ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2024

Lessons from the Field: 3 Easy Ways to Customize Customer Experiences & Increase Brand Loyalty by Anand Subbaraj (Fast Company) Personalization encourages customers to both return for more service and recommend that service to others. My Comment: This week’s TOP FIVE roundup has a theme: Customer Loyalty.

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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. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This article on the loyalty rules engine is probably the second-most important article I will ever write on loyalty marketing*. It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 1, 2023

Building Lasting Connections: The Power of Customer Loyalty in Retail In today’s fast-paced and crazy competitive retail world, customer loyalty is like the secret sauce for staying ahead of the game. But, let’s be real, building and nurturing customer loyalty in retail isn’t a walk in the park. Let’s find out!

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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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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at how integrated CX and other AI-powered tools are shaping hotel experiences—and how the best hotels and resorts are leveraging this winning combination to provide intelligent, customer-centric experiences that grow sales and foster loyalty. Intelligent Digitized Experiences Hotel guests expect an experience.

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Retently

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s an environment where shoppers feel understood and valued at every touchpoint. Now, let’s cut to the chaise to uncover practical strategies that create such engaging retail experiences that foster loyalty and repeat business. Traditionally retail refers to the sale of goods and services through physical stores.

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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. The value can be immediate.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

According to research, 95% of consumers believe customer experience is the key to brand loyalty. There are now multiple touchpoints for your customers–websites, apps, and newsletters in addition to your physical space (and they may never even set foot in your store!). It takes into account all touchpoints during the purchasing process.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. 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.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Commercetools partners with Currency Alliance to enable loyalty marketing in the age of composable commerce. Every company strives to build loyalty among its customers, but the methods to achieve the never-ending pursuit of loyal customers can vary widely. Furthermore, 91% of consumers want to be recognized.

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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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CSM Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

This holistic view enables businesses to understand their customers’ preferences, behaviors, and needs, which can enhance customer service, improve customer satisfaction, and drive sales. They consolidate data from various touchpoints to provide a single view of each customer.

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ProProfs Chat

MAY 28, 2020

People think of loyalty as a customer for a lifetime, but it is really much simpler than that. However, brand loyalty has become just another ‘buzz-phrase’. What Is Brand Loyalty. What is brand loyalty? How to build brand loyalty? There is an out and out need to rethink what brand loyalty really means.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I heard it once, two weeks ago at a loyalty conference in London. Loyalty trends were being discussed, as well as what had been hot topics in prior years – some of which just faded away as fads. Most companies need to stay focused on what we call Loyalty Imperatives for this decade. The Loyalty Imperatives answer that question.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Therefore, all types of marketing and sales disciplines started to evolve to incentivize and influence customer choice in order to drive more revenue. So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Incentive schemes like loyalty programs are effectively a value exchange.

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delighted

JULY 13, 2022

If so, you’ve experienced customer loyalty. And likely, if something in your customer experience with the brand has gone awry in the past, e.g., your order didn’t ship when they said it would or the item that arrived did not look like the item you ordered, the brand was eager to make it right – and in turn, that earned your loyalty even more.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This will enable you to provide a seamless experience across all touchpoints. For example, a sales associate could have access to a customer’s online wish list or purchase history in order to provide personalized assistance. This will increase the likelihood of customers making a purchase and returning to your brand.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As of 2022, global e-commerce sales surpassed $5.7 In this rapidly evolving landscape, businesses must adopt advanced and innovative strategies to not only capture the attention of customers but also foster enduring loyalty. Gamified Loyalty Programs The world loves games, and e-commerce is no exception.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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Retently

OCTOBER 1, 2018

CFN Insight – A customer journey mapping tool that makes it easy to improve the customer experience, identify touchpoints, and assign the right key decision makers to act on said customer journey touchpoints. Also, it helps you improve all touchpoints. What are Customer Journey Touch Points?

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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. If you want a more technical description of headless loyalty, read our previous article on the topic here. This article has three sections.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 23, 2018

And while most of us agree it’s vital to have and show empathy with customers, many rarely go beyond that in really capturing the touchpoints to understand emotions. Don’t reserve empathy for one set of customers or only the big touchpoints. Each touchpoint leads to an emotion. Empathy for Real Life Customers.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 29, 2024

You made the sale – awesome sauce! Here are 7 Small but Impactful Ways to Improve Customer Experience Immediately After Making a Sale 1. Instead, swoop in with a friendly check-in message a few days post-sale. That’s exactly the vibe to channel with a kickin’ loyalty program. The game’s not over.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

You get a greater return on your investment (ROI) from repeat customers than trying to acquire a first-time customer Even though only 12% to 15% of customers are loyal to a single retailer, they represent between 55% to 70% of the retailer’s sales. By leveraging your customer experience (CX) program. Need some more convincing?

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Similarly, you can increase sales using surveys by rolling out online surveys. How to increase sales using surveys: 1. Touchpoints that provide a less-than-ideal experience for your customer. You should put more efforts into retaining them, they could also be a part of your customer loyalty program, if you have one.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 23, 2018

And while most of us agree it’s vital to have and show empathy with customers, many rarely go beyond that in really capturing the touchpoints to understand emotions. Don’t reserve empathy for one set of customers or only the big touchpoints. Each touchpoint leads to an emotion. Empathy for Real Life Customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 2, 2023

Customer Loyalty Is Your Holy Grail for Success. Entrepreneur) Customer loyalty is an essential source of revenue for any business. Use these four tips to create a customer loyalty program that will give you the highest return on your investment. My Comment: How do we create customer loyalty? by Matt Bertram.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Enter: loyalty marketing. This article describes why a Loyalty Strategy will become the only long-term, sustainable point of differentiation in the mobility portal wars, because sufficient capital will find innovative growth companies and legacy players will eventually learn how to become more agile.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Headless loyalty systems are API-first loyalty platforms that enable any customer-facing platform to integrate loyalty marketing functionality into their Customer Experience (CX) via API. The loyalty industry still operates mostly on tightly-integrated legacy technology platforms, in which changes are slow and expensive.

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Feedbackly

JUNE 21, 2023

You can gather EVI® data through surveys designed for specific touchpoints and different phases of the customer journey. Evoke emotions that generate higher sales What emotion(s) persuade customers to click “buy”? Your brand should evoke happiness, joy, and excitement in your clients for high retention and loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. Points are perceived by customers as a kind of currency; underperforming loyalty brands, equally, prioritize this purely transactional insight.

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