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The Qubit Future of Travel Report 2016 shows that investing in customer satisfaction can be equally as important as competing on price points. Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and rewardprograms with varied success. The post How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism?
liquidity), shared technology, removal of unnecessary intermediaries, and overall fewer restrictions that stifle customerengagement. Customers have been figuring out how little most loyalty currencies are worth for several years now (leading to the passive apathy they´ve been demonstrating).
Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Banks have been in and out of rewardsprograms for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. in 2017[vii]. For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable.
The Post article was on the heels of articles from Restaurant Business (2018) and The New York Times (2017)—both asserting that there may be too many restaurants. Delivery is an often-repeated rationale for deferring some or most of the customerengagement responsibility to third-party services.
The Post article was on the heels of articles from Restaurant Business (2018) and The New York Times (2017)—both asserting that there may be too many restaurants. Delivery is an often-repeated rationale for deferring some or most of the customerengagement responsibility to third-party services.
Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customerengagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. The Dutch bank is one of the few remaining banks in the European Union that has held on to a loyalty program after interchange fees were slashed in 2017.
The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. How can we call that success? A little more context.
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. So this should be a warning for any big grocery loyalty program.
Rewardprograms still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to rewardcustomers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.
With the institution of loyalty rewardprograms, the collection of purchase/transaction data took off. Examples of data on consumers provided by Acxiom and Oracle (as of April/May 2017). And the evolution of the Internet has taken the collection of personal data to ever-new heights. Sources see report.
Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in rewardprograms. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. 0: a decentralized brand coalition, enhanced by marketing technology (2017 onwards).
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