Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sometimes friends ask me if I remember how we used to shop several years ago, as things seem to be changing so quickly at the moment. Things are so much easier now than they used to be , that I wonder what took brands so long to actually start caring about their customers. Take loyalty programs for example.

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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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) can generate more opportunities, drive loyalty, increase productivity, increase brand equity, drive advocacy, increase market share, and decrease operations costs. In some cases, it may be something that does not work for the time. Most organizational leaders use specific data to make decisions.

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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. Large brands with their own loyalty program typically invest heavily to integrate the loyalty platform into one or more POSs, but for smaller and medium-sized companies, this is often out of reach in terms of cost and technical complexity.

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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

Most people understand what incentives are and how best to use them, but they don’t understand why the entire industry came about. So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Incentives are used to influence customer behavior. Customers have a single view of a brand.

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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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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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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2017

This might represent less than 1% (or in the case of a favorite supermarket, perhaps 10%) of what each consumer spends per year. They could also see who else in a broad coalition data network matches the profile of the merchant´s best existing customers. About the only option they have is to fight back with data !!

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. Points are perceived by customers as a kind of currency; underperforming loyalty brands, equally, prioritize this purely transactional insight.

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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

JUNE 22, 2017

A year that could see a tipping point for customer loyalty programs. We’ve seen plenty of articles over the last couple of years about how the traditional loyalty program is falling short. Effectively, these are articles telling us that less people are signing up, or bothering to take their loyalty cards out of their drawer.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Points Bank in a loyalty program is the module of software that keeps track of all transactions related to issuing, redeeming, or exchanging points among loyalty program members, partners and other stakeholders. Core functionality of the loyalty points bank.

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Waypoint Group

AUGUST 1, 2018

Customer Success is typically defined as, “ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes while using your product or service.” And the shortest path to true loyalty is by demonstrating that the people within your company are listening. Attitudinal Loyalty Accelerates Profitable Growth. In all cases the answer is CUSTOMER.

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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? The answer is simple.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

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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. The reason I’m writing this article is that many loyalty teams have, historically, not executed brilliantly.

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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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Currency Alliance

MARCH 5, 2019

Should my brand be in a loyalty coalition? Do reward points really earn loyalty? These, and other important questions, were subject of a debate held recently at the Visa Innovation Center in London, and Convened by Annich McIntosh of Loyalty Magazine. Loyalty Coalitions are Morphing into Marketplaces.

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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. Nobody granted those loans on a whim.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Headless loyalty systems are API-first loyalty platforms that enable any customer-facing platform to integrate loyalty marketing functionality into their Customer Experience (CX) via API. The loyalty industry still operates mostly on tightly-integrated legacy technology platforms, in which changes are slow and expensive.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. Today, practically all these higher-spending customers are already enrolled in ‘no-brainer’ loyalty coalitions. delivering more loyalty value so customers accelerate their path to rewards – keeping them engaged with your brand.

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