Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. Consumers are becoming a lot more deliberate in their pursuit of pleasure – but also a lot more deliberate in other spending categories. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

To help businesses on this path, we have decided to share our experience in building an API-centric loyalty platform over the years. We explain how the technology differs from legacy solutions, and how an API-first approach solves the specific business challenges and enables the marketing goals that it was built to achieve. .

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

About three years ago, I was flying from Barcelona to New York on United Airlines. This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The right technology can help you choreograph a delightful first impression. Offering a wide spectrum of choices on a technology platform equipped with the ability to serve up personalized recommendations can keep your customers consuming content on your service much longer. Keep them coming back with compelling content.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. Loyalty personalization has been subsumed into a wider conversation about data actionability.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 22, 2022

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. It’s also worth mentioning that points banks can be used in non-points based loyalty programs.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Next, we explain how to increase the perceived value of your loyalty currency, so that your loyalty program is more effective, and the ROI increases.

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 24, 2023

This approach not only saves time but also boosts user confidence, reinforcing Microsoft’s role as a provider of user-friendly technology solutions. This feature also relieves hosts from the time-consuming task of individually responding to repetitive queries.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Many consumers now ‘multibank’[iii], keeping their traditional provider on-hand for the same reasons they always did, but branching out in search of enhanced value. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Actually, they do. Extra what?

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Prioritizing Accessibility and Responsiveness In today’s digital era, where consumers expect instant responses and seamless interactions, the casino industry has risen to the challenge by prioritizing accessibility and responsiveness. This commitment to excellence is rooted in a deep understanding of the customer’s psyche.

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Customer Guru

MAY 8, 2018

Pawar is a Business Practice leader with over 23 years of industry experience of working with various Fortune 500 customers in their Customer Experience, Digital Marketing, CRM, Loyalty Programs, Business Intelligence and Analytics transformation engagements. What was the problem it was trying to address?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This year we’ve seen examples of brands offering increased liquidity in their loyalty programs – typically in the form of allowing their members to redeem beyond their own store. Brands will also find that enabling greater customer freedom will also help proactively manage program liabilities in a profitable way.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Of course, the Awards entrants are only a tiny sample from industries that have hundreds or even thousands or loyalty programs. Hybrid points programs. A disloyal generation?

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Consumers thought about cars and mass transit, while manufacturers of transportation assets thought about market share. We discovered 6 years ago that during the customer’s trip, the most value we could provide after selling the airline ticket was to show alternative mobility options in the traveler’s destination.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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LoyaltyPlus

MAY 18, 2020

LoyaltyPlus believes one of the main aspects to emerge from this global health crisis is that loyalty programs will evolve to match a very different trading environment. The loyalty programme must drive immediate benefit to the consumer, it has to be relevant and add obvious and real value to the end customer.

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LoyaltyPlus

MAY 18, 2020

LoyaltyPlus believes one of the main aspects to emerge from this global health crisis is that loyalty programs will evolve to match a very different trading environment. The loyalty programme must drive immediate benefit to the consumer, it has to be relevant and add obvious and real value to the end customer.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

The ability to bring together complementary fields of experience to create profitable solutions based on innovative business models and modern technology. As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. They did this by embarking on ‘no-brainer’ partnerships: where the customer journey is so linear (think airline + car rental) or the customer frequency so high (think grocery store + fast-casual dining) that a brand partnership creates obvious value.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

The casual observer at last night’s ceremony (and the professional one alike) would have been struck by the many extraordinary, showpiece technological achievements which were made in the past year. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 5, 2019

Currency Alliance was invited to participate along with Dan Truscott, Head of Business Development, Loyalty at Visa , and Iain Pringle of consultancy New World Loyalty. Click here to watch debate on the following topics: How Can Customer Experience Drive Loyalty? Loyalty Coalitions are Morphing into Marketplaces.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A recent article on PhocusWire helpfully outlined a range of security vulnerabilities common to loyalty programs. Some of them were matters of procedure and staff training – which are clearly important – but many were technological vulnerabilities which can be avoided by using modern tools and systems.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Greater investment to meet consumers’ insatiable appetite for experiences. Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. in 2017[ii].

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

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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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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SurveySensum

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A report by SurveySensum revealed preferences of 1000 consumers across 25 categories and 300+ brands in Indonesia. SurveySensum report showed that Malls and Smartphones have become adept at delivering superior customer experience, while Airlines and Big Restaurant Chains have yet to live up to evolving customer expectations.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

Our previous blog post demonstrated the power of customer voice in an unsolicited book review from a technology industry guru. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. However, smart companies see this as an opportunity to create brand evangelists.

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