Perspectives

Topical customer loyalty insights, easily digestible within 5 minutes. These insights provide valuable takeaways for loyalty and marketing professionals.
Getting Started With Segmentation
Getting Started With Segmentation
We present our simple guide and tips to getting started with segmentation and automation, including how to create personas and why getting the fundamentals correct is still important.
Rewards Lead To Engagement
Rewards Lead To Engagement
Find out why reward redemption matters, and a range of typical reward options offered to members. We’ve also included the advantages and drawbacks for each option and how to find the best solution for your business
Removing Friction In Loyalty
Removing Friction In Loyalty
We discuss the emerging disruption to the loyalty market coming from card-linking technology, and how both banks and program operators can take advantage of these innovations
Loyalty Strategy Depends On Program Age
Loyalty Strategy Depends On Program Age
We share our insights into effective loyalty measurement and how to maintain the ROI of your program. Insights include how to factor the age of the program, and the importance...
Credit Card Loyalty - How Much Is Enough
Credit Card Loyalty - How Much Is Enough
We present our perspective on interchange across Australia, New Zealand, America and the United Kingdom, and discuss how much is enough to run a credit card loyalty program and engage...
Measuring Return on Loyalty
Measuring Return on Loyalty
We discuss the challenges and solutions with measuring retention and loyalty ROI. Return on Loyalty® helps you clearly measure and improve the ROI of your customer investments
CX Lessons Learned for 2016
CX Lessons Learned for 2016
SuiteCX Guest Article. Find out the customer experience lessons learned for 2016. This article discusses real customer experience is about insights, integration, and impact...
Rethinking Loyalty
Rethinking Loyalty
We discuss our thoughts on the controversial argument that in an age of ‘Big Data’, loyalty programs are less important. We also share our 5-step relationship marketing roadmap.
Targeted Customer Marketing
Targeted Customer Marketing
Is this the end of targeted customer marketing? We discuss the book How Brands Grow and help answer the question, how do we reconcile this inconsistency between Brand Science and...
Integrating NPS with your Data Strategy
Integrating NPS with your Data Strategy
How can NPS be used to Inform Marketing? This white paper investigates how you can integrate NPS with your data strategy to inform data-driven marketing and drive further impact and...
Data Governance 101
Data Governance 101
Guest Article by Data Republic. Find out what’s preventing you from creating a data-driven culture and get advice on data governance in this new ebook from Data Republic. ...
Surprise and Delight in Loyalty
Surprise and Delight in Loyalty
Find out how to best use Surprise and Delight in your loyalty strategy without creating costly feelings of entitlement, and even to rescue high value customers after a poor service...
Journey Mapping And Employee Engagement
Journey Mapping And Employee Engagement
SuiteCX Guest Article. One of the most compelling reasons to conduct a journey mapping exercise is to get employees in the room and find ways to make a positive organisational...
One Cadillac or Six
One Cadillac or Six
‘One Cadillac or Six?’ takes away the mystery of understanding and measuring ‘customer lifetime value’. We reveal how life time value can be the starting point for growing your...
Loyalty Alchemy: Turning Points into Gold
Loyalty Alchemy: Turning Points into Gold
Using points to treat different customers differently is what we call CustomerScience®. Converting stored value into a proposition which is meaningful for each customer.
What's the Big Deal about Journey Mapping
What's the Big Deal about Journey Mapping
Journey maps allow you to specify the possible peaks and troughs in the experience you are providing your customers. We also call these peaks the ‘Moments-of-Truth’ (MOTs).
A Short History of Customer Experience (CX)
A Short History of Customer Experience (CX)
Delivering a consistently good customer experience requires the execution of a hierarchy of sequenced requirements, analogous to Maslow's hierarchy of needs in that each level must be satisfied.