InMoment XI

AUGUST 1, 2024

It includes both positive and negative feelings, like satisfaction, frustration, loyalty, and disappointment. For customer experience leaders, customer sentiment is crucial because it directly impacts customer loyalty, satisfaction, and retention. Why is Customer Sentiment Important? What is Customer Sentiment Analysis?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s prime time for retailers to grow an Amazon-level loyalty program by Tom Caporaso. My Comment: Here’s a great article about customer loyalty. Some loyalty programs are actually marketing programs. Some loyalty programs create emotional connections.

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ECXO

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Building loyalty: Satisfied customers are more likely to become repeat buyers and brand advocates, boosting lifetime value. Why It Works: A detailed understanding of the customer journey allows you to target improvements where they matter most, boosting satisfaction and loyalty. I usually call them MoTs (Moments of Truth).

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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. Somewhere in the middle are hospitality companies. Personalization comprises four key strategic initiatives.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 12, 2015

How can we increase loyalty? You like being loyal to these businesses because they earn your loyalty. They earn your loyalty because of how they make you feel. All loyalty and authentic word-of-mouth marketing results are based on emotion. The following is a Best of 360Connext post. Consider yourself as a loyal customer.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The key is to build trust and loyalty through positive experiences that convert potential losses into growth opportunities. Addressing these drivers allows you to enhance satisfaction, loyalty, and retention. Invest in Customer Loyalty Strong customer loyalty is key to reducing churn.

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Oracle

MARCH 18, 2021

And for the most avid travelers engaged in airline, credit card, and hotel loyalty programs, 2020 provided extremely limited opportunities to maintain status, earn points, or redeem travel rewards. Travel loyalty reimagined. Travel loyalty programs matter to consumers, and so do their responses to the pandemic.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

When it comes to the world of casinos, loyalty isn’t just a virtue but a strategic game-changer. There is hardly any online or land-based casino that doesn’t offer some kind of a loyalty program, like the iRush Rewards program or any other like this. But do those programs really work, and how?

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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

Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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Hospitality Loyalty Industry Hotels 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In contrast to a loyalty program, gifting is a cost effective way to achieve tangible and significant results. This is an interesting article on how a gift can create a psychological impact, increase loyalty and more. My Comment: Here is a fascinating article about loyalty and the customer experience.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs B2B Competitive Advantage 114

Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Mark leads Hilton’s customer strategy as SVP and global head of loyalty & partnerships. He creates innovative programs, products and partnerships that drive engagement, grow share of wallet and accelerate performance.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2024

Brands Want Your Loyalty—and Will Offer More Than Points to Get It by Lauren Giella (Newsweek) Loyalty programs offer customers rewards, discounts or other perks when buying from or using the products or services of a certain brand. My Comment: Here is an excellent and robust article on loyalty programs.

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Hotels Loyalty Programs Customer Service Hospitality 85

Customer Bliss

MAY 15, 2019

The day after the store opened, she went over and registered Buddy, signed up for the loyalty program, and made an appointment for his first grooming. ” Signal That You Value Customer Loyalty: A Case Study. Jude Children’s Hospital, on honoring customers (in this case, donors) as assets.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Today, I’m replaying one of our most popular episodes from 2018 about the employee experience and building customer loyalty at Hertz with Eric Smuda , VP of Customer Experience and Loyalty.

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Employee Experience Chief Customer Officer Loyalty Programs Loyalty 143

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In her Forbes.com article titled How Gratitude Advances Marketing and Business, Cheryl Conner notes that business leaders should: Go for gratitude first, and loyalty will follow. But two-thirds of marketers view loyalty programs as a way for consumers to demonstrate their loyalty to brands. Gratitude and Business.

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Customer Experience Loyalty Programs Loyalty Consulting 113

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Support Teams Consistency: Identify fundamental customer needs and create customized value and benefits Formal Relationship Surveys: Create goal-oriented relationship surveys; look for churn warning signs specific to your business Leverage Loyalty Programs: Leverage your best customers to be your most outspoken advocates.

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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. First up: the travel & hospitality sector. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As a result, businesses gain valuable insight into customer expectations, which guides strategy on boosting retention and loyalty. Here is how customer experience management helps make that possible for you: It enhances customer retention and loyalty. It helps enhance customer loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

By owning this more complete customer journey, the hotel has the opportunity to deliver better experiences and to earn greater guest loyalty. Mobile check-in can also be deployed to upsell room selection, to offer customized key collection, or can be integrated with a loyalty program to confirm benefits such as lounge-access or free Wi-Fi.

Hotels 40

Hotels Hospitality Loyalty Travel 40

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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Alida

JANUARY 5, 2018

Forrester expects that rather than plowing money into traditional ad spending, CMOs will focus their time and budgets on revitalizing CX to drive affinity and stem churn and to re-engineer loyalty programs to meet customer expectations. CX goes mobile. Not surprisingly, many CX efforts will be mobile.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

After more than two years of loyalty program limbo and “will they, or won’t they” debates, Marriott unveiled the name of its unified loyalty program: Bonvoy. For Marriott, the stakes […].

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Loyalty Hospitality Loyalty Programs B2C 44

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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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. Looking at the first stat is intriguing.

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Loyalty Programs Customer Service Hotels Entertainment 66

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

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. We can learn so much from the hospitality industry. by Max Starkov.

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Customer Service Hospitality Rewards Programs Self Service 78

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. 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. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Points Bank in a loyalty program is the module of software that keeps track of all transactions related to issuing, redeeming, or exchanging points among loyalty program members, partners and other stakeholders. Core functionality of the loyalty points bank.

Banking 52

Banking Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines 52

ShepHyken

JUNE 6, 2022

My Comment: Regardless of the industry you and your company might be in, a good customer service strategy is to have a “hospitality mentality.” Fred Auzenne- 14 Steps to Creating a Customer Loyalty Program That Works by Anna Duke. My Comment: Here’s a nice “checklist” of ideas to create a successful customer loyalty program.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs Hotels Loyalty 71

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Top 5 Guest Loyalty Trends and Predictions to Watch for 2023 by Ellis Connolly. Hospitality Net) We are officially on the eve of a new year, already moving through the holiday season at the signature blink-and-you-might-miss-it pace that is seemingly synonymous with this time of year. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 75

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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. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. Personalize Based On Past Behavior to Drive Loyalty. 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. There is huge market pressure to make great deals.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 4, 2015

The conference attracted some of the biggest names in customer centricity from all over the retail, hospitality, and financial service industries. You have loyalty programs, a no-questions-asked refund policy, customer satisfaction surveys, and perhaps even greeters. Customers in your store are given your utmost attention.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This challenge – the give-and-take of marketplaces – now firmly belongs on the agenda of loyalty strategy meetings. First, it gives marketers a basic grounding in economics which can directly impact on your loyalty strategy, complete with real-world examples of brands putting the theory into practice. This is a good thing.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels Travel 45

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Creating Customer Loyalty. But the true purpose of every support team venture is to create customer loyalty. After all, customer loyalty is what will generate long-term revenue for your company. The following books will help you develop a well-rounded customer loyalty program. Loyalty 3.0: by Ryan Levesque.

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