Happy or Not

JANUARY 3, 2022

Customers are returning to on-site experiences and spending more on goods such as home equipment due to the decrease in travel. . The “one size fits all” approach no longer applies, and businesses need to seriously consider how to best serve different types of customers.

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Omnichannel Loyalty Programs Roadmap Retail 69

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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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Travel 52

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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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Travel 52

ERDM

JANUARY 8, 2018

Article by Ernan Roman Featured on CMO.com Jeff Rosenfeld is the vice president of customer insight and analytics for The Neiman Marcus Group, where he is responsible for leveraging analytics to drive revenue. On the bright side, this means there is substantial opportunity here to improve the customer experience.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Travel ROI 40

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. As the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Marketing Airlines Loyalty Programs 52

BirdEye

MARCH 24, 2023

Development activities can create opportunities for the sales team, and the sales team can provide valuable insights that inform development strategies. This is a secret weapon that leading businesses use to transform satisfied customers into repeat businesses and zero-cost brand ambassadors. Build a strong customer referral program.

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2023 Return on Investment Social Media Sales 98

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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 Programs 2025 Loyalty Multi-Channel 52

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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Loyalty 2020 Loyalty Programs Travel 64

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.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 52

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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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. putting the customer at the center of your business model.

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2021 Loyalty Loyalty Programs Travel 52

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Independent of market positioning, unique customer insight will become the primary competitive advantage. We discovered 6 years ago that during the customer’s trip, the most value we could provide after selling the airline ticket was to show alternative mobility options in the traveler’s destination.

Loyalty 56

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 56

Currency Alliance

JUNE 22, 2017

A year that could see a tipping point for customer loyalty programs. We’ve seen plenty of articles over the last couple of years about how the traditional loyalty program is falling short. We need to ask ourselves – do traditional drivers of customer loyalty still apply to the modern consumer?

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs 2017 Social Media 40

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

Hopefully these insights are helpful to other teams pursuing the ability for their systems to be sufficiently open that they can interoperate with most/all other systems in the martech stack. Features of an API-first loyalty platform. Our API endpoints only require 3-5 mandatory fields to complete a loyalty transaction.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Technology Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel 52

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. First up: the travel & hospitality sector. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

Loyalty Programs 40

Loyalty Programs Travel Loyalty Airlines 40

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.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Touchpoint ROI 52

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We recognize that these are difficult times for merchants managing loyalty programs. Customer expectations are higher than ever. Imagine brands agreeing to issue and/or redeem a common loyalty currency so that the customer could collect the same currency across many places where they spend money.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Brands 49

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.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Multi-Channel 52

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

The sea-change in marketing technology is evident in the Gartner CMO survey, which tracked spending across all marketing disciplines: …most of which are rooted in martech solutions, younger than loyalty program management technologies, but all united by the common need to share customer data and use it to drive results.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs Brands 58

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. The 40-60% of less frequent customers are a far larger commercial opportunity.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Touchpoint 52

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But the model generally leaves too little for the program to finance worthwhile rewards for all but the most frequent customers. Air Miles copycats began to pepper the market during the mid-1990s (Sainsbury’s, Travel Club, etc.), This is a big part of why Plenti failed. Unfulfilled promises. Trust issues.

Loyalty 36

Loyalty Consumers Brands Airlines 36

Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. But how many of those ‘partnerships’ share customer insight? The partner mix.

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