ENGAGE.cx

JULY 18, 2018

Modern enterprise marketing platforms from Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and others are great at engaging with web and app customers. But what about all the customers that are in your physical locations? Your retail store, restaurant, hotel, bank, etc…. Are they a return customer or a new customer?

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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. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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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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John Paul

JULY 17, 2018

July 17 th , 2018 – Hong Kong – John Paul, the number one worldwide loyalty solutions service that was acquired by AccorHotels in 2016, is fast expanding in Asia Pacific (APAC). As we develop our APAC client base and grow , recruiting people with a passion for service and a customer focused mindset is key. ABOUT JOHN PAUL.

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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? in 2017[vii].

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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? Is Customer Delight Expensive?

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. Absolutely.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. Absolutely.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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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. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. Much of the bad has derived from a lack of belief or understanding from CEOs, who constrain budgets, and prop up short-term earnings with value that ought to flow to customers. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

Such a simple program quickly revealed invaluable insight into the customer and opened a whole new channel of communication across email, SMS and good old post! but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program. This can produce conflicting and confusing customer experiences.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If it’s to avoid seeing customers leave your business, then you aren’t alone in this. A lot of business owners want to reduce customer churn and retain as many as possible. Needless to say, customer retention is the core value for the growth of any business. Reasons why customer churn rate increases. Tweet this.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For all readers, the key takeaway will be that the evolution of loyalty programs into marketplaces is unstoppable, and that the decision to jump aboard is a sink-or-swim equation for all but the largest loyalty brands. Marketplaces deliver unique value for customers that your own brand cannot deliver on its own.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty. Some stars are sticks.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Points Bank in a loyalty program is the module of software that keeps track of all transactions related to issuing, redeeming, or exchanging points among loyalty program members, partners and other stakeholders. This article answers those questions.

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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?

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. 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. You can watch the Loyalty Debate in full here. Mastering customer data (finally).

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. Change in the legacy loyalty platform, on the other hand, has been difficult and expensive, because the vendor must be supportive, if not fully engaged for nearly any desired change to functionality.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

when the automotive and mobility industries shifted from a driver- or owner-focused value proposition to a customer-centered one; and when micromobility started to scale up.” [i]. Independent of market positioning, unique customer insight will become the primary competitive advantage. Enter: loyalty marketing.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Each trend supports aspects of the broader business imperative: to be present when and where customers choose to engage. Accelerating customer-centricity.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 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? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Coalition programs are gaining steam because, managed, correctly, they solve the biggest problem in loyalty marketing: engaging your long- and mid-tail customers, rather than just 20-25% of the most frequent.

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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. Uncover the mountains of gold in your mid-long tail customers.

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