Customer Loyalty Programs integrate and reward brand recall, a win for every brand that successfully pulls it off. Dating back to punch cards and coupons, loyalty programs run by algorithms make it simpler to be handled in mass numbers while tracking useful customer behaviour insights. Here are 4 models with examples in a nutshell. Stuff outside the nutshell can be found here. 1. Point-Based Loyalty Program Your users can either redeem their points for credit towards their next purchases or get access to special member-only deals or benefit incentives. These are just the basic means by which many retail businesses reward users with more points. And you can mimic that. Petco Pals leverages the points program to reward its loyal customers. Typically, users earn 1 point for every $1 spent. When they reach 100 points, they get a $5 coupon. So, a customer must spend $100 to get a $5 reward. And this $5 coupon can only be redeemed on the next purchase. 2. Tier-Based Loyalty Program If you want to reward your customers for reaching milestones with your business, then tiered loyalty programs are just what you need. The more your customer spends, the higher the tier your customer enters. This is a great way to increase customer engagement, for every tier adds exclusivity to the program. While with the points program, all your customers get the same reward, with the tiered program, your valuable customers get valuable rewards. Since each tier comes with better incentives, a gamification element comes to the mix. The milestones and progress bars encourage your users to come back to your store over and over again to earn points. Now, to help you get started with tiered loyalty programs, let’s take e.l.f’s example. e.l.f’s Beauty Squad Loyalty Club has three tiers – Extra, Epic, and Icon. The more points a member accrues, the more exclusive the rewards they can benefit from. 3. Cash Back Loyalty Program A cashback loyalty program is much similar to the points program. Just like how your customers need to spend more to earn more points, here, users need to reach a certain spend amount to get a certain amount back. You can either reward them through coupons or cash. And you can lay out the condition on where it has to be exclusively used – on a product or a brand. CVS ExtraCare Program allows its members to earn 2% back in ExtraBucks Rewards when they use their loyalty card. The reward program does not impose a lot of restrictions. So, members can use the cash back on almost everything at CVS. 4. Paid Loyalty Program This is totally different from the above loyalty program types. In fact, premium loyalty programs are the future for your retail stores. They require your customers to pay upfront for instant benefits that they can benefit from at any time. Instead of prolonged waiting times to earn their rewards, your customers can relish the instant gratification brought about by the premium loyalty program. Since this program is valuable, you will find greater customer engagement, order frequency, and average order value (AOV). What is more, you can also collect the data about your best customers. As its premium loyalty user, I like that I can get the best possible shopping incentives no matter when I shop, for investing $119 a year. Besides, the benefits of Amazon Prime are not purely transactional. I get experiential bonanzas like video streaming and others out of this program. Our team has put up a detailed guide on these models, cheers if it helped🍻!
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💲4 Proven Customer Loyalty Programs That Work | 🕹Gamify, Reward & Delight Customers
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Untenable
You can build a city below sea level, and it might work for a while, but sooner or later, the water will win.
Trends don’t determine whether we’ll be able to accomplish something tomorrow. But seeing and then understanding the trends allows us to work with the wind at our backs, instead of fighting it.
Consider demographics, technology and science. All three are inexorably moving, and while they can be ignored, sooner or later, they catch up with our project and push against it. We can deny the facts of the world around us, with passion or even vitriol, but trends compound.
When you can, focus on something tenable.
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Competition vs. activation
Innovators rarely have a competition problem. The challenge isn’t that your market is buying from an alternative provider–the challenge is that they’re buying from no one.
The work we do and the stories we tell when we seek to create activation are dramatically different from the mindset of competition, and yet the lessons from our culture (sports, mass merchants, politics) are all about competition.
“We’re better than them,” is a competition slogan.
That’s very different from, “things could be better,” or “you’re missing this new thing,” or, “people you admire are already using this.”
If you want to grow, you’ll need to get someone to not only decide that you’re worth their time and money, you’ll need to motivate them to act now instead of later.
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4 “Global Gurus” Share Their Advice for Customer Experience Leaders
Global Gurus’ list for World’s Top 30 Customer Service Professionals for 2021 came out recently, and I wanted to use it as an opportunity to highlight some of my friends and colleagues who are not only on the list, but who have shared their wisdom on my podcast. (And, of course, I appreciate Global Gurus for including me on the list once again!)
