Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

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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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. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. The value can be immediate.

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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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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

In any case, I think the vast majority of practitioners will be as excited as I am, to think what this wave of innovation means for consumers: more brands finding cleverer, more meaningful ways to create compelling customer value. Some news brands, today, effectively subsidise flagging print sales by charging for online content.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. The Economist, November 2018. Really think about that for a moment. 2018 saw a 14.2%

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Given how sceptical some executives and boards have become about the soft benefits derived from the loyalty program, you are going to need to show evidence of contributions to the bottom line. Profit is derived from engagement that links directly to incremental sales. Choice Hotels’ Smart Privilege scheme is another good example.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Hotel rooms forecast to be vacant would be a classic example. It’s the emotional value which creates real stickiness.

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