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Guest Post: How Next-Generation Loyalty Programs Elevate Customer Experiences

ShepHyken

She writes about next-generation loyalty programs and how they can enhance customer experience. Traditional Loyalty Programs: Limitations and Challenges Traditional loyalty programs , with their focus on transactional rewards and points accumulation, face several limitations and challenges in today’s competitive landscape.

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Can AI Improve Your Loyalty Program?

Forrester's Customer Insights

Learn about the potential of predictive AI — and, now, generative AI — in enhancing loyalty programs and strategies.

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Retail Customer Experience: Strategies for Keeping Shoppers Engaged and Loyal

Retently

This interconnected retail context demands a cohesive approach, ensuring that customer experience is consistent and positive, regardless of how or where the customer chooses to shop. Now, let’s cut to the chaise to uncover practical strategies that create such engaging retail experiences that foster loyalty and repeat business.

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Changing Your Loyalty Program? Here’s What To Consider

Forrester's Customer Insights

Today, brands leverage loyalty programs to acquire and retain customers, particularly those they lost during the height of the pandemic. But loyalty programs are a symbiotic relationship: Consumers look to programs for better experiences and cost savings, especially in light of the current economic crisis.

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Characteristics of a Winning Loyalty Program in 2025

Currency Alliance

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. The customer experience has evolved. Why hasn’t loyalty? Customer singular.

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Loyalty for CEOs: how to add enterprise value to your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

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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Paid Loyalty Programs Pique Premium Interest

Forrester's Customer Insights

Premium loyalty programs charge a fee for access to membership or a program tier. In recent weeks, we’ve seen several new premium loyalty programs or tiers announced: Sweetgreen announced a two-tiered program in April with a […]