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For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewardsprogram. Measure ROI across interactions. Measuring ROI is another place where customer journey orchestration can help.
While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.
Stated a different way, ROI from loyalty marketing investments could grow exponentially with a few tweaks that put the customer´s interests first. This means merchants and travel suppliers will be able to capture useful data insights from a much larger set of customers, who again start identifying themselves at the point of sale.
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The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. You can see this in the Gartner CMO survey: Loyalty marketing has traditionally suffered from the difficulty in measuring ROI (especially in the short-term).
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People are changing the way they shop, how they can travel, where they eat, how they work, and how they stay in contact with loved ones. Tailoring packages for maximum ROI - hospitality offerings usually involve a matrix of different features and services, and so it’s essential to understand how consumers respond to different combinations.
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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. travel (Budget car rental, Velocity). utilities (AGL). fashion (Adidas).
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