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Tapping Into Real-Time Customer Input

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Amy Jackson, Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Consumer Marketing for TripIt from Concur while I was at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas back in March. I am a huge fan since it has saved me more than once. and the not so good. What’s next?

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Tailoring Your CV: How to Land the Job You Want

CSM Magazine

It may include everything from answering phones at a hotel to providing social media support for a large corporation. In these places, no matter how great the product is, the service affects the consumer’s view of the company. Increased customer engagement with weekly social media question and answer sessions.

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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

Many loyalty program members will now be accustomed to similar liquidity enhancements, such as exchanging your American Express Membership Rewards Points into Avios or Bonvoy. Remember, your loyalty goal is not to issue the maximum number of points, but for the maximum number of customers to see joining your program as worthwhile.

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How to create loyal customers and brand evangelists in the travel and hospitality industry

Up Your Service

For airlines, hotels, resorts and other companies in the travel and hospitality industry, this presents new challenges in terms of managing their reputation. Good or bad, social media massively amplifies the word-of-mouth effect. Take hotels, which [often] don’t anticipate any future travel needs at checkout.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

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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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. This past summer, the supermarket decided to offer reward points to customers who bring their own re-usable carrier bags. Choice Hotels’ Smart Privilege scheme is another good example.

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Crash Course: 11 Terrible Customer Experiences In Travel

Currency Alliance

The anecdotes revealed some interesting themes, and they should make for useful learnings for airline and hotel brands. During the past 20 years, I´ve stayed in hundreds of IHG hotels and amassed hundreds of thousands of loyalty points. Since then, over 200 hotels that were not IHG have had my custom instead. Travel-Sick. “I

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