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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. So how should New Zealand’s banks and brands respond, and how should other brands collaborate with partners to reduce dependency on any single source of funding? Of course, this has happened before in other jurisdictions.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. Why hasn’t loyalty? Winning loyalty programs in 2025. Customer singular.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

AI is important, but still hard to harness – so it may still be years before anything truly significant is happening in loyalty with AI. I encourage you to keep experimenting because the constraint with AI is not the technology, but the lack of sufficient or clean data – two aspects covered by our Loyalty Imperatives.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This is a major opportunity cost for every loyalty program. In this case, the contract is with the third party (i.e.,

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 24, 2023

This approach not only saves time but also boosts user confidence, reinforcing Microsoft’s role as a provider of user-friendly technology solutions. Seamless Account Management with Virtual Assistant – Bank of America Leveraging the power of cutting-edge technologies such as AI chatbots, Virtual Assistants, etc.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI-driven customer experience models employ artificial intelligence technologies to help businesses provide personalized, seamless, efficient, and improved customer interactions. Many businesses have also begun incorporating generative AI technologies such as Chat-GPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, or Bard into their processes.

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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.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

The casual observer at last night’s ceremony (and the professional one alike) would have been struck by the many extraordinary, showpiece technological achievements which were made in the past year. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Points Bank. Loyalty Rules Engine.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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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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Lumoa

JUNE 26, 2023

Omnichannel marketing customer experience is a strategy that integrates all marketing touchpoints – both offline and online – to create a seamless customer journey. Building an omnichannel experience helps you access customer data from all your touchpoints. This will help you generate a lot of more leads.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

The rapid evolution of the supply chain has allowed a few exciting technology companies to grow fast in recent years, unencumbered by irritants such as competitors, defined standards, and complex legacy priorities and business practices. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. . This phase won’t last.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

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SurveySparrow

APRIL 17, 2020

If you intend to foray into B2B eCommerce or wish to improve your eCommerce sales and revenue, here are some proven tips to achieve your business goals without breaking the bank. Pick the Right Technology Platform. There are several eCommerce platforms available in the market, but which one is the right fit for you?

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Helpshift’s powerful bot technology enables businesses to create highly accessible and user-friendly automated bots for different purposes. Related Read: How To Build A Customer Loyalty Program. mParticle assists you with getting an accurate view of your customers across various touchpoints. Source: Instabug.

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Find ordinary interaction touchpoints and make them memorable with the help of technology. If you could keep doing that consistently, you can easily make bank. The next step would be to put them in a customer loyalty program and offer them incentives for each referral. The customer.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have. referring friends.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Most loyalty marketers aren’t thinking of headless loyalty platforms yet, but they should be, because headless loyalty and headless commerce are the future of technology for consumer brands. This allows any component of the architecture to be modified without affecting all other components.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. Partners enable two things, in your loyalty program: capturing data to identify the highly personal ‘something extra’ which incentivizes customers to shop your brand, rather than a competitor’s. The partner mix, therefore, must be revisited.

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