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. How loyalty partners co-create value.

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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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SurveySensum

JULY 4, 2023

This is the time when brands can improve their offline stores to increase customer loyalty. Given below are 6 touchpoints you can optimize at your stores to ensure a memorable shopping experience for your customers. Optimizing Touchpoints for a Memorable Experience Customers go through many touchpoints when shopping in-store.

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SurveySensum

JULY 4, 2023

This is the time when brands can improve their offline stores to increase customer loyalty. Given below are 6 touchpoints you can optimize at your stores to ensure a memorable shopping experience for your customers. Optimizing Touchpoints for a Memorable Experience Customers go through many touchpoints when shopping in-store.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

There are of course many trends taking shape, but we thought we would take a look at what we consider to be the three top loyalty trends for 2018, and the implications of these for both brands and customers. Everyone knows that trust is key in brand loyalty. Examples include Hilton, Marriott, and Tesco.

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delighted

JULY 13, 2022

Can you name a brand that makes you feel special? A brand you’ve made repeat purchases from, you’re proud to wear their logo, and when you receive a compliment, you’re more than happy to share where you bought said item? If so, you’ve experienced customer loyalty. You can see why brands want to foster customer loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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SurveySensum

JULY 17, 2023

Do you have a favorite brand that you love to shop from even if you have absolutely no shopping requirements but go there just for the experience? Because I do and that brand for me is IKEA. The same goes for the brand’s online store. Allow customers to interact with your brand where, when, and how they want.

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SurveySensum

JULY 17, 2023

Do you have a favorite brand that you love to shop from even if you have absolutely no shopping requirements but go there just for the experience? Because I do and that brand for me is IKEA. The same goes for the brand’s online store. Allow customers to interact with your brand where, when, and how they want.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 28, 2020

The card or device used in contactless transactions never leaves the customer’s hand, greatly reducing the chances of the card being stolen, forgotten or lost during the course of transaction. Loyalty programs are an excellent way to improve the experience of loyal customers while increasing customer retention rates.

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Bold360

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A funny thing happened when researchers asked consumers and marketers associated with the travel industry how they viewed the industry’s well-known loyalty programs. For the marketers – 66 percent of them – the programs were seen as a good way for customers to show loyalty to the brand. Far from it.

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delighted

JUNE 1, 2022

The customer lifetime value calculation will tell you what the average customer is worth to your business throughout the course of the relationship. Most importantly, a high lifetime value shows a degree of brand loyalty. True data-driven companies don’t predict what customers find valuable about their brands.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Part of the solution is to take on some of the characteristics of a challenger bank – but that space is already crowded with lookalike competitors, and straying too far along this path may create branding problems for a venerable institution. For very large businesses, this happens by leveraging their partnerships with other brands.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Both the customer experience map and the journey map are essential tools for businesses aiming to understand and improve the interactions their customers have with their brand. The customer experience map is a powerful tool that allows businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of customer interactions with their brand or service.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Resolution Foundation, a UK-based research organization, recently published data showing that 11% of the market for “hotels and similar accommodation” was owned by the top 5 brands in the sector in 2016; a drop of three percentage points from 2004[i]. Restive guests: understanding hospitality loyalty. the luxury traveler.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. As ever, it’s worth emphasising that customers become loyal to a brand because of two things: value and/or experience.

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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. This workload can now be greatly reduced.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. Why hasn’t loyalty? Why should investing in loyalty be different?

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand. This article describes how those leading a brand’s loyalty program need to think beyond a static reward catalog.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rewards that are interesting for less-frequent customers, as well as to frequent customers, motivate every customer to engage more, and increase the share of wallet that they allocate to your brand. This article describes how those leading a brand’s loyalty program need to think beyond a static redemption catalog.

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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. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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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? down to 0.3% on credit cards and 0.2%

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Loyalty trends were being discussed, as well as what had been hot topics in prior years – some of which just faded away as fads. We can’t possibly write one article on what you should be doing, let alone summarize all the interesting things that other brands are doing in their unique context.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers). Customer data: maximize ROI.

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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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Retently

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It encourages engagement by allowing them to share their unique journey, which can foster a deeper connection with your brand. Leverage positive feedback from surveys to build trust, credibility, and loyalty among customers. Benefit the brand in the long term by building a solid reputation and customer base.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

They’re common traits to many successful businesspeople, but it’s worth considering how these skills can be applied to the unique set of challenges faced by the majority of loyalty teams. . In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

To create enduring connections with clients and colleagues in this dynamic environment, put up a few best practice courses on how to make the most of attendees’ time at conferences, dinners, and workplace gatherings. Q 9: What is the best way to manage loyalty programs and customer feedback?

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

Each of the stages they cross is referred to as a customer touchpoint and can be used to create a delightful experience for your prospective customers. Videos that talk about your brand also work. Share the benefits of using your brand’s products and services. are touchpoints in this stage.

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BirdEye

APRIL 7, 2023

By tracking the right marketing KPIs, you can course-correct, amplify suitable campaigns, and achieve higher goals. It is also possible that a lead had more than one touchpoint before becoming a customer. If that is the case for your business, make sure to use a tool that can measure multi-touchpoint revenue attribution.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 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

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. A few – such as Tarte, a US cosmetics brand – are way ahead of the game.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But those brands pursuing each of the trends predicted for 2020 probably suffered less as the course of this year evolved. Today, the best experience we receive from any brand becomes our expectation of every brand. In this context, five of the trends for 2021 are not particularly new, but will gain momentum in 2021.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 19, 2021

Less-technical businesspeople may only care about loyalty technology to the degree that it serves two key objectives: Delivering a consistently good brand experience across all customer touchpoints. If you don’t recognize your customer across every channel and touchpoint, they will feel you don’t care.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating? Of course, dishing out ‘value’ sounds scary to a chief financial officer. Rewards are transactional; loyalty is emotional. The answer is simple.

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