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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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

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. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

From the customer perspective, it amounts to a Revolution – where brands are finally giving into what has been a ‘peaceful demonstration’ gaining momentum for several years – namely that it is too difficult to accumulate much value among so many incompatible loyalty point currencies/programs – so consumers quit.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. Big brands mimicking strategies pioneered by upstart challengers. 2018 saw a 14.2%

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. The loyalty program is not a barnacle that has been attached to the business. Therefore, we offer this fairly extensive summary of what most brands should be doing with their loyalty programs to maximize business impact this year.

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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. In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology. Brands embrace shared environmental goals with customers. Some stars are sticks.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. Powerful consumer brands, meanwhile, are building their own coalitions. The “Marriott More” program allows its members to earn and redeem points on everyday retail purchases[iii]. Trust issues.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

What changes has your business made this year to improve the experience customers have with your brand? For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. Instead CX has to be viewed as part of the overall journey a customer takes with your brand.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

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. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards.

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 19, 2015

©2014 suitecx – ConfidenDal Internal company communica2ons hopelessly broken; 70 SharePoint Sites with no overall management/ governance Formal diagnos2c process included reviews of people, process, technology and data across mul2ple divisions Improved employee sa2sfac2on; stronger focus on cri2cal informa2on and processes 6.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

To derive far greater profits from loyalty programs, brands should reappraise the way they issue loyalty rewards. It also means building more value into the loyalty program, through personalized offers and partnerships with complementary brands, that make your currency easier to earn, and more rewarding to burn.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Campaign Management. Points Bank.

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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. Loyalty programs are essentially a value exchange.

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