Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

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. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v].

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 1, 2020

Conventionally, Customer retention refers to the number of customers doing business with a company at the end of financial years and expressed as a percentage of those who have been active customers since the start of the year. Delighting customers refers to going beyond the average satisfaction of the customer.

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ProProfs Chat

MAY 28, 2020

In addition, there is a superabundance of loyalty programs in the market which are ‘all talk and no action’ Instead of improving the CX, such programs are more about price discounts; it’s no wonder that customers are becoming increasingly disloyal to their brands. . Image Source: Starbucks- Instagram.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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LiveChat

AUGUST 3, 2016

Let’s take a look at 4 things cart abandoners are thinking and discuss how a loyalty program can actually change the way they perceive some of the issues that are causing them to flee: 1. Secondly, they’re advertising their loyalty program in clever places, where shoppers will notice. Sometimes registration is a pain.

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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.

Loyalty 45

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This is what’s worked for me: put up a loyalty program of some kind, where your returning customers are rewarded. You can even reward them by creating a loyalty rewards program. Another thing to keep in mind is that you should focus one educating customers more than simply promoting offers and sales.

Customer Retention 21

Customer Retention E-support Social Media E Commerce 21

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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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. ING Direct is one of those brands. Kudos to them.

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

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. Furthermore, it is based on the illusion that the seller still controls the marketing, selling, and sales processes. In fact, a sale is the beginning of the customer experience process.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Nobody in loyalty could have missed The Times’ headline in October, about the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) proposal to start taxing frequent flyer programs (FFPs), or even to shut them down, under the assumption that they increase flying. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty.

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Retently

MARCH 18, 2019

Consumers love Starbucks – even more since the company implemented its rewards program. Apparently, customer loyalty was so high that Starbucks’ program ended up holding more money than some banks. In rather simple terms, NPS is just a metric that evaluates the referability of your brand.

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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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