ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Customer experience (CX) — defined as “the cumulative impact of all interactions and experiences between your business and the customer, at every touchpoint across the entire customer journey, and viewed entirely from your customer’s perspective” — has become one of today’s most important business benchmarks.

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2017 Events Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping 50

Horizon CX

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A customer has purchased $4,500 of lumber and doors, three carts full and all is paid for. The customer then waits 40 minutes because only one employee in the store has a key to open the loading door to allow the customer to exit. An airline Gate Agent is asked by a passenger to check-in for a same-day, earlier flight.

Net Promoter Score 52

Net Promoter Score 2005 Retail NPS 52

Currency Alliance

MAY 20, 2024

Back in 2017, when interchange fees were slashed by the European Union, most banks’ response was to simply to give up on their loyalty program; this was lazy and a huge strategic mistake. Every bank needs a loyalty strategy – even if they don’t have a points-based loyalty program.

Banking 52

Banking Loyalty Loyalty Programs Travel 52

Oracle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Organizations such as TÜV Rheinland, the airline Germania, the Parship ELITE Group, and Peugeot Citroën demonstrate how they optimize customer service via digital channels and excite their customers with first-class service. Loyalty programs as we know them will become obsolete.

2018 40

2018 Customer Experience Hotels B2B 40

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.

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

Loyalty 59

Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Airlines 59

Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

Customer Journey 90

Customer Journey Customer Journey Mapping Touchpoint Multi-Channel 90

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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2024 Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs 59

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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

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.

Customer Satisfaction 52

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.

Customer Satisfaction 52

Customer Satisfaction Touchpoint Social Media Customer Centricity 52

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.

Loyalty 64

Loyalty 2020 Loyalty Programs Travel 64

Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. What is Customer Retention? Hand-picked related content: How to reduce churn using customer journey analytics ].

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Customer Retention Loyalty Programs Customer Journey Loyalty 110

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Independent of individual program achievements, the most important development across the industry has not been in individual technological triumphs, but a hastening structural shift in how brands understand and approach the purpose of their loyalty programs. This effort is a marked improvement.

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Magazine Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 49

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

So, to demonstrate some progress, many organizations have pursued initiatives that are only cosmetic in nature while not truly taking advantage of what digital transformation enables: namely that customer journeys, partnerships, trading ecosystems, etc. There is not even an effort in the loyalty sector to set standards.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Technology Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel 52

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Nobody in loyalty could have missed The Times’ headline in October, about the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) proposal to start taxing frequent flyer programs (FFPs), or even to shut them down, under the assumption that they increase flying. Nonetheless, the legacy loyalty points bank kept them from innovating more quickly.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty 2020 Hotels Loyalty Programs 40

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.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Touchpoint ROI 52

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.

Feedback 42

Feedback Airlines Loyalty Programs Loyalty 42

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

When there is little interest in providing great customer service, your customers will realize that they are being taken for a ride and take their business to one of your competitors. Your customers will even forgive a sloppy product, but they will never forgive you if you treat them badly. Do you want to be in that position?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Airlines Net Promoter Score Advertising 52

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.

Loyalty 58

Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs Brands 58

Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Any brand can embrace headless loyalty services quickly and easily – even if you already have millions invested in an aging loyalty program. Since Currency Alliance operates in the loyalty sector, I can speak with more confidence about loyalty. Dynamic Accrual and Redemption. Data Management.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Touchpoint Loyalty Programs Social Media 52

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Loyalty Coalition Model V1.0: The original loyalty coalitions were built as an answer to the alternative: a single, proprietary brand loyalty program. Loyalty Coalition Model V2.0: Examples: Nectar, Air Miles. Click to expand. But there were problems. Examples: Avios, Hilton Honors, Amex Rewards. Click to expand.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Download Airlines 40

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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Touchpoint 52

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. Who would be the perfect customer for these seats?

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Insights Brands Loyalty Programs 40