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Building a Better Loyalty Program (and the Reward for Getting It Right)

BlueOcean

According to Bond , “the power of loyalty programs often trains an organization to optimize the program instead of optimizing loyalty.” Part of the issue lies in the CRM and communications strategies–they simply aren’t always aligned, which allows inconsistent messaging to customers.

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Are You Delighting Customers on an Emotional Level?

CSM Magazine

However, the rewards and gifts shouldn’t be limited to occasions only. Such reward programs and incentives profoundly influence a customer’s view of your business emotionally and they continue buying from you. For happy customers, keep rewarding them from time to time. Use a CRM Tool. Engage with Customers.

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

Currency Alliance

Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

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 partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. For airlines and hotel groups, frequent customers are business travelers, so their partner mixes are heavily biased toward fellow travel brands. I’m a case in point.

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How Loyalty Programs Drive Customer Relationships: Experience TV Episode 9 Featuring Clay Walton-House from PK

Oracle

Ruth Walker, VP of CRM at The Walt Disney Studios, was recently interviewed during Oracle Live with Lisa Joy Rosner, SVP of brand and digital marketing at Oracle. Q: Tell me about the role loyalty programs now play in today’s world of pandemic-living, database churn, category-switching, and ecommerce?

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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].

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