Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

They’re a low-cost incentive compared to other forms of incentives such as discounts, cashback, affiliate marketing offers, or paying for search traffic from Google. Plus, many types of points are widely appreciated by customers, and are useful to the brand for scoring different customer actions while influencing behavior.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. But partnerships don’t have to be between huge companies; a local pharmacy can partner with convenience stores or fashion retailers. The value can be immediate. I’m a case in point.

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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

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

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

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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