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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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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

Currency Alliance

the modest number of reward seats that an airline makes available on a flight, or the items curated in a redemption catalog). Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons. That’s in contrast to being offered a restricted set of inventory items for redemptions via a members’ portal (i.e.,

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Loyalty Programs!?! We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Loyalty Programs!!!

Beyond Philosophy

For the past several decades, many companies have relied on customer loyalty cards or programs, by which they can track purchase behavior and give rewards for repeat and volume buying activity. Customer loyalty programs are especially popular among retailers. also has no loyalty program. In the U.S.,

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McKinsey Thinks Bland, Generic Loyalty Programs Are Killing Business – And They May Be Right!

Beyond Philosophy

And, what is the impact of loyalty programs on enterprise profitability? Overall, companies with loyalty programs have grown at about the same rate as companies without them; but there is variance in performance value among industries. Key among these are: Integrate Loyalty Into the Full Experience. Use the Data.

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Why Confusing Inertia With Loyalty Will Eventually Kill Your Business

Beyond Philosophy

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. Perhaps all this time, I hadn’t distinguished between loyalty and inertia, either. The rewards program becomes part of the offer.

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

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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LoyaltyPlus and Currency Alliance work together to enhance LoyaltyPlus’ partnership reach for loyalty programmes

LoyaltyPlus

Currency Alliance is on a mission to create a Global B2B Loyalty Marketplace, with an extraordinary platform that any company can use to create their own loyalty ecosystems with complementary brands – regardless of size, industry, geographic location, and incumbent technology. Contact: Len Lubbe. Telephone: +27 82 452 3595.

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