Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2020

In many cases, less profitable than the sales tax or value-added tax on a grocery bill. Insight sharing via loyalty programs is the best option, because customers have opted-in to share their data in exchange for points. Based on this model, there are three key opportunities for a better loyalty ROI… 1. 3 Opportunities.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. The Economist, November 2018. Really think about that for a moment. 2018 saw a 14.2%

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. You can see this in the Gartner CMO survey: Loyalty marketing has traditionally suffered from the difficulty in measuring ROI (especially in the short-term).

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Steps to a smarter reward pricing strategy. It’s the emotional value which creates real stickiness.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

At the Loyalty Surgery this year, IBM’s Greg Land said that their modern martech trial at Malaysia Airlines performed extremely well, delivering a 43% improvement in ROI. Nonetheless, the legacy loyalty points bank kept them from innovating more quickly. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty.

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