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Acquiring new customers can be difficult, and so gaining a loyal customer who happily returns to purchase your product or service again and again not only saves the company time and resources but ensures they have steady sales for a long time to come. Over 90% of businesses today offer a loyalty program.
However, the rewards and gifts shouldn’t be limited to occasions only. Such rewardprograms and incentives profoundly influence a customer’s view of your business emotionally and they continue buying from you. For happy customers, keep rewarding them from time to time. Use Live Chat. Use a CRM Tool.
Your investment in CX must link directly to key business results • Have a clear story line that arDculates the criDcal business results to how the new/improved processes, capabiliDes and customer centricity will deliver your business enhanced performance.
My Comment: I’ve always said that many loyalty programs are often marketing programs, where repeat purchases earn points or free merchandise. A research team at Washington University Business School came out with some interesting research about how just being part of a simple loyalty or rewardsprogram, drives repeat business.
Furthermore, it is based on the illusion that the seller still controls the marketing, selling, and sales processes. Based on how your customers behave at this stage, you should optimize your marketing and sales strategies. In fact, a sale is the beginning of the customer experience process. And that is no longer true.
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. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v].
Used as rewards in the Plus loyalty ecosystem, they drove 108,000 app downloads, with each user averaging 10 minutes’ activity a day in the platform. Vast sums of reward value were issued at a blanket rate of 1-3% – but because many of the points would never be redeemed, the projected cost was considered minimal.
From apparel brands to food delivery platforms, almost all B2C businesses offer loyalty programs; and a majority of them are a huge hit. But, implementing these programs in Business-to-Business (B2B) environments can be a little different. Let us now discuss the opportunities and challenges B2Bs have with loyalty programs.
B2B businesses need to reward their loyal clients frequently. While B2C loyalty programs are quite popular, B2B SaaS companies have to keep certain best practices in mind. B2B companies need to focus on driving revenue and sales while incentivizing existing loyal customers. 10 B2B Loyalty Program Best Practices in 2022.
B2Bs with referrals have a 70% higher conversion rate, and they report a 69% faster close time on sales. Offering a reward increases referral likelihood, but the size of the reward does not matter. “A Penny for Your Thoughts: Referral RewardPrograms and Referral Likelihood.”). B2B v B2C Marketing.
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