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

OCTOBER 12, 2020

That type of simple recognition goes a great way in building loyalty with customers. 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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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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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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. These loyalty rules are created in order to improve customer appeal and profitability, and the job of enabling them in a loyalty program falls to the rules engine.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

The long break in spending habits due to Covid-19 will cause customers to re-evaluate their relationship with brands. This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. They don’t use the data that customers provide. Others have lost their jobs.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Much of the bad has derived from a lack of belief or understanding from CEOs, who constrain budgets, and prop up short-term earnings with value that ought to flow to customers. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus. Customers are now in control.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This is caused by many factors beyond the scope of this article, but the result is that customers are more conscious about value, and companies are focusing more on cost control. Until a few years ago, brands would have reacted to an uncertain economy by cutting services that deliver customer value.

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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. Uncover the mountains of gold in your mid-long tail customers.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

The ability to bring together complementary fields of experience to create profitable solutions based on innovative business models and modern technology. As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years.

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ENGAGE.cx

JULY 18, 2018

Modern enterprise marketing platforms from Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and others are great at engaging with web and app customers. But what about all the customers that are in your physical locations? Your retail store, restaurant, hotel, bank, etc…. Are they a return customer or a new customer?

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For all readers, the key takeaway will be that the evolution of loyalty programs into marketplaces is unstoppable, and that the decision to jump aboard is a sink-or-swim equation for all but the largest loyalty brands. Marketplaces deliver unique value for customers that your own brand cannot deliver on its own.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Therefore, all types of marketing and sales disciplines started to evolve to incentivize and influence customer choice in order to drive more revenue. So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Incentives must be tailored to the customer’s context.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty. Some stars are sticks.

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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

JUNE 16, 2020

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. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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.”. Greater investment to meet consumers’ insatiable appetite for experiences. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces.

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SurveySparrow

JANUARY 5, 2021

And the main reason behind this is, only a few companies see employee experience as an urgent investment. They’re not aware of the benefits of employee experience, or they don’t know how to measure the returns on employee experience. The impacts of employee experience are enormous, and we should never ignore it.

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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. Each trend supports aspects of the broader business imperative: to be present when and where customers choose to engage. We crave convenience and more intuitive, personalized experiences.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

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]. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Actually, they do. Extra what? in 2017[vii].

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Find out how Conjoint/MaxDiff can help you use real-time feedback to develop the products and services your customers need both now, and as you emerge from the other side of the coronavirus crisis. It puts respondents through real-world experiences that are extremely familiar to them to gauge their interest in various product attributes.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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OpinionLab

MARCH 12, 2015

When people hear the phrase “Voice of Customer” (VOC) they instantly think of surveys and comment cards deployed on their website. The problem is: if you think VOC as merely a provider of customer opinions, you are missing the real value of the technology. Customer Experience Management.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. Absolutely.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. I think the scope of what customers were looking to change back then was much different. Now we are seeing chief customer care officers and CEOs, chief excellence officers. Absolutely.

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