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Building a Better Loyalty Program (and the Reward for Getting It Right)

BlueOcean

Salesforce reports that 55% of members would use their loyalty programs more if the rewards were personalized to reflect their unique needs. McKinsey agrees, saying that “earn and burn” transactional rewards programs aren’t enough to retain loyal members. Your members will thank you—and so will your agents.

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Two reasons to analyze what customers say – just not what they do

OpinionLab

In my last post , I said listening to customers and capturing feedback across all channels is a crucial step to delivering great customer experiences in today’s omnichannel world. Consider a sports example, known for highly emotional fan behavior.

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

Currency Alliance

Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. Reward programs are changing, but they are not going away. To incentivize customers to progress through purchase funnels, brands are recognizing that additional touchpoints should be rewarded. Good omnichannel experience continues to get more budget.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. This past summer, the supermarket decided to offer reward points to customers who bring their own re-usable carrier bags. Redemption catalog – aggregating rewards for customers.

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

Currency Alliance

As a result, vendors such as Oracle, Comarch, Kobie, Epsilon, Unisys, and perhaps another dozen have been able to maintain their installed base among the largest loyalty programs, while another hundred vendors provide stand-alone solutions to medium and smaller companies. But break up those monolithic platforms, we must.

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