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QSR: How Restaurant Brands Can Compete With Third-Party Delivery

Strativity

To combat this, brands must de-emphasize reliance on these providers and take back their customer relationships. Understand the experience your customers are hungry for. Customers have more restaurant choices than ever. Sample new channels to reach new customers. This can be achieved in six steps: 1.

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How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism?

Bold360

The Qubit Future of Travel Report 2016 shows that investing in customer satisfaction can be equally as important as competing on price points. Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and reward programs with varied success. The post How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism?

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Mastering Call Queuing: The Ultimate Guide to Efficient Customer Communications

NobelBiz

Imagine it as a virtual queue at your favorite coffee shop, where each customer patiently waits for their turn to be served. With features such as personalized hold music, informative messages, and updates on queue status, the time customers spend on hold is transformed from a mundane wait to an engaging experience.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

Just like the most frequent customers, engaging the mid-long-tail in your loyalty program will depend on finding complementary brand partners. However, the vast majority of these customers are a more varied subset of your audience, with more varied interests. Vueling is similar.

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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. A disloyal generation?

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

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 loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. How can we call that success? A little more context.

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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. Vast sums of reward value were issued at a blanket rate of 1-3% – but because many of the points would never be redeemed, the projected cost was considered minimal.

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