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The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. For airlines and hotel groups, frequent customers are business travelers, so their partner mixes are heavily biased toward fellow travel brands. I’m a case in point.
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. Connect channel activities and customer experiences.
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.
Rewardprograms still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.
Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A useful set of segments might include: For Travel.
Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. Rewardprograms are changing, but they are not going away. To incentivize customers to progress through purchase funnels, brands are recognizing that additional touchpoints should be rewarded. Cloud-based tech can solve this problem. This is so true.
More useful loyalty currencies are appreciated by more people and will bring the hundreds of millions of people who are rarely active in loyalty programs back into the fold – because they can accumulate more useful value across a much wider spectrum of places they shop.
More enlightened marketers, on the other hand, see points as a way to keep score of customer actions at many different touchpoints along complex customer journeys. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of loyalty programs (and in most cases with incompatible loyalty currencies).
Touchpoints that provide a less-than-ideal experience for your customer. Loyalty programs provide that much needed push. . Use the help of a rewardsprogram tool that makes all of this integration possible. Is there a touchpoint that they were impressed with? Issues in the delivery of services.
Banks have been in and out of rewardsprograms for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v]. More money, fewer monies.
Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.
Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewardsprograms: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Second, emotional loyalty involves rewarding your customers for many more touchpoints than just purchases.
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. It starts with stepping in and listening to what your customers are saying at every touchpoint, monitoring sentiment and taking action to respond to their concerns.
This makes it difficult to coordinate meaningful touchpoints across marketing channels; and, nearly impossible to consistently reinforce the loyalty strategy. Loyalty is earned by the customer’s cumulative experiences with a brand, across all its touchpoints. Many organizations have attempted to build Points Banks from scratch.
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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