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Building a Better Loyalty Program (and the Reward for Getting It Right)

BlueOcean

According to Bond , “the power of loyalty programs often trains an organization to optimize the program instead of optimizing loyalty.” Part of the issue lies in the CRM and communications strategies–they simply aren’t always aligned, which allows inconsistent messaging to customers. In particular, transparency is critical.

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

Currency Alliance

Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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Loyalty: On the Cusp of Major R(E)volution

Currency Alliance

Stated a different way, ROI from loyalty marketing investments could grow exponentially with a few tweaks that put the customer´s interests first. This means merchants and travel suppliers will be able to capture useful data insights from a much larger set of customers, who again start identifying themselves at the point of sale.

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10 Inspiring B2B Loyalty Program Examples from Successful Companies

SmartKarrot

By offering loyalty programs, B2B businesses an invaluable customer data. It also helps them build data-driven direct communications strategies that help yield higher ROI. One way to address the challenge is by offering rewards. Celebrity Cruises is a well-known luxury brand that gets most of its sales via travel agents.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. You can see this in the Gartner CMO survey: Loyalty marketing has traditionally suffered from the difficulty in measuring ROI (especially in the short-term).

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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