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. Layering customer-centricity on top implies a single view of the customer – augmented with data from outside your business, and having the tools to make customer insight actionable.

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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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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Until a few years ago, brands would have reacted to an uncertain economy by cutting services that deliver customer value. Some brands will do this in 2023, but actually, the loyalty & marketing industries have learned from recent experience that this costs you money in the long run. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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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

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. The reason I’m writing this article is that many loyalty teams have, historically, not executed brilliantly.

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ProProfs Chat

MAY 31, 2019

Loyalty goes a long way in defining and building relationships between people. Be it our personal relationships or even the relationship we have with the customers. For a business organization, having a loyal customer base is essential for success. Increasing customer retention by just 5% boosts your profits by 25-95%.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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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. Value, that is, to a minority of highly-frequent, high-spending customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

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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. 1. Looking beyond transactional rewards.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. 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.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. Economic cycles aside, though, the real problem is that it attracts entirely the wrong sort of customer. Customers appreciate the free money, but it simply doesn’t make them loyal.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 20, 2023

It encompasses the quality of assistance, the efficiency of problem-solving, and the courtesy and professionalism of customer service representatives. A positive customer service experience plays a crucial role in building customer loyalty and fostering long-term business relationships.

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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. How to Calculate Customer Retention Rate? This keeps subscribers engaged and loyal.

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LoyaltyPlus

JANUARY 19, 2021

With 2020 now done and dusted, and harsh socio-economic lessons learnt, retailers can now turn their attention to 2021 and a new year with new opportunity to reward customers and secure market share. Programmes and platforms designed to build loyalty, reward customers, and possibly attract more customers are at the heart of this approach.

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SurveySparrow

OCTOBER 1, 2023

High-touch services in the airline industry mean you get access to dedicated check-in counters, where there are no long lines. Customers often have direct contact with dedicated service representatives. This includes those who make frequent purchases or engage deeply with your brand.

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LoyaltyPlus

AUGUST 4, 2017

CRM Plus is embedded primarily with our core Loyalty engine LoyaltyPlus, together with our customer engagement offering “EngagementPlus”, which enables the different customer engagement points supported by an engagement strategy which includes campaigning, document management, and a host of other engagement strategies.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

They use data gathered from customer interactions to pinpoint areas for optimization, making data-driven decisions that improve various aspects of a customer’s journey – from initial discovery, through purchasing and support, to long-term loyalty and brand advocacy.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example: Apple is renowned for its exceptional customer service, exemplified by its Genius Bar at Apple Stores. Highly trained and knowledgeable staff provide personalized assistance, troubleshooting, and support to customers, fostering a strong sense of trust and loyalty.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example: Apple is renowned for its exceptional customer service, exemplified by its Genius Bar at Apple Stores. Highly trained and knowledgeable staff provide personalized assistance, troubleshooting, and support to customers, fostering a strong sense of trust and loyalty.

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SurveySensum

MARCH 1, 2024

A retail company, MagnetHome enthusiastically embraced the Net Promoter Score and started measuring customer loyalty. High scores delighted them, so in the excitement they missed the silent grumbles of unhappy customers. While it provides an overall score for customer loyalty , it overlooks crucial details.

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Many companies, in such circumstances, identify shorter-term behavior that can be used as a proxy for customer retention. Getting customers engaged in shorter-term activities often bodes well for long-term customer retention. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? Build Effective Loyalty Programs.

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Aveus

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Dear Sandeep Dube , Vice President – Delta Air Lines (Customer Engagement & Loyalty). From: Chis LaVictoire Mahai , Managing Partner, Aveus and a long-experienced customer with both Delta (2+ million miler, Diamond Medallion Member since the category was created) and American Express (member since 1982).

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A lot of business owners want to reduce customer churn and retain as many as possible. Stable customer base results in higher referrals, improved upsell revenue and increased lifetime value (LTV) which further results in improved customer acquisition in future. Which loopholes have led to change in customer behavior?

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SurveySparrow

JULY 3, 2021

Customer experience wasn’t always the trendy topic it is today. Brands typically prioritized competitive pricing and product development over the actual experience of their customers. So why is customer experience significant all of a sudden? Yet only 49% of consumers say companies provide a good customer experience.

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ProProfs Chat

AUGUST 8, 2019

But you need to know that good customer service stories aren’t made in a day or two. Understand this, big names of each sector have worked for years to build a loyal customer base. By learning about every customer, their pain points, what they really expect and how they wish to see themselves when approaching a brand.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Real-time personalization is a way to automatically deliver tailored content to each customer based on demographic, firmographic and behavioral data. Customer-centric companies are now mining journey insights. Handpicked Related Content: Make Your Journey Maps Measurable with Customer Journey Analytics. Journey Design.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Adding value throughout the lifetime of the consumer-brand relationship is essential for lasting loyalty, particularly when implemented in the first 90 days of purchase. It does seem like as a customer in whatever scenario, it’s frustrating to repeat, “I called the phone, I called the airline company.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 21, 2021

Adding that humanizing element to every CX interaction has proven to be very effective in customer engagement and satisfaction. Some of it came kind of from our business focus as we emerged in kind of the customer satisfaction, customer loyalty measurement industries from the research perspective.

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