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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Currency Alliance

MAY 20, 2024

Back in 2017, when interchange fees were slashed by the European Union, most banks’ response was to simply to give up on their loyalty program; this was lazy and a huge strategic mistake. Every bank needs a loyalty strategy – even if they don’t have a points-based loyalty program.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Unless the volume of business is high, there is never a positive return on investment (ROI). 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 workload can now be greatly reduced.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. Loyalty personalization has been subsumed into a wider conversation about data actionability.

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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?

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SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor. Especially if a loyalty program is part of your strategy. Self-selection bias; this is the big loyalty program measurement challenge. This makes sense.

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SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor. Especially if a loyalty program is part of your strategy. Self-selection bias; this is the big loyalty program measurement challenge. This makes sense.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This is caused by many factors beyond the scope of this article, but the result is that customers are more conscious about value, and companies are focusing more on cost control. Until a few years ago, brands would have reacted to an uncertain economy by cutting services that deliver customer value.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

How to Create a Customer Service Plan that Drives ROI by Krishna Charan. FreshDesk) No matter how pathbreaking the product or service is, your company’s customer perception is only as good as the support you offer. So what’s the best way to increase the likelihood of your customers staying with your company?

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By using text abbreviations, you can speed up conversations and ensure that your customers do not wait for long to get their queries resolved. Building relatability and trust Incorporating appropriate acronyms for texting in business communications can portray your brand as relatable. Detailed analysis by EOD.”

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. It just won’t grow with stand-alone loyalty programs.

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

Building adaptive loyalty marketing functionality is increasingly complicated and necessary, as loyalty points become a new asset class, and loyalty commerce between complementary brands gains traction. In most cases, these compromises also led to frustration among customers and inefficiency in business operations.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Customers expect flexibility and convenience from the companies they do business with because people live in a world where almost everything is accessible with a few clicks on their smartphone. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. How do we define greater liquidity in loyalty programs?

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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

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 17, 2019

This has mostly been via low-investment, tactical approaches that increase ROI, and educate the C-suite regarding long-term strategic value. Faced by this looming ‘perfect storm’ of change, the sheltered existence, that many leading loyalty programs have enjoyed for three decades, is coming to an end. An uncertain future.

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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.

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We’re living in an era of customer engagement, where every delighted client can become your best marketer. This strategy transforms satisfied customers into brand champions who actively refer new business. Post Affiliate Pro Post Affiliate Pro is designed for businesses running affiliate programs.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

The long break in spending habits due to Covid-19 will cause customers to re-evaluate their relationship with brands. This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. They don’t use the data that customers provide.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

They’re common traits to many successful businesspeople, but it’s worth considering how these skills can be applied to the unique set of challenges faced by the majority of loyalty teams. . In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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Lumoa

JUNE 26, 2023

In fact, several companies, ranging from media to finance, are already investing in an omnichannel customer experience to boost their sales and revenue. Nike, another well-known retail brand, achieved higher annual revenue by investing in multiple channels. Consider a customer looking to buy sports shoes from a popular brand.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

Loyalty program announcements so far this year indicate a major sea change. To get customers re-engaged, brands are making it easier to participate in their loyalty programs and are offering enhanced ways to redeem – so customers can make use of even small amounts of points/miles.

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BirdEye

APRIL 25, 2023

If so, we’ve got you covered with over 20 ideas on how to promote your business locally and make your brand the talk of the town. Keep in mind that your website is your digital storefront and should align with your brand and messaging. Identify individuals who align with your brand and have a strong local following.

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Retently

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

survey data helps identify effective marketing channels, adapt campaigns for better ROI, and build stronger customer relationships through informed strategy adjustments. Enhancing customer engagement These surveys do more than just help you understand your marketing channels; they also serve as a bridge between you and your customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Loyalty trends were being discussed, as well as what had been hot topics in prior years – some of which just faded away as fads. We can’t possibly write one article on what you should be doing, let alone summarize all the interesting things that other brands are doing in their unique context.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Of all the statistics to emerge from the 2017 Bond Brand Loyalty Report , the most shocking was probably that there are an estimated $100bn in loyalty points that are left unredeemed by members in North America. We do recognize that historically, loyalty programs liked to have a modest to high percentage of points expire.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand. This article describes how those leading a brand’s loyalty program need to think beyond a static reward catalog.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand. This article describes how those leading a brand’s loyalty program need to think beyond a static redemption catalog.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. But those brands pursuing each of the trends predicted for 2020 probably suffered less as the course of this year evolved.

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ENGAGE.cx

JULY 18, 2018

Marketing platforms have a giant blind spot – they totally miss the in-venue customers. And because of that, brands struggle to drive full ROI from both their marketing efforts and physical venues. Are they a return customer or a new customer? Are they in my loyalty program? Why did they come in?

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers). Customer data: maximize ROI.

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SuiteCX

JULY 7, 2017

Customer experience consultancy, Ellipsis, launches first productised data offering off the back of Data Republic’s data exchange marketplace. Customer engagement consulting agency, Ellipsis, has joined forces with Data Republic on a new data product offering aimed at helping brands better measure customer loyalty investments.

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SuiteCX

JULY 7, 2017

Customer experience consultancy, Ellipsis, launches first productised data offering off the back of Data Republic’s data exchange marketplace. Customer engagement consulting agency, Ellipsis, has joined forces with Data Republic on a new data product offering aimed at helping brands better measure customer loyalty investments.

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Loyalty Measurement Loyalty Programs Automotive 40

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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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