Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

A 2018 Collinson study reported that 66% of financial services professionals say their bank “does not understand why customers are loyal or have a strategy to strengthen customer relationships”[i]. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Actually, they do. in 2017[vii].

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If you succeed at this, you will also harness recurring benefits in the form of insightful customer data, which will allow you to market to the mid-long tail more effectively and affordably, and maximize the lifetime value of every customer. The graphic below indicates the categories of spending for many customers.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The Economist, November 2018. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. The outcome for the brands which succeed will be in getting 25-50% more customers engaged with their loyalty strategies. 2018 saw a 14.2% Really think about that for a moment.

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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. The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. This past summer, the supermarket decided to offer reward points to customers who bring their own re-usable carrier bags.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

By the end of the programme’s first year, loyalty members made up 44% of Tarte.com revenue, despite only making up 21% of the total customer base. Customer journeys to the moment of purchase are highly complex and too few brands are engaging with key steps along the way, to understand why customers buy, or fall out of the funnel.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. All that said, the program isn’t perfect. This is nonsense.

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