BirdEye

JULY 5, 2023

Relationship marketing is the strategy of cultivating meaningful relationships with customers to ensure long-term satisfaction and brand loyalty. This strategy uses online and offline communication channels for your business to build stronger relationships with your customer base.

Examples 98

Examples Strategy Marketing Social Media 98

Strativity

MAY 25, 2023

Understand the experience your customers are hungry for. Customers have more restaurant choices than ever. This puts pressure on restaurants with diluted or outdated value propositions, impersonal customer relationships, and stale rewards programs. Sample new channels to reach new customers.

Brands 52

Brands Loyalty Programs e-support Rewards Programs 52

CSM Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

With the pandemic remaining widespread, business owners are now asking the question—how to maintain strong customer engagement during COVID-19? Reinventing Customer Engagement. Customer engagement is the process of strengthening your emotional connection with your customers. Keep Your Lines Open.

Customer Engagement 52

Customer Engagement Engagement Social Media How To 52

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

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

Loyalty program announcements so far this year indicate a major sea change. To get customers re-engaged, brands are making it easier to participate in their loyalty programs and are offering enhanced ways to redeem – so customers can make use of even small amounts of points/miles.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Rewards Programs 52

SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This not only helps in retaining customers but also turns them into advocates for your brand. Moreover, responsive customer support ensures that customers have a positive experience whenever they need assistance, further cementing their loyalty. This consistent engagement keeps your brand on customers’ minds.

Customer Retention 52

Customer Retention Software Gamification e-support 52

ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

For effective customer retention, a focused and dedicated approach needs to be kept in mind. And, a well-designed loyalty program can act as a profitable investment and reduce the likelihood of customers going to your competitors. Take the example of Victoria’s Secret loyalty program PINK Nation.

Customer Retention 82

Customer Retention Engagement Strategy Rewards Programs 82

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years.

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

The top loyalty jobs are tough. Every CEO waxes lyrical about the importance of loyalty. Every CFO knows a loyal customer is many times more profitable than others. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments. Points alone don’t earn much loyalty.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Brands Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 40

CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Customer-facing teams in sales and service-orientated environments embrace the concept. Marketing teams use it to get to know their customers, to personalise their brand reach and encourage brand loyalty. Comprehensive customer experience ecosystems create customer memories that narrate specific brand stories.

Net Promoter Score 98

Net Promoter Score Brands Effort Score Loyalty Programs 98

SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Investments in customer loyalty are booming. Marketing teams are spending big on rewards, partnerships, agencies, data capabilities and marketing technology. Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor.

ROI 100

ROI Measurement Marketing Loyalty Programs 100

SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Investments in customer loyalty are booming. Marketing teams are spending big on rewards, partnerships, agencies, data capabilities and marketing technology. Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor.

ROI 100

ROI Measurement Marketing Loyalty Programs 100

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit. I like these changes.

Rewards Programs 60

Rewards Programs Hotels Travel Chief Customer Officer 60

Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Inspiring Real Loyalty, No Cards in Sight. Time and time again they top the list of airlines to which customers feel loyal.

Tourism 56

Tourism Travel Customer Service e-support 56

SurveySensum

JULY 19, 2023

According to a new Forbes Insights and Arm Treasure Data survey of more than 1000 customers worldwide, 74% of customers said they are likely to buy from brands based on experience alone. This statistic emphasizes the critical role that retail customer experience plays in customer loyalty, brand advocacy, and business growth.

Retail 40

Retail Examples Customer Experience Social Media 40

Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

To solve this problem, airlines should use real-time interaction management(RTIM) to track each customer across time and determine the next best experience for them. Contextual relevance drives customer engagement. While a blanket message can make sense in some contexts, we know that customers prefer personalized messages.

Travel 40

Travel Hospitality Customer Journeys Examples 40

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

SmartKarrot

JUNE 1, 2020

Focus on customer expectations based on the attributes that the client believes are significant. Use loyalty schemes to add-customer perceived value. A loyalty program is an initiative that offers an immediate or delayed incremental reward to clients for their continuous and cumulative patronage.

Customer Retention 10

Customer Retention Social Media Rewards Programs Loyalty 10

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. 1. Looking beyond transactional rewards.

Loyalty 49

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

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?

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

ECXO

JANUARY 30, 2024

The emotions in CX Emotions have a pivotal role in the customer experience and can significantly impact customer loyalty and repeat purchases. This can be better understood by dissecting the customer journey into two main components: the functional and the emotional.

Rewards Programs 52

Rewards Programs Loyalty Brands Connections 52

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

Loyalty 58

Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

Margin matters now more than ever A handful of restaurant category brands invested early in proprietary customer engagement platforms and were rewarded with enduring positions of strength, while other brands struggled to pivot. Key Actions for Design + Build: In-store Experiences Customer Data Enablement Digital Experience 5.

Strategy 52

Strategy e-support Roadmap Customer relationships 52

Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

Margin matters now more than ever A handful of restaurant category brands invested early in proprietary customer engagement platforms and were rewarded with enduring positions of strength, while other brands struggled to pivot. Key Actions for Design + Build: In-store Experiences Customer Data Enablement Digital Experience 5.

Roadmap 52

Roadmap Customer relationships Brands e-support 52

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Survey your customers frequently to measure customer satisfaction and handle all shortcomings that the customers raise. It will help increase brand loyalty which translates to customer loyalty and retention.”. Jane Flanagan says, “Communicate regularly with customers to update them about any updates.

Customer Retention 21

Customer Retention Strategy e-support Social Media 21

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A spike in recent news around loyalty coalitions – both good and bad – signals the dawn of a new, vastly more profitable iteration of the coalition model. Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. In summary: V1.0 In summary: V1.0

Loyalty 36

Loyalty Consumers Brands Airlines 36

SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

The customers must be engaged at this stage of the ecommerce journey. But keeping customers engaged at this stage is a big challenge. Stage 3: Conversion The next step after keeping customers engaged is conversion. Many customers don’t reach the conversion stage at all.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Ecommerce Touchpoint Social Media 52