Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. What is great about The Loyalty Magazine Awards is the willingness to share why each brand won their award or received special recognition – which allows us, as practitioners, to learn, and not just enjoy the gin fizz. Mastering customer data (finally).

Loyalty 49

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

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]. People are more likely to leave their spouse than their bank[ii], so it might seem that banks have no case to answer. Extra what?

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Understand Your Employee Journey —When it comes to marketing a product, the customer journey is an integral factor in deciding which touchpoints and messages make sense for a specific customer in a specific moment. Then use these to build out the right set of touchpoints to make their experience engaging and productive from the beginning.

Customer Journeys 98

Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Employee Experience Employee Engagement 98

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

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. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. The tide is turning.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

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.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Brands Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 40

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.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45