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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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Characteristics of a Winning Loyalty Program in 2025

Currency Alliance

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. The customer experience has evolved. Why hasn’t loyalty? Customer singular.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

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Loyalty for CEOs: how to add enterprise value to your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

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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Beyond the Hotel: Earning Guest Loyalty with Hospitality Tech

Currency Alliance

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. The hotel market is becoming more competitive, with a larger share of wallet being spent on a greater variety of services. On the contrary, the hotel remains a highly valued experience offering.

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The top 5 ways to make loyalty programs more effective

Currency Alliance

As consumers grow more empowered, with more control and choice than they’ve ever had before, their loyalty to a brand and preference for concentrating their purchasing power becomes even more crucial to merchants. A more useful loyalty program for the customer is one that offers them a loyalty currency that they desire.

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Loyalty and Retention Are Not Synonyms

SurveyGizmo

For an organization that truly wants to become customer-centric, then they need a strategy for building customer loyalty. And building a loyal customer base should be one of their goals when launching a VoC program. Striving for a superior customer experience should go hand-in-hand with your VoC program.

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