Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Top-rated airlines like JetBlue have managed to combine reasonable prices with quality service and experience. Power reported higher consumer satisfaction than ever – largely due to increased seat sizes and cheaper fares.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

User-Friendly Loyalty Programs Nobody needs another loyalty card that sits gathering dust at the bottom of a wallet. A great rewards program is intuitive, easy to join, and worth the effort. People love unlocking levels, whether they’re collecting airline miles or free coffee. Gamification can work wonders here too.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 14, 2010

Their rewards program provides 2 points for every dollar spent at Nordstrom’s and provides for 1 point when I use the card elsewhere. I can also convert points to miles on many different airlines, and use the points and redeem them at various hotels and Hertz car rentals. has extended the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs 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 reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

His chosen airline made him so mad that he wrote a song about them, which has since been viewed over 18m times on YouTube ( [link] ). The anecdotes revealed some interesting themes, and they should make for useful learnings for airline and hotel brands. The airline put us up in a hotel, as you’d expect, but managed it horrifically.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Asia Miles, the loyalty program of Cathay Pacific airline group, teamed up with Accenture to do just this. The technology was deployed as part of an ‘Unlock More Miles’ campaign with the airline’s dining partners in Hong Kong. This is a huge problem for the consumer. This effort is a marked improvement.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating? They may be worth.5

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Airlines will spend a good portion of 2020 proving that their programs are fundamental to minimizing the environmental impact as the industry grows. At the Loyalty Surgery this year, IBM’s Greg Land said that their modern martech trial at Malaysia Airlines performed extremely well, delivering a 43% improvement in ROI.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Life as we knew it before COVID-19 will take time to return, and even when it does we’re likely to be in a ‘new normal’, as the crisis impacts consumer behaviors going forward. Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. This past summer, the supermarket decided to offer reward points to customers who bring their own re-usable carrier bags. demonstrating environmental responsibility.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

I recently had dinner with the Strategic Partnerships Manager for one of the 10 largest airlines in the world and he confessed that they have customer data in three separate systems that each generate customer communications, but do not share data with each other.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. Powerful consumer brands, meanwhile, are building their own coalitions. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii].

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

This means that loyalty programs are now a more important channel for customer acquisition and retention than ever before. A low-frequency business would be an airline (for most people), or brands selling occasional purchases such as refrigerators, cars, laptops, shoes, gala dresses, etc.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. consumer goods (Fitbit). utilities (AGL). fashion (Adidas). various fuel chains.

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