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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

Currency Alliance

It also implies that the customer can do this quite easily and freely, across a large proportion of a brand’s inventory, in its primary commerce channels. Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons.

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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. Why hasn’t loyalty? Winning loyalty programs in 2025. Multi-serviced.

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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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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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Referral marketing software for the win: Our top 20 picks

BirdEye

Benefits of doing referral marketing A whopping 83% of individuals trust referrals or recommendations from friends and family more than any other marketing channel. Ambassador Ambassador is a versatile platform that manages referral, affiliate, and influencer marketing programs all in one place.

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McKinsey Thinks Bland, Generic Loyalty Programs Are Killing Business – And They May Be Right!

Beyond Philosophy

And, what is the impact of loyalty programs on enterprise profitability? Overall, companies with loyalty programs have grown at about the same rate as companies without them; but there is variance in performance value among industries. Key among these are: Integrate Loyalty Into the Full Experience. Use the Data.

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5 Best Customer Retention Software to Try in 2024

SurveySparrow

Analytics and Reporting: Gaining Insights into Customer Behavior We learned about the importance of personalization, and for that, you need to analyze the customer data. That’s where analytics and reporting features come into play. The channels can be anything from email and social media surveys to website and in-app surveys.