Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. The customer shares information and gives the brand permission to communicate in exchange for better experiences and value. They don’t use the data that customers provide. Ways to build perceived value.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit. I like these changes.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program.

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ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

But trust me, factors like: Product quality, Awesome support, Marketing reach, Efforts to engage customers, . Efforts to retain customers, help you formulate effective loyalty programs that your customers enjoy being a part of. Benefits of Improving Customer Loyalty. Mobile Customer Loyalty.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Like many customer experience executives, he searched for a career path that matched his skills and passion for helping customers comprehensively across the business. Go to the hotels.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 7, 2015

Never mind that they are sending emails about merging loyalty programs and becoming one airline. My husband tries another American Airlines customer service rep. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience. Never mind that again, this was not our fault.

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ENGAGE.cx

JULY 18, 2018

Modern enterprise marketing platforms from Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and others are great at engaging with web and app customers. But what about all the customers that are in your physical locations? Your retail store, restaurant, hotel, bank, etc…. Are they a return customer or a new customer?

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Clarabridge

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Personalization isn’t just a buzz word for customer experience teams—it’s an integral part of any customer engagement strategy. Personalizing the customer experience shows your customers that you are listening to their feedback, that you understand and empathize with their needs , and that you value their opinions.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Furthermore, travel businesses need to better understand and react in real-time to the needs of their customers. To accomplish this, they need to better manage their customer journeys. Contextual relevance drives customer engagement.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

Loyalty program announcements so far this year indicate a major sea change. To get customers re-engaged, brands are making it easier to participate in their loyalty programs and are offering enhanced ways to redeem – so customers can make use of even small amounts of points/miles.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. engender loyalty! The post How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism? trillion on travel by 2020.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 28, 2023

Thus, it fosters customer engagement, driving an uptick in conversion rates. In essence, personalization humanizes business interactions, creating meaningful relationships that resonate with customers, positively impacting the brand’s reputation and growth.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

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. Hybrid points programs.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Things are so much easier now than they used to be , that I wonder what took brands so long to actually start caring about their customers. But if you want customers to care, you have to give them something in the first place. Take loyalty programs for example. I think that mostly they were just thinking about profit.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. Economic cycles aside, though, the real problem is that it attracts entirely the wrong sort of customer.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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John Paul

JULY 17, 2018

July 17 th , 2018 – Hong Kong – John Paul, the number one worldwide loyalty solutions service that was acquired by AccorHotels in 2016, is fast expanding in Asia Pacific (APAC).

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AskNicely

AUGUST 22, 2018

How many customer loyalty programs do you belong to? customer loyalty programs and yet is only active in 3.9. And research from Capgemini points out that almost 90% of social media comments on loyalty programs are negative. Recognize and Reward Engagement. Customize Offers.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 8, 2022

These networks are great for customer engagement as they give businesses the chance to have an ongoing dialogue with their customers, providing them with quality content and helping them build relationships. They’re also a leading platform for people to share their thoughts and opinions about local businesses.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Next, we explain how to increase the perceived value of your loyalty currency, so that your loyalty program is more effective, and the ROI increases.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

So, while the major loyalty trends for 2023 will be oriented around cost control, this will be accompanied by refocusing investment where it’s most profitable. This article shares the lowest hanging fruit for keeping customers engaged and delivering more profit to the bottom line. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Customers expect flexibility and convenience from the companies they do business with because people live in a world where almost everything is accessible with a few clicks on their smartphone. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. How do we define greater liquidity in loyalty programs?

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

Such a simple program quickly revealed invaluable insight into the customer and opened a whole new channel of communication across email, SMS and good old post! but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program. This can produce conflicting and confusing customer experiences.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. The outcome for the brands which succeed will be in getting 25-50% more customers engaged with their loyalty strategies. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Points Bank in a loyalty program is the module of software that keeps track of all transactions related to issuing, redeeming, or exchanging points among loyalty program members, partners and other stakeholders. It’s also worth mentioning that points banks can be used in non-points based loyalty programs.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

We also learned a lot about customer preferences based on their choices. Over the past 25 years, intense battles have been fought for flights, hotels, rental cards, activities between suppliers and aggregators. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. .

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