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. Personalization comprises four key strategic initiatives.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Marketing Ecommerce 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In contrast to a loyalty program, gifting is a cost effective way to achieve tangible and significant results. Mastercard: Consumer Experience Is Loyalty’s New Currency by PYMNTS. PYMNTS) “I’m a consumer. My Comment: Here is a fascinating article about loyalty and the customer experience.

Customer Service 113

Customer Service Loyalty Programs B2B Competitive Advantage 113

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

And, what is the impact of loyalty programs on enterprise profitability? Overall, companies with loyalty programs have grown at about the same rate as companies without them; but there is variance in performance value among industries. Key among these are: Integrate Loyalty Into the Full Experience. Use the Data.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. Consumers are becoming a lot more deliberate in their pursuit of pleasure – but also a lot more deliberate in other spending categories. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50.

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Loyalty Consumers Marketing Loyalty Programs 72

ShepHyken

AUGUST 30, 2019

As a matter of fact, 97 percent of consumers say customer service is a big factor when it comes to brand loyalty. In fact, the same source showed that 89% of consumers switched to another business after experiencing poor customer service. Create Loyalty Programs with Enticing Rewards. Conclusion.

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Loyalty Programs Lifetime Customer Loyalty Poor Customer Service 110

Alida

MARCH 27, 2018

At Customers for Life, a recent Vision Critical event in Hong Kong, we immediately felt the grandeur, magnificent presence and ambience of the flagship Mandarin Oriental (MO) hotel in Central Hong Kong as soon as we stepped in. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group: Not all customers are created equal.

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Brands Hotels Rewards Programs Insurance 124

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. Why hasn’t loyalty? Why should investing in loyalty be different? Multi-serviced.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Multi-Channel Hotels 52

Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Travel 52

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Banking 98

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. The golden benchmark is about $25 USD per year in loyalty value. This actually is not true.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2024

How to Leverage AI for a Better Customer Experience by Hasan Saleem (FastCompany) The intersection of AI and customer experience has paved the way for innovative, efficient, and personalized interactions between businesses and consumers. My Comment: Here is an excellent and robust article on loyalty programs.

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Hotels Loyalty Programs Customer Service Hospitality 83

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. 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.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52

Currency Alliance

MAY 21, 2017

Hotel group cards. Most consumers belong to many customer loyalty programs, but are not active in a lot of them. So they lose interest in participating, and most of those loyalty cards end up in a drawer rather than the wallet. Fragmentation of customer loyalty programs doesn’t benefit merchants much, either.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hotel group cards. Most consumers belong to many customer loyalty programs, but are not active in a lot of them. So they lose interest in participating, and most of those loyalty cards end up in a drawer rather than the wallet. Fragmentation of customer loyalty programs doesn’t benefit merchants much, either.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Hotels 40

ShepHyken

APRIL 17, 2018

What does the future of brand loyalty look like? Shep Hyken sits down with Patrick Reynolds, Chief Marketing Officer for SessionM , to discuss how technology is transforming traditional customer loyalty programs into a dynamic and personalized customer experience. ? <span How do loyalty programs work?

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Brands 80

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As consumers grow more empowered, with more control and choice than they’ve ever had before, their loyalty to a brand and preference for concentrating their purchasing power becomes even more crucial to merchants. A more useful loyalty program for the customer is one that offers them a loyalty currency that they desire.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. The hotel market is becoming more competitive, with a larger share of wallet being spent on a greater variety of services. Happily, this increased competition does not pose an existential threat to the hotel as a business model.

Hotels 40

Hotels Hospitality Loyalty Travel 40

ShepHyken

MARCH 28, 2022

What Today’s Guests Really Want When It Comes To Hotel Loyalty Programs Might Surprise You by Ellis Connolly. Hospitality Net) Why do so many hotel loyalty programs fail? My Comment: Here’s an interesting take on loyalty programs. For a hotel, that could mean an upgrade.

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Loyalty Programs Customer Service Hotels Entertainment 66

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A hotel chain implements a loyalty program to reward repeat customers with points that can be redeemed for discounts or other special offers. The program is likely to boost satisfaction and give existing customers an incentive to book rooms in the future.

Customer Experience Management 195

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management ROI 195

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. and changing consumer behavior is impacting the legacy loyalty model, and setting the stage for new leaders to emerge.

