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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

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Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

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Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons. Over the past 3-4 years, brands with loyalty programs have been more focused on offering members new ways to redeem points and obtain interesting rewards.

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The benefits of a SaaS Loyalty Points Bank

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The Points Bank in a loyalty program is the module of software that keeps track of all transactions related to issuing, redeeming, or exchanging points among loyalty program members, partners and other stakeholders. The most important difference is in the flexibility that a SaaS points bank confers.

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How To Build A Customer Loyalty Program

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Increasing customer retention by just 5% boosts your profits by 25-95%. 20% of customers are typically responsible for 80% of a company’s revenue. # How to Cultivate Customer Loyalty. The question arises as to what approach should a business take to cultivate brand loyalty among its customers.

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Loyalty for CEOs: how to add enterprise value to your loyalty program

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If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

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One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

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Implications of interchange fees for loyalty marketing

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This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. So how should New Zealand’s banks and brands respond, and how should other brands collaborate with partners to reduce dependency on any single source of funding? Of course, this has happened before in other jurisdictions.

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