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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Currency Alliance

MARCH 24, 2020

Currency Alliance is offering fee-free exchanges of loyalty currencies, between travel and non-travel brands, for the next six months. Travel brands are suffering from Covid-19 more than most, with the grounding of aircraft, and very low occupancy for those hotels which have not yet closed. Implementation details.

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Kitewheel

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

There are two core ways that theme parks have gotten smarter about queue management that the travel industry can learn from. This tip is one that some travel brands have already implemented. Include one or two skip-the-queue passes when new customers sign up for your loyalty program and download your app.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 13, 2015

The sales funnel is so simple, in theory. We put the many prospects in the top, they travel willingly and orderly through the funnel, and POP! But customer experience travels on, past the prospecting and sales phase and well into the relationship with the customer. Reward Investments In Customer Loyalty.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 18, 2024

For instance, sending a personalized greeting, such as below, can foster a sense of acknowledgment and connection. Automate Triggered Campaigns Automating triggered campaigns through SMS involves setting up messages based on specific customer actions, appointments, bookings, order confirmations, or loyalty program updates.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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BirdEye

MARCH 24, 2023

Table of contents Business development defined Differences between business development and sales Business development versus sales development Differences between business development and marketing What does a business development manager do? Business development is identifying prospects and looking for ways to reach prospects.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 17, 2024

With today’s travelers raising their expectations while being exposed to a seemingly unlimited number of hospitality solutions, it is critical that operators deliver experiences that reflect the lives of their customers. These include online travel agencies (OTAs), social media, mobile apps, and brand websites.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Power-winning guest loyalty program. He initiated and is leading the strategic transformation of HHonors from a program for only frequent travelers to a club more relevant to all travelers. Mark serves as the senior exec responsible for HHonors, Hilton’s 52+ million member strong, J.D.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

Decoding the Customer Journey Stages The Foundation: Awareness Stage Exploring Options: Consideration Stage Decision-Making: Decision Stage Beyond the Sale: Post-Purchase/Retention Stage Advocacy and Referrals: Advocacy Stage Wrapping Up! Utilize storytelling to create an emotional connection with your audience.

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Magellan Solutions

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In addition, they function as part sales, part tech support, and part customer success. Connect with prospective and new customers. Magellan Solutions offer a wide range of customer service support: Loyalty programs. Inbound sales support. They solve problems and make decisions. Live chat customer service benefits.

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Magellan Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Booking travel arrangements for weekend trips or vacations. It is important to be able to connect with people while staying relevant. Below are some of the customer service we offer: Loyalty programs. Inbound sales support. Best virtual assistant services to outsource. Personal Tasks. Helping you make purchases.

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Social Media Hospitality Loyalty Programs Travel 52

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Mobile check-in can also be deployed to upsell room selection, to offer customized key collection, or can be integrated with a loyalty program to confirm benefits such as lounge-access or free Wi-Fi. Restive guests: understanding hospitality loyalty. Different loyalty drivers apply to different guest demographics.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 10, 2021

Booking travel arrangements for weekend trips or vacations. It is important to be able to connect with people while staying relevant. Below are some of the customer service we offer: Loyalty programs. Inbound sales support. Listed below are the general tasks they take up for you: Personal Tasks. Content Creation.

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Social Media Advertising Loyalty Programs Travel 52

SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

Touchpoints In-store display, sales assistance, etc. Surveys to take Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) When to take After the customers have interacted with your sales assistants and have been made aware of your brand. To assess the effectiveness of the sales assistant in helping with the purchase decision.

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SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

Touchpoints In-store display, sales assistance, etc. Surveys to take Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) When to take After the customers have interacted with your sales assistants and have been made aware of your brand. To assess the effectiveness of the sales assistant in helping with the purchase decision.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

The customer journey is defined as the path traveled and activities done by a prospect or client from the moment he or she recognizes a need until the purchase act. The “touchpoints” with the firm or brand, which define the customer journey, determine how customers connect with a brand or company through various channels.

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SurveySensum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Your SaaS feedback platform acts as a bridge, connecting you directly to the voices of your customers. During the product demos and sales calls with potential customers, ask open-ended questions to understand what they expect from your product. For sales directors, emphasize how it can boost their sales performance.

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Bold360

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A funny thing happened when researchers asked consumers and marketers associated with the travel industry how they viewed the industry’s well-known loyalty programs. That’s not to say that loyalty programs are not an important element in the retention strategies toolkit. But that doesn’t mean they saw eye to eye.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 23, 2019

Chuck Ehredt sat down with Steve Hoban, who recently returned to the UK after spending 11 years working for Pick n Pay in South Africa, to discuss brand collaboration in loyalty schemes. In such a context, the extra value that a loyalty program can deliver to customers was probably meaningful to many people.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.

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C Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Because we have that immediacy and are increasingly a video-first platform we saw really interesting innovations from clubs and broadcasters to try and stay connected to fans,” said Theo Luke, director of content partnerships in EMEA at Twitter. More than a quarter (25.7%) were 30 seconds to a minute long.

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C Space

JULY 21, 2020

The planned hundreds of thousands of tests, over the course of the potential season, are expected to cost around $75 million, but the NFL has powerful incentives to play, including revenue from the TV networks that now rely on it to connect audiences with advertisers. Digital really helped our presence. [We

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. As the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. Why hasn’t loyalty? Winning loyalty programs in 2025. Customer singular.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Each one is a chance for you to nurture their interactions towards a sale, referred to as customer touchpoints. Optimizing your customer touchpoints can lead to stronger brand loyalty, more revenue, and improved sales. A customer touchpoint is any interaction a customer has with a business, from first learnings to repeat sales.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

It’s crucial to consider your organization’s travel requirements for the workforce. Additionally, travel expenses were virtually eliminated from budgets due to the pandemic. With a united vision of a customer-centric strategy, marketing, sales, customer service, and even developers can benefit.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Ecommerce Touchpoint 52

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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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]. Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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