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5 Habits of Exceptional Customer Service Managers

CSM Magazine

Forward-thinking recognition and reward programs drive employees to perform better. Reports about critical issues can help with future issues. Ian Miller is the Editor of CSM Magazine – the leading resource and community for customer service managers and professionals. Customers are always first. What was the issue?

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Guide to Business Fleet Gas Cards: Get Corporate Discounts on Fuel Efficient Programs

CSM Magazine

With fuel cards, businesses can track fuel usage, set spending limits, and generate custom reports to better manage and control their fleet’s fuel expenses. These cards also eliminate the need for employees to make fuel purchases on expense reports, streamlining expense reporting processes.

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10 Ways to Turn First-Time Buyers into Repeat Customers

CSM Magazine

Other features include things like ticket notifications, customer management systems, customer tracking capabilities, customer feedback surveys and reporting tools. Try instituting a customer reward program, with discounts available after repeat purchases. People like being recognized and appreciated. Final Thoughts.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

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]. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v].

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The Implications of Big-data Marketing: Bigger Than You Think

West Monroe

But sources for such data were once limited to newspaper and magazine subscriptions, book club memberships, catalog purchases, seminar and conference attendance, and warranty registration forms – in other words, where someone had to fill out a form to provide the data. Sources see report. Should and how will you use this data?

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Leader’s vision: #1 loyalty driver for the modern brand

Currency Alliance

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. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments. References. [i] ii] [link].

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

Currency Alliance

DSW, a shoe retailer, built a new loyalty platform on Google Cloud Services, allowing the retailer to ‘tailor rewards and offers with a high level of detail, engaging customers as individuals to build emotional loyalty’. A DSW manager, speaking on the software upgrade, reported…. ii] Loyalty Magazine, June 2019 edition.

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