ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2024

Balancing Customer Loyalty in an Age of Growing Business Costs by Tom Behnke (Retail TouchPoints) Consumers again and again have propped up the economy, fueling consistently strong growth in ecommerce and giving the retail industry an important edge in otherwise dark times. Over 90% of businesses today offer a loyalty program.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Legal divisions have had to adapt their speech to be more understandable and much like the IT industry, consumer and data protection laws have completely disrupted their space. Across this wide array of customer touchpoints, customers perceive a brand holistically and not the individual business units that make up the organisation.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our IVA can help shoppers find stores; discover promotions; check rewards programs; find out where orders are and how to make exchanges and process returns; set up automatic payments and process payments and even provide stress-free tech support. Having access to all these options, customers can even take care of themselves.

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delighted

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the pre-internet days, department, warehouse, discount, big box, and mom-and-pop stores were where consumers would purchase goods for personal use. Retail customer experience was predicated around these physical elements and touchpoints: Are the employees helpful? Does the store carry the products customers are looking for?

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These personas can serve as guidelines when designing new experiences and touchpoints along the customer journey. Identify Touchpoints : Carefully consider every single interaction point between the customer and your brand – including website visits, emails, social media posts, phone calls etc.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Many consumers now ‘multibank’[iii], keeping their traditional provider on-hand for the same reasons they always did, but branching out in search of enhanced value. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Actually, they do. Extra what?

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ensure all customer service, and support touchpoints are aware of and have access to the details for company promotions and the content of current circulars. It’s the holidays, so it is a great time to REWARD your customers! Target relevant communication for your consumer based on purchase history. Tweet this. Tweet this.

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ProProfs Chat

MAY 28, 2020

Keeping this in mind, brands are getting creative and innovative with their reward programs to create an army of loyal users. . The brand has hit the bull’s eye by offering an innovative and flexible loyalty program to its regular consumers. Acknowledge every mistake and convert them into your strengths.

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

Each of the stages they cross is referred to as a customer touchpoint and can be used to create a delightful experience for your prospective customers. are touchpoints in this stage. Use a loyalty program software like 99minds to formulate a reward program that makes them stay with you.

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delighted

JUNE 1, 2022

Total consumer value has a direct impact on profitability. Finding the average purchase frequency rate tells you how often your customers are making a purchase, giving you some insight into consumer buying behavior and how you might be able to influence it. Start a rewards program. It impacts your bottom line.

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delighted

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In the pre-internet days, department, warehouse, discount, big box, and mom-and-pop stores were where consumers would purchase goods for personal use. Retail customer experience was predicated around these physical elements and touchpoints: Are the employees helpful? Does the store carry the products customers are looking for?

Retail 40

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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Bold360

JULY 13, 2017

Creating a truly multichannel strategy means reaching out to your customers on the touchpoints that they use, and ensuring there is consistency throughout. But looking at the company’s reputation, it is known for impressing their consumers and creating a user-friendly journey across touchpoints for their customers.

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delighted

DECEMBER 10, 2019

According to John Maxwell, who leads PwC’s Global Consumer Markets industry sector : “Traditional return on investment (ROI) metrics are no longer sufficient on their own to determine your company’s success. Meanwhile, only 13% of consumers who gave a company a “very poor” CX rating feel the same.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 19, 2023

“Did you know that 86% of consumers are willing to pay more for a better customer service experience?” It’s about making a customer feel valued and listened to at every single touchpoint. ” Yes, you read that right! Good customer service fulfills basic expectations, but great customer service ?

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 22, 2023

Moreover, their mobile app, integrated with their Starbucks Rewards program, allows customers to order ahead, customize their drinks, earn and redeem rewards, tip baristas, and even identify the songs playing in their local Starbucks store. Traditionally, cars are sold through franchised dealerships.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

More enlightened marketers, on the other hand, see points as a way to keep score of customer actions at many different touchpoints along complex customer journeys. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of loyalty programs (and in most cases with incompatible loyalty currencies).

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

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. Cloud-based tech can solve this problem.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

From the customer perspective, it amounts to a Revolution – where brands are finally giving into what has been a ‘peaceful demonstration’ gaining momentum for several years – namely that it is too difficult to accumulate much value among so many incompatible loyalty point currencies/programs – so consumers quit.

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Qualtrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There’s a massive gap between the experiences consumers want and what organizations are giving them. Send your customers an NPS survey after every support interaction or at the conclusion of other major customer touchpoints like implementation sign-off. Failing to bridge the gap can be costly. Customer research insights fuel growth.

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SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It not only manages customer information but also supports and enhances the customer journey at each touchpoint. One software that helps with this is BHN Rewards (formerly Rybbon). It’s a complete solution for sending, tracking, and managing digital rewards programs.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. Define the strategy.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

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. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

This makes it difficult to coordinate meaningful touchpoints across marketing channels; and, nearly impossible to consistently reinforce the loyalty strategy. Loyalty is earned by the customer’s cumulative experiences with a brand, across all its touchpoints. Many organizations have attempted to build Points Banks from scratch.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Life as we knew it before COVID-19 will take time to return, and even when it does we’re likely to be in a ‘new normal’, as the crisis impacts consumer behaviors going forward. Even as restrictions are gradually lifted, there’s likely to be longer term impacts on how consumers interact with the hospitality industry.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Salesforce research says consumers like us belong to 4.3 loyalty programs on average. If, for example, you’re a member of Nordstrom’s loyalty program, Nordy Club, you’re among a group of customers who are likely to spend three to five times more than non-members, and are consequently driving two-thirds of Nordstrom’s sales.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many loyalty program members will now be accustomed to similar liquidity enhancements, such as exchanging your American Express Membership Rewards Points into Avios or Bonvoy. Remember, your loyalty goal is not to issue the maximum number of points, but for the maximum number of customers to see joining your program as worthwhile.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. consumer goods (Fitbit). As a result, the supermarket’s NPS has gone up and up.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You can even reward them by creating a loyalty rewards program. Use this opportunity to put focus back on the consumer, ask how your community are, offer tips and show them that the company ethos is one that cares for its community, and isn’t all about sales.”. Adeel Shabir, Outreach manager, SIA Enterprises.

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