Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

And yet, many loyalty programs are run like barnacles on the side of a business: battling for budget, rather than being nurtured as the core way to engage customers via every channel and touchpoint. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. This should happen across touchpoints: social engagement, reviews, referrals, etc.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

disconnects between company leadership and management. Nonetheless, the legacy loyalty points bank kept them from innovating more quickly. For large enterprises, embedded legacy points banks and rules engines continue to be the bottleneck to unleashing more personalized engagement. as some of the major causes.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

More enlightened marketers, on the other hand, see points as a way to keep score of customer actions at many different touchpoints along complex customer journeys. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful. A few – such as Tarte, a US cosmetics brand – are way ahead of the game. Kudos to them.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Points Bank. As a result, vendors such as Oracle, Comarch, Kobie, Epsilon, Unisys, and perhaps another dozen have been able to maintain their installed base among the largest loyalty programs, while another hundred vendors provide stand-alone solutions to medium and smaller companies. Campaign Management. Loyalty Rules Engine.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. Second, emotional loyalty involves rewarding your customers for many more touchpoints than just purchases.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. flybuys points can be earned with many different partner brands: banking (Citi).

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