Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2014

For leaders to make smart decisions about who the best, most loyal and most profitable customers are, they need to understand the makeup of the customer population. This often means creating special loyalty programs , elite experiences, and special perks to maintain the top 1% of customers. Herein lies the rub.

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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. Improving customer insight and loyalty personalization.

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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. Flexibility around loyalty incentives.

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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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

But trust me, factors like: Product quality, Awesome support, Marketing reach, Efforts to engage customers, . Efforts to retain customers, help you formulate effective loyalty programs that your customers enjoy being a part of. Benefits of Improving Customer Loyalty. Mobile Customer Loyalty.

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ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

For effective customer retention, a focused and dedicated approach needs to be kept in mind. And, a well-designed loyalty program can act as a profitable investment and reduce the likelihood of customers going to your competitors. Take the example of Victoria’s Secret loyalty program PINK Nation.

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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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SurveySensum

JANUARY 18, 2024

For instance, sending a personalized greeting, such as below, can foster a sense of acknowledgment and connection. “Welcome back, [Customer Name]! This makes customers feel seen and appreciated throughout their journey with the brand 2. We’ve missed you. Here’s an exclusive 10% off your next purchase.

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SurveySensum

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This shows the high cost of customer acquisition and how, at times, businesses fail to recoup their initial investment. In contrast, Company B chose to focus on retaining its existing customer base by introducing loyalty programs. ” The loyalty programs reward your customers for their repeat business.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Customers expect flexibility and convenience from the companies they do business with because people live in a world where almost everything is accessible with a few clicks on their smartphone. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. How do we define greater liquidity in loyalty programs?

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the microservices model, customer data is in one enterprise CRM that coordinates with one enterprise Campaign Management System to coordinate touchpoints.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 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? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have. referring friends.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Like many customer experience executives, he searched for a career path that matched his skills and passion for helping customers comprehensively across the business. Episode Overview.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

We discovered 6 years ago that during the customer’s trip, the most value we could provide after selling the airline ticket was to show alternative mobility options in the traveler’s destination. The customer appreciated our help in navigating unfamiliar environments safely, while still having an element of choice.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

These new perks revolutionize how all Hilton Honors members can use their Points, senior vice president and global head of customer engagement, loyalty and partnerships Mark Weinstein said in a press release. But rewards programs alone – no matter how good – aren’t going to create customer loyalty.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Time and time again they top the list of airlines to which customers feel loyal. And when you look at their rewards scheme, it’s all about seeing the customers as individuals. With the average American signed up to 29 loyalty programs and only active in 12, this human element is more essential than ever.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. This does make the program look more exciting to members, and the currency more valuable.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

So, while the major loyalty trends for 2023 will be oriented around cost control, this will be accompanied by refocusing investment where it’s most profitable. This article shares the lowest hanging fruit for keeping customers engaged and delivering more profit to the bottom line. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

Such a simple program quickly revealed invaluable insight into the customer and opened a whole new channel of communication across email, SMS and good old post! but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program. This can produce conflicting and confusing customer experiences.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

Various loyalty systems have been built over the years specializing and catering to clients in one sector. When such systems provide an API to connect, they inherently force the requirements of the sector onto any other client. This often improves the customer experience. Flexibility: sector agnostic.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Brands leaning on partners to create more value for customers, and for themselves.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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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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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.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. The outcome for the brands which succeed will be in getting 25-50% more customers engaged with their loyalty strategies. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

In the context of commerce and customer engagement technology, there is a tectonic transformation taking place, and as a leader, you need to understand the basics of headless platforms. Any brand can embrace headless loyalty services quickly and easily – even if you already have millions invested in an aging loyalty program.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

The sea-change in marketing technology is evident in the Gartner CMO survey, which tracked spending across all marketing disciplines: …most of which are rooted in martech solutions, younger than loyalty program management technologies, but all united by the common need to share customer data and use it to drive results.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you calculate the customer churn rate on a regular basis, you’ll get to understand: Why is your customer acquisition cost increasing? Where have your sales and marketing strategies failed to keep customers engaged with the brand? Which loopholes have led to change in customer behavior? Reward them!

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. Economic cycles aside, though, the real problem is that it attracts entirely the wrong sort of customer.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Journey discovery reveals how many customers were converted on a new credit card offer after a personalized email, having ignored the offer at first. It engaged in more relevant, personalized conversations based on these findings and saw thousands of dollars worth of incremental bookings in just a few days. One-on-one interviews.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example : Starbucks often surprises customers with free drink vouchers or extra loyalty points as a gesture of appreciation for their patronage. Surprise Rewards : Surprise and delight customers with unexpected rewards or perks. This could include targeted discounts, exclusive deals, or customer loyalty programs.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example : Starbucks often surprises customers with free drink vouchers or extra loyalty points as a gesture of appreciation for their patronage. Surprise Rewards : Surprise and delight customers with unexpected rewards or perks. This could include targeted discounts, exclusive deals, or customer loyalty programs.

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