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

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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

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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. That’s in contrast to being offered a restricted set of inventory items for redemptions via a members’ portal (i.e.,

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

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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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Loyalty rules, and the loyalty rules engine

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It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

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Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. I hate bashing the industry, but a great many loyalty programs still don’t even have this basic equation right. They don’t use the data that customers provide. It is making people more deliberate.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. Hybrid points programs.

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Customer Experience Conferences and Events to Attend in 2017

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Session topics include how to make the most of customer feedback , the different elements of ROI, employee engagement, the continued role of NPS in measuring customer satisfaction, agile operations, and in-depth measurement and insight, among others. Where: London, UK. Forrester CXNYC. When: June 20 to 21, 2017. Where: New York City, NY.