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.

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Social Media Travel Rewards Programs Innovation 110

Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

But a whole other degree of devoted customer exists: The brand evangelist, described as the kind of traveler who feels so connected to a company that they proactively share their positive experiences with others. However, smart companies see this as an opportunity to create brand evangelists. Customer service and storytelling.

Hospitality 74

Hospitality Travel Industry Brands 74

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. Power reported higher consumer satisfaction than ever – largely due to increased seat sizes and cheaper fares. There is huge market pressure to make great deals.

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Travel Hospitality Customer Journeys Examples 40

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

Life as we knew it before COVID-19 will take time to return, and even when it does we’re likely to be in a ‘new normal’, as the crisis impacts consumer behaviors going forward. 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

Service Untitled

APRIL 14, 2010

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Credit cards offer extra customer service perks Cheryl April 14, 2010 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service , Little Things, Big Differences , Specific Companies No Comments My new Nordstrom credit card came in the mail, and I was pleasantly surprised.

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Rewards Programs Hotels Travel Airlines 41

Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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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]. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. Greater investment to meet consumers’ insatiable appetite for experiences.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 45

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].

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Loyalty Consumers Brands Airlines 36

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. This past summer, the supermarket decided to offer reward points to customers who bring their own re-usable carrier bags. Choice Hotels’ Smart Privilege scheme is another good example.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

SurveySparrow

JUNE 22, 2023

It allows guests to see wait times for attractions, order food, and even unlock their hotel room, ensuring a hassle-free experience at their parks. Tesla Sector: Automotive Tesla has completely revolutionized the car-buying experience with their direct-to-consumer sales model. This is what sets these companies apart.

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Customer Journeys Examples Customer Experience e-support 52

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

disconnects between company leadership and management. Hotels need to get rid of tiny plastic shampoo bottles (or prove that they are better than alternatives). But 2019 has seen a major uptick in brands breaking apart legacy architectures, and 2020 will see microservices embraced across industries and independent of company size.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

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-Sick. “I

Travel 40

Travel Course Customer Experience Airlines 40

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? They may be worth.5

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

When I last converted a hotel currency into United Airlines MileagePlus, it took three or four business days. Vast sums of reward value were issued at a blanket rate of 1-3% – but because many of the points would never be redeemed, the projected cost was considered minimal. This is a huge problem for the consumer.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

As a result, vendors such as Oracle, Comarch, Kobie, Epsilon, Unisys, and perhaps another dozen have been able to maintain their installed base among the largest loyalty programs, while another hundred vendors provide stand-alone solutions to medium and smaller companies. But break up those monolithic platforms, we must.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

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. Town Lodge Hotels. consumer goods (Fitbit). Musica (entertainment).

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52