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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of May 13, 2024

ShepHyken

Magazine) With the advent of the internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. My Comment: You will want to read this article if you own a restaurant and have a loyalty program. Ease of use. Personalization.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of December 4, 2023

ShepHyken

Manuals have been created, processes have been approved, the collateral has been ordered, and the team may be weary – however, leadership is SO EXCITED for the culmination of this investment. My Comment: I’m a big fan of loyalty programs. However, most companies confuse a loyalty program with a discount or incentive program.

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Are We reinforcing our organization’s Customer Disloyalty Program?

One Millimeter Mindset

Frequently, the stage for customer disloyalty is set because front-line employees have no control over leadership and management decisions. Decisions about the structure of the customer loyalty program, and its perceived relevance and value to each customer. Each with their own, branded customer loyalty program.

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Loyalty Strategy 2020: Step Changes to a Collaborative Future

Currency Alliance

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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Leader’s vision: #1 loyalty driver for the modern brand

Currency Alliance

Every CEO waxes lyrical about the importance of loyalty. And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint. It may not even be through conventional loyalty marketing.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of May 8, 2023

ShepHyken

Customer Loyalty and Loyalty Programs- How it Helps a Business? My Comment: I’ve suggested many different articles on loyalty over the year. Here’s another that includes over 20 “topics” on the benefit of customer loyalty to a business. There’s something here for every company, from small to large.

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

Currency Alliance

If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. disconnects between company leadership and management. Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage.

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