You can do the loyalty piece without payments, as Foursquare has done, but even Foursquare is tying loyalty in with companies like American Express.
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And when you dive deeper and look into specific age demographics, the numbers re: brand loyalty are even more telling.
Even those commands that profess loyalty to the leadership, which is based in the Netherlands, often appear to operate independently.
G. loyalty program receive even greater benefits upon enrollment.
The person Anwar has entrusted with that task, Wan Azizah, has until now won admirers more for her kindness and loyalty--even her husband's enemies refer to her as the "Angel"--than for her skills as a brawler.
And the brands that can meet or even exceed their expectations win a loyalty that exceeds anything remotely rational.
Even the Republican Guard, whose loyalty is now unquestioned, knows what happened in Afghanistan, and might waver if it concluded that the Americans were intent on removing Mr Hussein.
You join the Army, and your expectation is that someone is going to be looking over your shoulder and looking at your loyalty to the country, and even more.
To make the experience even more attractive, the company is combining its loyalty program and also issuing promotions with a 15% off on its entire merchandise shopped via Google Wallet.
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Even Calcutta, a city known for its unflagging loyalty to local star and former Indian captain, Saurav Ganguly, appeared to have forgotten him at the weekend game - there were posters of Khan in the stands, and the star's local fan club walked in carrying huge cut outs of their icon.
Casino operators can switch games and odds based on time of day, overall floor activity or even personal information pulled from the player's loyalty card. (The house take falls within a band spelled out by state regulators, typically between 4% and 6%.) IGT has machines that recommend games to players much the way Amazon.com suggests books related to the one you're buying.
Casino operators can switch games and odds based on time of day, overall floor activity or even personal information pulled from the player's loyalty card. (The house take falls within a band spelled out by state regulators, typically between 4% and 6%.) IGT has machines that recommend games to players much the way Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) suggests books related to the one you're buying.
He always put his loyalty to Mr Kohl above almost everything, even his own ambitions.
Even worse, they spray cash around without creating lasting loyalty within sales teams.
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Candidate Zuma has seemed to rate loyalty to the ANC above all else, even the admirable constitution that the party itself was largely responsible for writing.
An advisory committee put together by the Department of Commerce, while making nods to the law's complexity, suggests companies should even conduct a litmus test on an employee's loyalty, like asking if an employee has connections or allegiance to a country of concern such as China.
Retail is a challenging business when economic growth is weak, and even more so with online shopping and a lack of chain loyalty wreaking havoc on traditional business models.
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If you are buying two tickets, for example, you can use your points to buy one ticket and use your Citicard for the other ticket, while earning additional points, says Ralph Andretta, head of co-brands and loyalty at CitiCards, which allows consumers to apply even a small number of points to their ticket purchases.
As for BBM, my contact list was dwindling even back in December 2011 when I first wrote about my BlackBerry loyalty.
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Even though Facebook left that business, I think that local, loyalty and offers is still a key overall area that Facebook does not want to cede to Google or Groupon.
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Rather, the company should expose and even shine a light on the whole conversation, building trust and loyalty among customers through conversations that occur outside the walls of the company itself, not inside private walled-off forums.
Stevens says Verizon and many carriers in Asia have embraced Skype, however, because they realize the service can increase customer loyalty and the amount consumers spend on mobile data plans even if it dents their long distance calling business.
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But after a surge in sales in 2007 and 2008, Tundra slipped back during the Great Recession, when brand loyalty for Detroit Three trucks kept their franchises relatively strong even as the housing bust and other general economic woes made professional buyers harder to come by.
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It will become an even more important brand differentiator, with returns-on-investments of loyalty and profitability made-to-order for your brand.
Find the time to make repeat business and loyalty-building a core part of every customer interaction, even when you are too busy for words!
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What the food industry has learned in the process is that it not only gives consumers the confidence to buy, but also builds customer loyalty and trust in a particular brand, a region and even an individual producer.
He also had to take into account those customers who had been turned into detractors by poor or even unscrupulous business practices which might have been very profitable but which undermined customer loyalty.
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Also, after holding the line on profit-sapping discounts through much of 2010, GM increased incentive spending in December, and even more sharply so in January and February, in a bid to reward loyalty of existing customers and to woo non-GM customers.
In a bit of spin, Coca-Cola eventually claimed that both formulas actually increased their share of the cola market, and some conspiracy theorists even insinuated that this was actually a brilliant, secret strategy intended to regain loyalty of Coca Cola drinks that have been switching to Pepsi.
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