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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SurveySensum

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This shows that customers are willing to spend more on products if the brand offers them exceptional customer experience in addition to fulfilling their needs. Customers now expect to receive a product or a service whenever and wherever they want it. Loyalty programs will be the Next Game Changer.

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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. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Loyalty Marketing Airlines Loyalty Programs 52

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. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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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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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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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ijgolding

AUGUST 12, 2018

A customer NEED is something that is very important (rather than just desirable) and that is a necessity or a basic requirement – an airline getting you to your chosen destination on time, for example. What irritates you most as a customer (based on recent experiences)?

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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

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

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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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here’s a roadmap to help you get there: Gather Feedback : Gather feedback on a regular basis from your customers on different aspects of your business, but don’t limit yourself to traditional CSAT or NPS surveys. Take advantage of different types of surveys at different touchpoints of the customer journey.

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Customer Satisfaction Touchpoint Social Media Customer Centricity 52

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here’s a roadmap to help you get there: Gather Feedback : Gather feedback on a regular basis from your customers on different aspects of your business, but don’t limit yourself to traditional CSAT or NPS surveys. Take advantage of different types of surveys at different touchpoints of the customer journey.

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Customer Satisfaction Touchpoint Social Media Customer Centricity 52

ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This treasure trove of information is instrumental in giving you a clear picture of customers’ pain points and the areas where your knowledge base needs improvement. . Mapping Your Customer Journey Is A Must. Getting in the minds of your customers can be challenging. This, in turn, impacts the overall CX.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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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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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) is a growing field that focuses on designing, managing, and improving the interactions between a company and its customers. At its core, customer experience engineering seeks to ensure that every touchpoint a customer has with a company leaves a positive and lasting impression.

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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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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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CustomerGauge

JANUARY 27, 2016

Starting a Net Promoter program is about improving your customer experience and boosting your customer loyalty, but before you start wowing customers you have to survey them. Relationship surveys are there to investigate a customer’s loyalty to a company/brand. quarterly, half-yearly or yearly).

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago.

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Customer Guru

MAY 8, 2018

Pawar is a Business Practice leader with over 23 years of industry experience of working with various Fortune 500 customers in their Customer Experience, Digital Marketing, CRM, Loyalty Programs, Business Intelligence and Analytics transformation engagements.

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Culture Loyalty Programs Airlines Customer Centricity 71

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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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. What is High Touch Customer Experience? High touch customer experience is the culmination of all high touch efforts within a business. Segment your customers based on common characteristics or behaviors.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 30, 2019

Customer experience is everything in the airline industry. From the routes they fly to the booking process and the on-board experience, every touchpoint with customers is an opportunity for airlines to deliver breakthrough experiences that build their reputation and help them stand out in a fiercely competitive sector.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Forrester defines customer journey analytics is “an analytics practice that combines quantitative and qualitative data to analyze customer behaviors and motivations across touchpoints and over time to optimize customer interactions and predict future behavior.”. Measure the impact of customer behavior on KPIs (e.g.

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is a brilliant quote on how organizations can keep creating moments of success for their customers. Find ordinary interaction touchpoints and make them memorable with the help of technology. Your customers will even forgive a sloppy product, but they will never forgive you if you treat them badly.

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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. Nobody granted those loans on a whim.

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Getting customers engaged in shorter-term activities often bodes well for long-term customer retention. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? Another source of confusion is that in some industries retention is synonymous with churn, while in others it goes hand-in-hand with loyalty. Data Integration.

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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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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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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Multi-Channel 52

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

NPS is a critical business KPI that tells you how likely your customer is to recommend your product or service to others. It is the key predictor for gauging customer retention and loyalty. Did you know that 48% of your unhappy customers are likely to complain about negative experiences with brands to 10 or more people?

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

NPS is a critical business KPI that tells you how likely your customer is to recommend your product or service to others. It is the key predictor for gauging customer retention and loyalty. Did you know that 48% of your unhappy customers are likely to complain about negative experiences with brands to 10 or more people?

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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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