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

Currency Alliance

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. For some brands, issuing your own loyalty currency is certainly desirable. This actually is not true.

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New Data About Airlines Competing on Customer Experience

Blake Morgan

Between cancellations, inflation, and the lingering impact of the pandemic, it’s been a rough year for the airline industry. However, the industry overall had a positive year, increasing 1% over 2021 for a score of 76. The airline industry has faced a rocky road in the last few years. What makes the Alaska experience unique?

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How To Build A Customer Loyalty Program

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How to Cultivate Customer Loyalty. The primary purpose of a customer loyalty program is to leverage the current customers into promoting the brand and retaining new customers. The question arises as to what approach should a business take to cultivate brand loyalty among its customers. It is Cost Effective.

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Loyalty for CEOs: how to add enterprise value to your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

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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4 ways to maximise the value of your loyalty program

Currency Alliance

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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From DIY to Delight: How Brands Are Maximizing Self-Service Options to Reduce Customer Effort?

SurveySensum

This shows that self-service is not only a tool to enhance customer experience but also a way to reduce your customer effort score. Only a handful of them understand this need of the hour and are using the self-service options to reduce customer effort and enhance their customer experience in the best way possible.

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Loyalty collection mechanics: identifying members at the POS

Currency Alliance

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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