InMoment XI

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Customer retention is important because the longer a customer stays with your brand, the higher their average purchase is. Implement Loyalty Programs Implementing a loyalty program can be one of the most effective customer retention strategies that your organization invests in.

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InMoment XI

AUGUST 1, 2024

Customer sentiment is the emotions and attitudes expressed by customers towards a brand, product, or service. It includes both positive and negative feelings, like satisfaction, frustration, loyalty, and disappointment. Understanding how customers feel about your brand can help you identify strengths and areas for improvement.

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s prime time for retailers to grow an Amazon-level loyalty program by Tom Caporaso. My Comment: Here’s a great article about customer loyalty. Some loyalty programs are actually marketing programs. Some loyalty programs create emotional connections.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

Within his role, Eric now owns the VoC programs, CX and brand activation team, and the Gold Plus Rewards loyalty program. In the first 6 months of his role, Eric focused on the following: Fixing the measurement program in order to capture the VoC in the right way with the right level of understanding.

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Oracle

MARCH 18, 2021

And for the most avid travelers engaged in airline, credit card, and hotel loyalty programs, 2020 provided extremely limited opportunities to maintain status, earn points, or redeem travel rewards. Travel loyalty reimagined. Travel loyalty programs matter to consumers, and so do their responses to the pandemic.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 28, 2025

Also, hospitality culture is ingrained into the casino industry. Proactive customer engagement, personalised offers and loyalty programs make customers feel appreciated and can encourage brand trust and loyalty which can be hard to come by, especially in industries that are saturated with many companies!

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 15, 2024

This is precisely what loyalty programs were originally designed for, as marketing platforms purpose-built for measuring and incentivizing customer engagement, including when the customer is not shopping with your brand.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

When a customer experiences a service failure, you’d assume their trust in the brand takes a hit. Brands that master this can turn slip-ups into opportunities to strengthen customer relationships, often resulting in higher satisfaction than if no issue had ever occurred. Cognitive Dissonance People dislike conflicting feelings.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Support Teams Consistency: Identify fundamental customer needs and create customized value and benefits Formal Relationship Surveys: Create goal-oriented relationship surveys; look for churn warning signs specific to your business Leverage Loyalty Programs: Leverage your best customers to be your most outspoken advocates.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Today, I’m replaying one of our most popular episodes from 2018 about the employee experience and building customer loyalty at Hertz with Eric Smuda , VP of Customer Experience and Loyalty. The employees liked the new uniform and how it made them feel — more confident, and more prideful in the brand and their job.

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Alida

JANUARY 5, 2018

” Brand management becomes holistic. Thinking about the bigger picture isn’t anything new for CMOs, but Forrester says looking at their brand holistically will be imperative in 2018. This means making sure there’s consistency between what the brand is promising consumers and the experience that’s actually delivered.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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Thematic

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Tracking and examining customer conversations over multiple channels takes time and effort – which is why many top-tier brands and leading organizations are turning to AI-driven voice of customer (VoC) tools to extract insights from customer feedback at scale. This leads to increased customer satisfaction, loyalty, and retention.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

It’s a journey encompassing every point of interaction with your brand, from the initial awareness to leaving an online review. Customer Experience (CX) is the overall perception someone has of your brand based on their thoughts and feelings after each interaction with your business.

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BirdEye

APRIL 1, 2025

Today, hotel review management is no longer a reactive taskits a strategic, revenue-driving function that directly impacts occupancy, guest loyalty, and long-term profitability. Its online reviews , the most powerful and public reflection of your hospitality. Use branded signage in common areas or QR codes in rooms.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2024

Brands Want Your Loyalty—and Will Offer More Than Points to Get It by Lauren Giella (Newsweek) Loyalty programs offer customers rewards, discounts or other perks when buying from or using the products or services of a certain brand. My Comment: Here is an excellent and robust article on loyalty programs.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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Kayako

MAY 30, 2017

People are becoming fickle and disloyal to specific brands” say some marketing experts who also advise businesses to focus on chasing new clients. In Creating Guest Evangelists through Customer Service , hospitality industry expert and speaker Tom Costello shares a few of his models for standout service.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. First up: the travel & hospitality sector. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Resolution Foundation, a UK-based research organization, recently published data showing that 11% of the market for “hotels and similar accommodation” was owned by the top 5 brands in the sector in 2016; a drop of three percentage points from 2004[i]. Restive guests: understanding hospitality loyalty. the luxury traveler.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 28, 2022

The article’s author emphasizes the need for brands and people to bring a personal/real element into the customer experience. What Today’s Guests Really Want When It Comes To Hotel Loyalty Programs Might Surprise You by Ellis Connolly. Hospitality Net) Why do so many hotel loyalty programs fail?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 6, 2022

Why Chick-fil-a Is One of the Most Loved Brands by John Dijulius. The DiJulius Group) Even as the demand for Chick-fil-A is at an all-time high, the private company will only grow at a pace they ensure they won’t jeopardize the brand experience. Travelers Today) Customer service should be an integral part of any brand’s strategy.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fast Company) Providing exceptional customer service is a tried and tested way for brands to stand out and succeed. Are Hotel Loyalty and Rewards Programs Enough to Keep Customers Loyal to the Brand? My Comment: If you’ve been following me, you know I’m a big fan of all companies having a hospitality mentality.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. But even these leading travel brands can do better. Personalize Based On Past Behavior to Drive Loyalty. There is huge market pressure to make great deals.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Creating an authentic review-generation culture requires strategic and thoughtful approaches that don’t feel forced or transactional. Follow up meaningfully after private customer feedback before requesting public reviews. Design email sequences that prioritize guest satisfaction before mentioning reviews.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Top 5 Guest Loyalty Trends and Predictions to Watch for 2023 by Ellis Connolly. Hospitality Net) We are officially on the eve of a new year, already moving through the holiday season at the signature blink-and-you-might-miss-it pace that is seemingly synonymous with this time of year. Personalization is more important than ever.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 21, 2020

However, there are a lot of reasons that prompt customers to leave a brand. Lately, customer churn is turning out to be a vital performance indicator to help brands understand their performance better. 90% of customers say that brands are failing to meet their expectations. ”. Failing to Deliver as Per Customer Expectations. “

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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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SurveySensum

AUGUST 24, 2023

And this will enable you to retain your customers and make them feel loyal to your brand. But this is a reality that many brands are unable to understand. 11 Brands That are Using Self-Service Options To Reduce Customer Effort In The Best Way Possible 1. So why not learn from them? Frustrating, right?

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delighted

JUNE 30, 2022

Every brand loves a happy customer, and knowing that you have recent buyers who love your product enough to give you positive feedback is a great feeling. But your happiest customers can do more than provide validation and direction – they can also become significant revenue drivers for your business through a referral program.

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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. Loyalty personalization has been subsumed into a wider conversation about data actionability.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 11, 2018

On evidence, true customer loyalty is won through projecting self-assuredness, generosity and boldness through your brand. Consumer brands used to mistake this for loyalty. Realizing that it wasn’t loyalty after all, has left them hot under the collar. The brand sold itself. Consumers love confidence.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But those brands pursuing each of the trends predicted for 2020 probably suffered less as the course of this year evolved. Today, the best experience we receive from any brand becomes our expectation of every brand. Loyalty marketing has always existed as a primary method for building direct relationships with your customers.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. Powerful consumer brands, meanwhile, are building their own coalitions. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Unfulfilled promises.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. TechCrunch reports that brands such as Airbnb, Disney, and Twitter have seen a 75% reduction in development lead times by migrating to microservices[i]. Campaign Management. Points Bank.

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