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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

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. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. For some brands, issuing your own loyalty currency is certainly desirable.

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Creating Brand Loyalty in the Airline Industry

QuestionPro Audience

In order to best accommodate travelers, airlines offer several additional services where travelers can upgrade their seats, access airline exclusive lounges, and purchase in-flight food and entertainment. This gives airlines the perfect opportunity to boost their end-of-year sales numbers. Select your respondents.

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Transactional VS Emotional Customer Loyalty with Mark Ross-Smith

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Loyalty programs are used in different industries to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Loyalty programs have now evolved to include enhancing the customer experience. In the recent Achieving Customer Amazement study , 69% of customers say loyalty programs are important to them.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

Currency Alliance

This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. Consumers are becoming a lot more deliberate in their pursuit of pleasure – but also a lot more deliberate in other spending categories. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50.

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Are Loyalty Cards Dead?

Beyond Philosophy

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. No of course not, and that’s the problem with calling these pieces of plastic “loyalty cards.” What is Loyalty Anyway? That’s loyalty.

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How to Build a Next-Generation Loyalty Scheme

CSM Magazine

Loyalty schemes have been around a lot longer than you think, going back even further than the frequent flyer programmes that took off in the late 1970s. Hamish Sherlock of Applause , explains how to build a next-generation loyalty scheme. Plus, the rewards points should be available to consumers in a timely manner.

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3 Examples of Change for the Better in Airlines

Beyond Philosophy

There have been many great stories in the past couple of months about airlines doing what was right by their Customers. Frontier Airlines Pilot Feeds His Passengers While Stranded on Runway. Southwest Airlines is a great Customer-centric airline with excellent employee engagement.

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