Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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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Loyalty Marketing Airlines Loyalty Programs 52

Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

Other than the number of rooms booked, how much do hoteliers know about their guests? It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

Hospitality 52

Hospitality Loyalty Hotels Loyalty Programs 52

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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Customer Experience Social Media Multi-Channel Omnichannel 112

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Now, the mobility sector is understood to comprise every transport type that enables customers to get from one place to another and – more importantly – how customers search for, book, and manage their mobility choices. This introduces a crucial concept: the booking portal. With growth, comes competition.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 56

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

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

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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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Different customers will have different experiences and you will visually be able to see each one, the various touchpoints encountered and the actions taken from there. The company has always invested heavily in using technology to improve customer retention. Knowing who is who on the subscriber level is the tricky bit.”.

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PK

JULY 15, 2019

in The Forrester Wave : Loyalty Service Providers, Q3 2019 report. Whereas past Wave reports have focused on loyalty platform technology providers, this is the first time a Wave report focused exclusively on leading loyalty firms offering services, from visioning and strategy through design, development, and launch of new member experiences.

Loyalty 45

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Hybrid points programs.

Magazine 52

Magazine Loyalty Innovation 2020 52

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. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs Brands 58

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This year we’ve seen examples of brands offering increased liquidity in their loyalty programs – typically in the form of allowing their members to redeem beyond their own store. Brands will also find that enabling greater customer freedom will also help proactively manage program liabilities in a profitable way.

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2018 Loyalty Brands Loyalty Programs 49

Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Forrester defines customer journey analytics is “an analytics practice that combines quantitative and qualitative data to analyze customer behaviors and motivations across touchpoints and over time to optimize customer interactions and predict future behavior.”. Uncover behavioral segments.

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Customer Journey Customer Journey Mapping Touchpoint Multi-Channel 90

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. By owning this more complete customer journey, the hotel has the opportunity to deliver better experiences and to earn greater guest loyalty. But in reality, many customers do not book direct. But there is a bigger story.

Hotels 40

Hotels Hospitality Loyalty Travel 40

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

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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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

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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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Loyalty Programs 45

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. For a time, banks hoped that third-party CLO providers would help banks achieve their loyalty goals.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He is a professional marketer helping companies improve their efforts in marketing through blogging, books, videos, and public speaking. Aqsa Tabassam, Growth Marketer, Boster Biological Technology. Aqsa is a growth marketer at Boster Biological Technology founded in 1993. Rand Fishkin, Co-founder and CEO, SparkToro.

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