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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

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

Currency Alliance

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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COVID-19 has changed how we do everything – here’s how Conjoint and MaxDiff can help you respond

Qualtrics

Customer care – Conjoint/MaxDiff can help improve your support and care operations, with insight into what components of your customer care program are most important to your users, as well as what elements they’d be willing to pay more for. Learn how conjoint analysis and MaxDiff work. Hospitality.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

Loyalty had evolved into a fairly segregated marketing function, but many of this years’ entries were more comprehensive, loyalty-enabled marketing programs. As more holistic marketing initiatives, loyalty mechanics were harnessed to drive and measure engagement across channels, and across many more customer touchpoints.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v]. More money, fewer monies.

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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.”. [iii].

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. Define the strategy.

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