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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Many consumers now ‘multibank’[iii], keeping their traditional provider on-hand for the same reasons they always did, but branching out in search of enhanced value. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Actually, they do. Extra what?

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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

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

Currency Alliance

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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COVID-19 has changed how we do everything – here’s how Conjoint and MaxDiff can help you respond

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Life as we knew it before COVID-19 will take time to return, and even when it does we’re likely to be in a ‘new normal’, as the crisis impacts consumer behaviors going forward. Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

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

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

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.”.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. You can see this in the Gartner CMO survey: Loyalty marketing has traditionally suffered from the difficulty in measuring ROI (especially in the short-term).

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