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

Currency Alliance

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. The golden benchmark is about $25 USD per year in loyalty value. This actually is not true.

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Why Confusing Inertia With Loyalty Will Eventually Kill Your Business

Beyond Philosophy

I have flown them for years, and I have millions of miles in rewards with a Diamond status. Most times, I don’t check other airlines when I need to go somewhere—that is, until my friend mentioned how he flies JetBlue business class for a lot less than Delta. The rewards program becomes part of the offer.

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Creating Brand Loyalty in the Airline Industry

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In order to best accommodate travelers, airlines offer several additional services where travelers can upgrade their seats, access airline exclusive lounges, and purchase in-flight food and entertainment. This gives airlines the perfect opportunity to boost their end-of-year sales numbers.

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5 Awesome Customer Loyalty Program Ideas You Should Try

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So what’s the best, most direct way to show customers your commitment, and inspire loyalty in return? A solid customer loyalty program. If you want to build the loyalty program your customers deserve, this post will give you customer loyalty program ideas to turn everyday shoppers into loyal fans.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

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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Are Loyalty Cards Dead?

Beyond Philosophy

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. No of course not, and that’s the problem with calling these pieces of plastic “loyalty cards.” What is Loyalty Anyway?

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To Get Loyal Customers, Start with Loyal Employees

Beyond Philosophy

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit. I like these changes.