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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

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This means that loyalty programs are now a more important channel for customer acquisition and retention than ever before. A low-frequency business would be an airline (for most people), or brands selling occasional purchases such as refrigerators, cars, laptops, shoes, gala dresses, etc.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

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The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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Voxi is the ‘youth brand’ of Vodafone, whose highly successful VeryMe rewards program has previously been praised by Currency Alliance. Other brands ought to take a leaf out of IBM’s book and incentivize their own ‘resellers’ (influencers / bloggers) to promote their loyalty programs. A disloyal generation?

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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Furthermore, given the historically high entry costs to deploy a comprehensive loyalty system, faster payback is often found among many of those other marketing disciplines cited by Gartner. We believe most loyalty programs can reduce cost by simplifying their programs and changing the mix of systems that enable day-to-day operations.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

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Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”. [iii].

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

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

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

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Airlines will spend a good portion of 2020 proving that their programs are fundamental to minimizing the environmental impact as the industry grows. At the Loyalty Surgery this year, IBM’s Greg Land said that their modern martech trial at Malaysia Airlines performed extremely well, delivering a 43% improvement in ROI.

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