Retently

APRIL 5, 2024

What sets an exceptional retail customer experience apart? It’s an environment where shoppers feel understood and valued at every touchpoint. Because in a market brimming with choices, the way customers feel about your business can set you apart. Why does this matter so much?

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. 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.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2017

For many years companies have given rewards to customers in exchange for increased share of wallet and information that enables marketing activities. But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. The old business model might have worked when only a few very large brands had loyalty programs.

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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. Air Miles Middle East has been upgrading its technology and adding partners.

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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.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For many years companies have given rewards to customers in exchange for increased share of wallet and information that enables marketing activities. But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. The old business model might have worked when only a few very large brands had loyalty programs.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this piece, we will help you navigate the intricacies of building customer loyalty and how to use unconventional tools and technology to achieve success. Providing Exceptional Customer Experiences Creating exceptional experiences at every touchpoint of the customer journey is vital.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

It’s the interactions customers have with employees – all employees. I do like the customer experience definition, which is every touchpoint from the first interaction until the customer is no longer doing business with you. While subscription models play a role, a crucial strategy involves identifying customer interests.

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SurveySensum

JULY 7, 2023

But this wasn’t a coincidence; it was the result of leveraging technology and mapping their customers’ journeys. And after the delivery of the product they sent a customer satisfaction survey asking about her experience with the delivery process of the product. If yes, then this blog is for you.

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SurveySensum

JULY 7, 2023

But this wasn’t a coincidence; it was the result of leveraging technology and mapping their customers’ journeys. And after the delivery of the product they sent a customer satisfaction survey asking about her experience with the delivery process of the product. If yes, then this blog is for you.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Most loyalty marketers aren’t thinking of headless loyalty platforms yet, but they should be, because headless loyalty and headless commerce are the future of technology for consumer brands. In most cases, these compromises also led to frustration among customers and inefficiency in business operations.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

According to Finance Digest , 95% of customer interactions will be managed with AI by 2025. The most important AI technologies, that are relevant for analyzing customer feedback, fall in the area of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Why are your customers turning away from you?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This is a major opportunity cost for every loyalty program. This workload can now be greatly reduced.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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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. Motivation.

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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. Motivation.

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SurveySparrow

JULY 23, 2023

Customer experience (CX) trends are patterns or shifts in consumer behavior and preferences that significantly impact how businesses interact with their customers. Various factors, including technological advancements, changes in consumer expectations, and broader societal changes, can drive these trends.

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SurveySensum

JULY 21, 2023

Launch the Right Surveys at Each Touchpoint Are you struggling to determine which type of survey should be sent at each touchpoint? → Consider the following question: Have you evaluated your onboarding process, customer service responsiveness, and technical support issue resolution?

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Retently

MAY 9, 2024

Personalizing customer interactions, offering exceptional customer support, and proactively addressing concerns are key components that boost customer retention and trust in B2B markets. Why is B2B Customer Retention Important? Their needs change as new technologies emerge and market dynamics shift.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

AI is important, but still hard to harness – so it may still be years before anything truly significant is happening in loyalty with AI. I encourage you to keep experimenting because the constraint with AI is not the technology, but the lack of sufficient or clean data – two aspects covered by our Loyalty Imperatives.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Next, we explain how to increase the perceived value of your loyalty currency, so that your loyalty program is more effective, and the ROI increases.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Rethinking customer service: No longer the weakest link in the customer’s journey by Brian Solis. ZDNet) New research shows that high performing organizations are investing in service innovation to digitally transform customer service into a customer engagement engine for driving business growth and loyalty.

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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.

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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.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We know that customers connect and interact with an organisation’s technologies, people, products, and processes across a variety of online platforms, through dedicated customer contact centres and at physical brick and mortar locations. Which emojis are your customers using to remember their experiences with your brand?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. The underlying needs of most customers have not changed. What has changed is that customers are much more sophisticated and discerning.

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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. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

The ability to bring together complementary fields of experience to create profitable solutions based on innovative business models and modern technology. As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years.

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Many companies, in such circumstances, identify shorter-term behavior that can be used as a proxy for customer retention. Getting customers engaged in shorter-term activities often bodes well for long-term customer retention. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? Deep understanding of customers.

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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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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.

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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.

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