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After seven incredible interviews, this episode looks back at the seven key lessons I’ve learned from my expert guests on the show. “Let’s Talk Loyalty” is designed to be educational and inspiring for any of us focused on engaging customers and retaining them to drive profitable business growth.  This summary episode is perfect if you’ve missed any of the great interviews – so you can listen back to anything relevant – or simply catch up with some inspiring statistics about our industry. This article was first published by Let’s Talk Loyalty. Permission to use has been granted by the publisher.

CX – or “customer experience” has exploded in recent years as a powerful business tool that truly drives customer loyalty and advocacy – not “just” using structured loyalty programmes, but by re-engineering your whole business in order to delight customers. Today’s episode of “Let’s Talk Loyalty” features an interview with Michael Killeen, founder of the “CX Academy” to figure out why so many companies are appointing CX professionals in their senior management teams, and how we as loyalty professionals can leverage our expertise in customer retention in order to lead CX initiatives. Listen to learn what brands are seen as the global leaders in CX and how you can upskill and apply similar powerful frameworks in your company. This article was first published by Let’s Talk Loyalty. Permission to use has been granted by the publisher.

As a loyalty marketing professional, Sanjeev Nichani has worked with some of India’s top loyalty programmes, including Loylty Rewardz – a programme for over 100 million banking customers in India, AIMIA, and now Raymond Rewards, a men’s retail fashion proposition that recognises and rewards customers across all markets segments and across 1,000 retail stores. Includes insights on launching a loyalty programme within a franchise business, upcoming ideas to engage with members in digital channels and where Raymond Limited is focusing its commercial strategy in 2019 through to 2025. This article was first published by Let’s Talk Loyalty. Permission to use has been granted by the publisher.

Running a loyalty programme can be challenging in many ways – with so many internal stakeholders and members to manage. From platform decisions, through to legal and privacy management and of course increasing expectations for programmes to drive measurable returns. Who can you turn to for advice, a second opinion and access to global loyalty brain power? One place is the “Customer Strategy Network” – of which I’m delighted to be a member.   Our organisation is a global network of loyalty practitioners available to support loyalty projects on a freelance and flexible basis as needed.  Today I chat to Nick Chambers who leads the Customer Strategy Network and we discuss the types of projects we support and work we do – for those time when you might need some extra support to optimise your loyalty programme.  With fifteen loyalty experts across 11 countries worldwide, there’s always help on hand…

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