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

Currency Alliance

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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5 Simple Steps Retailers Can Take to Build Stronger Relationships with Customers

InMoment XI

As customers seem to shop solely based on the best deal, it can be difficult to build customer loyalty in retail, which leaves many brands wondering if customer loyalty is even worth the effort. A loyal customer is valuable to retailers in a multitude of ways. Step #5: Loyalty Programs.

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Loyalty Programs!?! We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Loyalty Programs!!!

Beyond Philosophy

Without fear of (much) argument, it’s a fair statement that all companies want, and try to generate and achieve, optimum loyalty from their customer base. They should want this because study after study shows the financial rewards of having loyal customers. Customer loyalty programs are especially popular among retailers.

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Characteristics of a Winning Loyalty Program in 2025

Currency Alliance

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. The customer experience has evolved. Why hasn’t loyalty? Customer singular.

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Twenty Ways to Delight Your Customers: Transforming Satisfaction into Loyalty

C3Centricity

Deliver Exceptional Customer Service Exceptional customer service is the first essential step to plan. It’s about creating an unforgettable positive experience that fosters loyalty and word-of-mouth promotion. Personalize the Experience Personalization makes customers feel uniquely valued and understood.

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Let’s shape the future of loyalty programs

Currency Alliance

Every industry now has to be conscious of the heightened, personalized demands of the modern consumer, including the loyalty industry. We have the opportunity to shape the future of loyalty programs so they fit seamlessly with other liquid, flexible markets in which people interact every day. Making data actionable.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

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.