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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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Oracle

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This is a preview of the ebook “Moments That Matter: A New Customer Experience Roadmap for Financial Services “ Financial services technology isn’t just helping brands gather better data about customers. Here are 4 trends in financial services technology that are redefining CX in these important life moments.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This fee is commonly how financial services brands have funded their loyalty rewards for at least the past decade. So how should New Zealand’s banks and brands respond, and how should other brands collaborate with partners to reduce dependency on any single source of funding? Of course, this has happened before in other jurisdictions.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Changing Landscape of Payments The payment landscape has witnessed a profound transformation driven by technology and evolving consumer preferences. This disruption has prompted traditional banks and financial institutions to adapt and innovate to remain competitive.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This is a major opportunity cost for every loyalty program. In this case, the contract is with the third party (i.e.,

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is the most powerful, yet under appreciated module (or tool) in a loyalty marketing stack of software. The loyalty rules engine is the module that enables the types of promotions that are familiar from every major loyalty program. This would not require much of a rules engine – since your program has no variation.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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West Monroe

MAY 31, 2019

Last year, I wrote about conversational interfaces and how they have the potential to disrupt business and technology paradigms over the coming years. To recap, conversational interfaces are an emerging high-level system design model where interactions occur in the user’s spoken or written natural language.

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Blake Morgan

JUNE 7, 2023

Alaska doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel or offer things customers don’t want–it understands its customers so well it can concentrate on excelling in the areas that matter most, including on-time flights, a solid baggage system, and an industry-leading loyalty program. The reason?

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Birdeye’s automated referral program makes it simple to encourage and reward word-of-mouth marketing, while integrations with CRM systems ensure a seamless customer journey. It offers features like visual marketing tools and loyalty program integration to enhance the customer experience.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Modifying legacy loyalty technology, to enable consistent and relevant engagement across the expanding number of customer-facing platforms, is becoming cost-prohibitive. The only efficient path forward is to put headless technology in front of your legacy systems – or, to migrate altogether.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

AI is important, but still hard to harness – so it may still be years before anything truly significant is happening in loyalty with AI. I encourage you to keep experimenting because the constraint with AI is not the technology, but the lack of sufficient or clean data – two aspects covered by our Loyalty Imperatives.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting stuck in a loop or being misunderstood by an automated customer care system brings out the worst in humanity. To summarize, we’ve got more experience and technology rolled into our IVA than most other AI assistants in the market today. If recordings were published, your grandmother would surely blush! We play nice with others.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Headless loyalty systems are API-first loyalty platforms that enable any customer-facing platform to integrate loyalty marketing functionality into their Customer Experience (CX) via API. The loyalty industry still operates mostly on tightly-integrated legacy technology platforms, in which changes are slow and expensive.

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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. The functionality in loyalty systems is being broken up.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI-driven customer experience models employ artificial intelligence technologies to help businesses provide personalized, seamless, efficient, and improved customer interactions. Many businesses have also begun incorporating generative AI technologies such as Chat-GPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, or Bard into their processes.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. I’m a case in point.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2020

A common method to enhance customer understanding is partnering with other companies through loyalty programs. Let’s look at common spots where loyalty investments are most vulnerable to loss, the benefits of collaboration models and the three best opportunities for loyalty spending. But this reasoning is outdated.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 28, 2023

Netflix’s recommendation system is a masterstroke, analyzing user behavior, viewing history, and ratings to suggest shows and movies that align with the viewer’s taste. Personalized Banking – Barclays Barclays Bank has successfully employed personalization to enhance its customers’ banking experience.

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NobelBiz

JULY 25, 2023

It’s the technological marvel that deciphers vast streams of customer interactions, offering invaluable insights to the very heart of a business’s operations. Feedback Forms: Post-call or post-chat surveys and feedback forms provide direct customer insights which are then fed into the analytics system.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

The casual observer at last night’s ceremony (and the professional one alike) would have been struck by the many extraordinary, showpiece technological achievements which were made in the past year. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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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. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have.

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Magellan Solutions

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Magellan Solutions offer a wide range of customer service support: Loyalty programs. Outsource your support ticketing system with Magellan Solutions. Outsource your support ticketing system with Magellan Solutions. Invoice inquiries. Balance inquiries. Order tracking and fulfillment. Customer care support. Replacements.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

If an online casino doesn’t have a robust and trustworthy online casino customer service system in place, it won’t be able to maintain a lot of its current and potential players. As a result, it should come as no surprise that a reliable customer support system is an absolute must for any safe online casino.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. Immersive Technologies. 360-degree view of your customer. Mantis Vision.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. Immersive Technologies. 360-degree view of your customer. Mantis Vision.

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