Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable.

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It’s much easier to delight your customer when you know exactly what they need. They’re hired by firms to get and keep their customers engaged with the product/service. However, in the CS industry, a CSM touches bases with customers one way or the other. Customer experience is a key brand differentiator nowadays.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Jeremy Harrison of Hustle Life says, “Personalizing your approach to each customer goes a long way in making them remember you. You can even reward them by creating a loyalty rewards program. Adeel Shabir, outreach manager at SIA enterprises has recognized the importance of customer retention.

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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.”.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. How can we call that success? A little more context.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

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. To see why, visit their website , where you encounter various opportunities to earn points for many forms of non-transactional engagement.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Customer engagement is critical to the success of your company and all methods of communicating with platform users should be taken advantage of. In most cases, they’re well-designed and engaging. Consumer-oriented Marriott drives people to their rewards program. There may be a surprise or two.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This may seem to make rewards pricing more complicated. That’s somewhat true; but there are relatively simple, actionable, tactical steps that brands can take to make step-change improvements in their loyalty engagement strategy. Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. But South Africa’s first-place ranked program isn’t a grocer at all, but a pharmacy.

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