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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

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. voucher-based. A disloyal generation?

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

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. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. So the Gartner chart reflects greater efficiency compared to previous investments.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

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). The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. For Retail.

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Breaking down the walls: Loyalty Magazine Awards 2019

Currency Alliance

By the end of the programme’s first year, loyalty members made up 44% of Tarte.com revenue, despite only making up 21% of the total customer base. Customer journeys to the moment of purchase are highly complex and too few brands are engaging with key steps along the way, to understand why customers buy, or fall out of the funnel.

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10 Key Insights from 15 years of Customer Journey Mapping

SuiteCX

Key Learning: Bringing in partners is a good way to shore up limited resources during a major implementaDon.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

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. travel (Budget car rental, Velocity). This is nonsense. utilities (AGL).