Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Customers expect flexibility and convenience from the companies they do business with because people live in a world where almost everything is accessible with a few clicks on their smartphone. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. How do we define greater liquidity in loyalty programs?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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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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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

So, while the major loyalty trends for 2023 will be oriented around cost control, this will be accompanied by refocusing investment where it’s most profitable. This article shares the lowest hanging fruit for keeping customers engaged and delivering more profit to the bottom line. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 28, 2023

Thus, it fosters customer engagement, driving an uptick in conversion rates. In essence, personalization humanizes business interactions, creating meaningful relationships that resonate with customers, positively impacting the brand’s reputation and growth.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Demand performance-based KPIs. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have.

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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?

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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. If you don’t fly often, you probably also don’t stay in a lot of hotels.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the microservices model, customer data is in one enterprise CRM that coordinates with one enterprise Campaign Management System to coordinate touchpoints.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. The outcome for the brands which succeed will be in getting 25-50% more customers engaged with their loyalty strategies. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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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. Hybrid points programs. Engaging employees.

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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. Brands leaning on partners to create more value for customers, and for themselves.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. Economic cycles aside, though, the real problem is that it attracts entirely the wrong sort of customer.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A lot of business owners want to reduce customer churn and retain as many as possible. Stable customer base results in higher referrals, improved upsell revenue and increased lifetime value (LTV) which further results in improved customer acquisition in future. Which loopholes have led to change in customer behavior?

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example : Starbucks often surprises customers with free drink vouchers or extra loyalty points as a gesture of appreciation for their patronage. Surprise Rewards : Surprise and delight customers with unexpected rewards or perks. This could include targeted discounts, exclusive deals, or customer loyalty programs.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Brand Example : Starbucks often surprises customers with free drink vouchers or extra loyalty points as a gesture of appreciation for their patronage. Surprise Rewards : Surprise and delight customers with unexpected rewards or perks. This could include targeted discounts, exclusive deals, or customer loyalty programs.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Real-time personalization is a way to automatically deliver tailored content to each customer based on demographic, firmographic and behavioral data. A recent McKinsey survey, for example, indicates customer satisfaction with health insurance is 73% more likely when journeys work well than when only touchpoints do.

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