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

Currency Alliance

The major problem holding back loyalty programs is that most customers simply cannot spend enough money with a particular brand to ever earn enough points to get to interesting rewards. This means that loyalty programs are now a more important channel for customer acquisition and retention than ever before.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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9 Ways You Can Spring Clean your CX

Kitewheel

For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewards program. Measure ROI across interactions. Measuring ROI is another place where customer journey orchestration can help.

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It’s (almost) never 1%: how to price loyalty rewards

Currency Alliance

This may seem to make rewards pricing more complicated. That’s somewhat true; but there are relatively simple, actionable, tactical steps that brands can take to make step-change improvements in their loyalty engagement strategy. Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

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.”.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

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]. Indeed, banks are mostly not pursuing this strategy. Actually, they do. For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable.

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

Currency Alliance

and a kind of digital ‘goldrush’ without proper strategy. …as Airlines will spend a good portion of 2020 proving that their programs are fundamental to minimizing the environmental impact as the industry grows. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. disconnects between company leadership and management.

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