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Tailoring Your CV: How to Land the Job You Want

CSM Magazine

It may include everything from answering phones at a hotel to providing social media support for a large corporation. Where Customer Service Matters Customer service skills can make or break companies in some industries. In these places, no matter how great the product is, the service affects the consumer’s view of the company.

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

Currency Alliance

Plus, many types of points are widely appreciated by customers, and are useful to the brand for scoring different customer actions while influencing behavior. That is why Walmart might collaborate with fuel retailers, insurance companies, travel agencies, pharmacies, or construction hardware companies.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v]. CX enhancements at scale.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

The incredible degrees of customer engagement that have been achieved, should inspire and guide the efforts of loyalty marketers in the coming year. Voxi is the ‘youth brand’ of Vodafone, whose highly successful VeryMe rewards program has previously been praised by Currency Alliance. Hybrid points programs.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. This sounds remarkably simple, but this action delivered multiple benefits: driving program engagement.

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It’s (almost) never 1%: how to price loyalty rewards

Currency Alliance

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Hotel rooms forecast to be vacant would be a classic example. It’s the emotional value which creates real stickiness.

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Breaking down the walls: Loyalty Magazine Awards 2019

Currency Alliance

More enlightened marketers, on the other hand, see points as a way to keep score of customer actions at many different touchpoints along complex customer journeys. When I last converted a hotel currency into United Airlines MileagePlus, it took three or four business days. This effort is a marked improvement.

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