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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. The golden benchmark is about $25 USD per year in loyalty value. This actually is not true.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 10-11-2021

ShepHyken

The topics covered include quick response times, providing self-service options, different ways customers can communicate with you (phone, email, chat, text, etc.), Are Hotel Loyalty and Rewards Programs Enough to Keep Customers Loyal to the Brand? We can learn so much from the hospitality industry. by Max Starkov.

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Three Travel and Hospitality Customer Journey Tracking Examples

Kitewheel

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. Power Pre-flight Communications With Real-Time Interaction Management. We recently wrote about a negative preflight communication experience , but to summarize, airlines and other travel companies often fail to track the full range of potential customer interactions.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. There’s a lot of useful takeaways in this, for loyalty marketers.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

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 program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

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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11 TED Talks to Inspire Better Customer Support

Kayako

Instead of implementing a “loyaltyprogram that has nothing to do with loyalty (and everything to do with discounts), Van Belleghem says think instead about how you would treat your best friend if he or she became a client. In his talk, Customer loyalty programmes…why bother!