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15 Effective Ways to Improve Retail Customer Engagement

CSM Magazine

Customer engagement has become one of the most critical success factors for retailers looking to drive sales, loyalty, and overall business growth. However, with the increasing complexity and diversity of today’s retail environment, engaging with customers has become a more challenging task.

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Tapping Into Real-Time Customer Input

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It also stores all your travel reward program membership numbers, your points, and includes alerts about flights, seat trackers for crowded airplanes, and more. One innovation is using API partnerships to provide even more information to the travelers at the time it’s most relevant to them.

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To Get Loyal Customers, Start with Loyal Employees

Beyond Philosophy

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit. I like these changes.

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QSR: How Restaurant Brands Can Compete With Third-Party Delivery

Strativity

To combat this, brands must de-emphasize reliance on these providers and take back their customer relationships. Understand the experience your customers are hungry for. Customers have more restaurant choices than ever. Sample new channels to reach new customers. This can be achieved in six steps: 1.

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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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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How To Initiate a Direct-To-Consumer Selling Strategy

Second to None

Another industry that is utilizing direct communication with customers is hospitality. These brands commonly use their mobile application to implement rewards programs and other opportunities meant to provide added-value to the customer and convince them to return to your brand.

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Strengthening Brand Experience in the Grocery Industry

Second to None

Whether it is product location, stock updates, nutritional facts, or product reviews, workers should act as reliable resources for customers. Data shows that 55% of people would not return to stores with poor customer engagement. [5] Today, many customers want an interactive experience at their grocery store.

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