Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

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.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2020

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.

ROI 52

ROI Loyalty Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 52

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?

Banking 40

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Conjoint/MaxDiff is a vital tool to help you understand how consumers’ needs are changing and make decisions going forward that solidify trust in your brand: Customer loyalty — identify what to prioritize in your customer loyalty programs from rewarding customers, to future deals and expanding user credit with additional perks.

Hospitality 29

Hospitality Retail Rewards Programs ROI 29

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. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

Loyalty 45

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

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?

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