Customers are retained and loyalty assured by providing value beyond the actual product or service itself, i.e., through incentive-based programs. The goal is to increase loyalty by creating an emotional connection or simply rewarding it with special offers. Customers are voluntarily bound to the company, which protects future revenue.
How they do it: Hosts that attain outstanding customer reviews, are quick in responding to new booking enquiries and have a high amount of stays to their property will be rewared with a ”Superhost” badge. This allows them to highlight their accomodations to customers, get rewards and discounts from Airbnb as well as early access to new features.
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How they do it: Lufthansa’s loyalty program ”Miles & More” allows customers to collect status tier and reward points for each flight or spend with the airline. This allows the company to tie frequent flyers to them by offering rewards which can be physical products or flights as well as access to exclusive lounges and priority treatment at the airport.
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How they do it: American Express lets its credit card customers collect reward points for each spent. By offering money and in-kind rewards for a certain amount of collected reward points, customers are incentivized to use the card more.
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How they do it: Amazon drives up customer loyalty through their paid premium subscription membership Amazon Prime. This allows members unlimited free shipping (on many items) and access to various other content. By charging a flat annual fee, customer return as their benefits of the membership increase with the amount of purchases on the website.
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How they do it: Payback provides a multi-brand loyalty and couponing program which allows customers to electronically collect rewards for qualified purchases with a large amount of partner shops both online and offline.
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