Throughout my 35 years as a customer experience expert and speaker, I’ve seen that it’s vital to learn from others in the community. To become a successful professional, you need to be open to having new conversations, asking questions, and always being willing to learn more about the people around you. My gift to you is sharing conversations with these incredible colleagues through my podcast to help you further your career and develop your leadership skills.
1. Chip R. Bell tells us why truth is vital to trust
My friend Chip R. Bell needs no introduction in this industry; he’s authored numerous influential books and is a trusted speaker and consultant. In our conversation, Chip discusses the importance that truth and trust have in the relationship between an organization and its customers. Chip explained it in this way:“I want to talk about trust. There’s a lot to trust. But the most part is about truth. What you find in environments where there’s a lot of innovation and ingenuity is an element of–absolutely–a truthful environment.
I’ve always been amazed how when we stand as witnesses, and we put our hand on the Bible, and we raise our hand, we say, ‘I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help me God.’
Now, why do we go through all that rigmarole where we have to mention through trust three times the whole truth? Nothing. But the truth is because people oftentimes hold back little white lies, or because they don’t tell the whole thing. And so it’s creating an environment where you say, ‘Let’s put it all out there, no holds barred.’
We want to be diplomatic and fair. But we want also, we want total complete transparency. And when you have that environment, it’s one of safety.”
Listen to the full episode & read the show notes»2. Joseph Michelli explores how we can harness change
I’ve interviewed my friend Joseph Michelli, author, speaker, and organizational consultant, several times and we always have fascinating conversations. When we were speaking on change and its challenges, Joseph shared some insights from his conversations with leaders in a variety of industries during the pandemic:Change is gonna happen whether you’re going to be in charge of it or you’re going to be waiting for it or you’re going to be resisting it. You get to cut some choices here. But the change you didn’t get to choose.
And so we saw, again, brands that were willing to know what was going on in the marketplace, they pivoted digital, which is necessary for functioning. But they also realized there was a change in people’s appetite for wanting to be with each other.
So while we were having business and commerce in ways we’ve never done before, thanks to technology, we were longing to be together. And so they were trying to find ways to put humans in places with this technology and I think leveraging change in harnessing change was a function of being human power and technology-aided.”
Listen to the full episode & read the show notes »3. Jay Baer explains why we must rethink how we treat customers based on loyalty
Jay Baer, the founder of Convince & Convert, a digital strategy consulting firm and author of Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers With Word of Mouth, joined me on my podcast to talk about his latest book. We spoke about why companies should implement change the way they approach customer loyalty:The best way to upset customers is to treat them equitably. I feel like a lot of companies are looking this way because they are so addicted to tiered experiences: if you are a loyal customer you’re in the rewards club or whatever, you get this awesome CX. But if you are not, it doesn’t matter; you are not terribly important to us and we don’t care about your experience. I don’t think that is a great way to run a business.
This idea is about everybody having the same experience, that every customer has a crack at that ‘talk trigger.’”
Listen to the full episode & read the show notes »4. Adrian Swinscoe shares his views on leading effectively
Adrian Swinscoe, author of the book, Punk CX, and I spoke on my podcast about ways to push your leadership skills. In our conversation, he challenges you to roll up your sleeves and dig in:“When was the last time that you served one of your customers? When was the last time you said hello to them on the phone or you shook their hand or helped them fulfill an order or you went to visit them?
It is a little bit like being the team captain or manager of a sports team: if you cannot get all the players to agree to a way to play together, then it’s not their fault, that is your fault because you are the one in charge, so sort it out. If someone is not willing to play ball, then bench them.”
Listen to the full episode & read the show notes »I want to encourage you all to check out the full versions of these podcasts for some great tips on moving forward in your customer experience journey. But these are just a few of the over 200 episodes of the podcast that we’ve published over the years. For more interviews with other leaders in our industry, be sure to subscribe to the show via email (below) or through iTunes or Google Play.
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Understanding and Evaluating Composable CX Platforms
Composable CX cloud platforms are truly open and take full advantage of modern cloud strategies and technologies. They’re built using an API-first approach backed with a modern continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to achieve speed that’s never been experienced before. They leverage the power of microservices and treat infrastructure as code to deliver maximum resiliency, scale and innovation. They make it easy to integrate and exchange data with other systems. And they’re highly secure. Genesys Cloud is the archetype of a composable CX platform. Full article: https://www.genesys.com/blog/post/understanding-and-evaluating-composable-cx-platforms
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