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. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Independent of individual program achievements, the most important development across the industry has not been in individual technological triumphs, but a hastening structural shift in how brands understand and approach the purpose of their loyalty programs. ING Direct is one of those brands. Kudos to them.

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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

APRIL 26, 2018

But while excited boardrooms spend hours brainstorming ways “to do something with blockchain”, companies risk distracting themselves from real, present opportunities to succeed with loyalty in other ways. For the consumer, this should mean more valuable rewards, and the flexibility to spend loyalty points more easily, in more places.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

From the pandemic then straight into inflation, rising interest rates, and softening consumer spending, Material’s view is: The restaurant category may never normalize. The go-go days Prior to 2019, consumers were experiencing a massive boom in restaurant choice. By the end of 2020 it was estimated that approximately 110,000 U.S.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

From the pandemic then straight into inflation, rising interest rates, and softening consumer spending, Material’s view is: The restaurant category may never normalize. The go-go days Prior to 2019, consumers were experiencing a massive boom in restaurant choice. By the end of 2020 it was estimated that approximately 110,000 U.S.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Nobody in loyalty could have missed The Times’ headline in October, about the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) proposal to start taxing frequent flyer programs (FFPs), or even to shut them down, under the assumption that they increase flying. Brands made it easier to spend their loyalty currencies in 2018 and 2019 – which is great.

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ProProfs Chat

JULY 30, 2021

in the Q4 of 2018. Former CEO of McDonalds, Steve Easterbook confirms that brand perception is one factor that helped the company grow in the last quarter of 2018. Consumers consider different aspects of your brand like quality, value, website responsiveness, values, and so on to form an opinion about your brand. (a)

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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. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago. The key to getting customers once again actively involved in loyalty program participation is through providing greater liquidity.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. Partners enable two things, in your loyalty program: capturing data to identify the highly personal ‘something extra’ which incentivizes customers to shop your brand, rather than a competitor’s. The partner mix, therefore, must be revisited.

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