Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. There’s a lot of useful takeaways in this, for loyalty marketers.

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Magazine Loyalty Innovation 2020 52

InMoment XI

JANUARY 17, 2024

With today’s travelers raising their expectations while being exposed to a seemingly unlimited number of hospitality solutions, it is critical that operators deliver experiences that reflect the lives of their customers. This means that all interactions and touchpoints the guest has with your brand are considered.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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Hospitality Loyalty Hotels Loyalty Programs 52

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This article on the loyalty rules engine is probably the second-most important article I will ever write on loyalty marketing*. It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Social Media ROI 52

SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

You must not launch an NPS survey here – that’s why it is imperative to know which survey to send at which touchpoint!] → “On a scale of 1-5, where 1 is ‘Very Difficult’, and 5 is ‘Very Easy’, how would you rate the ease of the payment process during your recent shopping experience with us?

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Retail Customer Experience Touchpoint Social Media 52

SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

You must not launch an NPS survey here – that’s why it is imperative to know which survey to send at which touchpoint!] → “On a scale of 1-5, where 1 is ‘Very Difficult’, and 5 is ‘Very Easy’, how would you rate the ease of the payment process during your recent shopping experience with us?

Retail 52

Retail Customer Experience Touchpoint Social Media 52

SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

From the initial interaction to the post-purchase engagement, we will understand each phase, uncovering the touchpoints that shape the customer journey. Crafting Compelling Content : Strategic marketing campaigns play a pivotal role in capturing the attention of your target audience. User testimonials and success stories.

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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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Travel 52

Bold360

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A funny thing happened when researchers asked consumers and marketers associated with the travel industry how they viewed the industry’s well-known loyalty programs. For the marketers – 66 percent of them – the programs were seen as a good way for customers to show loyalty to the brand.

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Customer Retention Social Media Loyalty Programs Loyalty 63

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The hotel market is becoming more competitive, with a larger share of wallet being spent on a greater variety of services. And while some of the market diversification comes from the likes of Airbnb, some of it comes from hotel brands themselves, filling more varied market gaps with more interesting services and experiences.

Hotels 40

Hotels Hospitality Loyalty Travel 40

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To consider a loyalty topic to be a ‘trend’, it needs to be on the roadmap during 2024 for at least 25% of leading loyalty programs and on the radar for at least 50% of companies. Norwegian Air Shuttle and Strawberry Hospitality Group have made public their intention to shake up their market.

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

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Marketing Airlines Loyalty Programs 52

CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Each one is a chance for you to nurture their interactions towards a sale, referred to as customer touchpoints. Optimizing your customer touchpoints can lead to stronger brand loyalty, more revenue, and improved sales. A customer touchpoint is any interaction a customer has with a business, from first learnings to repeat sales.

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Touchpoint Customer Journey Loyalty Programs Social Media 69

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.

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Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

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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Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Banking 52

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There is something to be said about how vital it is to leverage market research to understand your non-buyers so you can convert them into customers. But with such a crowded market, that is easier said than done. Deploy Microsurveys at Key Touchpoints: Get customer feedback in the moments that matter. What Is Customer Retention?

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

People are changing the way they shop, how they can travel, where they eat, how they work, and how they stay in contact with loved ones. Product innovation — innovate and adapt to market changes by checking in with your customers regarding menu changes, new hours, staffing changes, and new product offerings such as ‘ staycation ’ services.

Hospitality 29

Hospitality Retail Rewards Programs ROI 29

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. Why hasn’t loyalty? Winning loyalty programs in 2025. Customer singular.

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Loyalty Programs 2025 Loyalty Multi-Channel 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. Merchandising.

Loyalty 52

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. Merchandising.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Touchpoint Hotels 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. How to compete.

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Loyalty 2020 Loyalty Programs Travel 64

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Therefore, all types of marketing and sales disciplines started to evolve to incentivize and influence customer choice in order to drive more revenue. So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Incentive schemes like loyalty programs are effectively a value exchange.

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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Airlines 59

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

It’s crucial to consider your organization’s travel requirements for the workforce. Additionally, travel expenses were virtually eliminated from budgets due to the pandemic. With a united vision of a customer-centric strategy, marketing, sales, customer service, and even developers can benefit.

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Chief Customer Officer Roadmap Customer Success Travel 10

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. At first glance, this year’s Gartner CMO spend survey may not make for happy reading for loyalty marketers. Smarter budgeting.

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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. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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2021 Loyalty Loyalty Programs Travel 52

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. Networking within your business, and with loyalty partners.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Hotels 52

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Consumers thought about cars and mass transit, while manufacturers of transportation assets thought about market share. The evolution of mobility into a homogenized market is fast approaching – at which point, any service that is not comprehensive will get discarded or end up focusing on a niche. Enter: loyalty marketing.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 56

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Loyalty 2020 Hotels Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Independent of individual program achievements, the most important development across the industry has not been in individual technological triumphs, but a hastening structural shift in how brands understand and approach the purpose of their loyalty programs. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful.

Magazine 49

Magazine Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 49

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This challenge – the give-and-take of marketplaces – now firmly belongs on the agenda of loyalty strategy meetings. First, it gives marketers a basic grounding in economics which can directly impact on your loyalty strategy, complete with real-world examples of brands putting the theory into practice.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Travel Hotels 45

Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. By Steve Offsey. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

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Customer Journey Customer Journey Mapping Touchpoint Multi-Channel 90

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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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Touchpoint ROI 52

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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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels Airlines 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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Loyalty Customer Engagement Engagement Loyalty Programs 45

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Customers are not really looking at the next shiny thing because each entrant into the market showcases themselves like it. Touchpoints that provide a less-than-ideal experience for your customer. You should put more efforts into retaining them, they could also be a part of your customer loyalty program, if you have one.

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Sales Loyalty Programs Feedback Net Promoter Score 59

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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