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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

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It also implies that the customer can do this quite easily and freely, across a large proportion of a brand’s inventory, in its primary commerce channels. the modest number of reward seats that an airline makes available on a flight, or the items curated in a redemption catalog).

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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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. Hybrid points programs. Great service in unexpected places.

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8 loyalty trends for 2024: intelligent, data-led marketing

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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. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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Loyalty trends 2023: a year of cost-driven innovation

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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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Loyalty + CX: Bridging Customer Engagement Disciplines

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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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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2021

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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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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

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Since customers are losing patience with brands that don’t recognize them as people, or enable consistent, multi-channel engagement, this priority remains over-arching in 2020. PSD2, meanwhile, will force open what were once closed loyalty networks, and enable pioneering businesses to prey on any competitor too slow to adapt.

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