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Gas, grocery, fashion, technology… and probably more. 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.
Retail customer experience was predicated around these physical elements and touchpoints: Are the employees helpful? Customer experience must now be consistent across all touchpoints to ensure customer needs are being met wherever customers choose to interact with your brand. Does the store carry the products customers are looking for?
Moreover, their mobile app, integrated with their Starbucks Rewardsprogram, 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. This is what sets these companies apart.
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Retail customer experience was predicated around these physical elements and touchpoints: Are the employees helpful? Customer experience must now be consistent across all touchpoints to ensure customer needs are being met wherever customers choose to interact with your brand. Does the store carry the products customers are looking for?
The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. But partnerships don’t have to be between huge companies; a local pharmacy can partner with convenience stores or fashion retailers. Applying loyalty mechanics at more customer touchpoints.
Rewardprograms 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.”. [iii].
Drop them a line – could be an email, text, or hey, even a good ol’ fashioned postcard if you wanna go retro – highlighting some super slick ways to get the most out of what they bought. And remember: nobody likes a bland, forgettable rewardsprogram – so inject some personality into it! Total game changer!”
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.
Loyalty had evolved into a fairly segregated marketing function, but many of this years’ entries were more comprehensive, loyalty-enabled marketing programs. As more holistic marketing initiatives, loyalty mechanics were harnessed to drive and measure engagement across channels, and across many more customer touchpoints.
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. fashion (Adidas). As a result, the supermarket’s NPS has gone up and up.
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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