Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. 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. Rationalizing loyalty ROI vs other marketing channels.

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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. Large brands with their own loyalty program typically invest heavily to integrate the loyalty platform into one or more POSs, but for smaller and medium-sized companies, this is often out of reach in terms of cost and technical complexity.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Some brands will do this in 2023, but actually, the loyalty & marketing industries have learned from recent experience that this costs you money in the long run. 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.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

About three years ago, I was flying from Barcelona to New York on United Airlines. That type of simple recognition goes a great way in building loyalty with customers. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

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. Evolution of businesses’ CX functions.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 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? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center. Nobody granted those loans on a whim.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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. This has accelerated the race to deploy best-in-class technology based on microservices.

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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. The reason I’m writing this article is that many loyalty teams have, historically, not executed brilliantly.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. source aspirational redemption options at better cost, so the value of your loyalty currency is magnified. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The report goes into a lot of detail so it’s clear how to calculate the ROI of social customer service: Many brands have experienced incidents where not taking care of an issue turned into a social media nightmare. How to Calculate Social Customer Care ROI. Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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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. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Eptica

JUNE 24, 2016

Date: Friday, June 24, 2016 The ROI of improved customer experience. In 2015 he published a report looking at the difference in revenue growth between pairs of similar businesses in five sectors (cable communications, airlines, investments, retail and health insurance). Published on: June 24, 2016.

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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? The answer is simple.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers). A little more context.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This challenge – the give-and-take of marketplaces – now firmly belongs on the agenda of loyalty strategy meetings. First, it gives marketers a basic grounding in economics which can directly impact on your loyalty strategy, complete with real-world examples of brands putting the theory into practice. This is a good thing.

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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

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

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. In legacy banking loyalty models, these customers are instead prone to disloyalty in exchange for tiny rewards, and likely to be of very poor lifetime value (LTV) to your business.

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

CX is also a great competitive differentiator, helping companies respond to and exceed customer expectations, improve satisfaction, drive loyalty, reduce churn, and increase revenue. The ICX Summit is for B2C businesses who are interested in utilizing interactive technologies to enhance the customer experience. Where: London, UK.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

Filling these gaps will have quick value and drive customer loyalty. For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. Unfortunately, most technology that CX has inherited works in batch to save processing power. Measure ROI across interactions.

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? The company has always invested heavily in using technology to improve customer retention.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

The Summit provides a space for us to learn best practices from each other and about new technologies from sponsoring vendors.” – Michelle Buckley, Director of Operations, Customer Relations/Rapid Rewards, Southwest Airlines. SVP, Global Loyalty & Partnerships, Wydham Hotels & Resorts.

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Find ordinary interaction touchpoints and make them memorable with the help of technology. Colleen Barrett, Southwest Airlines, President Emeritus: “To earn the respect (and eventually love) of your customers, you first have to respect those customers. Ultimately, great service can drive sales and customer loyalty.” .

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Authentic companies inspire loyalty,” said Scott Miller, CEO of Vision Critical, in his opening keynote. Super important point – authenticity drives loyalty #vcsummit. Recruiting the right members for your insight community is a critical step to getting more ROI out of customer intelligence.

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BirdEye

APRIL 3, 2023

Rollin King, a businessman in the airline industry, saw this need and recognized the success of another airline, Pacific Southwest Airlines. The result was Southwest Airlines. Remember, investors are interested in their return on investment (ROI), first and foremost. An outline for a business plan can be simple.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

But if you’re advocating for specific technology, policy, and process changes that will enable more effective and efficient communication during the post-sales support journey, you’d need a map that showed those communication breakdowns within the context of your customers’ specific goals or tasks. Combining multiple types of data.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

She leads the XM Institute’s research into CX and EX best practices and the broader organizational capabilities required for building loyalty by improving customer and employee experiences. Evan has completed assignments for marquee clients such as American Express, Southwest Airlines, FM Global, IBM, Dupont, BlackRock, E*Trade, etc.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

But if you’re advocating for specific technology, policy, and process changes that will enable more effective and efficient communication during the post-sales support journey, you’d need a map that showed those communication breakdowns within the context of your customers’ specific goals or tasks. Combining multiple types of data.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

But if you’re advocating for specific technology, policy, and process changes that will enable more effective and efficient communication during the post-sales support journey, you’d need a map that showed those communication breakdowns within the context of your customers’ specific goals or tasks. Combining multiple types of data.

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