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How to Build a Next-Generation Loyalty Scheme

CSM Magazine

For centuries, merchants have been offering special tokens that repeat customers could redeem for goods. Today, stamps, vouchers and coupons have mostly been replaced by apps and digital methods of tracking customer engagement. Plus, the rewards points should be available to consumers in a timely manner.

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Why Engagement Strategies & Investment Are Important for Customer Retention

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To keep customers engaged, it is important for a loyalty program to focus on their needs & aspirations to ensure they feel satisfied in their relationship with a brand. So, focusing on making customer retention rate stay high can create a tremendous competitive advantage for a brand and lead them to growth.

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

Currency Alliance

This means that loyalty programs are now a more important channel for customer acquisition and retention than ever before. Customer frequency is partly determined by the nature of your business. But the truth is that consumers simply don’t need or want a different loyalty currency for every brand they shop.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Extra what?

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Three Travel and Hospitality Customer Journey Tracking Examples

Kitewheel

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Top-rated airlines like JetBlue have managed to combine reasonable prices with quality service and experience. Power reported higher consumer satisfaction than ever – largely due to increased seat sizes and cheaper fares.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. So the initiative offers meaningful utility to many customers.

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Loyalty Coalitions V3.0: greater benefits for consumers and brands

Currency Alliance

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. Powerful consumer brands, meanwhile, are building their own coalitions. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii].

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