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. Hybrid points programs. A disloyal generation?

Magazine 52

Magazine Loyalty Innovation 2020 52

BirdEye

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Let’s say you’re a business-to-consumer (B2C) company selling retail products. In fact, studies show that customers spend 20%–40% more money on brands that have interacted with them on social media. Create entertaining content that will resonate with your followers. Not all businesses use social media to reach the same goals.

Social Media 98

Social Media Brands Entertainment Connections 98

Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

Such a simple program quickly revealed invaluable insight into the customer and opened a whole new channel of communication across email, SMS and good old post! but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program. This can produce conflicting and confusing customer experiences.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Hotels 52

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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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. ING Direct is one of those brands. Kudos to them.

Magazine 49

Magazine Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 49

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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]. coalitions.

Loyalty 36

Loyalty Consumers Brands Airlines 36

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

…when the automotive and mobility industries shifted from a driver- or owner-focused value proposition to a customer-centered one; and when micromobility started to scale up.” [i]. Consumers thought about cars and mass transit, while manufacturers of transportation assets thought about market share.

Loyalty 56

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 56

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As consumers, we live in a golden age. These are the “I want [fill in the blank] moments” where consumers are looking for information, entertainment, assistance, or something else. Norming: In this stage, standards are set and agreements are made outlining how the relationship between brand and consumer will work.

Customer Journey Mapping 40

Customer Journey Mapping Omnichannel Measurement Consumers 40

BirdEye

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Email marketing is a top tool for communicating directly with customers and driving them to your offers. This ensures you stay in touch at every step of the customer engagement process. Focus on video marketing Platforms like Facebook, Instagram , and YouTube all have massive audiences who love consuming video content.

Social Media 57

Social Media Multi-Channel Advertising Customer Retention 57

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.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Multi-Channel 52

Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. Any individual program is probably managing barely half that figure.

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Loyalty Insights Brands Loyalty Programs 40