CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Today, stamps, vouchers and coupons have mostly been replaced by apps and digital methods of tracking customer engagement. However, part of the value equation needs to assess whether rewards accrue quickly enough for customers to use them, allowing them to take full advantage of the benefits the scheme offers.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Busting 3 Massive Myths About Employee Engagement by Christine Comaford. Forbes) There’s a lot of buzz about employee engagement these days. But the sad truth is that engagement stats worldwide are still dreadfully low. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. They tell others.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 10, 2017

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. Should you rack up more frequent flyer miles on an airline you’ve used before, or should you buy a cheaper ticket on a different airline?

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CX Journey

JULY 13, 2017

Image courtesy of Pixabay Why is it so difficult to understand what employee engagement is all about? It's great that there's an ongoing spotlight on employee engagement because it's still at an all-time low. But let's just all say it in unison one last time: Perks and employee engagement should not be used in the same sentence.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. This actually is not true. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. I’m a case in point. Vueling is similar.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Top-rated airlines like JetBlue have managed to combine reasonable prices with quality service and experience. Traditional messaging from airlines has been broad-strokes driven, trying to catch the most people to ensure the most tickets sold.

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

For airlines, hotels, resorts and other companies in the travel and hospitality industry, this presents new challenges in terms of managing their reputation. Personalization and memorization deal with the fact that airlines or hotel brands should already know something about who I am and what I like.”.

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Inbenta

JUNE 30, 2021

Gol Airlines. Gol Airlines. As one of the major Airlines in South America and Brazil, Gol Airlines was struggling to keep up with responses for all customer support requests. Some of the great features: It is connected with the Airlines systems. Contents: Introduction. TravelClub. Benefit Cosmetics. TravelClub.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and reward programs with varied success. 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. Take a look at JetBlue.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to build the loyalty program your customers deserve, this post will give you customer loyalty program ideas to turn everyday shoppers into loyal fans. Did you know that something as simple as giving customers a head start on your rewards program can inspire loyalty? Use the Endowed Progress Effect.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. It began as the “frequent flyer program”. And this is where the magic happened.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewards program. Connect channel activities and customer experiences. The first challenge is identifying the right metrics.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This may seem to make rewards pricing more complicated. That’s somewhat true; but there are relatively simple, actionable, tactical steps that brands can take to make step-change improvements in their loyalty engagement strategy. Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Since customers are losing patience with brands that don’t recognize them as people, or enable consistent, multi-channel engagement, this priority remains over-arching in 2020. Constraining collaboration only constrains your ability to engage and capture insightful data. Brands embrace shared environmental goals with customers.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

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. To see why, visit their website , where you encounter various opportunities to earn points for many forms of non-transactional engagement.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. Profit is derived from engagement that links directly to incremental sales.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

Loyalty had evolved into a fairly segregated marketing function, but many of this years’ entries were more comprehensive, loyalty-enabled marketing programs. As more holistic marketing initiatives, loyalty mechanics were harnessed to drive and measure engagement across channels, and across many more customer touchpoints.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v].

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Change in the legacy loyalty platform, on the other hand, has been difficult and expensive, because the vendor must be supportive, if not fully engaged for nearly any desired change to functionality. And, it makes it difficult to measure the customer´s engagement if they respond in any way.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. But South Africa’s first-place ranked program isn’t a grocer at all, but a pharmacy.

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