 16% on retention. Here are three ways to adjust.

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Customer Service Rewards Programs Poor Customer Service Self Service 13

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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? Customers are interested in earning a meaningful amount of value, but the value they receive does not meet minimum expectations – so people quit. The answer is simple.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Actually, they do. Extra what?

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Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

From the customer perspective, it amounts to a Revolution – where brands are finally giving into what has been a ‘peaceful demonstration’ gaining momentum for several years – namely that it is too difficult to accumulate much value among so many incompatible loyalty point currencies/programs – so consumers quit.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Rewards Programs 52

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]. We estimate that almost 30% of the total cost of a loyalty program goes to cover the cost of maintaining and enhancing these systems – value that cannot be passed on to customers.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Find out how Conjoint/MaxDiff can help you use real-time feedback to develop the products and services your customers need both now, and as you emerge from the other side of the coronavirus crisis. Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home.

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Hospitality Retail Rewards Programs Analysis 29

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. Loyalty programs are essentially a value exchange.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52

Inbenta

JUNE 30, 2021

Chatbots are one of the hottest current trends in customer service. No wonder why almost every business out there that deals with huge amounts of support requests has implemented or is considering the implementation of a chatbot or conversational platform to automate customer interactions. . Chatbot examples in the logistics industry.

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Chatbots Examples Self Service Insurance 105

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

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