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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. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

Currency Alliance

Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons. Over the past 3-4 years, brands with loyalty programs have been more focused on offering members new ways to redeem points and obtain interesting rewards.

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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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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. People are more likely to leave their spouse than their bank[ii], so it might seem that banks have no case to answer.

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Building Brand Trust in a Recession

2020 Research

Consumers will set stricter boundaries for themselves when it comes to their purchasing habits. Good branding. No matter the state of the world, your branding strategies will determine where you fit in. Branding is how you build trust with your consumers and achieve loyalty, which is especially crucial during recessions.

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The Experience Margin: Only CX can save retail brands

Currency Alliance

Retail brands can be saved; but not by conventional retail strategy. You can observe this in the last 20 years of Tesco’s growth, which obediently correlates to the Bank of England base rate. The UK’s RPI data shows services becoming progressively more valuable over time, whilst consumer goods remains flat [vii].

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

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. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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