CSM Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2023

Customer engagement has become one of the most critical success factors for retailers looking to drive sales, loyalty, and overall business growth. However, with the increasing complexity and diversity of today’s retail environment, engaging with customers has become a more challenging task.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Another undifferentiated loyalty program focused on cookie-cutter transactional rewards and lacking in customer insights. Programs like this saturate the market even when retaining customers and earning their loyalty is more important than ever. Does it sound familiar?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2024

Lessons from the Field: 3 Easy Ways to Customize Customer Experiences & Increase Brand Loyalty by Anand Subbaraj (Fast Company) Personalization encourages customers to both return for more service and recommend that service to others. My Comment: This week’s TOP FIVE roundup has a theme: Customer Loyalty.

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Optimove

AUGUST 24, 2023

Let’s explore how to drive loyalty at each stage: Activation Stage: Building the Foundation: The activation stage marks the start of your relationship with customers. Introducing a loyalty rewards program can motivate telcom customers to explore upgrades, further deepening their connection with your brand.

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Kitewheel

JULY 27, 2020

Why Customer Loyalty Programs Matter. Customer loyalty programs influence the likelihood that a customer will continue purchasing from a given company rather than their competition. This brand loyalty is reinforced by an ongoing positive relationship between a customer and a business and damaged by poor experiences.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 2, 2016

Recently Starbucks announced a change in their highly regarded loyalty program and I heard both praise and deep criticism. Sadly, I felt very old because in 2004 the mere mention of a loyalty program at Starbucks was not well-received. 5) Make it Fun – This is about rewards and playfulness.

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ProProfs Chat

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If you find yourself sharing the same concern frequently, then you need to build a customer loyalty program. But with the awesome customer loyalty programs in place, they’ve successfully ensured that customers return to their store to make a purchase and earn more points. What is a Customer Loyalty Program?

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. No of course not, and that’s the problem with calling these pieces of plastic “loyalty cards.” What is Loyalty Anyway? That’s loyalty.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 17, 2020

He shares different strategies businesses should implement during a world crisis in order to gain and retain customer loyalty. What do you do in the interim to gain and retain customer loyalty? The loyalty strategy worth adopting is to keep in touch and show concern for your customers. Weak purchasing power.

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Oracle

APRIL 6, 2021

From the way consumers buy groceries to how they’re rewarded for their loyalty, the impact of shopping for essentials in a pandemic has permanently changed the grocery market. Leading supermarkets and grocery stores are leveraging their loyalty programs to incentivize repeat purchases and compete in a booming market.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2020

This article explains how loyalty partnerships among complementary brands can produce more comprehensive customer understanding that drives down cost while strengthening engagement – and how to apportion loyalty investments. These collaborations allow members to earn and redeem reward currencies across a spectrum of brands.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2021

To do so, cultivate excellent brand loyalty that will post great reviews of you, your product, and your service. What Is Brand Loyalty? Brand loyalty is best defined as your customers’ tendency to make multiple purchases of your goods and services over competitors. Tips To Cultivate Brand Loyalty.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We all know customer loyalty is the driving engine for a flourishing business. But what is customer loyalty, actually? Customer loyalty is having customers who are committed your company and your products , not just a price point that a competitor can easily emulate. A solid customer loyalty program. A free item?

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Interactions

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Increased loyalty often translates into those customers making more purchases, more often. To successfully engender loyalty in this day and age of endless choice and equally endless holiday sales, retailers are turning back the clock and focusing on improving service as a first step in improving customer experience (CX).

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ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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. Simple formula: Customer Retention = Engagement + Investment. Engagement Generates Activity.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 16, 2011

Most retail organizations use discounts to entice customers to buy their merchandise at the end of each season, but that doesn’t do much to guarantee a shopper will ever return to a store or even garner customer loyalty. Retailers spend billions of dollars on loyalty programs and hope that it brings customers back.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. How loyalty partners co-create value.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

Loyal customers are the backbone of any business, regardless of niche, but keeping them engaged can be as challenging as landing a fish with a threadbare net. Simplicity breeds familiarity, and familiarity breeds loyalty. These predictive cues are subtle yet potent forms of engagement that make clients feel understood and prioritized.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

It takes a lot to earn your client’s trust and loyalty, so once you bring them into your company’s ecosystem, the last thing you want is to see all your efforts go to waste. Others rely on customer feedback, decide to run newsletters, or invest their time in rewarding loyalty. Send Out Surveys.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 14, 2016

When Starbucks recently announced changes to its rewards program, Twitter users lashed out at the coffee giant. In changing its program, Starbucks has tapped into one of the key elements of customer loyalty. Rewards programs are tricky, though. How many rewards cards do you have in your wallet?

