Currency Alliance

MARCH 24, 2020

Currency Alliance is offering fee-free exchanges of loyalty currencies, between travel and non-travel brands, for the next six months. Travel brands are suffering from Covid-19 more than most, with the grounding of aircraft, and very low occupancy for those hotels which have not yet closed.

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C Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – September 18, 2020. Hotel chain Marriott has announced that it’s teaming up with the National Park Foundation , the charitable arm of the National Park Service with the aim of encouraging travel to three of the park system’s lesser-known hidden gems. Brand Move Roundup – September 17, 2020.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Inspiring Real Loyalty, No Cards in Sight. engender loyalty! How Can You Build Human Loyalty to Beat the Competition?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years. In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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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? Why should investing in loyalty be different?

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 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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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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C Space

MAY 20, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – May 20, 2020. Facebook is also working to integrate loyalty programs. Mark Wong, an exec at Small Luxury Hotels of the World , said “road trips – the drive market – will be this summer’s trend. In the first quarter of 2020, a largely young audience watched 3.1 Read More.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If 2020 has taught us anything it is that diversification (or luck from being in the right sector) can be a lifeline. In November 2019 when we published the Top Trends for 2020 , we could not have known about the Covid-19 pandemic. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

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. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago.

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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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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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Qualtrics

JUNE 26, 2020

With the outbreak of COVID-19 in China early in 2020, Koç Holding started to implement extensive protective measures to prevent any contamination among employees. The loyalty program provides functional and emotional benefits partnering with more than 200 leader brands. 70 million ($10 million) in employee loans.

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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. It’s not unusual for the very best programs to comprise 15%-30% of a business’s enterprise value.

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