Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Just like the most frequent customers, engaging the mid-long-tail in your loyalty program will depend on finding complementary brand partners. However, the vast majority of these customers are a more varied subset of your audience, with more varied interests. The value can be immediate. I’m a case in point.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. There’s a lot of useful takeaways in this, for loyalty marketers.

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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

Rather, banks must do a better job of leveraging their existing strengths – their goldmine of customer data and, most profitably of all, their wide-ranging merchant networks – to create their own, new and compelling reasons for customers to remain loyal. Extra what? For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable.

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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. Looking beyond transactional rewards. This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Loyalty programs are effectively a value exchange, in which there ought to be both emotional and transactional forms of value. In exchange for their data, and for receiving periodic marketing, customers expect to be: recognized (emotional value). rewarded with loyalty points (transactional value).

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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. Yet even in those countries, constraints remain that limit a customer’s benefit.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The unprecedented times and business environment have made it uncertain for business leaders on what steps to take to retain customers. According to Marketing Metrics , the rate of success while selling to an existing customer is close to 70%, while the same for a new prospect is 5-20%. Reuben Yonatan, CEO, GetVoIP.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As customer success becomes more and more established, the relationship between PM and CS has the potential of mirroring the sales and marketing challenges many companies struggle with. That’s because CS (and Support) are hearing product requests from customers, but the processes to manage those requests can leave a lot to be desired.

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