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

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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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

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 11, 2023

Unless the volume of business is high, there is never a positive return on investment (ROI). For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This workload can now be greatly reduced.

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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

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. Improving customer insight and loyalty personalization.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This has mostly been via low-investment, tactical approaches that increase ROI, and educate the C-suite regarding long-term strategic value. Faced by this looming ‘perfect storm’ of change, the sheltered existence, that many leading loyalty programs have enjoyed for three decades, is coming to an end. An uncertain future.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Retently

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

survey data helps identify effective marketing channels, adapt campaigns for better ROI, and build stronger customer relationships through informed strategy adjustments. Enhancing customer engagement These surveys do more than just help you understand your marketing channels; they also serve as a bridge between you and your customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But make no mistake; failing in the medium-to-long term on these Loyalty Imperatives will put your customer relationships at risk and ultimately damage your brand. Most programs do a fairly good job focusing on frequent customers. The Loyalty Imperatives answer that question. Loyalty programs are no different.

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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

In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. At many businesses, however, loyalty teams still attract relatively few resources compared to the ROI that loyalty can deliver when best-practices are observed. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Example: Email to the team: “The ROI on our latest campaign exceeded expectations. Engaging with the community Companies can connect with their target audience on a personal level by using text abbreviations on platforms like X or Instagram. Say goodbye to missed customer touchpoints and elevate your service game.

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

An ecommerce customer journey includes the steps that a customer takes; starting from discovering that there is a need for a product to the final stage, where they buy from you. Each of the stages they cross is referred to as a customer touchpoint and can be used to create a delightful experience for your prospective customers.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the microservices model, customer data is in one enterprise CRM that coordinates with one enterprise Campaign Management System to coordinate touchpoints.

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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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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

The answer isn’t acquiring two new customers. Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? It’s actually retaining an existing one.

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Lumoa

JUNE 26, 2023

Personalize all channels Final Thoughts What is omnichannel marketing customer experience? Omnichannel marketing customer experience is a strategy that integrates all marketing touchpoints – both offline and online – to create a seamless customer journey. This will help you generate a lot of more leads.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Forrester defines customer journey analytics is “an analytics practice that combines quantitative and qualitative data to analyze customer behaviors and motivations across touchpoints and over time to optimize customer interactions and predict future behavior.”. Measure the impact of customer behavior on KPIs (e.g.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Email marketing is a top tool for communicating directly with customers and driving them to your offers. This ensures you stay in touch at every step of the customer engagement process. The cost incurred to attract new customers is the customer acquisition cost (CAC). Share promotions without appearing salesy.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

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? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

How to Create a Customer Service Plan that Drives ROI by Krishna Charan. FreshDesk) No matter how pathbreaking the product or service is, your company’s customer perception is only as good as the support you offer. So what’s the best way to increase the likelihood of your customers staying with your company?

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ProProfs Chat

JULY 21, 2020

The lifecycle of a customer encompasses every interaction, right from the point they are introduced to your brand to the point when they turn into brand advocates. As a brand that has embarked on a long journey, you can’t afford to take any touchpoint lightly. The more the number of customers that reach this stage, the better.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Even if you need to retain your investment in an aging loyalty system, putting cloud-based microservices technology in front of them, as a hybrid approach, opens new worlds of opportunity. In the next three years, what is described in this article about headless loyalty will be commonplace – because the benefits are so significant.

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