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A loyalty^[4] program is a marketing strategy^[1] that companies use to encourage repeat business and build a long-term relationship with customers. These programs provide rewards, perks, or incentives to customers who frequently make purchases or show loyalty to a fire^[6] or business. Rewards can range from points which can be redeemed for discounts or products, to tier-based systems that provide better rewards for higher levels of spending. While these programs are prevalent in various industries worldwide, they’ve evolved significantly over time. The traditional punch cards have given way to digital apps and online systems, such as QR codes and mobile wallets. Additionally, these programs now often emphasize customer engagement^[2], data collection, personalized marketing, and even social responsibility. However, they aren’t without controversy, with issues related to customer^[3] data privacy^[5] and the effectiveness of such programs frequently raised.

Terms definitions

1. ↑ marketing strategy. "Marketing Strategy" is a term that encompasses a company's broad plan for its marketing efforts. It includes mapping out the direction for future planning periods, focusing on customer value, and anticipating growth. This strategic planning aims to bridge the strategic gap for sustainable growth by organizing resources for a competitive edge. A marketing strategy also involves long-range planning to identify new business opportunities and potential threats. It utilizes various components such as pricing, customer service, go-to-market strategy, packaging, and market mapping. Additionally, this strategy uses metrics for tracking performance and strategic analysis to identify the company's current position. It also requires a clear vision and mission statement for the organization. Furthermore, strategic planners use various research tools and analytical techniques to evaluate competitive brand performance. Ultimately, a marketing strategy seeks to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage.

2. ↑ customer engagement.

1 Customer engagement is a term that encapsulates the interaction and involvement of consumers with a company or brand. This concept, which was defined by various organizations between 2006 and 2008, can be seen in both online and offline settings and has a significant impact on marketing practices. It involves the co-creation of personalized experiences, with key dimensions including immersion, passion, and activation. However, ethical concerns can arise, particularly with regards to maximizing user engagement. Technology plays a vital role in this process, fostering an interactive culture and facilitating connections between consumers and organizations. Customer engagement is also heavily influenced by social media platforms, where content and influencer activity can drive engagement strategies. Measurement metrics are crucial in assessing customer engagement, with likes, replies, and retweets on Twitter being examples of this. This complex interaction between businesses and customers ultimately aims to foster loyalty and long-term relationships.

2 Customer engagement is a term that encapsulates the interaction and involvement of consumers with a company or brand. This concept, which was defined by various organizations between 2006 and 2008, can be seen in both online and offline settings and has a significant impact on marketing practices. It involves the co-creation of personalized experiences, with key dimensions including immersion, passion, and activation. However, ethical concerns can arise, particularly with regards to maximizing user engagement. Technology plays a vital role in this process, fostering an interactive culture and facilitating connections between consumers and organizations. Customer engagement is also heavily influenced by social media platforms, where content and influencer activity can drive engagement strategies. Measurement metrics are crucial in assessing customer engagement, with likes, replies, and retweets on Twitter being examples of this. This complex interaction between businesses and customers ultimately aims to foster loyalty and long-term relationships.

3. ↑ customer.

1 The primary entity in this text is the "customer. A customer is an individual or entity that purchases goods or services from a business. They are crucial participants in the commercial landscape, forming relationships with businesses through transactions. Customers can also be classified as 'clients,' especially when they receive tailored advice or solutions from a business. The term 'client' originates from Latin, implying a sense of leaning or bending toward a business. Customers vary in types - from end customers who directly buy products or services, to industrial customers who incorporate these goods or services into their own offerings. These customers can have different relationships with the business, such as being employers in construction projects. Businesses often segment their customers into different categories, like entrepreneurs or end users, to better understand and serve them. The understanding and management of customer relationships is a critical area of study and practice in business.

2 The primary entity in this text is the "customer. A customer is an individual or entity that purchases goods or services from a business. They are crucial participants in the commercial landscape, forming relationships with businesses through transactions. Customers can also be classified as 'clients,' especially when they receive tailored advice or solutions from a business. The term 'client' originates from Latin, implying a sense of leaning or bending toward a business. Customers vary in types - from end customers who directly buy products or services, to industrial customers who incorporate these goods or services into their own offerings. These customers can have different relationships with the business, such as being employers in construction projects. Businesses often segment their customers into different categories, like entrepreneurs or end users, to better understand and serve them. The understanding and management of customer relationships is a critical area of study and practice in business.

Glossary

Loyalty program (Wikipedia)

A loyalty program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of a business associated with the program. A loyalty program typically involves the operator of a particular program set up an account for a customer of a business associated with the scheme, and then issue to the customer a loyalty card (variously called rewards card, points card, advantage card, club card, or some other name) which may be a plastic or paper card, visually similar to a credit card, that identifies the cardholder as a participant in the program. Cards may have a barcode or magstripe to more easily allow for scanning, although some are chip cards or proximity cards.

Today, such loyalty programs cover most types of commerce, each having varying features and rewards schemes, including in banking, entertainment, hospitality, retailing and travel. The market approach has shifted from product-centric to a customer-centric one due to a highly competitive market and a wide array of services offered to customers, therefore, it's important that marketing strategies prioritize growing a sustainable business and increasing customer satisfaction.

By presenting a card, customers typically receive either a discount on the current purchase or an allotment of points that they can use for future purchases. Hence, the card is the visible means of implementing a type of what economists call a two-part tariff. Application forms for cards usually entail agreements by the store concerning customer privacy, typically non-disclosure (by the store) of non-aggregate data about customers. The store uses aggregate data internally (and sometimes externally) as part of its marketing research. Over time the data can reveal, for example, a given customer's favorite brand of beer, or whether they are a vegetarian. Where a customer has provided sufficient identifying information, the loyalty card may also be used to access such information to expedite verification during receipt of cheques or dispensing medical prescription preparations, or for other membership privileges such as access to an airport lounge using a frequent-flyer card. In recent years, businesses now offer these loyalty cards in the form of a loyalty app, which means users are less likely to lose their cards. Almost all major casino chains also have loyalty cards, which offer members tier credits, reward credits, comps, and other perks based on card members' "theo" from gambling, various demographic data, and spend patterns on various purchases at the casino, within the casino network, and with the casino's partners. Examples of such programs include Caesars Rewards (formerly called Total Rewards) and MGM Resorts International's Mlife.

Loyalty programs have been described as a form of centralized virtual currency, one with unidirectional cash flow, since reward points can be exchanged into a good or service but not into cash.

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