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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

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Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. How loyalty partners co-create value.

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Loyalty: On the Cusp of Major R(E)volution

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From the customer perspective, it amounts to a Revolution – where brands are finally giving into what has been a ‘peaceful demonstration’ gaining momentum for several years – namely that it is too difficult to accumulate much value among so many incompatible loyalty point currencies/programs – so consumers quit.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats. Travel brands have featured less heavily among the winners, this year, than ever before. The program is actually called, ‘ Voxi Drop ’.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. A great loyalty strategy runs in sync with the business and permeates virtually every customer-facing aspect. The loyalty program is not a barnacle that has been attached to the business. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers.

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Loyalty Coalitions V3.0: greater benefits for consumers and brands

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Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. Powerful consumer brands, meanwhile, are building their own coalitions. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Trust issues.

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

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TechCrunch reports that brands such as Airbnb, Disney, and Twitter have seen a 75% reduction in development lead times by migrating to microservices[i]. Furthermore, if your own brand doesn’t take advantage of microservices, others will – increasing their competitiveness. Today, no brand need submit themselves this risk.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

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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. A winning program in the grocery sector.