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Travel Sector: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

Currency Alliance

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. First up: the travel & hospitality sector. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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4 ways to maximise the value of your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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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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Bank loyalty: stay top-of-wallet through the next decade

Currency Alliance

Back in 2017, when interchange fees were slashed by the European Union, most banks’ response was to simply to give up on their loyalty program; this was lazy and a huge strategic mistake. Every bank needs a loyalty strategy – even if they don’t have a points-based loyalty program.

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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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AI in loyalty marketing

Currency Alliance

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. As the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

Currency Alliance

Of course, after decades of increasingly easy and affordable travel, no consumer’s ambitions will stop with an ice-cream cone. After Covid-19, nearly every customer type will be more deliberate in how they spend money. Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange.

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