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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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Characteristics of a Winning Loyalty Program in 2025

Currency Alliance

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. The customer experience has evolved. Why hasn’t loyalty? Customer singular.

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Loyalty for CEOs: how to add enterprise value to your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

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? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. 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.

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The top 5 ways to make loyalty programs more effective

Currency Alliance

As consumers grow more empowered, with more control and choice than they’ve ever had before, their loyalty to a brand and preference for concentrating their purchasing power becomes even more crucial to merchants. A more useful loyalty program for the customer is one that offers them a loyalty currency that they desire.

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8 loyalty trends for 2024: intelligent, data-led marketing

Currency Alliance

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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9 Strategies to Improve Customer Retention Rate in 2023

SurveySensum

This shows the high cost of customer acquisition and how, at times, businesses fail to recoup their initial investment. In contrast, Company B chose to focus on retaining its existing customer base by introducing loyalty programs. ” The loyalty programs reward your customers for their repeat business.