Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Voxi is the ‘youth brand’ of Vodafone, whose highly successful VeryMe rewards program has previously been praised by Currency Alliance. voucher-based. A disloyal generation?

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. 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. 1. Looking beyond transactional rewards. Mastering customer data (finally).

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Magazine Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 49

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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Loyalty Brands Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 40

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. CLO providers have….

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

But high implementation cost is no longer a constraint for loyalty programs, as the major loyalty technologies are now cloud-based (although not all embrace a low cost SaaS business model). The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. Emerging technologies.

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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45