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. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

The top loyalty jobs are tough. Every CEO waxes lyrical about the importance of loyalty. Every CFO knows a loyal customer is many times more profitable than others. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments. Points alone don’t earn much loyalty.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Creating the correct customer-centric business model is your ticket to standing out from your competitors and encouraging customer loyalty. Customer-centricity is essential for companies since it drives a customer further down the sales funnel. Starbucks: efficiency in product feedback and loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years. Customers appreciate the free money, but it simply doesn’t make them loyal.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Comprehensive training is essential for effective customer engagement. Some of the key components that all good training programs should cover are: Product Knowledge The first thing to ensure is that all staff are well-versed in the intricacies of the products they sell.

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ERDM

JANUARY 8, 2018

On the bright side, this means there is substantial opportunity here to improve the customer experience. Traditional loyalty programs have gotten a bit stale. Personalization is the new loyalty. Ironically, it was probably also the first form of loyalty between shop owners and their customers even thousands of years ago.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As everyone knows in the loyalty industry, entering into new commercial agreements with partners can be a very time-consuming effort. 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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 2, 2019

Starbucks has also enjoyed success in similar co-creation fashion with customer ideas on everything from new drinks to loyalty perks. Starbucks has credited its hugely popular pumpkin spice flavor and several parts of its loyalty program to customer ideas. All of this is easier said than done, of course.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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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. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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Pretium Solutions

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The word loyalty is thrown around quite a bit inside the customer service world today. Numerous books and scores of articles have been written and blogs posted about the importance and relevance of customer loyalty , as compared to customer satisfaction , and that there is actually little relationship between the two.

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Pretium Solutions

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The word loyalty is thrown around quite a bit inside the customer service world today. Numerous books and scores of articles have been written and blogs posted about the importance and relevance of customer loyalty , as compared to customer satisfaction , and that there is actually little relationship between the two.

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Loyalty Airlines Effort Score Loyalty Programs 40

Pretium Solutions

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The word loyalty is thrown around quite a bit inside the customer service world today. Numerous books and scores of articles have been written and blogs posted about the importance and relevance of customer loyalty , as compared to customer satisfaction , and that there is actually little relationship between the two.

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Loyalty Airlines Effort Score Loyalty Programs 40

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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Until a few years ago, brands would have reacted to an uncertain economy by cutting services that deliver customer value. Some brands will do this in 2023, but actually, the loyalty & marketing industries have learned from recent experience that this costs you money in the long run. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 4, 2020

CEO’s Guide to Growth through Customer Experience Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience engagement is a growth strategy. It’s the aim of Net Promoter Score®, CRM, loyalty programs, experiential marketing and so forth — rallying customers toward purchase volume, referrals and long-term relationships.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Everyone acknowledges that customer retention is more cost-effective than acquisition, yet Marketing tends to put the majority of its resources in awareness-building and sales conversion. Resources dedicated to post-purchase customer experience management tend to be repurchase campaigns and loyalty programs.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But if you want customers to care, you have to give them something in the first place. Take loyalty programs for example. I don’t have any physical loyalty cards anymore. My mobile stores all of my program details. Sometimes I worry about privacy, of course, but this is the world we’re living in.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Every industry now has to be conscious of the heightened, personalized demands of the modern consumer, including the loyalty industry. We have the opportunity to shape the future of loyalty programs so they fit seamlessly with other liquid, flexible markets in which people interact every day. Re-engaging the 80%.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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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. Of course, this has happened before in other jurisdictions. Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Rationalizing loyalty ROI vs other marketing channels.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. 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.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Flexibility around loyalty redemptions is crucial to creating meaningful value for every customer. 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.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You can, for example, choose between a primary “yes” and “no” option and a precise scale of values: Very satisfied Satisfied Neutral Not satisfied Not at all satisfied Of course, each call center can select its preferred scale value. Proactive consumer engagement engagements will surpass reactive customer engagement interactions by 2025.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years. 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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ReviewTrackers

AUGUST 24, 2017

This article was written by Brandon Carter, a customer engagement and loyalty writer and analyst for Access Development. Read more of his articles over on the Access Loyalty Blog. Customers and Your Business: Love at First Sight? This lack of loyalty costs businesses billions of dollars. Open Dialogue.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Commercetools partners with Currency Alliance to enable loyalty marketing in the age of composable commerce. Every company strives to build loyalty among its customers, but the methods to achieve the never-ending pursuit of loyal customers can vary widely. Furthermore, 91% of consumers want to be recognized.

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ClearAction

APRIL 18, 2020

As a gift that keeps on giving, customer experience annuities free-up resources that were previously dedicated forever to the equivalent of “Band-Aids®”, and re-allocate those resources to higher-value opportunities. Accordingly, mature customer experience management can reduce business risk.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I heard it once, two weeks ago at a loyalty conference in London. Loyalty trends were being discussed, as well as what had been hot topics in prior years – some of which just faded away as fads. Most companies need to stay focused on what we call Loyalty Imperatives for this decade. The Loyalty Imperatives answer that question.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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SurveySparrow

DECEMBER 17, 2020

No one wants to contract the virus, of course, duh! Starting from customer engagement to finding products online, voice-enabled assistants will be a game-changer. IoT helps to understand customer behaviour and generates data that can be used to personalize communication with your customers. Loyalty Programs.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 23, 2011

Businesses grow as more customers come aboard, and that constant search for new clients is the life jacket for success. Of course building relationships with new customers are paramount; the hard part is taking the leads and transforming them into customers.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing 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).

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Everyone acknowledges that customer retention is more cost-effective than acquisition, yet Marketing tends to put the majority of its resources in awareness-building and sales conversion. Resources dedicated to post-purchase customer experience management tend to be repurchase campaigns and loyalty programs.

Marketing 48

Marketing Metrics Connections Customer Retention 48

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

So, to demonstrate some progress, many organizations have pursued initiatives that are only cosmetic in nature while not truly taking advantage of what digital transformation enables: namely that customer journeys, partnerships, trading ecosystems, etc. Features of an API-first loyalty platform. Thus far, Version 3.0

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