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Customer Loyalty

July 14, 2010

Customer Strategist Orkun Oguz:
Leveraging Customer Segmentation in Wealth Management

As the U.S. House and Senate make last-minute changes to the final wording of the financial-overhaul bill, one thing seems fairly certain: U.S. banks and brokerages stand to lose billions of dollars in revenues as a result of the new rules aimed at providing additional safeguards for consumers on investments and other products.

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March 10, 2010

Customer Strategist Bruce Sweigert:
Airline FFPs Are Springboards for Engagement

I've been following some of the debates in the airline industry about the new ways to engender loyalty: social media as the new loyalty vehicle versus costly frequent flyer program (FFP) miles. While social media has already become an essential ingredient to airline's customer programs, the FFP will continue to be a foundation for one-to-one customer engagement.

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Airline FFPs Are Springboards for Engagement" »

February 1, 2010

The Perils of Treating Different Customers Differently

As I write this, I am recovering in my hotel room from an early-morning run several times up and down each of the four different staircases in this hotel, in a foreign city (not going to tell you what city, but it's way far away from the US - virtually opposite side of the world). Something I noticed about this modern hotel is that the number of steps between floors varies with each stairwell! While the floors are all level and have no ups or downs in the hallways, the stairwells themselves each have the same number of steps between each of the principal hotel room floors but that number is 21 steps for one of the stairwells, and 22, 23, or 24 steps for the other three (go figure). I don't know the explanation for this, and truth is I'm not even very interested in it, but when you have to run up and down stairwells in a hotel because it's too early for the fitness center to be open, then you have to occupy your mind somehow.

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