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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

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. Marketing and payment technologies have now matured to the point where enabling pay with points is far easier and more affordable for brands.

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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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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of January 8, 2024

ShepHyken

Deloitte Shares Loyalty Trends and Best Practices for 2024 by Alicia Esposito (Retail TouchPoints) To drive customer retention and loyalty, most brands and retailers continue to rely on purchase discounts (77%) and loyalty program points (61%), according to Retail TouchPoints research. I agree with the title.

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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. Extra what?

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Loyalty rules, and the loyalty rules engine

Currency Alliance

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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Referral marketing software for the win: Our top 20 picks

BirdEye

It offers features like visual marketing tools and loyalty program integration to enhance the customer experience. Yotpo’s major features include: Generates and leverages customer reviews Visual marketing features for social proof Loyalty program integration Smart algorithm for targeting Comprehensive analytics suite 7.