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

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

So, while the major loyalty trends for 2023 will be oriented around cost control, this will be accompanied by refocusing investment where it’s most profitable. This article shares the lowest hanging fruit for keeping customers engaged and delivering more profit to the bottom line. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. The underlying needs of most customers have not changed. What has changed is that customers are much more sophisticated and discerning. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. The customer shares information and gives the brand permission to communicate in exchange for better experiences and value. They don’t use the data that customers provide. Ways to build perceived value.

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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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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

MAY 9, 2019

The rapid evolution of the supply chain has allowed a few exciting technology companies to grow fast in recent years, unencumbered by irritants such as competitors, defined standards, and complex legacy priorities and business practices. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. . This phase won’t last.

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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. Motivation.

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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. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

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? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have. referring friends.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. Practical applications for “future” tech.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Time and time again they top the list of airlines to which customers feel loyal. And when you look at their rewards scheme, it’s all about seeing the customers as individuals. With the average American signed up to 29 loyalty programs and only active in 12, this human element is more essential than ever.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. Who would be the perfect customer for these seats? Raising the stakes.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Hybrid points programs.

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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. Traditional messaging from airlines has been broad-strokes driven, trying to catch the most people to ensure the most tickets sold.

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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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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Many companies, in such circumstances, identify shorter-term behavior that can be used as a proxy for customer retention. Getting customers engaged in shorter-term activities often bodes well for long-term customer retention. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? Deep understanding of customers.

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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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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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. Blockchain going quiet (for the time being).

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether.

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

The ICX Summit is for B2C businesses who are interested in utilizing interactive technologies to enhance the customer experience. Session topics include the state of the Internet of Things, CX ROI, data analytics and personalization, customer and employee adoption, virtual and augmented reality, and customer loyalty programs.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

0: a decentralized brand coalition, enhanced by marketing technology (2017 onwards). So for the benefit of loyalty managers reviewing their strategies, I set out here the key features and benefits of each model. A nice foundation for broader engagement, but this model has run into three main problems: It’s cripplingly expensive.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. Economic cycles aside, though, the real problem is that it attracts entirely the wrong sort of customer.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Journey Orchestration is the component of customer journey analytics platforms that uses predictive and/or rules-based approaches to automate real-time interactions in order to improve journey flow and drive desirable outcomes. Today’s Complex, Multi-Vendor Technology Stacks Need Orchestration. One-on-one interviews. Journey Design.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example : Starbucks often surprises customers with free drink vouchers or extra loyalty points as a gesture of appreciation for their patronage. Surprise Rewards : Surprise and delight customers with unexpected rewards or perks. This could involve addressing customers by name, acknowledging their preferences, etc.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example : Starbucks often surprises customers with free drink vouchers or extra loyalty points as a gesture of appreciation for their patronage. Surprise Rewards : Surprise and delight customers with unexpected rewards or perks. This could involve addressing customers by name, acknowledging their preferences, etc.

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