Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit.

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ShepHyken

MAY 30, 2022

This is Where Rewards Programs Lose Most of Their Members by Jenn McMillen. My Comment: If you have a rewards program, is it working? Here you will find some interesting stats and findings about why rewards programs fizzle out, the mistakes companies/brands make, and more.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 29, 2022

With buyer satisfaction levels plummeting to a 17-year low, and less than 35% of consumers completely satisfied with their brand relationship, there is huge stakes resting on your ability to provide satisfying experiences. This begs the question – does your brand have the insights and strategies needed to buck this trend?

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

What changes has your business made this year to improve the experience customers have with your brand? Instead CX has to be viewed as part of the overall journey a customer takes with your brand. For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewards program. Brand your omnichannel journey.

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Hotels ROI Customer Journeys Retail 76

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

For example, let’s say you went to a hotel where the experience was fine. However, you thought this particular hotel would wow you. Your feelings toward a brand create a positive or negative halo influencing your evaluation of their Customer Experience. You see, your brain associates your expectations with the McDonald’s brand.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and reward programs with varied success.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. The loyalty program is not a barnacle that has been attached to the business. Therefore, we offer this fairly extensive summary of what most brands should be doing with their loyalty programs to maximize business impact this year.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. But even these leading travel brands can do better. Too often, when interacting with travel brands and hotels, they don’t seem to know who you are unless you’re a member of their rewards program.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

TechCrunch reports that brands such as Airbnb, Disney, and Twitter have seen a 75% reduction in development lead times by migrating to microservices[i]. Furthermore, if your own brand doesn’t take advantage of microservices, others will – increasing their competitiveness. Today, no brand need submit themselves this risk.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

Inbenta

JUNE 30, 2021

Tourism, hospitality, and leisure companies have been extremely touched by the Covid pandemic, with thousands of canceled flights, hotel bookings, and more. TravelClub is the leader reward program in Spain with over 6 million subscribers. Benefit is one of the most well-known brands in the cosmetic industry. TravelClub.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. There is a growing divide in customer experience delivered by brands whose digital transformations are progressing well, and those being left behind. Brands embrace shared environmental goals with customers.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Comparing WEX Fleet Cards and Other Leading Brands WEX, BP, Shell, and FleetCor are the leading brands behind business fleet gas savings programs. Having a custom limit in place ensures that they only incur per diems, hotel bills with approved providers, and appropriate fuel expenditures within specific dates or times.

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Transportation Rewards Programs Report Hotels 52

SurveySparrow

JUNE 22, 2023

In today’s business world, customers’ expectations are higher than ever, with each interaction playing a vital role in shaping their overall perception of your brand. Zappos Sector: Retail Zappos, an online shoe and clothing retailer, has built its brand on a foundation of exceptional customer service.

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Customer Journeys Examples Customer Experience e-support 52

Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. For some brands, issuing your own loyalty currency is certainly desirable. This actually is not true.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Part of the solution is to take on some of the characteristics of a challenger bank – but that space is already crowded with lookalike competitors, and straying too far along this path may create branding problems for a venerable institution. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

To derive far greater profits from loyalty programs, brands should reappraise the way they issue loyalty rewards. It also means building more value into the loyalty program, through personalized offers and partnerships with complementary brands, that make your currency easier to earn, and more rewarding to burn.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

The anecdotes revealed some interesting themes, and they should make for useful learnings for airline and hotel brands. During the past 20 years, I´ve stayed in hundreds of IHG hotels and amassed hundreds of thousands of loyalty points. Since then, over 200 hotels that were not IHG have had my custom instead. Think again.

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Travel Course Customer Experience Airlines 40

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

From the customer perspective, it amounts to a Revolution – where brands are finally giving into what has been a ‘peaceful demonstration’ gaining momentum for several years – namely that it is too difficult to accumulate much value among so many incompatible loyalty point currencies/programs – so consumers quit.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Rewards Programs 52

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. A winning program in the grocery sector.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats. Travel brands have featured less heavily among the winners, this year, than ever before. The program is actually called, ‘ Voxi Drop ’.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Across every industry, how you respond to the crisis and these seismic shifts in behavior will have a lasting impact on how your brand comes out the other side. Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home. Hospitality.

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Hospitality Retail Rewards Programs ROI 29

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Hotel chains, worried about competition from Airbnb , are rolling out these and other special experiences for their best rewards customers. And the big hotel chains are worried. I’ve stayed in their hotels many times and I like them just fine. But true loyalty can’t be bought with rewards perks.

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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]. Trust issues.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. And the very nature of loyalty is shifting: 77 percent of all consumers say they’re more willing to switch brand loyalty than they were even three years ago.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. Big brands mimicking strategies pioneered by upstart challengers. 2018 saw a 14.2%

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