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Building a Better Loyalty Program (and the Reward for Getting It Right)

BlueOcean

loyalty programs on average. If, for example, you’re a member of Nordstrom’s loyalty program, Nordy Club, you’re among a group of customers who are likely to spend three to five times more than non-members, and are consequently driving two-thirds of Nordstrom’s sales. The Downlow on Loyalty: Reciprocity is Key.

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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. The golden benchmark is about $25 USD per year in loyalty value. This actually is not true.

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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

Currency Alliance

Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons. Over the past 3-4 years, brands with loyalty programs have been more focused on offering members new ways to redeem points and obtain interesting rewards.

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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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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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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.