Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many loyalty program members will now be accustomed to similar liquidity enhancements, such as exchanging your American Express Membership Rewards Points into Avios or Bonvoy. Remember, your loyalty goal is not to issue the maximum number of points, but for the maximum number of customers to see joining your program as worthwhile.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If you succeed at this, you will also harness recurring benefits in the form of insightful customer data, which will allow you to market to the mid-long tail more effectively and affordably, and maximize the lifetime value of every customer. The graphic below indicates the categories of spending for many customers.

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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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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable. This is highly achievable.

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SurveySparrow

JANUARY 14, 2020

Your customers are your most valuable asset, especially if you are a small company. Growing your customer base will always be one of the most important objectives in every stand-up meeting. Businesses spend thousands of dollars on lead generation so that they can welcome new customers into their fold. 13 Keep a record.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”. [iii].

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. altering customer behaviour to support corporate objectives, without upsetting people.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

By the end of the programme’s first year, loyalty members made up 44% of Tarte.com revenue, despite only making up 21% of the total customer base. Customer journeys to the moment of purchase are highly complex and too few brands are engaging with key steps along the way, to understand why customers buy, or fall out of the funnel.

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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. Ask a customer what is their ideal trip or evening out, or Sunday activity or fondest family memory.

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