Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. So how should New Zealand’s banks and brands respond, and how should other brands collaborate with partners to reduce dependency on any single source of funding? down to 0.3% on credit cards and 0.2%

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. Big brands mimicking strategies pioneered by upstart challengers. in 2017[ii].

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts 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). Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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. Marketplaces deliver unique value for customers that your own brand cannot deliver on its own. This is a good thing.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. A few – such as Tarte, a US cosmetics brand – are way ahead of the game.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Tellingly, the greatest investment in vehicles has not been in how the vehicles move, but in “sharing solutions” – with a 32x increase in investment over the 7 years to 2017. In my own meetings with them, they’ve shown very little interest in how the loyalty industry is transforming, or what it will look like in five years’ time.

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Retently

MARCH 18, 2019

Well, by far the most effective way to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty is via the Net Promoter Score. After all, brands with high customer retention are usually companies with high NPS score. Still, Amazon did state they signed up more new paid members in 2017 than any other year. High Customer Retention and Growth.

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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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