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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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The do’s and don’ts for creating a customer service knowledge base by TechGenyz. Want More Loyal Customers?

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this rapidly evolving landscape, businesses must adopt advanced and innovative strategies to not only capture the attention of customers but also foster enduring loyalty. In this article, we’ll explore a few next-level approaches that are shaping the future of e-commerce engagement.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Claron Kinny, Content Specialist at Beaconstac , the one-stop solution for all things QR. He writes about the strategies and tools to build customer loyalty. Building and maintaining customer loyalty is more critical than ever in today’s highly competitive business landscape.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems CRM software is the cornerstone for managing customer information, interactions, and history. They consolidate data from various touchpoints to provide a single view of each customer.

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Lumoa

JUNE 26, 2023

You can also achieve similar figures by building an omnichannel customer experience tailor-made for your business. This article tells you all about omnichannel marketing, its benefits, and the top ways to boost your customer experience. But first, you need to understand what an omnichannel customer experience is.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This article on the loyalty rules engine is probably the second-most important article I will ever write on loyalty marketing*. It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. Nearly every month, it is the most-read article in our blog.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This is a major opportunity cost for every loyalty program. This workload can now be greatly reduced.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

In a true, headless, loyalty platform, the backend functionality is purpose-built to be decoupled from the front-end customer touchpoints, connected via easy APIs. In the next three years, what is described in this article about headless loyalty will be commonplace – because the benefits are so significant.

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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. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Next, we explain how to increase the perceived value of your loyalty currency, so that your loyalty program is more effective, and the ROI increases.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. The value can be immediate.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the context of your business, which trends are truly relevant to you depends on your industry, the dynamics of your market(s), your target customer segment(s), your geography, and your state of digital transformation. This article defines the things that every business has to get right to survive. Loyalty programs are no different.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We know that customers connect and interact with an organisation’s technologies, people, products, and processes across a variety of online platforms, through dedicated customer contact centres and at physical brick and mortar locations. Which emojis are your customers using to remember their experiences with your brand?

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here’s a roadmap to help you get there: Gather Feedback : Gather feedback on a regular basis from your customers on different aspects of your business, but don’t limit yourself to traditional CSAT or NPS surveys. Take advantage of different types of surveys at different touchpoints of the customer journey.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here’s a roadmap to help you get there: Gather Feedback : Gather feedback on a regular basis from your customers on different aspects of your business, but don’t limit yourself to traditional CSAT or NPS surveys. Take advantage of different types of surveys at different touchpoints of the customer journey.

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Customer Satisfaction Self Service Strategy Customer Journeys 52

Retently

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping your existing customers happy should be at the heart of your growth strategy – not an afterthought. If you’re at the stage of refining your customer retention strategy, watch out for the common pitfalls. Why is B2B Customer Retention Important?

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Retently

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By pinpointing where your customers come from, you can streamline your efforts, enhance engagement, and grow your business. In this article, we’ll guide you through crafting, placing, and analyzing impactful surveys that provide actionable data for your business growth. Key Takeaways “How Did You Hear About Us?”

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NobelBiz

JULY 25, 2023

Interaction Analytics often termed the keystone of customer engagement strategies, provides businesses with a profound look into customer behaviors, preferences, and patterns when engaging with products or services. Check out this article and some best practices on Performance Management for Leaders, Managers and Agents.

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

An ecommerce customer journey includes the steps that a customer takes; starting from discovering that there is a need for a product to the final stage, where they buy from you. 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.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the microservices model, customer data is in one enterprise CRM that coordinates with one enterprise Campaign Management System to coordinate touchpoints.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Less-technical businesspeople may only care about loyalty technology to the degree that it serves two key objectives: Delivering a consistently good brand experience across all customer touchpoints. Enhancing the value customers obtain, without increasing your costs. This article has three sections.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After having an amazing customer experience, 88 percent are likely to make a repeat purchase, 82 percent are likely to recommend to friends or family, 68 percent are likely to join a loyalty program, and 63 percent said they are likely to write a positive review. Keeping Customers Coming Back.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Few brands have yet appreciated that, as this blossoming mobility marketplace becomes highly competitive, strategies and tools will be needed to capture this insight, maximize customer retention, and minimize CPA – not just in their existing spheres of control, but across every channel that funnels customers to their service and keeps them engaged.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

Such a simple program quickly revealed invaluable insight into the customer and opened a whole new channel of communication across email, SMS and good old post! but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program. Loyalty departments have not always had easy relationships with CFOs and CEOs.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2022

Understanding these channel-shifting shopping habits of younger consumers is vital for retailers as they refactor their customer engagement strategies in the post-pandemic era. Digital experience is very important to this group and rates second only to price as the biggest driver of customer satisfaction.

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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

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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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Every CFO knows a loyal customer is many times more profitable than others. And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. The outcome for the brands which succeed will be in getting 25-50% more customers engaged with their loyalty strategies. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. This article delves into the partnership strategies of major loyalty brands.

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