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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. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

Currency Alliance

the modest number of reward seats that an airline makes available on a flight, or the items curated in a redemption catalog). Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons. The more widely points can be earned and burned, the greater the proportion of customers that can be engaged.

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What Airlines Can Learn from the Theme Park Industry

Kitewheel

The customer experience for airlines is made even worse by the shrinking window for customers to reach their gate, frustration at people cutting in line, or a sense that there are not enough attendants at the front desk, gate, or any other location. For an airline, long or unwieldy lines also represent a business problem.

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First 100% Remote Airline Loyalty Implementation from LoyaltyPlus

LoyaltyPlus

We’re all very aware of the unique and unprecedented challenges airlines face today. Loyalty programs will play a pivotal role in getting passengers back onto your aircraft, agreed? We’ve just completed the first 100% remote deployment of our cloud-based Airline Loyalty solution. Sound interesting?

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McKinsey Thinks Bland, Generic Loyalty Programs Are Killing Business – And They May Be Right!

Beyond Philosophy

And, what is the impact of loyalty programs on enterprise profitability? Overall, companies with loyalty programs have grown at about the same rate as companies without them; but there is variance in performance value among industries. Key among these are: Integrate Loyalty Into the Full Experience. Use the Data.

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3 Inspired Ways to Increase Customer Value

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

For leaders to make smart decisions about who the best, most loyal and most profitable customers are, they need to understand the makeup of the customer population. This often means creating special loyalty programs , elite experiences, and special perks to maintain the top 1% of customers. Herein lies the rub.

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

About three years ago, I was flying from Barcelona to New York on United Airlines. This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged.

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