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American Cruise Lines Introduces New Eagle Society Benefits

American Cruise Lines, operator of the newest riverboats and small cruise ships in the United States, has announced the introduction of a renewed loyalty program, featuring new premium benefits for members. The Eagle Society is the line’s way of recognizing and rewarding returning guests by providing a more personalized and enhanced cruise experience. The Eagle Society [...]

Reinventing the Customer Experience: Disney Builds Loyalty with RFID

Could the customer experience at Disney’s parks be any more magical?  Disney is certainly trying with a collection of new services dubbed MyMagic+.  Costing an estimated $1 billion the services revolve around RFID wristbands Disney is referring to as MagicBands.  These rubber bracelets will be encoded with credit card information allowing users to make purchases [...]

Ace Hardware Launches Instant Savings Exclusively for Ace Rewards Members

Ace Hardware has announced the launch of Instant Savings, a program exclusively for Ace Rewards members that allows them to receive valuable discounts instantly, right at the register. No longer will Ace Rewards members have to redeem rebates through the mail and wait the four to six weeks it typically takes for those to be [...]

Starbucks Upgrades Loyalty Program, Reinvents The Customer Experience

Those loyal to the Starbucks brand were meet last month with the start of many changes to the company’s loyalty program.  In addition to revamping the loyalty rewards Starbucks has also announced a partnership with the mobile technology company, Square.  This change marks a continued push by Starbucks to enhance its digital integration. Gold card [...]

Walgreen’s Launches Loyalty Card in September

Drugstore chain Walgreen, one of the nation’s largest retailers, will launch of the company’s first ever loyalty card called Balance Rewards this September. According to a recent posting on MarketWatch, Walgreen hopes this new loyalty card will improve sales and help the retailer personalize offerings to meet customers needs. Rivals are expected to use their loyalty [...]

First Impression Critical for Nurturing Customer Loyalty

Through-out the entire customer purchase life-cycle from acquisition to on-boarding, to issue resolution, and customer retention, companies have opportunities to build customer loyalty. The results of the ClickFox Brand Loyalty Survey conducted between March 7 and March 19, 2012 show that the most critical time to gain customers loyalty is when they make their first [...]

Unprecedented Retail Mashup Between Target and Neiman Marcus

Talk about two ends of the retail spectrum! It’s not very often that discount powerhouse Target and high-end fashion icon Neiman Marcus are talked about at the same time, but these two unique retailers are making quite the odd bedfellows this winter as they partner up to offer a limited collection of products this holiday [...]

What Makes Loyal Customers More Profitable?

Pinterest Shines in Consumer Engagement with Retailers

If customer loyalty has a direct correlation to customer engagement (and many  a loyalty expert thinks so), then Pinterest may be emerging as a powerful new tool for retailers in their quest to engage, keep and grow their best customers. According to the 2012 Social and Mobile Commerce Study, a joint research project by Shop.org, comScore [...]

General Motors Links Customer Loyalty to Employee Bonuses

General Motors does not want to go in reverse and the way they see it, customer loyalty is one key to maintaining forward momentum. GM’s new initiative basically correlates salaried employees’ year-end bonuses to satisfied customers. In other words, if employees want year-end bonuses, they are going to have to make sure that quality goals and [...]