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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. On the customer side, you’re looking to create the greatest possible perceived value. Consider the example of a retailer (i.e.,

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

The incredible degrees of customer engagement that have been achieved, should inspire and guide the efforts of loyalty marketers in the coming year. Voxi is the ‘youth brand’ of Vodafone, whose highly successful VeryMe rewards program has previously been praised by Currency Alliance. A disloyal generation?

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable. References. [i] i] [link]. [ii]

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. Partners: optimize the mix to appeal to a broader array of customers. Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys.

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9 Ways You Can Spring Clean your CX

Kitewheel

With your CX data in hand, marketers and CX Professionals need to highlight what is most immediately concerned for their customers. For a retailer, this might mean rethinking stocking practices so that customer feedback lets you keep up with the latest trends before they fizzle out. Connect channel activities and customer experiences.

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It’s (almost) never 1%: how to price loyalty rewards

Currency Alliance

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Higher points value for customers; bigger profits for brands. It’s the emotional value which creates real stickiness.

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