Alida

MARCH 27, 2018

At Customers for Life, a recent Vision Critical event in Hong Kong, we immediately felt the grandeur, magnificent presence and ambience of the flagship Mandarin Oriental (MO) hotel in Central Hong Kong as soon as we stepped in. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group: Not all customers are created equal.

Brands 124

Brands Hotels Rewards Programs Insurance 124

Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

But a whole other degree of devoted customer exists: The brand evangelist, described as the kind of traveler who feels so connected to a company that they proactively share their positive experiences with others. In today’s connected world, customer service experiences — especially the bad ones — often spread like wildfire.

Hospitality 74

Hospitality Travel Brands Airlines 74

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Actually, they do.

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

A few examples – just so readers don´t think I am inventing this – include Amazon Prime (household penetration), Nordstrom (multi-tender), Hilton Honors (redeeming with Amazon), La Quinta Hotels (Redeem Away), Tesco (increased redemption partners), and the list goes on.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Travel 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

In any case, I think the vast majority of practitioners will be as excited as I am, to think what this wave of innovation means for consumers: more brands finding cleverer, more meaningful ways to create compelling customer value. Technically speaking, the rewarded parties were not employees, but resellers of IBM’s technology.

Magazine 52

Magazine Loyalty Innovation 2020 52

Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

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 40

Travel Airlines Customer Experience Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. But it’s also because the factors that affect a customer’s loyalty are not static, but highly fluid. They may be worth.5

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels Airlines 40