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Travel Sector: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

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.

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4 ways to maximise the value of your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

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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Characteristics of a Winning Loyalty Program in 2025

Currency Alliance

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 for CEOs: how to add enterprise value to your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

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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How Loyalty Programs Drive Customer Relationships: Experience TV Episode 9 Featuring Clay Walton-House from PK

Oracle

Nominations are due April 16 – don’t miss your chance to be recognized for your great customer experience efforts during 2020. Loyalty programs are more popular than ever. As brands in every industry face more competition, customer loyalty is becoming harder to earn. ” LEGO is loyalty-obsessed.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

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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AI in loyalty marketing

Currency Alliance

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’.

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