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CX Journey

JULY 13, 2017

Image courtesy of Pixabay Why is it so difficult to understand what employee engagement is all about? It's great that there's an ongoing spotlight on employee engagement because it's still at an all-time low. But let's just all say it in unison one last time: Perks and employee engagement should not be used in the same sentence.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This week we feature an article by Jess Mizerak discussing the future of brand loyalty and how to continue to be successful in the world of E-commerce. That’s what your loyalty program should do. – Shep Hyken. That’s important because customer-centricity continues to be the driving force behind sales, and true customer loyalty.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2018

A lot of business professionals talk about customer loyalty. Or they do know what they are talking about, but what they are talking about is not customer loyalty! Many of the organizations I have worked with say that customer loyalty means, “the customer buys everything from us.” So, What Really is Customer Loyalty?

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

9 Ways to Boost Customer Experience and Online Engagement by Shane Phair. There are some great ideas in this article that lists nine ways to create a better CX and promote more engagement. Deep Dive: How Rewards Programs Can Fuel Customer Spending by PYMNTS. That’s a topic for another day. In the meantime, read this.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2015

Customer loyalty and retention are goals for most organizations as a result. In the past, some companies’ modus operandi to build their loyalty involved a loyalty card with additional benefits. However, these loyalty card benefits just became part of the offer over time. So now what do we do to build Customer Loyalty?

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Oracle

APRIL 8, 2021

Episode 9 explored the role of loyalty marketing programs with my special guest, Clay Walton-House, Managing Director, Integrated Loyalty Solutions at PK. Loyalty programs are more popular than ever. As brands in every industry face more competition, customer loyalty is becoming harder to earn.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Realizing the only way to build Customer loyalty is through Customer memories. Realizing the only way to build customer loyalty is through customer memories. Every Customer Experience professional wants to build customer loyalty. Experiences do not form customer loyalty, but memories of experiences do.

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PK

JULY 15, 2019

in The Forrester Wave : Loyalty Service Providers, Q3 2019 report. Whereas past Wave reports have focused on loyalty platform technology providers, this is the first time a Wave report focused exclusively on leading loyalty firms offering services, from visioning and strategy through design, development, and launch of new member experiences.

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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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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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. Improve Your Loyalty Program.

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BirdEye

JULY 5, 2023

Relationship marketing is the strategy of cultivating meaningful relationships with customers to ensure long-term satisfaction and brand loyalty. Relationship marketing focuses on growing a business by building brand loyalty, improving customer retention, and, ultimately, increasing customer referrals.

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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.

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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. 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.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

The top loyalty jobs are tough. Every CEO waxes lyrical about the importance of loyalty. And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint.

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SurveySensum

JULY 26, 2023

According to the research study conducted by Harvard Business School, The Economics of E-Loyalty , increasing customer retention rates by 5% increases profits by 25% to 95%. These programs will help you foster a long-lasting and meaningful relationship with your customers. But why is that a big issue?

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ReviewTrackers

MARCH 24, 2021

A few more statistics reveal how customer experience — more so than digital strengths, rewards program, or coverage options — could be the key for banks that prioritize customer retention. By doing so, you can foster trust-based relationships that help encourage preference and inspire loyalty. Evaluate loyalty and satisfaction.

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Alida

MARCH 27, 2018

“Customer loyalty comes from the heart, as opposed to the mind… you have an emotional bond with the customer.” With great presence, Michael spoke about the Mandarin’s relationship-driven approach to loyalty that has guided the brand for decades: an enduring passion for excellence and exceptional service.

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