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Tailoring Your CV: How to Land the Job You Want

CSM Magazine

A restaurant can hire the greatest chef in the world, and still have poor reviews because of the service the customer receives. Include Customer Service Based Keywords Buzzwords in the customer service industry include things like active listening, customer engagement, supported, improved, solved or assisted.

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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. 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.

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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. Hybrid points programs. A disloyal generation?

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. 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. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.

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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. The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A useful set of segments might include: For Travel.

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Breaking down the walls: Loyalty Magazine Awards 2019

Currency Alliance

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. Points are perceived by customers as a kind of currency; underperforming loyalty brands, equally, prioritize this purely transactional insight.

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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. In practice, most customers do not exchange out of a program, but they love the idea of having such freedom.

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