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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. 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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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

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A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. People are more likely to leave their spouse than their bank[ii], so it might seem that banks have no case to answer.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

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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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Customer lifetime value formula: Easy ways to calculate it

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Knowing what your customer lifetime value is versus your acquisition costs can shine a light on how you need to adjust your strategy to bolster margins: optimize your lead generation program, focus on delivering more value for your customers, or both. bank, 82% of failed businesses cited cash flow as a factor in their collapse.

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Leader’s vision: #1 loyalty driver for the modern brand

Currency Alliance

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. Points alone don’t earn much loyalty.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

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Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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