Steve DiGioia

MARCH 19, 2018

“Although companies are investing record amounts of money in traditional loyalty programs, in customer-relationship-management (CRM) technology, and in general service-quality improvements, most of these initiatives end in disappointment.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Use customer segmentation: Segment your customers based on their demographics, behavior, and preferences. Implement a CRM system: Implement a customer relationship management (CRM) system to track customer interactions across different channels. A seamless mobile experience is crucial for personalization.

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Omni-Channel Connections Loyalty Programs Chatbots 52

Magellan Solutions

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Have you heard that 81% of buyers say that experiencing good customer service increases their likelihood of making a repeat purchase ? Exceptional customer service is a guiding light, capturing attention amidst many options. The goal is for customers to see your business as excellent and become passionate advocates.

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Customer Service Exceptional Customer Service Customer Satisfaction Customer Centricity 52

Retently

APRIL 5, 2024

Key Takeaways A successful in-store customer experience strategy hinges on optimized store layout, interactive elements, demos, and personalized customer service, which all contribute to improved customer satisfaction and loyalty. Personalized Customer Service There is no substitute for excellent customer service.

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Retail Engagement Strategy Customer Experience 78

SurveySensum

JULY 10, 2023

This is how Starbucks prioritizes its customers and consistently delivers exceptional retail customer service – showing how by creating a positive customer experience you can foster trust, cultivate customer loyalty , and set your business apart. Before that, What is Customer Service in Retail?

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success. And in today’s digital age, customer service is now more important than ever before. What is a contact center CRM? . Reduced customer churn .

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Method:CRM

JULY 11, 2022

Have you ever been impressed by how helpful a product is, or delighted at just how invested a customer support rep is in solving your issues? These are examples of how people and products deliver a great customer experience. . Improving the customer experience is a company-wide effort.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 3 Ways to Move From Customer Service to Customer Care by Patrick McCullough. Destination CRM) What’s the difference between customer service and customer care?

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Kustomer

JANUARY 11, 2022

While this isn’t a real issue in terms of ordering and logistics, it can present a problem when it comes to customer service. If your business is located in New York and a customer in Australia has a question, how do you deal with it if you operate standard business hours in your timezone? Is it worth doing?

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Customer Service e-support Self Service Customer Retention 98

SurveySensum

JULY 10, 2023

This is how Starbucks prioritizes its customers and consistently delivers exceptional retail customer service – showing how by creating a positive customer experience you can foster trust, cultivate customer loyalty , and set your business apart. Before that, What is Customer Service in Retail?

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Retail Customer Service Exceptional Customer Service Customer Centricity 40

Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Traditional businesses often face the challenge of adapting to new customer expectations and technologies. Even long-established businesses can embrace change and revolutionize their customer interactions. In this blog post, we’ll explore strategies that traditional businesses can adopt to innovate in customer experience.

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Innovation Customer Experience Loyalty Programs Customer Centricity 59

NobelBiz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The same study reveals that over 50% of customers post negative comments about companies on social media, and 53% of customers post positive comments about companies on social media. According to Salesforce Research , 88% of customers say the experience a company provides is as important as its product or services.

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Method:CRM

JULY 11, 2022

Have you ever been impressed by how helpful a product is, or delighted at just how invested a customer support rep is in solving your issues? These are examples of how people and products deliver a great customer experience. Improving the customer experience is a company-wide effort. What impacts customer experience improvement?

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Retently

MAY 9, 2024

Personalizing customer interactions, offering exceptional customer support, and proactively addressing concerns are key components that boost customer retention and trust in B2B markets. Why is B2B Customer Retention Important? Part of that 20% is customer service. Frustrating, right?

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 1, 2023

How to Leverage Customer Feedback to Build Customer Loyalty? 7 Best Practices for Building Customer Loyalty in Retail? Get instant detractor alerts on your CRM so you can close the loop in time. Here are 7 best practices that you can follow to build strong customer loyalty for your brand.

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Tricia Morris

MAY 31, 2016

Brands must approach everything they do, but especially service and engagement, with a customer experience mentality. Notes Dennis Snow, a 20-year Disney veteran and author of Lessons from the Mouse , “If you operate a contact center, the technology has to be great, but it still is about the experience.

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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. Loyalty personalization has been subsumed into a wider conversation about data actionability.

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Kustomer

MAY 3, 2022

Hyper-personalization is a tactic that combines the power of artificial intelligence (AI), real-time data, and the insights of your CRM to significantly improve the customer experience (CX). Great customer support is the fast track to gaining customer loyalty. Hyper-Personalization Customer Service Examples.

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LoyaltyPlus

APRIL 8, 2022

Currency Alliance is on a mission to create a Global B2B Loyalty Marketplace, with an extraordinary platform that any company can use to create their own loyalty ecosystems with complementary brands – regardless of size, industry, geographic location, and incumbent technology.

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Loyalty Airlines Customer Relationship Management Loyalty Programs 52

Kustomer

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Matt Dixon from Tethr to reinvent what it means to delight your customers. Delight typically means going above and beyond customer expectations, so what is there to reinvent? Stay tuned to find out more.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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SurveySensum

JUNE 29, 2023

A company, despite investing heavily in marketing and advertising, struggles to retain its customer base and faces a decline in sales. Well, here’s a startling statistic to ponder: 82% of customers stop doing business with a company due to poor customer service. Sound familiar?

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether. Enter: headless platforms.

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Loyalty Touchpoint Loyalty Programs Social Media 52

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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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

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. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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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. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Ecommerce Touchpoint 52

LoyaltyPlus

AUGUST 22, 2018

It sounds far-fetched, but the growing trend among businesses that aim to benefit fully from next-generation technology, is to exploit the application of game mechanics and to drive up loyalty by applying popular techniques upon which gaming is based.

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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

MARCH 30, 2022

The ability to bring together complementary fields of experience to create profitable solutions based on innovative business models and modern technology. As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have. referring friends.

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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. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Hybrid points programs.

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Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

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. I’m a case in point.

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Reaching new customers has never been an easy job. Even with all the advantages provided by today’s technological tools and online channels at your disposal, it’s still a long and expensive journey. In order to properly engage your repeat customers, you first need to know who you’re addressing.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 45

Maz Iqbal

DECEMBER 10, 2014

In the early 2000s Tesco was much lauded my many: the customer-centricity gurus, the 1:1 marketing gurus, the data mining and predictive analytics players, and customer loyalty program vendors. Building a customer-centric organisation is matter of getting back to core principles. How does one honour a principal?

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Customer Centricity Case Study Government Retail 110

NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

These touchpoints are prioritized for analysis since they are a useful source of data for assessing the client journey and it works as follows: The Key role of Contact Centers The increased focus on digital channels and new communication technology allows for new methods to engage with clients. What makes the Omnichannel so unique?

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Contact Center Omni-Channel 52

Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

10 Steps to Improve Customer Retention with Journey Analytics. Journey analytics can quickly focus attention on the biggest opportunities to improve customer retention by answering critical questions such as: Which customer service interactions result in poor customer experiences and sub-par retention?

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