Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

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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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

A high-frequency business, on the other hand, such as grocery stores, banks, and payment card issuers etc, do have sufficient customer frequency, with many customers returning every week. Remember, your loyalty goal is not to issue the maximum number of points, but for the maximum number of customers to see joining your program as worthwhile.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Several airlines and hotel groups did win my preference because of their loyalty program. The Norwegian Rewards program, for example is so transparent that I can redeem my value whenever I want by applying the accumulated points to my next purchase. People often stay loyal to their banks for life. Vueling is similar.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”. [iii].

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. Define the strategy.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Nonetheless, the legacy loyalty points bank kept them from innovating more quickly. For large enterprises, embedded legacy points banks and rules engines continue to be the bottleneck to unleashing more personalized engagement. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty.

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