Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years. Or, in the form of the now-prevalent sign-up bonuses that come from switching banks.

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ENGAGE.cx

JULY 18, 2018

Your retail store, restaurant, hotel, bank, etc…. And because of that, brands struggle to drive full ROI from both their marketing efforts and physical venues. Are they in my loyalty program? But what about all the customers that are in your physical locations? CMOs want to know: Who is in my store? Why did they come in?

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Loyalty Programs Hotels Banking ROI 40

Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

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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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

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. 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.

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SurveySparrow

JANUARY 5, 2021

We are quite familiar with the term, ROI or returns on investment. When it comes to measuring the benefits of a particular cost-related investment, there’s no effective metric available then return on investment (ROI). You can use both ROX and ROI to form a more controlled and better experience for your company’s success.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Some brands will do this in 2023, but actually, the loyalty & marketing industries have learned from recent experience that this costs you money in the long run. So, while the major loyalty trends for 2023 will be oriented around cost control, this will be accompanied by refocusing investment where it’s most profitable.

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Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Customer care – Conjoint/MaxDiff can help improve your support and care operations, with insight into what components of your customer care program are most important to your users, as well as what elements they’d be willing to pay more for. Learn how conjoint analysis and MaxDiff work. Hospitality. Retail Banking and Financial Services.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. This is really important, because the lifetime value of a customer that reaches a reward soon after joining a loyalty program, or if one sees they are making good progress towards something aspirational, is typically dozens of times higher.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

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. In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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OpinionLab

MARCH 12, 2015

Perhaps you’ve asked them to provide their income level or the purpose of their visit; maybe you are interested in identifying their persona or status level in your loyalty program. Being able to look at Tealeaf data via this lens has resulted in some unbelievable ROI and insights for our customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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 marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

Another personal story: I arrived in a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. I am a member of their loyalty program, so they greet me, give me a room, and the first thing I do when I get into my room is get on the internet. Well, in this particular hotel, the system just said, “Thank you for being a member.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

Another personal story: I arrived in a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. I am a member of their loyalty program, so they greet me, give me a room, and the first thing I do when I get into my room is get on the internet. Well, in this particular hotel, the system just said, “Thank you for being a member.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This challenge – the give-and-take of marketplaces – now firmly belongs on the agenda of loyalty strategy meetings. First, it gives marketers a basic grounding in economics which can directly impact on your loyalty strategy, complete with real-world examples of brands putting the theory into practice. This is a good thing.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

Loyalty 40

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

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. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 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? 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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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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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. It’s not unusual for the very best programs to comprise 15%-30% of a business’s enterprise value.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Programs Touchpoint 52

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

How to Maximize Your Journey Analytics ROI. Similarly, customers of hotels that get the journey right may be 61 percent more willing to recommend than customers of hotels that merely focus on touchpoints. Customer Journey Orchestration: Accordant on Finding a Path to Purchase. Journey Insights. One-on-one interviews.

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