Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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? Why hasn’t loyalty?

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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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NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

The customer experience is critical to every company’s long-term viability. It is critical to have an optimized and tailored client journey for this to be positive. This customer journey’s enhancement is a work in progress. Outsourcing is the greatest option, allowing companies to focus their approach on their customers.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That feeling is what businesses aim to achieve in order to keep customers happy and satisfied and keep coming back for more. But why is it important to improve customer satisfaction? Because acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing one. So, what exactly is customer satisfaction?

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That feeling is what businesses aim to achieve in order to keep customers happy and satisfied and keep coming back for more. But why is it important to improve customer satisfaction? Because acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing one. So, what exactly is customer satisfaction?

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As consumers grow more empowered, with more control and choice than they’ve ever had before, their loyalty to a brand and preference for concentrating their purchasing power becomes even more crucial to merchants. We understand that it’s not always easy to personalize as customers expect. What do we mean by liquidity?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Therefore, all types of marketing and sales disciplines started to evolve to incentivize and influence customer choice in order to drive more revenue. So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Incentives must be tailored to the customer’s context.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Hamish Sherlock of Applause , explains how to build a next-generation loyalty scheme. For centuries, merchants have been offering special tokens that repeat customers could redeem for goods. Today, stamps, vouchers and coupons have mostly been replaced by apps and digital methods of tracking customer engagement.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 24, 2020

Knowing how much uncertainty is out there, it can be tempting to throw up our hands and say our customer experience is on hold indefinitely. Your customer experience happens whether you are planning it or not. Your customer feedback results may hit some low points, but that doesn’t mean they’re not important.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. Much of the bad has derived from a lack of belief or understanding from CEOs, who constrain budgets, and prop up short-term earnings with value that ought to flow to customers. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Kitewheel

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The customer experience for airlines is made even worse by the shrinking window for customers to reach their gate, frustration at people cutting in line, or a sense that there are not enough attendants at the front desk, gate, or any other location. This tip is one that some travel brands have already implemented.

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SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

According to a research report by PwC titled, “ Experience is Everything ”, 73% of the customers pointed to customer experience as an important factor in their shopping experience. Yet only 49% of the customers said that they had positive customer experiences with companies. Then this guide is for you. Why Survey?

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SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

According to a research report by PwC titled, “ Experience is Everything ”, 73% of the customers pointed to customer experience as an important factor in their shopping experience. Yet only 49% of the customers said that they had positive customer experiences with companies. Then this guide is for you. Why Survey?

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 18, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore seven innovative ways to supercharge your marketing strategy using SMS automation and enhance customer experience. Personalize Customer Journeys The concept of personalized customer journeys involves leveraging SMS automation to send tailored messages to individual behavior, demographics, and preferences.

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John Paul

MARCH 25, 2019

Our mission is to help our clients (usually big brands in various industries such as automotive, financial services, luxury…) to optimize their customer journey and enrich the existing loyalty programs in order to propose a seamless experience to the final customers. How long have you been working at John Paul?

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. It does give pause for thought, however, that agile tech companies have proven more apt at filling these gaps: owning more of the customer journey, gathering more detailed data, and making more relevant and personalized offers.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

So, to demonstrate some progress, many organizations have pursued initiatives that are only cosmetic in nature while not truly taking advantage of what digital transformation enables: namely that customer journeys, partnerships, trading ecosystems, etc. Customers interact with brands in various environments. Device agnostic.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

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? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Uncover the mountains of gold in your mid-long tail customers.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. Value, that is, to a minority of highly-frequent, high-spending customers.

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Bold360

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A funny thing happened when researchers asked consumers and marketers associated with the travel industry how they viewed the industry’s well-known loyalty programs. For the marketers – 66 percent of them – the programs were seen as a good way for customers to show loyalty to the brand.

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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. You can watch the Loyalty Debate in full here. Mastering customer data (finally).

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John Paul

JULY 17, 2018

July 17 th , 2018 – Hong Kong – John Paul, the number one worldwide loyalty solutions service that was acquired by AccorHotels in 2016, is fast expanding in Asia Pacific (APAC). As we develop our APAC client base and grow , recruiting people with a passion for service and a customer focused mindset is key. ABOUT JOHN PAUL.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty. Some stars are sticks.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We created these infographics as a quick-reference guide to the fundamentals of each model, to help marketers fully understand how they operate, and to find the approach that works best for their customers. Loyalty Coalition Model V1.0: Loyalty Coalition Model V3.0: Next-generation loyalty marketing. Click to expand.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Actually, they do. Extra what? in 2017[vii].

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Customer-side, the greater control and flexibility around data, enabled by microservices, is experienced as more rapid deployment of features, accurate personalization, greater relevancy, and an improved perception of the brand. This analogy must also be true of software companies that deliver loyalty program management systems.

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LiveChat

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Relationship marketing is about forming long–term relationships and focusing on customer loyalty. In the transactional model, a customer may be convinced to select your brand one time, but without a strong relationship marketing strategy, the customer may not come back in the future. Customer service.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

Congratulations on becoming the new chief customer officer of the organization. The biggest challenge you will face as the new chief customer officer is that the customer situation has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years. Meetings, onboarding, and processes for retaining customers have changed drastically.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 30, 2019

Customer experience is everything in the airline industry. From the routes they fly to the booking process and the on-board experience, every touchpoint with customers is an opportunity for airlines to deliver breakthrough experiences that build their reputation and help them stand out in a fiercely competitive sector.

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