Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

Magazine 52

Magazine Loyalty Innovation 2020 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

That is good news for everyone because for merchants ´opening-up´ their loyalty ecosystem, they stand to double or triple the customers participating – with only a linear increase in cost. Stated a different way, ROI from loyalty marketing investments could grow exponentially with a few tweaks that put the customer´s interests first.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Travel 52

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

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. Partners: optimize the mix to appeal to a broader array of customers. Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 2018 45

Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

For a retailer, this might mean rethinking stocking practices so that customer feedback lets you keep up with the latest trends before they fizzle out. For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. Connect channel activities and customer experiences.

Hotels 76

Hotels ROI Customer Journey Retail 76