Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Now, the mobility sector is understood to comprise every transport type that enables customers to get from one place to another and – more importantly – how customers search for, book, and manage their mobility choices. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. .

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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. putting the customer at the center of your business model.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We recognize that these are difficult times for merchants managing loyalty programs. Customer expectations are higher than ever. Imagine brands agreeing to issue and/or redeem a common loyalty currency so that the customer could collect the same currency across many places where they spend money.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

Loyalty programs are supposed to enable tailored and targeted forms of customer engagement, via the ability to learn more about the customer in each interaction. There is not even an effort in the loyalty sector to set standards. Adaptability: data sharing between partners. Standardization.

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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.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Campaign Management. Loyalty Rules Engine. This analogy must also be true of software companies that deliver loyalty program management systems.

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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. The program can be the glue that binds capabilities with customer experience, to deliver more value.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Coalition programs are gaining steam because, managed, correctly, they solve the biggest problem in loyalty marketing: engaging your long- and mid-tail customers, rather than just 20-25% of the most frequent.

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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 40-60% of less frequent customers are a far larger commercial opportunity.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 5, 2019

Loyalty Coalitions are Morphing into Marketplaces. What’s the Role of Points in Modern Loyalty Marketing? How to Earn Loyalty Through Payments. Are We Ready for Blockchain Loyalty Programs? Loyalty Brands Perform Better in Coalitions. How Can Customer Experience Drive Loyalty?

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. From a standing start of zero customer data some 20 years ago, brands became able to incentivize desired behaviors in highly-predictable customer segments. But how many of those ‘partnerships’ share customer insight?

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