Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

Within his role, Eric now owns the VoC programs, CX and brand activation team, and the Gold Plus Rewards loyalty program. In the first 6 months of his role, Eric focused on the following: Fixing the measurement program in order to capture the VoC in the right way with the right level of understanding.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 14, 2025

As consumer habits shift and expectations grow, brands face increasing pressure to create loyalty programs that feel personal, relevant, and rewarding. Here, we will explore the latest strategies shaping loyalty programs in 2025 and what they mean for your brand. This affects everyone.

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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. Personalization comprises four key strategic initiatives.

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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

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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 13, 2015

We put the many prospects in the top, they travel willingly and orderly through the funnel, and POP! But customer experience travels on, past the prospecting and sales phase and well into the relationship with the customer. Customer journeys are often represented in the same way. The sales funnel is so simple, in theory.

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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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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. Inspiring Real Loyalty, No Cards in Sight. engender loyalty! engender loyalty!

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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

MAY 9, 2017

But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. In part this is because the biggest travel loyalty programs are getting watered down and due to the tremendous proliferation of other incompatible loyalty programs. The typical consumer is now a member of lots of programs.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. In part this is because the biggest travel loyalty programs are getting watered down and due to the tremendous proliferation of other incompatible loyalty programs. The typical consumer is now a member of lots of programs.

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Interactions

AUGUST 7, 2019

As traveling becomes more mainstream, these amenities may seem like a distant dream. It’s no wonder that airlines seem to get drowned in complaints on social media. But as we look at the customer experience as a whole in the travel industry, big improvements can be made to make customers feel more valued, respected, and happy.

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SurveyGizmo

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Loyalty programs are one method for bringing value to your customers, and to be successful need to deliver upon brand promise and build positive customer experiences. When executed correctly, loyalty programs can often cover potential losses during tougher times because loyal customers will remain customers.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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BirdEye

APRIL 1, 2025

Guest reviews influence booking decisions Modern travelers approach hotel bookings with the same diligence as major purchasesthey read reviews, compare options, and base decisions on peer feedback. Emotional loyalty, built through proactive review engagement, is often more powerful than loyalty programs or discounts.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Your customers travel through such touchpoints that result in them buying. They then travel along more touchpoints as they’re nurtured for repeat purchases and, later on, brand loyalty. Social media. Customer loyalty programs. Consider your business as an online community, especially on social media.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 7, 2015

Never mind that they are sending emails about merging loyalty programs and becoming one airline. ” The closest I got, after tweeting some of our experience to the social team, was “We’re truly sorry to hear you missed your connection” which is not an apology from them. We again, did as we were told.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

But with so much riding on travel for your customer – the cost of bookings, the early-morning starts, the importance or the fun of their trip – it’s a sector primed like no other to stoke their rage when things go wrong. Travel-Sick. “I Weary traveller. “I Getting a passenger from A to B. It seems so simple.

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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.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 10, 2021

Booking travel arrangements for weekend trips or vacations. Social Media Management. Many potential customers are going to notice and engage through social media. Have someone experienced to handle: Creating content to share on your social media accounts. Helping you make purchases. Content Creation.

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SurveySensum

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In contrast, Company B chose to focus on retaining its existing customer base by introducing loyalty programs. Here’s how you can do it: Know Your Customers: Collect feedback on their purchase history, browsing habits, and social media interactions. So, create an efficient VoC Program and start listening to them.

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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. As the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

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Magellan Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Booking travel arrangements for weekend trips or vacations. Social Media Management. Many potential customers are going to notice and engage through social media. Have someone experienced to handle: Creating content to share on your social media accounts. Best virtual assistant services to outsource.

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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. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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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. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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LiveChat

DECEMBER 27, 2016

When your customers achieve something big, celebrate their success, congratulate them, share your thoughts on social media. Social media marketing. Social media are one of the best ways to stay in touch with your readers. If you run a travel agency, Instagram and Facebook are the ones to go with.

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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.

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Bold360

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A funny thing happened when researchers asked consumers and marketers associated with the travel industry how they viewed the industry’s well-known loyalty programs. That’s not to say that loyalty programs are not an important element in the retention strategies toolkit. But that doesn’t mean they saw eye to eye.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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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.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Leverage social media platforms 4. Leverage social media platforms Social media management builds brand awareness and customer loyalty. Vehicle branding – This acts as a moving billboard and increases visibility as the vehicles travel through different neighborhoods. Rebranding?

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We recognize that these are difficult times for merchants managing loyalty programs. What’s more, a lot of customers only have small amounts of loyalty currency in each program they’re a member of – so they have trouble seeing how they can get to meaningful rewards (which produces apathy).

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

At first glance, this year’s Gartner CMO spend survey may not make for happy reading for loyalty marketers. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8% Firstly, loyalty tech isn’t as expensive as it used to be. of budget, down from 6.6% in 2017[ii]. 2018 saw a 14.2%

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2017

However, what isn’t being discussed so much is what GDPR means for customer loyalty. And a customer signing up to a loyalty program is one of the most common ways for them to hand over their data to the merchant. But is GDPR all bad news for merchants and travel suppliers? Brands are right to be a bit worried.

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BirdEye

MARCH 24, 2023

Lead outreach involves connecting with prospects through email, social media, calls, or cold outreach. The following are a few tips to encourage referrals: Create a customer loyalty program. Build a strong customer referral program. This may include social media platforms, industry publications, or online forums.

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C Space

MAY 20, 2020

Facebook is also working to integrate loyalty programs. Recreational vehicles, or RVs, could be among the big winners for summer vacations this year, according to travel industry experts. Travelers will be more comfortable hopping into their own cars or rental vehicles than commuting in mass transportation.”

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 22, 2017

A year that could see a tipping point for customer loyalty programs. We’ve seen plenty of articles over the last couple of years about how the traditional loyalty program is falling short. We need to ask ourselves – do traditional drivers of customer loyalty still apply to the modern consumer?

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