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ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2023

Top Takeaways: Loyalty programs are used in different industries to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Loyalty programs have now evolved to include enhancing the customer experience. In the recent Achieving Customer Amazement study , 69% of customers say loyalty programs are important to them.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Hotels 62

Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

For airlines, hotels, resorts and other companies in the travel and hospitality industry, this presents new challenges in terms of managing their reputation. Personalization and memorization deal with the fact that airlines or hotel brands should already know something about who I am and what I like.”.

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Hospitality Travel Industry Brands 74

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Many consumers now ‘multibank’[iii], keeping their traditional provider on-hand for the same reasons they always did, but branching out in search of enhanced value. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Actually, they do. Extra what?

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Are Hotel Loyalty and Rewards Programs Enough to Keep Customers Loyal to the Brand? Hospitality Net) The best demonstration of brand loyalty in hospitality and travel, in general, is the share of repeat business. There are some interesting stats and facts that prove how important some of these programs are.

Customer Service 77

Customer Service Hospitality Rewards Programs Self Service 77

ShepHyken

JANUARY 2, 2023

Entrepreneur) Customer loyalty is an essential source of revenue for any business. Use these four tips to create a customer loyalty program that will give you the highest return on your investment. My Comment: How do we create customer loyalty? This goes way beyond loyalty programs. by Matt Bertram.

Customer Service 66

Customer Service Loyalty Programs e-support Loyalty 66

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This year we’ve seen examples of brands offering increased liquidity in their loyalty programs – typically in the form of allowing their members to redeem beyond their own store. Brands will also find that enabling greater customer freedom will also help proactively manage program liabilities in a profitable way.

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Loyalty Trends Brands Loyalty Programs 49

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

Loyalty 64

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Consumers thought about cars and mass transit, while manufacturers of transportation assets thought about market share. Over the past 25 years, intense battles have been fought for flights, hotels, rental cards, activities between suppliers and aggregators. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. .

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Airlines 56

Chadwick Martin Bailey

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Do you realize now that you do not know enough about your consumer? Some clients have come to us at the Ideate stage, where they need to get creative, think differently, and add consumers to their brainstorming. For a theme park we began at Stage 3 , bringing together consumers and engineers to build out a vision for an updated park.

Hotels 59

Hotels Loyalty Programs Innovation Consumers 59

ShepHyken

JANUARY 21, 2024

You will love his opening story about what happened in a well-known, name-brand hotel. The 2024 Marigold Global Consumer Trends Index Report provides insights into consumer preferences that drive marketing decisions and explores the influence of brand relationships.

Customer Service 64

Customer Service Self Service Trends Hotels 64

ShepHyken

JANUARY 23, 2023

How retailers can capture customer loyalty in 5 charts by Arielle Feger (Insider Intelligence) As brand loyalty declines, deals remain a surefire way to win over consumers. Here are five charts on how to up your loyalty game. My Comment : This is one of the more interesting articles about loyalty programs.

Customer Service 14

Customer Service Self Service Contact Center Loyalty 14

Thematic

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Efficient and accurate market research Traditional market research methods can be time-consuming and costly. Direct customer feedback can provide actionable insights that help retailers enhance loyalty programs. VoC analysis streamlines this process by providing real-time feedback from customers.

Voice of Customer 62

Voice of Customer Examples Industry Handbook 62

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Second, if you’re already familiar with the economics, it provides a narrative framework for upskilling your own teams, to help everyone you work with understand what will drive success and failure in loyalty marketing. Unfortunately, many loyalty programs still resemble different guys in disparate fields with different cows.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels Travel 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2024

‘Dynamic pricing’ is normally discussed in terms of the pricing of inventory – such as the cash price for a given hotel room, airline seat, or commodities, etc. But this concept should also apply to the redemption value of loyalty points and miles. The redemption value of a loyalty currency is fixed by most brands.

ROI 40

ROI Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A recent article on PhocusWire helpfully outlined a range of security vulnerabilities common to loyalty programs. Most loyalty program operators now recognize the urgency of improving their platform security, but are still unsure how to proceed. loyalty account information. mailing address. phone number.

Travel 52

Travel System Loyalty Loyalty Programs 52

Maru Group

APRIL 22, 2021

By Vik Sood, Senior Vice President, & Patrick Tillman, Senior Research Manager, Consumer Goods and Services | April 22, 2021. In part 1 of our series on HENRYs , we uncovered that recent pandemic-driven financial responsibility is expected to be short-lived as high discretionary spending returns in the post-COVID lives of these consumers.

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Travel Hotels Financial Groups 52