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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]. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Extra what?
Currency Alliance
APRIL 15, 2024
Many loyalty program members will now be accustomed to similar liquidity enhancements, such as exchanging your American Express Membership Rewards Points into Avios or Bonvoy. 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
JUNE 16, 2020
While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. So the initiative offers meaningful utility to many customers.
Currency Alliance
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.
Currency Alliance
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. altering customer behaviour to support corporate objectives, without upsetting people.
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?
Currency Alliance
JUNE 19, 2019
By the end of the programme’s first year, loyalty members made up 44% of Tarte.com revenue, despite only making up 21% of the total customer base. Customer journeys to the moment of purchase are highly complex and too few brands are engaging with key steps along the way, to understand why customers buy, or fall out of the funnel.
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