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]. In 2000, UK consumer bank Halifax launched a fairly successful marketing slogan: the people that give you extra [iv]. Extra what?

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ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

For effective customer retention, a focused and dedicated approach needs to be kept in mind. And, a well-designed loyalty program can act as a profitable investment and reduce the likelihood of customers going to your competitors. Take the example of Victoria’s Secret loyalty program PINK Nation.

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SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Customer Loyalty Programs There are software that helps with the customer loyalty program , and that’s next on the list of this customer retention software. Customer loyalty programs are a strategic approach to encourage repeat business from customers.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For centuries, merchants have been offering special tokens that repeat customers could redeem for goods. Today, stamps, vouchers and coupons have mostly been replaced by apps and digital methods of tracking customer engagement. Plus, the rewards points should be available to consumers in a timely manner.

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SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Marketing teams are spending big on rewards, partnerships, agencies, data capabilities and marketing technology. Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor. Especially if a loyalty program is part of your strategy.

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SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Marketing teams are spending big on rewards, partnerships, agencies, data capabilities and marketing technology. Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor. Especially if a loyalty program is part of your strategy.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Finance teams do not particularly enjoy the first two to three years of most customer experience initiatives, but it is not too long before they are raving fans. Legal divisions have had to adapt their speech to be more understandable and much like the IT industry, consumer and data protection laws have completely disrupted their space.

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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].

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

Loyalty program announcements so far this year indicate a major sea change. To get customers re-engaged, brands are making it easier to participate in their loyalty programs and are offering enhanced ways to redeem – so customers can make use of even small amounts of points/miles.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. Hybrid points programs. A disloyal generation?

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. 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. Greater investment to meet consumers’ insatiable appetite for experiences.

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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. ING Direct is one of those brands. Kudos to them.

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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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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

From the pandemic then straight into inflation, rising interest rates, and softening consumer spending, Material’s view is: The restaurant category may never normalize. This can only be done by owning the customer relationship. The go-go days Prior to 2019, consumers were experiencing a massive boom in restaurant choice.

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Strativity

APRIL 27, 2023

From the pandemic then straight into inflation, rising interest rates, and softening consumer spending, Material’s view is: The restaurant category may never normalize. This can only be done by owning the customer relationship. The go-go days Prior to 2019, consumers were experiencing a massive boom in restaurant choice.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. 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?

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Forbes reported that Airlines have never risen above the bottom 20% of industries in terms of customer satisfaction ratings, even as J.D. Power reported higher consumer satisfaction than ever – largely due to increased seat sizes and cheaper fares. Contextual relevance drives customer engagement.

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

The customers must be engaged at this stage of the ecommerce journey. But keeping customers engaged at this stage is a big challenge. Stage 3: Conversion The next step after keeping customers engaged is conversion. Many customers don’t reach the conversion stage at all. Examples: Costco and Walmart.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Every CFO knows a loyal customer is many times more profitable than others. 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. Points alone don’t earn much loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

The sea-change in marketing technology is evident in the Gartner CMO survey, which tracked spending across all marketing disciplines: …most of which are rooted in martech solutions, younger than loyalty program management technologies, but all united by the common need to share customer data and use it to drive results.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As an e-commerce leader, he said, “The best tactic for customer retention is providing good, honest customer service.” This is what’s worked for me: put up a loyalty program of some kind, where your returning customers are rewarded. You can even reward them by creating a loyalty rewards program.

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