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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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Five bank customer loyalty strategies to avoid

PK

When we think of bank customer loyalty, we think of rewards programs. These programs are usually associated with credit cards, and a few encompass multiple bank products. The post Five bank customer loyalty strategies to avoid appeared first on PK. The latter can […].

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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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How to Build a Next-Generation Loyalty Scheme

CSM Magazine

Ensuring customers can easily redeem rewards may be more complex for organisations that have partnership programmes in place. It’s also crucial to test whether rewards benefits accrue properly. To begin with, when do you offer customers the opportunity to join your rewards program? There are several considerations here.

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Precision loyalty: data-led investment yields greater ROI

Currency Alliance

A common method to enhance customer understanding is partnering with other companies through loyalty programs. These collaborations allow members to earn and redeem reward currencies across a spectrum of brands. Long-Term Rewards Are Losing to Short-Term Thinking. Each customer may prefer one loyalty currency over others.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. I’m a case in point.

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Leader’s vision: #1 loyalty driver for the modern brand

Currency Alliance

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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