ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To improve customer experience, companies need to break down the customer journey into smaller episodes or touchpoints. Plus, Shep and Jason talk about the NPS leaders in various industries, including automotive, groceries, airlines, and more. What are the key factors that contribute to customer loyalty and growth?

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Net Promoter Score NPS Automotive Poor Customer Service 135

QuestionPro Audience

AUGUST 28, 2017

We will walk you through customer journey mapping and best practices and present alongside a case study with Emirates Airlines. Customer Experience is a blend of a company’s rational performance and the emotions evoked in all the interactions with the customer, across all touchpoints. We usually start off with a single touchpoint.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Airlines Metrics 150

ECXO

APRIL 26, 2023

The partnership is critical to creating a seamless and consistent customer and employee experience across all touchpoints. High levels of customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy are built on well-designed user experiences; products and services that customers want and need. But, no matter the level, working together is crucial.

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Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Competitive Advantage ROI 156

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It is the key predictor for gauging and improving customer retention and loyalty. How can you increase your customer base, revenue, and customer loyalty ? Are you capturing feedback at all the relevant touchpoints/customer interactions handled by multiple teams? It helps you identify what is working for you and what is not!

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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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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 59

Currency Alliance

AUGUST 15, 2024

This is precisely what loyalty programs were originally designed for, as marketing platforms purpose-built for measuring and incentivizing customer engagement, including when the customer is not shopping with your brand. Let me re-emphasize: relationships are built by people and through positive experiences across all touchpoints.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Marketing Ecommerce 52

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This personalization not only enhances customer satisfaction but also drives sales and fosters brand loyalty. This post-transaction interaction not only fosters customer loyalty but also contributes to additional revenue through upselling and cross-selling opportunities.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales. Evolution of businesses’ CX functions.

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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Airlines 59

Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

We use awareness, consideration, evaluation, conversion as the phases of the journey and connect to relevant touchpoints/marketing mixes. John Lewis, LATAM Airlines, Nestlé, Barclays and British Gas each had 6. What is the best or most common way to determine the health of your customer touchpoints?

Customer Journeys 136

Customer Journeys Management Touchpoint Banking 136

DCX

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Whether it’s through unexpected details, sensory immersion, or rethinking the ordinary, the best brands understand that experience is the real currency of loyalty. Bottom Line Customers expect connected, effortless experiences across all touchpoints. Direct connections build long-term loyalty. Stay ahead of change.

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Video Airlines Travel Connections 52

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Loyalty Marketing Airlines Loyalty Programs 52

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But here’s the thing: customer service agents are the touchpoint between brand and customer, and if they’re not given the tools to work efficiently, they’re unlikely to make customers happy and keep them coming back. Why might customer service agents be unhappy? An omnichannel view that’s streamlined for efficiency would be a lifesaver.

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Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Airlines 136

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Enter: loyalty marketing. This article describes why a Loyalty Strategy will become the only long-term, sustainable point of differentiation in the mobility portal wars, because sufficient capital will find innovative growth companies and legacy players will eventually learn how to become more agile. It was a profitable discovery.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Airlines 56

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 16, 2023

Recovering well and proactively addressing the pain points could actually lead to more loyalty. Southwest Airlines, while still recovering from their holiday-time meltdown, is known for proactively addressing customer concerns. On This Southwest Airlines Flight, Almost Everything Went Wrong. Customers have bad experiences.

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ijgolding

MARCH 31, 2017

Having flown over 300 times in the last two years alone, I am well versed in the differences between airlines. In fact, one of my most read posts is a review I conducted in 2014, comparing the airlines Emirates and Etihad. And the employees were fantastic, but maybe some of the touchpoints could have had a better design.

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Comparison Customer Experience Airlines Travel 120

Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

We use awareness, consideration, evaluation, conversion as the phases of the journey and connect to relevant touchpoints/marketing mixes. John Lewis, LATAM Airlines, Nestlé, Barclays and British Gas each had 6. What is the best or most common way to determine the health of your customer touchpoints?

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Management Touchpoint Banking 120

Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

We use awareness, consideration, evaluation, conversion as the phases of the journey and connect to relevant touchpoints/marketing mixes. John Lewis, LATAM Airlines, Nestlé, Barclays and British Gas each had 6. What is the best or most common way to determine the health of your customer touchpoints?

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Management Touchpoint Banking 120

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

AI Chatbots and Virtual Assistants Chatbots are often the first touchpoint in a hybrid contact center. Example : An airline customer requesting reimbursement for a canceled flight speaks with a human agent after the chatbot collects all necessary information, such as flight details and refund eligibility.

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Contact Center Chatbots e-support Social Media 52

ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 2024

The experience a company provides is often as important as its products or services when it comes to customer satisfaction and loyalty. And in today’s digitally driven world, there are more customer touchpoints and ways of communicating than ever before, making it imperative to get CX right. But there’s more. Don’t overlook the data!

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Self Service Customer Service Loyalty Programs Travel 88

ijgolding

AUGUST 12, 2018

A customer NEED is something that is very important (rather than just desirable) and that is a necessity or a basic requirement – an airline getting you to your chosen destination on time, for example.

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Customer Journeys Customers Airlines Social Media 185

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Travel 52

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This article on the loyalty rules engine is probably the second-most important article I will ever write on loyalty marketing*. It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Social Media ROI 52

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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Loyalty Trends Data Marketing 59

Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. For some brands, issuing your own loyalty currency is certainly desirable.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Ecommerce Touchpoint 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. Points are perceived by customers as a kind of currency; underperforming loyalty brands, equally, prioritize this purely transactional insight.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

GetFeedback

JANUARY 6, 2020

Winning CX initiatives–those achieving tangible benefits or a competitive edge–tend to include more stages (also known as touchpoints) in journey maps. The activities of the account team along with many other IBMers help deliver on the experience that customers expected and built loyalty for the long-term. .

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Customer Journeys B2C B2B Social Media 195

Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? Another source of confusion is that in some industries retention is synonymous with churn, while in others it goes hand-in-hand with loyalty. The first step is to integrate customer data available to you from different touchpoints. Build Effective Loyalty Programs. Data Integration.

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Customer Retention Analytics Loyalty Programs Customer Journeys 110

SurveySensum

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Net Promoter Score Defined Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a widely used CX metric that measures customer loyalty and satisfaction by gauging how likely customers are to recommend a company, product, or service to their friends and family. But for that, we must first understand what NPS is and how NPS is calculated.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years. In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Resources 52

ProProfs Chat

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here is a quick recap: Right before an overbooked United Express flight took off on April 9, 2017, airplane staff were recorded manhandling and forcibly removing passengers to make room for airline employees. . Now, it would be wrong to say that such a big airline company did not have a devised structure of customer service policies.

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Policies Customer Service How To Guidelines 105

Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. If you want a more technical description of headless loyalty, read our previous article on the topic here. This article has three sections.

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Loyalty Touchpoint Loyalty Programs Social Media 52

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Rationalizing loyalty ROI vs other marketing channels.

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Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Banking 52

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

There are of course many trends taking shape, but we thought we would take a look at what we consider to be the three top loyalty trends for 2018, and the implications of these for both brands and customers. Everyone knows that trust is key in brand loyalty. Top loyalty trends for 2018: No.1

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